Ancient World Winter School 2024

The theme of the Enlight/U4 Ancient World Winter School in 2024 is ‘Big and Small, Global and Local: the Dimensions of Antiquity’ is held in Athens 11–15 March. Winter school presents 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 is 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.

The director of the institute, Petra Pakkanen, will give an opening lecture of the school with the title ‘Animal skins to leather: Aspects of leather and its production in ancient Greece’ the coming Monday at 17:00 (UTC+2). The lecture can be attended via Zoom.

Link to the registration here.