Johannes Sundwall Lectures

Annual Johannes Sundwall lecture is given by an internationally renowned scholar with a broad scholarly output dealing with topics that are similar to those of Sundwall’s own research.

Lilian Karali (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), ‘Contribution of Archaeomalacological Research to Aegean Archaeology’, 25.11.2022

Frederick Whitling (European University Institute), ‘”Greek Genius in Roman Body” – Johannes Sundwall, ‘the Grand Old Man of Classical Research in Finland’ and ‘the Great Minoan Riddle”, 15.11.2021, SAIA

Anna Lucia D’Agata (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma), ‘Making Gender with Things: Gendered Identities and Material Culture in Late Minoan III Crete’, 25.11.2019

Mary E. Voyatzis (University of Arizona), ‘A Tale of Two Arcadian Sanctuaries: Comparing Zeus on Mt. Lykaion with Athena Alea at Tegea’, 4.12.2018

Sofia Voutsaki (University of Groningen), ‘The North Cemetery at Ayios Vasilios and the Transformation of Early Mycenaean Society’, 20.12.2017

Stephen Lambert (Cardiff University), ‘Demokrates the democrat?’, 24.11.2016

Olga Palagia (University of Athens), ‘The Sculpture from the sanctuary of Apollo Amyklaios in Sparta’, 5.11.2015

A. Bernard Knapp, ‘Bronze Age Trade in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of Maritime Transport Containers’, 6.11.2014

Joseph Maran (University of Heidelberg), ‘Gods and Rulers in Mycenean Citadels: a Very Special Relationship’, 14.11.2013

Mark Janse (Ghent University), ‘The Cappadocians and their Languages, 1911 BC–AD 2011’, 15.11.2011

Cynthia W. Shelmerdine (University of Texas at Austin), ‘Mycenaean Scribes and Literacy’, 18.11.2010

Lorna Hardwick (Open University), ‘Ancient and Modern Societies in Dialogue: the Role of Greek Drama’, 19.11.2009

Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge), ‘How the Gauls Broke the Frame: A Hellenistic Revolution in Theology on the Athenian Acropolis’, 30.11.2007

Jack L. Davis (University of Cincinnati), ‘Remembering and Forgetting Nestor: Pylian Pasts Pluperfect?’, 8.11.2006