R. M. Dawkins and the British School at Athens: from archaeology to dialects and folklore

 

 

The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies and the British School at Athens

are pleased to announce a Colloquium

which will focus on the life and work of Richard M. Dawkins, Director of the British School at Athens (1906 to 1914) and the first occupant of the Bywater and Sotheby Chair of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (1920–1939).

Speakers include:

• John Bennet (University of Sheffield), Professor Emeritus of Aegean Archaeology and, like Dawkins, a former Director of the BSA, with Debi Harlan, independent researcher;
• Ann French (The Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester), Collections Care Manager and Conservator (Textiles);
• Mark Janse (University of Ghent), Emeritus Research Professor in Ancient and Asia Minor Greek;
• Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge), Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics; Co-Director for the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies; Fellow, Tutor, Director of Studies in Linguistics at Queens’ College;
• Birgit Olsen (The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters), researcher in folklore.

Dawkins’s achievements and their lasting significance will be assessed across the range of his many academic interests, which included archaeology, dialectology, and the collection of embroidery and Greek folktales.

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Queens’ College, Cambridge
Friday 13 March 2026
2.00–6.30 pm, followed by a reception

Organisers: Prof David Holton and Prof Ioanna Sitaridou

more information to be communicated closer to the time of the event

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