David Lewis Memorial Lecture no. 28 'The Inscribed Bronze Tablets of Thebes: New Insights into Early Theban History.' Prof. Nikolaos Papazarkadas.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Nikolaos Papazarkadas will be delivering the 28th David Lewis Memorial Lecture on "The Inscribed Bronze Tablets of Thebes: New Insights into Early Theban History."

Nikolaos Papazarkadas is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research  at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, in Athens. He holds the Nicholas C. Petris Chair of Greek Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,  where he serves as the Director of the Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy; he is also a Senior Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard. He studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1998) and completed his  DPhil in Ancient History at the University of Oxford (2004). Besides Berkeley, he has taught classics at the University of Dublin (2004–2005) and twice at the University of Oxford (2005–2007, 2019).

His research interests focus on the political institutions, economy, and religion in antiquity, as reflected in his monograph Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens (Oxford University Press, 2011), as well as on the epigraphy of Attica, Boeotia and the Cyclades. He has edited or co-edited seven volumes on diverse topics, including the history and epigraphy of Boeotia, Athenian hegemony, the post-classical city-state, and the intersection of epigraphy and religious studies. Since 2007, he has been a collaborator, and since 2012, a chief editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, the world’s leading epigraphic publication, overseeing the regions of Athens, the Peloponnese, and Boeotia.

The lecture will be held on Wednesday the 27th of May at 5 o'clock and will be followed by drinks. As always, all are most  welcome to attend.