31 October - 1 November 2020
Community and Public Archaeology: Communities of Kofinou, Alaminos and Agios Theodoros. A day in the field with archaeologists from the University of Cyprus. Before participation, please, download the Android mobile app here!
 
Community Archaeology Invitation
11 June 2020 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou and Dr Christine Morris will present the lecture "Από το παρελθόν στο παρόν: Ιεροτοπία και κοινωνική βιογραφία της Κύπριδας Αφροδίτης" on Thursday, June 11th, 2020. The lecture will be given online and may be accessed by clicking here.
 
 
Από το παρελθόν στο παρόν: Ιεροτοπία και κοινωνική βιογραφία της Κύπριδας Αφροδίτης
03 June 2020 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou will present the lecture "At the Crossroads of Empire: The Socio-political and Cultural Landscape of Cyprus from Classical to Hellenistic Times" on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020, at 17:00 (Jerusalem time). The lecture will be given online via Zoom.
 
 
At the Crossroads of Empire: The Socio-political and Cultural Landscape of Cyprus from Classical to Hellenistic Times
06 March 2019 Presentation of “Papantoniou, G. and Vionis, A.K. (eds.) 2019. Central Places and UnCentral Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée. Land (special issue). Basel: MDPI”, by Prof. Emer. John Bintliff (University of Leiden, Leiden, Holland / University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland).
 
 
Presentation of the volume by Prof. Emer. John Bintliff
11 February 2019 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou and Dr Athanasios Vionis will lecture on “Unlocking the Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (UnSaLa-CY) and Landscape Archaeology in the Xeros River Valley in Larnaca” on Monday, February 11th 2019 at 07.30 pm at the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus.
 
 
Unlocking the Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus (UnSaLa-CY) and Landscape Archaeology in the Xeros River Valley in Larnaca
19-21 October 2018 The second international meeting of the Unlocking Sacred Landscapes (UnSaLa) network will be held from 19 to 21 October 2018 in the Laboratory of Geophysical-Satellite Remote Sensing and Arhaeo-environment (Melissinou & Nikiforou Foka 130) at Rethymnon, Crete. For the Programme and Abstracts Book of the Conference and more information click here.
 
 
Digital Humanities and Ritual Space: Rethymnon 2018
09 July 2018 Dr Athanasios Vionis will talk on the "Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus" at the opening of Adamos Papantoniou's photography exhibition "Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus: Images for Huntington’s Disease". The exhibition is organised by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, in collaboration with the Huntington’s Disease Association of Cyprus and the UnSaLa Research Network (Unlocking Sacred Landscapes). The exhibited photographs are collectible and will be available for sale with the exclusive purpose of supporting the Association. For more information click here.
 
 
Settled and Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus: Images for Huntington’s Disease
September 2018 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou will present the paper "Cyprus and Sardinia at the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age: a sacred landscapes approach" with Anna Depalmas (University of Sassari) at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, to be held in Barcelona from the 5th to the 8th of September 2018. For more information click here.
 
 
 
May 2018 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou and Dr Athanasios Vionis will chair the panel "Central places and un-central landscapes: political economies and natural resources in the longue durée" (Panel 8.13) at the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, to be held in Cologne/Bonn from the 22nd to the 26th of May 2018. For more information click here.
 
 
Bonn Workshop (May 2017)
20 February 2018 Dr Athanasios Vionis will present the lecture "Local processes and lobal phenomena: Settlement systems in post-antique Cyprus" at the Trinity College, Dublin. For more information click here.
 
 
 
January 2018 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou will present the lecture "At the Crossroads of Empire: the Socio-political and Cultural Landscape of Cyprus from Classical to Hellenistic Times" at the Institut für Klassische Archäologie und Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig, on Monday, January 1st 2018. For more information click here.
 
 
 
December 2017 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou and Dr Athanasios Vionis will lecture on "Economic Landscapes and Transformed Mindscapes in Cyprus from Roman Times to the Early Middle Ages" at the conference "Change and Resilience. The Occupation of Mediterranean Islands in Late Antiquity" on Friday, December 2nd 2017 (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA). For more information click here.
 
 
Change and Resilience. The Occupation of Mediterranean Islands in Late Antiquity::01-02-03/12/2017, Providence (RI, USA)
October 2017 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou will present the lecture "At the Crossroads of Empire: the Socio-political and Cultural Landscape of Cyprus from Classical to Hellenistic Times" at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriot Studies, University of Münster. For more information click here.
 
 
22 June 2017 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou will lecture on "Political economies and religious ideologies in Cyprus from Classical to Hellenistic times" in Frankfurt, Value and Equivalence Research Training Group 1576/2. For more information click here.
 
 
15 June 2017 Dr Giorgos Papantoniou will lecture on “Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: ancient Cypriot sanctuaries through time (Bronze Age to Late Roman)" at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
 
 
30 May 2017
Dr Giorgos Papantoniou will lecture on "Unlocking the Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus: The Development of a GIS Approach" at the University of Cologne, Archäologisches Institut. For more information click here.
 
 
19-20 May 2017 In collaboration with the 'RTG 1878: Archaeology of Pre-Modern Economies' Research Network, the UnSaLa Network organises the workshop 'GIS Workshop and Economic Archaeology: Inter- and Intra-site Approaches' in the University of Bonn, in the 19th and 20th of May 2017. For more information and the programme of the workshop click here. Bonn Workshop (May 2017)
12 May 2017
Dr Giorgos Papantoniou will lecture on "Political economies and imperial integration: The importance of the Arsinoe cult in shaping Ptolemaic power" at the Plenum Meeting/Summer term 2017, University of Bonn, Abteilung für Altamerikanistik, room 1.002. For more information click here.
 
 
12 May 2017
Dr Athanasios Vionis will lecture on "The Economic Parameters of Settled and Sacred Landscapes in Greece, 6th-19th c. AD" at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne, as part of the 'Archaeology of Pre-Modern Economies Research Network (DE) public lectures (Plenum)' on May 12th, 2017.
 
 
17-19 Feb 2017
Dr Giorgos Papantoniou and Dr Athanasios Vionis, members of the consortium, will present the UnSaLa and SeSaLaC projects in the CAARI conference: 'Environment, landscape and society: diachronic perspectives on settlement patterns in Cyprus'.
 
 
07 Feb 2017
Dr Athanasios Vionis will lecture on "Sacred and Economic Landscapes in Greece and Cyprus during the Late Antique/Early Byzantine Period" at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Newcastle (UK), as part of the 'Byzantine public lecture series', on February 7th, 2017.
 
 
03 Feb 2017
Dr Athanasios Vionis will lecture on "Early Byzantine Churches and Landscape Perspectives in Greece and Cyprus" at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh (UK), as part of the 'Late Antiquity and Byzantium public lecture series', on February 3rd, 2017.
 
 
01 Feb 2017
Dr Giorgos Papantoniou will teach in Athens on Cypriot Sacred Landscapes. For more information consult the website of the Archaeological Society at Athens here.
 
 
08 Jan 2017 The research programme 'Moulding Expressions of Culture: The Terracotta Figurines from the House of Orpheus, Nea Paphos', has recently received an award of excellence by the University of Cyprus A.G. Leventis Foundation Research Committee. The main researcher of the programme is our Network Coordinator, Dr. Giorgos Papantoniou. The award will be given out on Tuesday 10th of January 2017 at 17.00, Room B108, at the Leventis Building of the University of Cyprus. Download the invitation to the event here.