Scottish Hellenic Society of St Andrews

20/09/2018

Today, in Parliament Hall in St Andrews, Prof Stamatia Dova (Hellenic College Holy Cross, Boston USA) will give the first lecture for the Scottish Hellenic Society of St Andrews for this year: “We have won: Athens 1896 and the cultural politics of the first marathon."

Please ensure that you arrive in Parliament Hall before 14.40. The lecture will start at 15:00, after the opening remarks for the "Athletics and Identity in Ancient and Modern Cultures" conference. If you wish to leave after the lecture, there is a break from 15:40 to 16:00.

21/02/2018

, 27 Feb at 17:15 in S11, Swallowgate:

"'The plain and truest proof of its own nature’: The Perception and Reception of Mount Etna from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century." (Dr Dawn Hollis)

Co-organised with the University of St. Andrews Archaeological Society https://www.facebook.com/events/1524000371023793

10/10/2017

We are happy to announce that we will begin our new season events on Tuesday 17 of October at 17.00 in room S11 of Swallowgate building. There will be a wine tasting of Cycladic wines from Paros and a Doug Forsyth (St Andrews) will make a presentation oν Cycladic viniculture and wine-making, both modern and ancient. The only skill required is to be able to taste wine and listen simultaneously! We would like to see as many of you as possible!

*In this event we will also announce the programm of this year's lectures.

30/03/2017

Many thanks to everyone who joined us for the screening of Uranya on Tuesday - great film and a very interesting discussion with the director Costas Kapakas. That was our last event for this year - see you again in September!

22/02/2017

Many thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday for Alex Long's entertaining and informative talk on notions of immortality in early Greek poetry and philosophy.

09/02/2017

Thank you to everyone who came along on Tuesday, and to our speaker Elizabeth Fowden for a very interesting talk on the cultural appropriations of the Parthenon.

25/01/2017

Thank you to everyone who attended last night's lecture, and to Roderick Beaton for a thought-provoking explanation why the Greek Revolution happened in 1821.

09/11/2016

Thank you to everyone who attended last night's lecture, and to our speaker, Chris White, for an amazing journey over the mountains of Crete following in the footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor!

16/09/2016

Opening party: 27 September 2016, 5.30pm, Swallowgate 11, School of Classics. All welcome!

20/06/2016

‘SOUNDS OF THE HELLENIC WORLD, ANCIENT AND MODERN’ (4-5 JULY 2016) at King's College London. For more details and booking, see the website http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/Sounds-of-the-Hellenic-world-.aspx

An afternoon and evening celebrating the musical traditions of Greece, followed by a morning workshop on music and the current crisis in Greece.

11/12/2015

The Scottish-Hellenic Society wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Καλά Χριστούγεννα κι ευτυχισμένος ο καινούριος χρόνος!

01/12/2015

Thank you all for coming to our events this semester! Have a great holiday and see you again in 2016.