Programme 2022

DECEMBER

Monday 12.12.2022 at 19.00
“Making do” – The Creative Potential of the ill-suited
Lecture by Helena Ahlström, architect.
See the invitation here

NOVEMBER

Opening 25th November 19.00-22.00
Under my Bedroom Floor
Exhibition by Billie Meskens and Frederikke Jul Vedelsby
26th – 27th November 17.00-21.00
EIGHT/to ΟΧΤΩ, Politechneiou 8, Athens
See here

OCTOBER

Reframing Antique Sculptures in Roman Greece
At the Danish Institute at Athens, 20th and 21st of October
Download the program here

Wednesday 5.10.22 at 19.00
Migrants from Turkey in Athens: Between national narratives and ambiguous encounters
Lecture by Gül Üret, PhD candidate in Law and Politics at the University of Graz
See invitation here

SEPTEMBER

Monday 19.9.22 at 19.00
The European Rescue of the Franco Regime, 1950-1975
Lecture by Prof. Fernando Guirao, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
See the invitation here

Monday 12.9.22 at 19.00
Refugees’ trauma and antiquities–an archaeological account of life after 1922
Lecture by Dr. Artemis Papatheodorou, Panteion University
Download the Invitation here

MAY

Friday 13 at 14:00 (GMT+3)
ONLINE CEMES-DIA Book talk: Ntina Tzouvala on Capitalism as Civilisation. A History of International Law
Link here

Wednesday 18 at 20:00
WHI ensemble and Diathlasis present compositions by Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen and Alexis Porfiriadis
Download the Invitation here

Thursday 19 at 19:00
Complicated Objects
Artist talk by Lise Harlev
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Concert at 21st Athens Jazz
Tuesday 26 at 21:30 | Makiko Hirabayashi Trio | Gazarte Jazz Club (32-34 Voutadon Str.- Gazi Kerameikos Station)
Sunday 29 at 23:00 | Ida Nielsen & The Funkbots | Technopolis (100 Peireos str.)
Press Release HERE

APRIL

Tuesday 12 at 18.00
Amphibious Employee Thanassis Aghnides & the Genevan Intervention in Greece, 1920-1930
Lecture by Haakon A. Ikonomou
Discussant: Sotiris Rizas (Academy of Athens).
Download the Invitation here

Conference in Honour of Søren Dietz
Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27
Program here

Friday 29 at 19:00
Annual Meeting 2022 at the Acropolis Museum
Watch the video

28/4 – 21/05
Group exhibition with the participation of Helene Nyman, Lise Harlev and Matthias Malling Sorensen
Space52, 28 Larnakos str. Athens
Press Release HERE
Catalog HERE

MARCH

Friday 4 at 19.00
Screening of A Man Returned, A Drowning Man og 3 Logical Exits with the participation of the director Mahdi Fleifel.
Download Invitation here

Wednesday 30 at 19.00
Film Screening A World Not Ours by Mahdi Fleifel
Download Invitation here

FEBRUARY

Wednesday 16 at 19.00
How Did Danish Vikings Become Christian European?
Lecture by Per Kristian Madsen
Download the Invitation here

2021

MARCH

Tuesday 25
Denmark and the Greek Revolution | Official reactions and responses in the public
Lecture (online) by Mogens Pelt
Link here

APRIL

Friday 16 at 19.00
Annual Open Meeting (Online)
Link here

MAY

The KutiMangoes
Friday 28 at 22.30
Concert at The Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival

JUNE

Tuesday 14
Denmark and the Greek Revolution | Danish Volunteers for the Greek Cause
Lecture (online) by Aristea Papanicolaou Christensen
Link here

SEPTEMBER

Thursday 30 at 18:00
“Post-Migration: Reframing Identity, Community and History”
Symposium and Film Screening with Anne Ring Petersen, Sabine Dahl Nielsen and Sotirios Bachtsetzis
The events will take place on space52 (52 Kastorias str., Athens)
Download Press Release here
To reserve a seat for the Symposium please click here
To reserve a seat for the Screening please click here
Youtube links:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

OCTOBER

Wednesday 6 at 19.00
Book presentation “THE EUROPEANIZATION OF NATIONAL ADMINISTRATIONS: Common Agricultural Policy in Denmark and Greece” by Sevasti Chatzopoulou
Discussants Rasmus Mariager (DK) and Christos Tsakas (GR).
Download the Invitation here

Thursday 21 at 19.00
RAHBEK, BYRON, AND THE GREEK CAUSE – Philhellenism in Copenhagen and London 1821
Lecture by Marie-Louise Svane
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Opening Saturday 23 at 18:00-22:00
I Miss You Very Much
Exhibition by Axel Burendahl and Trine Struwe
ERGO Collective | Egiidon 31 | Kato Petralona | Athens
23.10.2021 – 27.10.2021
Dowload Invitation here

NOVEMBER

Monday 8 at 19:00
DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS BY THE DANE FREDERIK SCHOLTEN IN REVOLUTIONARY GREECE, 1824-1829
Lecture by John Lund
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Monday 15 at 19:00
Book Presentation “Karia and the Dodekanese: Cultural Interrelations in the Southeast Aegean”edited by Poul Pedersen, Birte Poulsen and John Lund.
Presented by Poul Pedersen

The presentation will be followed by the lecture “Cylindrical altars and connectivity in Karia and the Dodecanese” by Birte Poulsen

Download the Invitation here
Download the flyer here

Wednesday 24 at 19
Harald Bluetooth’s ring fortresses – The largest construction project of the Viking-Age
Lecture by Mads Runge
Download Invitation here

Spring Programme 2020

JANUARY

Tuesday 21 at 19:00
Film Screening : The Unachievable and A Family Business with the participation of the film director Carina Randløv.

Monday 27 at 19:00
Between Deity and Dedicator: Greek Votive Terracotta Figurines at Work
Lecture by Sanne Hofmann

FEBRUARY

Wednesday 19 at 19:00
Greek-Swedish-Danish Excavations at Khania
Lecture by Erik Hallager

Tuesday 25 at 19:00
The Chion Novel
Lecture by Gorm Tortzen

Wednesday 26 at 19:00
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Film Screening by Mads Brügger
Press Kit

MARTS

Wednesday 4 at 19:00
The Zea Harbour Project | The Geatest Catch
Lecture by Bjørn Lovén

Thursday 12 at 19:00
Memories of Sustainable Futures: Remembering in the Digital Age
Artist talk by Helene Nymann
CANCELLED

Sunday 15 at 19:00
Athens Storytelling Festival 2020
Danish Storyteller Annemarie Krarup
CANCELLED

Thursday 19 at 19:00
Preparing for the Beach
Exhibition by Pernille Koldbech Fich
Benaki Museum, 138 Pireos St.
Exhibition duration: 19/3 – 17/5/2020
POSTPONED

Tuesday 24 at 19:00
The Raven and the Seagull
Film Screening with the participation of the film director Lasse Lau
CANCELLED

APRIL

Wednesday 8 at 19:00
The Lechaion Harbour Project
Lecture by Panagiotis Athanasopoulos
CANCELLED

MAJ

Monday 4 at 19:00
Annual Meeting
POSTPONED

Tuesday 5 at 19:00
Artist talk with Nina Saunders
CANCELLED

Thursday 7 at 19:00
Motherhood / Moderskab / Μητρότητα
Three performance lectures by Carol Mavor (US), Andrew Hazewinkel (AUS) & Line Kallmayer (DK)
CANCELLED

Date TBA
Athens Digital Arts Festival 2020
Danish participation
POSTPONED

Friday 15 at 19:00
Από την Ελληνιστική στη Ρωμαϊκή Περίοδο: ένας μεταβαλλόμενος τόπος, ένας μεταβαλλόμενος κόσμος στην πεδιάδα της Ξάνθης
Lecture by Konstantina Kallintzi
CANCELLED

Wednesday 20 at 19:00
The Archaeological work in Kalydon
Lecture by Søren Handberg
CANCELLED

Date TBA
Athens Technopolis Jazzfestival
Danish participation
CANCELLED

JUNE

Tuesday 9 at 19:00
Hvorfor ryster jeg
Artist talk and book launch with Sveinung Rudjord Unneland (NO) & Andreas Vermehren Holm (DK)
CANCELLED

Autumn Programme 2020

SEPTEMBER

Tuesday 17 at 20.30
Centaur | Open Air Screening

OCTOBER

Preparing for the Beach
Udstilling Pernille Koldbech Fich
Benaki Museum, 138 Pireos St.
01/10/2020 – 17/01/2021

2019

JANUARY

Burial complexes of Koina in the Rhodian necropolis
January 21
Lecture in English by Vaso Patsiada
In collaboration with The Centennial Rhodes Project, Copenhagen University

Pre-Columbian textiles and contemporary weaving in Peru: ancient traditions survived in living crafts
January 24
Lecture in English by Lena Bjerregaard

Rogue Democracy: Debating the end(s) of representative democracy
January 31
Lecture by Mikkel Thorup

FEBRUARY

H Αρχιτεκτονική του Τύμβου Καστά της Αμφίπολης
February 18
Lecture by Michalis Lefantzis
(Hosted by KYKLOS. Dialogues for Greek and Roman Architecture)

Screening of Danish movie The Bench_ by Per Fly
February 21
In co-operation with the Danish Embassy.
All movies will be introduced by Ioanna Athanasatou in Greek.
Read the introduction in English here

Kenneth Dahl Knudsen, Yiannis Papadopoulos and Dimitris Klonis
February 26
Jazz Concert

MARCH

MARCH – DECEMBER
A series of lectures as a prelude to the international conference The ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for International Law and Human Rights? Athens, 12–14 December 2019

The Rule of All: Democracy and Democratising Movements in Contemporary Global Society
March 4-6
International conference

Give me Winter – give me Dogs, you can keep the rest!
Participation in Athens Storytelling Festival
March 17
Pernille Stockfleth tells stories from Knud Rasmussen’s Greenland full of snow, ice, northern lights and Inuit myths
Storytelling in English

Screening of Danish movie Winter Brothers by Hlynur Pálmason
March 28
In co-operation with the Danish Embassy.
All movies will be introduced by Ioanna Athanasatou in Greek
Introduction to the film in English

APRIL

Greek and Greek Cypriot Immigrants in Denmark: Belonging, Emplacement and the Welfare State
Launch of The Greek Institute in Denmark
April 3
Lecture by Yiannis Papadakis

*Discussion in Greek for the work of Nicolas Calas with art historian Irini Marinaki and visual artist Kirillos Sarris
April 4

The botanical exploration of Greece
April 9
Lecture by Arne Strid

Scandinavian values and activism in the Greek case 1967-1974
April 10
Lecture by Poul Smidt as a prelude to the international conference The ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for International Law and Human Rights? Athens, 12–14 December 2019

MAY

Open annual meeting at The Acropolis Museum
May 3

Double event
Lecture on Henrik Pontoppidan’s novel Lucky-Per- the book behind the movie by Jan Aage Rasmussen: A fortunate Man 3.0 and
screening of Danish movie: A Fortunate Man by Bille August
May 9
In co-operation with the Danish Embassy.
Introduction in English

Hatzi-Yavrouda of Kos – An exceptional storyteller
May 21
Lecture by Birgit Olsen

The Great Festival: The structural and artistic connection between the ancient Dionysus feast and the modern rock festival
May 27
Lecture by Olav Harsløf

JUNE

Concert at The Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival
Girls In Airports
June 2

International Network on Jade Cultures around the World
International workshop
June 4-5
See programme

A tale of four Cities and two Statesmen: Max van der Stoel, Josef Luns and Dutch politics towards the 1967-74 Greek Junta
June 19
Lecture in English by Anet Bleich and Albert Kersten

SEPTEMBER

You know the black stuff on Greek vases can be pink
September 18
Terra sigillata in contemporary sculpture
Artist talk in English by Anja Cecilie Petersen

The Sovereign Consumer and the Marketization of Politics
September 24
Lecture in English by Niklas Olsen, University of Copenhagen

OCTOBER

Teaching Classical Cultural Heritage
October 4
An international seminar on classical cultural heritage teaching strategies.

The reluctant activists: The ‘Greek case’ and the Scandinavian states’ ambivalence toward international human rights norms
October 10
Lecture by Johan Karlsson Schaffer (School of Global
Studies, University of Gothenburg) in collaboration with The Swedish Institute at Athens.

Choir performance by Vor Frues Kantori
October 15

The Politics and Antipolitics of Aristotle
October 23
Lecture by Nicolai von Eggers Mariegaard (Danish Institute at Athens).

NOVEMBER

Life-boats and narratives about women’s lives across borders -a meeting between art and science.
November 5
Two lectures on the art project Life-Boats by Ann-Dorte Pedholt Christensen (Department for Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University) and Marit Benthe Norheim (visual artist).

The potency and perils of pursuing international accountability for human rights violations.
November 19
Lecture by Siri Gloppen (Centre on Law and Social Transformation, University of Bergen) in collaboration with The Norwegian Institute at Athens.

Vikings in the mediterranean. ”Though the Greeks considered and forbade it”!
November 27-30
International conference in collaboration with The Norwegian Institute at Athens and The Swedish Institute at Athens.
PROGRAMME

DECEMBER

Creating Global Shipping
December 3
Lecture by Gelina Harlaftis | Discussant: Martin Jes Iversen

The ‘Greek Case’ in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for International Law and Human Rights?
December 12-14
International conference in collaboration with The Netherlands Institute at Athens, The Swedish Institute at Athens, The Norwegian Institute at Athens and The Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights.
The conference will take place at the A. Argyriadis amphitheater at the Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Programme here
Poster here

2018

JANUARY

To the Victor goes the Palm | The International Successes of Danish Cinema
January 16
Lecture in English by Palle Schantz Lauridsen

FEBRUARY

The Temple of Apollo Pythios at Gortyn during the Roman period. New Researches and New Hypotheseis.
February 12
Lecture in English by Maria Chiara Metelli.
Hosted by KYKLOS

Screening of movie A second chance by Susanne Bier_
February 22
Introduction to the movie

MARCH

Participation in Athen’s Storytelling Festival
Vigga Bro tells Nordic and Greek myths
Dimitris Prousalis tells tales against bad times
March 17

Screening of movie Submarino by Thomas Vinterberg
March 22
Introduction to the movie

APRIL

Screening of movie Silent Heart by Bille August_
April 26
Introduction to the movie

MAY

Crime night with author Michael Kats Krefeld in the Café of Public at Syntagma
May 8

Screening of movie _Babettes Feast by Gabriel Axel
May 14
Introduction to the movie

Lecture in English by Elisabeth Fentress (IACA)
May 15
Hosted by Roman Seminar

Translators on tightropes: Translating Greek drama into Danish
May 29
Lecture in English by Marcel Lysgaard Lech

JUNE

Participation in Technopolis Jazz Festival
Peter Bruun and All too Human play the 5th at 19.30 at DIA
and the 6th at 22.00 at the festival

A ceramic sidelight on the archaeology of Cyprus in the Roman Period: Old
questions – new suggestions
June 12
Foredrag ved John Lund

JUNE-JULY

The White Page Project
3 Performances Helene by Lundby Pedersen at Hephaisteion, The Panathenæic Stadium and in Delphi

Concert with Per Bloch and ensemble – KOKORO live
June 27

Full Moon Concert at the Observatory with Per Bloch and ensemble – KOKORO live
June 28

JULI

Performance Symposium by Helene Lyndbye Petersen
July 4

SEPTEMBER

From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda – Aspects of oral narration in the Greek tradition
29-30 September
International conference
See programme

OCTOBER

Book launch of MoDIA20 Communities in Transition. The Circum-Aegean Area During the 5th and 4th Millenia BC edited by Søren Dietz, Fanis Mavridis, Žarko Tankosić and Turan Takaoğlu
October 4
Presentation by Lasse Sørensen

Just Façade? The relationship between sculpture and architecture in the Roman East
October 8
Lecture by Jane Fejfer (Copenhagen University)

Exhibition of the work of art PARTERRE by Iben West and Else Ploug Isaksen
12-28 October
Exhibition opening 12 October at 19.00
Opening hours: Wednesday 17-21,Thursday-Sunday 14-18 (Monday and Tuesday closed)
Venue: Pikionis’ pavilion by The Agios Dimitrios Loumbardiaris Church at Filopappos Hill. See map

Walking on old trails thinking about Pikionis, Acropolis and places in Denmark. Urban transformations – public spaces and more
October 22
Lecture by Lars Gemzøe (Copenhagen University)

Participation in Nordic Crime Seminar
October 31
by Bo Tao Michaëlis

NOVEMBER

Exhibition of art works by Misja Kristoffer Rasmussensen and Raschmie Soukoulis in the Baths by The Tower of the Winds
3 November-3 December

A Monumental Public Building at the Foot of the Rhodian Acropolis
November 12
Lecture by Stella Skaltsa and Maria Michalaki. Introduction by efor Maria Michailidou and director of the project Vincent Gabrielsen
In collaboration with The Centennial Rhodes Project, Copenhagen University

DECEMBER

From the Rhodian Necropolis (Papachristodoulou-Karika plot): a place of burials, gathering and ceremony; a place of disposal
December 10
Lecture by Anastasia Dreliosi-Irakleidou and Lisa Betina.
In collaboration with The Centennial Rhodes Project, Copenhagen Universityh1.

2017

JANUARY

Screening of the movie Gertrude by Carl Th. Dreyer
January 17
Full programme of film screenings

Πλωτινόπολη: Το χρονικό της αρχαιολογικής έρευνας
January 26
Lecture in Greek by Ματθαίος Κουτσουμανής (ΕΦΑ Ροδόπης)
Hosted by The Roman Seminar Network

FEBRUARY

Screening of the movie The Hunt by Thomas Vinterberg
February 7
Introduction to the film
Full programme of film screenings

Modernity and legacies: representations of classical antiquity in Star Trek, 1966-1969
February 14
Lecture in English by Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

The Globalization of Greek Tragedy
February 28
Lecture in English by Christian Dahl

MARCH

Screening of the movie In a Better World by Susanne Bier
March 7
Introduction to the film
Full programme of film screenings

Participation in Storytelling Festival
The Norwegian storyteller Heidi Dahlsveen performs Tales of transformation from the North
March 19
Τhe Telling Theatre of Denmark performs Beowolf
March 26
NB This performance takes place at the Cultural Centre MELINA
Full programme of the Festival

Anomalocivitas: On urban evolutions
March 21
Lecture in English by Søren M. Sindbæk
Full series of lectures on Urban evolutions

Winner of Danish Refugee Council’s literary prize, Sara Linderoth, meets Greek colleagues
Literary encounter on refugees
March 30

APRIL

Screening of the movie A Royal Affair by Nikolaj Arcel
April 4
Introduction to the film
Full programme of film screenings

The Quadrature of Art – An Exhibition on Geometry in Art and Design
by ceramist Karin Hougaard, visual artist Jannik Seidelin, and textile designer Helle Trolle
29 April to 12 May
Visiting hours: Wednesday-Friday 18.00-20.00, Saturday 12.00-15.00

MAY

A new Macedonia? Redefining urban development in Hellenistic North Syria
May 16
Lecture in English by Michael Blömer
Full series of lectures on Urban evolutions

Participation in Urban Game Locked
19 May – 4 June
Hours: 19-21/5, 26-28/5 og 2-5/6 kl. 20-23
Place: Moutsopoulou og Sirangeiou 1

Screening of the movie Breaking the Waves by Lars von Trier
May 23
Introduction to the film
Full programme of film screenings

JUNE

Bars, coins and scrap: Seaborne connections and urbanising metals
June 6
Lecture in English by Thomas Birch
Full series of lectures on Urban evolutions

SEPTEMBER

The Will of the People and the Future of Europe
September 11
Seminar in English with Peter Hallward and Panagiotis Sotiris

On urban network evolutions: The case of the Decapolis city Gerasa in Jordan
September 12
Lecture in English by Rubina Raja
Full series of lectures on Urban evolutions

LATRA Innovation Summit. Design for Peace
September 22
Seminar in English

Book launch | MoDIA21, Petras-Siteia. The Pre- and Proto-Palatial cemetery in Context ed. M. Tsipopoulou. Presented by Alexander MacGillivray
September 28

OCTOBER

Water and urban resilience: Geoarchaeology of African early towns
October 3
Lecture in English by Federica Sulas
Full series of lectures on Urban evolutions

Music by Danish and Greek composers and the quartet’s own compositions
October 19
Concert with Danish-Greek quartet KOTTOS

The Continuation of a Civic Obligation: The Athenian Trierarchy in the Late Third Century
October 31
Lecture in English by Christian Ammitzbøll Thomsen

NOVEMBER

screening Your neighbour’s son by Erik Stephensen and Jørgen Flindt Petersen
November 6

Public space and urban networks in the ancient world: Hellenistic and Roman Messene as a case study
November 7
Lecture in English by Christopher Dickenson
Full series of lectures on Urban evolutions

Workshop on the Danish promotion of human rights in connection with the junta regime in Greece with papers by Effie Pedaliou (London School of Economics) and Kristine Kjærsgaard (University of Southern Denmark). Moderator: Evanthis Hatzivassiliou (Athens University).
November 10

LET’S GET PERSONAL and RE:Doing GENDER 2 performances with Annika B. Lewis and Andreas Constantinou
November 15
More information about LET’S GET PERSONAL
More information about RE:Doing GENDER

THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY.
November 29
Open door into an artistic process in progress about the research work THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY by Annika B. Lewis and Andreas Constantinou

DECEMBER

Film screening The Abyss by Urban Gad with Asta Nielsen
December 4
Introduction to the movie in English

2016

FEBRUARY

Lord Byron and Greece
February 10
Lecture in English by Grethe Rostboell

MARCH

An evening with poetry and music with Peter Laugesen
March 2

APRIL

Open Annual Meeting
April 8

MAY

Is Greece finally on the road to economic recovery?
May 10

Transmission and Transformation: Ancient Polychromy in Sculpture and Architecture
May 23
Lecture in English by Signe Skriver Hedegaard and Dr Cecilie Brøns

JUNE

BERLIN SOUP ARTS FESTIVAL takes part in the 4th international cultural festival
3 -11 June
BACKTOATHENS

Book launch
R. Frederiksen, S. Müth, M. Schnelle and P. Schneider (eds), Focus on Fortification. Conference on the Research of Ancient Fortifications, Athens 6-9 December 2012 (MoDIA 18), 2016. Oxford: Oxbow.
June 9

The implementation of the natural sciences in the study of ancient polychromy
Lecture in English by Peter Fink-Jensen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek og Luise Ørsted Brandt, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions
June 14

JULY

Full Moon Concerts: Two musical evenings featuring Danish and Greek composers and musicians
19 July at the Danish Institute
20 July at the National Observatory

SEPTEMBER

Supplying the Ottoman army. The experience of an official contractor
September 28
Lecture in English by Dr Mogens Pelt

OCTOBER

Painting Marble Skin. Some speculations on Ancient painting techniques, skin colours and modern expectations
October 11
Lecture in English by Amalie Skøvmøller

NOVEMBER

Poetry evening with author Henrik Nordbrandt
November 10
Introduction by the author and Christina Linardaki. Readings by the author and Giorgos Giannarakos

DNA in European Prehistory: the story so far, and the next chapter.
November 15
Workshop in English with Eske Willerslev and Kristian Kristiansen

A World of Colour: Textiles and Polychromy in Ancient Art and Architecture
November 29
Lecture in English by Cecilie Brøns

2015

MAY

When Aristotle Went West – Aristotelianism in Western Europe.

May 26
Lecture in English by professor Sten Ebbenes

Using what laws? Plato’s Statesman and the Athenian Patrios Politeia debate
May 29
Lecture in English by PhD Anders Dahl Sørensen

Opening of the Film The Visit – An Alien Encounter
September 2

Friday, 6th of November 2015 at 20:30
Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall – Christos Lambrakis Hall
In collaboration with the Danish Embassy and the Danish Institute at Athens

Concert for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nielsen and Sibelius – We and the World III

CARL NIELSEN (1865 – 1931)
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, opus 57
JEAN SIBELIUS (1865 – 1957)
Symphony no. 2 in D major, opus 43
ANTIOCHOS EVANGELATOS (1903 – 1981)
Introduction to a drama

Mihkel Kütson, conductor
Spyros Mourikis, clarinet

Spiros Mourikis, winner of the first Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition in Odense in 1997, is performing Carl Nielsen’s Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, opus 57 with the Athens State Orchestra conducted by the dynamic Finnish maestro, Mihkel Kütson. This Athenian debut of Kütson also includes the Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius, a work which uniquely combines ‘dark’ Scandinavian melancholy with bright Mediterranean vivacity as well as a well-known work by the Greek composer, Antiochus Evangelatos.

Bent Holm, A grotesque Odessey on the Danish stage. Holdberg’s Ulysses von Ithacia.
November 26
The founder of Danish theatre, the satirist Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) was inspired by grotesque, irreverent theatre forms with roots in Aristophanes and commedia dell’arte, the Italian masked comedy. In his burlesque comedy Ulysses von Ithacia he combines the Iliade and the Odyssey with e.g. popular, legendary and biblical references in an almost surreal depiction of pompous heroism, of generals in war and war in general. Theatre scholar and dramaturge, DPhil Bent Holm will focus on the historical and dramaturgical aspects of the comedy.
For those not familiar with the play there is a good English translation available at click for link

2014

This spring the Institute presents a lecture series on the theme Textiles in the Ancient World (lectures in the series are marked below with an asterisk*).

MARCH

Solo concert by singer and pianist Line Gøttsche Dyrholm
March 20

Book launch of the book Nicolas Calas and the Challenges of Surrealism by Lena Hoff
March 26

APRIL

Annual Meeting (Held at the Acropolis Museum)
April 4
• Annual report and review of Danish research activities in Greece in 2013 by Dr Rune Frederiksen, Director of The Danish Institute at Athens.
• Musical intermission
• Lecture in English by Ass. Prof. Christian Høgel ”Re-orientalising the study of medieval European literature: the three strands of the CML”.
• See videocast of the directors report

Textile production in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. *
April 9
Lecture in English by Prof. Marie Louise Nosch & Dr. Joanne E. Cutler

Textile production in the Aegean Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. *
April 30
Lecture in English by dr. Małgorzata Siennicka & dr. Kalliopi Sarri

MAY

The Ritual Use of Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 1st Millennium BC. *
May 8
Lecture in English by PhD Fellow Cecilie Brøns. See videocast from the lecture

The Chlamys of Alexander the Great and the luxury wardrobes of Roman emperors. *
May 12
Lecture in English by dr. Maria Papadopoulou & dr. Berit Hildebrandt

A World of Well-Ordered Societies? The Rules and Regulations of Ancient Associations."
May 22-23
International conference organized by The Copenhagen Associations Project

SEPTEMBER

Literary Translation Prizes 2014. An award for the best translation into Greek of Danish literature between 2000 and 2013
September 30
The award ceremony will take place at the Goethe-Institut in Athens

OCTOBER

GÖSTA ENBOM SEMINAR The Regional Production of Red-Figure Pottery: Greece, Magna Graecia and Etruria.
October 10-11
Seminar organised by the research project Pots, Potters and Society in Ancient Greece på Nationalmuseet i København.

Book launch ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΔΙΩΓΜΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΗ – Το τραύμα της Μικρασιατικής Καταστροφής σε τρεις γενιές by Associate Professor, emerita Libby Tata Arcel.
October 21

Anders Lassen’s War in Greece.
October 29
Lecture by writer, translator and journalist, M.A. Thomas Harder.
The lecture will be translated simultaneously into Greek.
See videocast from the lecture

NOVEMBER

Screening of the documentary film 1989 – A STATESMAN OPENS UP.
November 5
For further information on the film festival see CPH:DOX official webpage

The Archaeology of Theoria: Landscape, Movement, and Materiality in Ancient Pilgrimage_.
November 13
Lecture in English by Associate Professor Troels Myrup Kristensen, Aarhus University.

Ascending and Descending the Acropolis. Sacred Travel in Ancient Attica and its Borders_
November 15
International Workshop
Organized by the Danish Institute at Athens and the research project The Emergence of Sacred Travel: Experience, Economy, and Connectivity in Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage at Aarhus University._

2013

This spring the Institute presents a lecture series on the theme Experimental Archaeology and History in Denmark – Recent experimental archaeology, reenactment, and visitor participation at Danish historical institutions (lectures in the series are marked below with an asterisk*).

FEBRUARY

License To Kill – License To Thrill.
February 14-15
Recitation of Danish and Greek poetry and prose accompanied by Jazz (Thursday) and classical piano music (Friday).
Organized by the Danish Embassy in collaboration with the Danish Institute.

Halikarnassos after Alexander the Great – a deserted city? *
March 20
Lecture in English by Associate Professor Birte Poulsen, Dept. of Culture and Society –Classical Archaeology, Aarhus University.

APRIL

Annual Meeting (held at the Acropolis Museum)
April 12
• Annual report and review of Danish research activities in Greece by Dr Rune Frederiksen, Director of The Danish Institute at Athens.
• Musical intermission.
• The Naval Bases in the Piraeus – the backbone of the Athenian Democracy. Lecture in English by ph.d. Bjørn Lovén.

The Era of Harold Bluetooth of Denmark and the “Reconstruction” of life at Trelleborg Viking Fortress 980AD. *
April 17
Lecture in English by Dr Anne-Christine Larsen, Curator, Head of Trelleborg Viking Fortress, Denmark.

Book launch Petras, Siteia: 25 years of excavations and studies, Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, Vol. 16, edited by Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Aarhus and Athens 2012.
April 19
Introduction by the editor, followed by a lecture in English by Prof. professor Jan Driessen: The Wild Country East of Dikte: contextualising Bronze Age Petras.

MAY

Experiencing the Medieval Age in the 21st Century. *
May 8
Lecture in English by Kåre Johannessen, Curator, The Medieval Centre, Denmark.

An Iron Age Capital on the Kerkenes Dağ: 20 Years of Remote Sensing and Excavation.
May 10
Lecture in English by Mrs Françoise Summers & Dr Geoffrey Summers.

An Evening of Contemporary Danish Poetry: Three poets from Denmark read poems from the North._
May 13
Recitation of selected poems by three Danish poets (Sotirios Souliotis will translate the poems into Greek). Organized by The Poets’ Circle in collaboration with the Danish Institute.

From Silent Cultural Heritage to Active Living Memory – Examples of Involving People In Historical Experiences. *
May 23
Lecture in English by Lars Holten, General Manager, Lejre – Land of Legends. Centre for Historical-Archaeological Research and Communication, Denmark.

JUNE

In the wake of the Vikings – The Sea Stallion Project. *
June 5
Lecture in English by Louise Kæmpe Henriksen, curator, The Viking Ship Museum, Denmark.
See videocast from the lecture

Communities in Transition: The Circum-Aegean Later Neolithic Stages (ca. 5000/4800-3200/3000 BC).
June 7-9
International conference
The conference took place at the Acropolis Museum and the Danish Institute.

OCTOBER

Orally Transmitted Law – in Ancient Greece and Beyond.
October 3
Lecture in English by associate professor emeritus Mogens Herman Hansen, SAXO-Institute – Prehistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin and History, University of Copenhagen.

Hansen, Athens, and the supporting outer wall
October 17
Lecture in English (with simultaneous translation into Greek) by architect Robert Mogensen
The lecture will be held on the 1st floor, at the Melina Cultural Centre, Thissio. The lecture is part of the exhibition “Hansen, Athens and the Supporting Outer-Wall” which is on display at the Melina Cultural Centre in Thissio, Athens during the period 8th-29th of October.

NOVEMBER

Mining the hinterland. Ceramic assemblages and material connections in Roman Cyprus.
November 6
Lecture in English by associate professor Kristina Winther-Jacobsen, SAXO-Institute – Prehistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin and History, University of Copenhagen. See videocast of the lecture

DECEMBER

Nordic Christmas Concert.
December 6
The four musicians Jonas Åkerlund (violin), Leif Eriksson (violin), Josefina Paulson (nyckelharpa), and Andreas Svensson (accordion) play traditional folk music as well as their own compositions.
The event is organized in collaboration with the Finish, the Norwegian, and the Swedish Institutes at Athens. (by invitation only)

2012

This spring the Institute presents a lecture series on the theme Ancient Greek Philosophy and its Tradition (lectures in the series are marked below with an asterisk*).

MARCH

Book launch Kalydon in Aitolia I – Reports and Studies. Danish/Greek Field Work 2001-2005; Kalydon in Aitolia II – Catalogues. Danish/Greek Field Work 2001-2005, in the series Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, Vol.12, 1-2, edited by Søren Dietz and Maria Stavropoulou-Gatsi.
March 20
Introduction by the editors, followed by a lecture in English Kalydon and the Cities of north‐western Greece. Political and urbanistic aspects. by Prof. dr. phil Peter Funke, Münster University.

The Copenhagen Associations Project: a presentation of its aims and methods.
March 22
Lecture in English by Prof. dr. phil. Vincent Gabrielsen, The Copenhagen Associations Project, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen & Dr Stella Skaltsa, senior researcher, The Copenhagen Associations Project, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Book launch of the books The Ancient Harbours of the Piraeus – I.1. The Zea Shipsheds and Slipways: Architecture and Topography, by Bjørn Lovén and The Ancient Harbours of the Piraeus – I.2. The Zea Shipsheds and Slipways: Finds, Area 1 Shipshed Roof Reconstructions and Feature Catalogue, in the series Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, Vol.15, 1-2, by Bjørn Lovén & Mette Schaldemose with contributions by B. Klejn-Christensen & M.M. Nielsen.
March 23
Introduction by the main author Dr Bjørn Lovén, director of the Zea Harbour Project, followed by a lecture in English The Piraeus and the Athenian Navy: recent archaeological and historical advances by Prof. dr. phil. Vincent Gabrielsen, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen.

APRIL

Platons samlede værker i en ny dansk oversættelse. *
April 18
Lecture in Danish by part-time lecturer Christian Gorm Tortzen, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Annual meeting
April 20
• Annual report and review of Danish research activities in Greece in 2011 by Dr Rune Frederiksen, director of The Danish Institute at Athens. NB! This part of the meeting will take place at the New Acropolis Museum, Dionysiou Areopagitou 15.
• Inauguration of the new decoration of the Institute’s auditorium, created by the Danish artist Kirstine Roepstorff and donated by the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Who Wrote Plato’s Dialogues? *
April 25
Lecture in English by part-time lecturer Christian Gorm Tortzen, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen

MAY

Plotinus and the Presocratics. *
Lecture in English by Dr Giannis Stamatellos (post doc).
The historiographical divide between Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism. *
Lecture in English by Associate professor Leo Catana.
May 10
Both speakers are from the Centre for Neoplatonic Virtue Ethics, University of Copenhagen.

The Danish jazz trio Bévort 3 (Pernille Bévort, saxophone and vocals; Peter Hansen, bass; Janus Templeton, drums) participates in the European Jazz Festival (Wednesday 23 May to Sunday 27 May) organized by the municipality of Athens.
May 25
Venue: Technopolis, Pireos 100 (Gazi), Athens.

JUNE

Aristotle and his afterlife. *
June 13
Lecture in English by Prof. ph.d. David Bloch and Prof. dr. phil. Sten Ebbesen, Centre for the Aristotelian Tradition, Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen.

The Nordic Bronze Age Razor -Aegean influences in the Nordic Bronze Age.
June 14
Lecture in English by Dr Flemming Kaul, The National Museum, Denmark.

This Autumn the Institute presents a lecture series on the theme the prehistory of Greece (lectures in the series are marked below with an asterisk*).

SEPTEMBER

Plato’s late philosophy in the light of the Epinomis?
September 27
Lecture in English by Dr Erik Ostenfeld, associate professor, Classical Studies, University of Aarhus.

OCTOBER

When Early Man crossed the Mediterranean. Recent Paleolithic Finds from the South Coast of Crete. *
October 2
Lecture in English by Peder Mortensen, honorary professor at the department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Concert The Danish ensemble Psalmodie (quintet of i.a. vocal, cello, violin, bouzouki and percussion play their own new versions of old and beloved hymns of Danish writers such as Grundtvig and Kingo.
October 4
For more information
Psalmodie also plays a midday concert on Tuesday 2 October at 12.00, at the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”, of the Friends of Music Society, in the Athens Concert Hall, Megaro Mousikis. For more information

Obsidian, Jade axes and Gold matrices from the New Carlsberg Glyptothek – Gaining new knowledge of the Greek Prehistory *
October 18
Lecture in English by Dr Lasse Sørensen, fellow at The National Museum of Denmark, Department of Danish Prehistory.

The Multiple Meanings of Water: archaeological and geological approaches to the Bronze Age Cultures on Santorini and Crete around 1600 BC. *
October 31
Lecture in English by Dr. Walter L. Friedrich and Dr Annette Højen Sørensen, Univercity of Aarhus.

NOVEMBER

Illuminating the Cave: Chipped stone, Social Identity and Regionality in the Neolithic Ionian. *
November 8
Lecture in English by Dr Niels H. Andreasen, MSc, Copenhagen.

DECEMBER

Fokus Fortifikation.
December 6-9
Conference on the Research of Fortifications in Antiquity.
Organized by the International Research Network Fokus Fortifikation in collaboration with the Danish Institute at Athens and The German Archaeological Institute, Berlin.
Please note: this event take place in the auditorium of the Acropolis Museum, Athens. Registration required for participation.

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