| Apart from the excavations and the publication of Pharos, the NIA organizes a wide range of other academic activities, such as lectures, seminars and colloquia. Apart from these scientific activities the Institute organizes and initiates cultural events like exhibitions and art performances. In the educational field the NIA activities include the coordination of exchange programs between Greek and Dutch educational institutions, providing Dutch and Greek students with information on studying in 'the other country', and mediating between Dutch scientists and Greek state-institutions. At the NIA, a research programme is carried out by its current director Dr G.J. van Wijngaarden. The project is called: Bronze Age maritime contacts within the central Mediterranean. Common elements in material culture. The research aims to clarify the changing relationships between Mycenaean Greece and areas in the Balkan and Italy. To this aim, imports as well as common elements in material culture are analysed in relation to developments in the use of the landscape. |
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| The NIA is coordinating a project, which makes use of Archives in the Netherlands dating from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries. A fair number of these records deal with the Aegean area. They are of importance not only because they shed light on developments in Greece during the Ottoman period. In addition, they also show the information which the Dutch government acquired on these developments. Within the project, the first aim is to make these records available to scholars by supplying (digital) copies at the NIA. Dutch and Greek researchers would then be able to develop a coherent research programme. |
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Two of the texts presented at the ARA conference, are presented at the following links: Prof. Arnold van Gemert, Nieuwgrieks en Byzantinologie,UvA: Ο γυρισμός του ξενιτεμένου. Τα ενδιαφέροντα και οι τύψεις ενός Ολλανδού φιλολόγου. Daniel Koster, Historicus: The beginning of Dutch navigation and trade with the Levant. |
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Since
1966 scholars in Palaeontology from Utrecht University have been cooperating
with colleagues from the Kapodistrian University at Athens in fieldwerk
at various sites in Greece. Other institutions have been involved
as well. Research has focussed at Pleistocene fossils. Work has been
done at the Maramena site in Macedonia and at the Vatera site on Lesbos.
Currently fieldwork is being carried out on Crete and Dutch Palaeontologists
are involved in the development of the new exhibition at the Museum
of Palaeontology and Geology of the National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens. |
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