Previous advanced courses
Ancient World Winter School 2024, 11.3.–15.3.2024
The theme of the Enlight/U4 Ancient World Winter School in 2024 was ‘Big and Small, Global and Local: the Dimensions of Antiquity’ and it was held in Athens 11–15 March 2024. Winter school presented papers by post-graduate students and their supervisors in different disciplines connected to the study of antiquity: ancient history, archaeology, religious studies, cultural studies, linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric etc.
The winter school was organized in collaboration by the University of Tartu, the Finnish Institute at Athens, the Belgian School at Athens, the Swedish institute at Athens and the universities of Göttingen, Groningen, Ghent and Uppsala
Cyprus as a cultural meeting place (Finnish Institute at Athens, The Finnish Institute in the Middle East and the Finnish Institute in Rome), 4.10.–29.11.2021
The following students participated in the course: Laura Aho, Juuli Ahola, Kaisa Autere, Anna Gustafsson, Visa Helenius, Anni Hella, Suvi Jokinen, Urpo Kantola, Tuuli Kasso, Jasmin Lukkari, Katja von Schöneman and Anna-Maria Wilskman
Instructors: Raija Mattila (HY), Sanna Aro-Valjus (HY), Petra Pakkanen (FIA), Elina Pyy (IRF), Irina Piippo (FIME), Arja Karivieri (Tukholman yliopisto), Antti Lampinen (FIA) and Simo Örmä (IRF)
The course focused on the history of Cyprus from prehistoric times to the modern era. The first part of the course was organised online, after which the course toured Cyprus and its sites for a week.
Previous courses on Archaeological Fieldwork
Archaeological fieldwork, 3.–19.7.2020
The following students participated in the course: Hanna Ellermaa, Jussi-Pekka Hiltunen, Anu Ketonen, Nikolai Paukkonen and Jasmin Ruotsalainen
Instructors: Björn Forsén, Antti Lampinen and Nikolai Paukkonen
Students were taught how to use a drone, tachymetry and photogrammetry, followed by surveying, photography and drone exercises at various archaeological sites. In addition, visits were organised to various ancient monuments and archaeological sites from different time-periods, as well as museum visits.
Photogrammetry and mapping, Thesprotia (the Finnish Institute at Athens, the University of Helsinki and Aalto University), 28.7–10.8.2018
The following students attended the course: Julius Eerola, Riina Hämäläinen, Suvi Kivimaa, Nikolai Paukkonen, Aleksi Stenberg ja Helena Wahala
Instructors: Björn Forsén (FIA), Petri Rönnholm (Aalto University) ja Wesa Perttola (UoH)
During the course the students were taught how to use a drone, a total station and photogrammetry, and how to analyse the data collected with these with the help of GIS, CAD, and different programs for photogrammetry. Participants also learned which types of archaeological and historical information these methods can yield. Six sites in Thesprotia were measured.