Public lecture by Prof. Véronique Chankowski and Prof. Laurianne Sève from the French School at Athens on “Recent research of the Ecole française d'Athènes (EFA) in Greece: settlements and societies”

On Monday, February 19, 2024, at 14.30, in the building of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum in Sofia, 1 Atanas Burov Sq. (opposite the Presidency Building), prof. Véronique Chankowski and prof. Laurianne Sève are going to give a lecture, as part of the “Academic seminar of NAIM” lecture series on the recent research activities of the French school at Athens.

The Ecole française d'Athènes, the first international research institute established in Greece since 1846, is currently conducting a series of archaeological explorations in Greece, Albania and Cyprus. Its work makes extensive use of new technologies to study the establishment of settlements and their evolution. A number of examples will provide a brief overview of the research currently being carried out by EFA and its partners in a chronological framework ranging from prehistory to the Byzantine period. A promising new site, Terpni, also opens up new perspectives for the study of political, economic and cultural relations in the Strymon Valley.

Prof. Véronique Chankowski is the Director of the French School at Athens since 2019. She is a specialist in the economic and social history of the ancient Greek world. She studied classical literature at the Paris-Sorbonne University. During 1996-2000 Véronique Chankowski was a scientific member of the French School at Athens, where she led several archaeological missions, including the ones in Delos (Greece) and in Bulgaria (the site of Pistiros where she directed the Franco-Bulgarian archaeological mission from 1997 to 2003). In 2000, she was elected lecturer in Greek history at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III. She was named a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2005. From 2006 to 2009, Chankowski was director of studies at the French School at Athens. In 2012, she was elected professor of Aegean history and ancient economy at the Lumière University Lyon 2 and teaches Greek history at the bachelor, master and doctoral levels. From 2013 to 2018, she was also director of the HiSoMA laboratory (UMR 5189, Histoire et sources des mondes antiques) at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée.

Prof. Laurianne Sève is the research director of Ancient and Byzantine studies in the French School of Athens. Laurianne Sève is a professor of Greek history at the University of Lille since September 2007 and member of UMR 8164 HALMA /History, Archeology, Literature of the Ancient Worlds/. She was director of the UFR of historical, artistic and political sciences at the University of Lille from 2010 to 2013 and deputy director of the UMR HALMA between 2015 and 2019. Laurianne Martinez-Sève is an associate professor of history (1992), a doctor in archeology from the University of Paris 1 (1997) and qualified to direct research by the University of Paris 10 Nanterre (2007). Specialist in the Hellenistic Orient, her research is focused on Iran and Central Asia. She is a member of the Franco-Uzbek Archaeological Mission of Sogdiana and participates in the work of publishing the ancient excavations of Aï Khanoum (Afghanistan). She also studies the impact and legacy of Macedonian practices in the Seleucid kingdom.

More information on our guest lecturers and the activities of the Ecole française d'Athènes could be found on https://www.efa.gr.