Events

All CAARI events WILL REMAIN ONLINE WITH A HYBRID ELEMENT WHEN FEASIBLE

All our lectures and conferences are free to attend and will be live on Zoom and later posted to CAARI’s YouTube Channel.

For more information contact us by phone 22456414 or email: librarian@caari.org.cy

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Forthcoming online AND LIVE events IN CYPRUS

Please note that we are aiming to hold our lectures in hybrid form, both live in the CAARI library and on zoom, to be later uploaded to our YouTube channel. If circumstances do not permit live events, we will be online only.

CAARI cordially invites you to the following online lectures (all 7pm Cyprus time). Please note Zoom links will be provided in the weeks before the lecture and available on CAARI’s website  here. Please email librarian@caari.org.cy if you wish to attend in person

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Archaeological legacies of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: 100 years on

14–16 October 2027, Nicosia

Organised by The Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI), The Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus and The Department of Antiquities, Cyprus

Held in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in Cyprus, SIMA and the Swedish Institute at Athens

Next year is the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition. CAARI is co-organising a conference with the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus and the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus to mark the occasion. Please see the link below.

CFP SCE Nicosia conference call

Abstracts should be sent to librarian@caari.org.cy by 31 October 2026. Selection of presenters will take place by early December 2026.

 

Autumn Lectures 2026

Thursday 5th November, 7pm: Dr Anna Reeve (Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)

Ancient Cyprus in UK museums – unexpected journeys, untold stories.

The material legacies of excavation and collecting in Cyprus can be seen today in many British museums. The British in Cyprus – travellers, diplomats, colonial officials, guests and temporary residents – took the opportunity to bring antiquities back with them, while in the UK, networks of scholars, collectors, institutions, dealers, artists and others drew in and circulated antiquities, which often came to rest in the local museums where they remain.
Some of the histories underpinning museum collections are well known and much studied, while others are perhaps more surprising. Together, they speak to the long history of British involvement with Cypriot archaeology, and its material con-sequences. By looking at the ways in which ancient objects came from Cyprus to the UK, and their historic movements through private collections and the public spaces of the marketplace, we can shed new light on today’s museum collections and the stories they have to tell.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

 

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

 

Thursday 3rd December, 7pm: Dorota Zaprzalska (Institute of the History of Art, Jagiellonian University)

Non-Invasive Analysis of Cypriot Composite Icons: Methods and Results.

 

 

Previous online events

  • CAARI and The British Museum collaborative webinar conference: Two sessions of Empire and excavation: critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960 online and all lectures are available to watch on YouTube.
  • Online lecture by Erin Walcek Averett: Beyond Representation: Cypriot Votives as Vibrant Assemblages
  • Online lecture by Alison South: Voices from the Grave: a Late Bronze Age Population from Kalavasos and their Tombs
  • Online lecture by Dr Robert Merrillees: Leonardo da Vinci’s legendary visit to Cyprus in 1481 A.D. and its link to Lefkara
  • Online lecture by Dr Andrew Sneddon: New Research at the Middle Bronze Age site of Alambra
  • Online lecture by Dr Artemis Georgiou: Cylinder-seal impressions on storage vessels from Late Bronze Age Cyprus: exploring the materiality of an idiosyncratic mechanism
  • Online lecture by Dr Anna Spyrou: From South Asia to the Eastern Mediterranean: Zebu cattle in iconography and nature of Bronze Age Cyprus
  • Online lecture by Nicoletta Demetriou (Ethnomusicologist, European Commission Widening Fellow, University of Cyprus): The Cypriot Fiddler: An oral history of traditional music-making in Cyprus in the twentieth century
  • Online lecture by Harry Pareskeva (CAARI Peltenburg Fellow in Cypriot Prehistory)
    It Takes Two to Tango: The Philia-Drakos Chalcolithic Settlement at the Dawn of the Bronze Age
  • Online lecture by Dr. Edna Stern (Israel Antiquities Authority, University of Haifa):Venice, Cyprus and the southern Levant in the 14th-16th centuries: ceramics as a reflection of contacts
  • Online lecture by Dr Lisa Mahoney (DePaul University): The Exceptional Icons of Lusignan Cyprus as Archetype 
  • Online lecture by Prof. Virginia Burrus (Syracuse University): Life in Ruins: Saint Hilarion’s Paphos 
  • Online lecture by Dr Ian Randall, CAARI-CAORC Fellow, (University of British Columbia):
    Disaster and Debris: Remaking Society in Post-Earthquake Kourion
  • Online lecture by Dr Bleda Düring,CAARI Scholar in Residence (Leiden University)
    (Re)Connecting Cyprus: Exchange Networks and Society in the Third Millennium BCE
  • Online lecture by Dr Giulia Muti, CAARI Edgar Peltenburg Postdoctoral  Fellow in Cypriot Prehistory: Weaving new patterns. Textile production and social implications on Cyprus between the end of the Chalcolithic and the transition to the Late Bronze Age
  • Online lecture by Dr Artemis Karnava (University of Crete): Cretan and Cypriot writing in the 2nd & 1st millennia BC: on seeing and believing.
  • Online lecture by Dr Craig Barker (University of Sydney): From Vounous to Paphos: A brief history of Australian archaeologists excavating in Cyprus 
  • Online Lecture by Prof. Dr. Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka (Jagiellonian University in Kraków and University of Warsaw): Where the streets have no name. Results of the research project ‘MA-P Maloutena and Agora in the urban layout of Paphos: Modelling the cityscape of the Hellenistic and Roman capital of Cyprus’
  • Online lecture by Dr Frederick Whitling (CAARI Scholar in Residence): “Swedish Spades in Terra Incognita”. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf’s 1930 Cyprus Sojourn and the Division of Finds of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition. 
  • Online lecture by Dr Francesca Meneghetti (CAARI Edgar J Peltenburg Postdoctoral Fellow): Clearing the dust from legacy material. Renewed studies on the Israeli excavations at Athienou-Bamboulari tis Koukounninas.
  • Online lecture by Dr Nicholas Stanley-Price (Independent Scholar):Rupert Gunnis and Cyprus antiquities: author, ‘policeman’, collector and fugitive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XQWoUTtJrQ&ab_channel=CVAR-SeverisFoundation 
  • Online lecture by Dr Thomas Kiely (The British Museum): ‘Law and (dis)order? Managing the archaeological heritage of Cyprus in early British times, 1878 – 1914
  • Online lecture by Prof. Steve Falconer (University of North Carolina Charlotte, Fulbright US Scholar): Bronze Age life and landscape at Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus
  • Online lecture by Dr Leilani Lucas (College of Southern Nevada): Tracing the Evolution of Culinary Traditions in Prehistoric Cyprus: Integrating Archaeobotanical and Archaeological Evidence
  • Online lecture by Dr Kristina Winther-Jacobsen, (The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen) and Angus Graham, (Uppsala University):  Creating narratives for the Roman and Late Roman copper production in the northern Troodos
  • Online lecture by Dr Nathan Meyer, (CAARI US Embassy Fellow): Characterizing the landscape with archaeological survey
  • Online book launch by A. Bernard Knapp (Professor Emeritus University of Glasgow & CAARI), Cyprus and Ugarit: Connecting Material and Mercantile Worlds
  • Online lecture by Dr Ellon Souter (CAARI Edgar J. Peltenburg Fellow in Cypriot Prehistory): Changes in ground stone technology related to early copper use in Cyprus (2900–1900 BC)
  • Online lecture by Caroline Barnes (Fulbright Scholar)and Graham Braun (University of Cincinatti), Building Bronze Age Cyprus: An Integrative Approach to Monumental Architecture and Ashlar Masonry
  • Online lecture by Prof. Emerita Pamela Gaber (Lycoming College): La Longue Durée: the View from Idalion
  • Online lecture by Dr Chase Minos (CAARI Edgar J. Peltenburg Fellow in Cypriot Prehistory): Unlocking the Secrets of Plain White: Experimental, Technological, and Compositional Insights into Late Bronze Age Pottery Production at Ayios Sozomenos, Cyprus
  • Online lecture by Dr Stella Demesticha (Associate Professor of Maritime Archaeology, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus): The Nissia Shipwreck, Cyprus: investigating an anonymous 18th century ship
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