5 Dec 2025 | The 15th Day on Belgian Archaeological Research in the Ancient Greek World

Friday, 5 December 2025 – Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels

The Belgian School at Athens (EBSA) and the Belgian Committee for Archaeological Research in Greece (BCAOG/CBRAG) are pleased to announce the 15th Day on Belgian Archaeological Research in the Ancient Greek World, to be held on Friday, December 5, 2025, at the Royal Museums of Art and History (Grand Auditorium, Parc du Cinquantenaire 10, 1000 Brussels).

This annual meeting brings together researchers involved in Belgian archaeological projects in Greece and the wider Aegean world. The event will feature a series of presentations highlighting recent fieldwork, studies, and interdisciplinary approaches in Aegean and Classical archaeology.

Programme

10:50 – Repopulating the Aegean Islands: Machine Learning Approaches to Reconstructing Early Bronze Age Island Networks
Rosie Campbell (FNRS FRESH – UCLouvain/VUB)

11:15 – New Insights into Earthen Construction at Sissi, Crete (Bronze Age): Reconsidering the Importance of the Daub Technique
Paul Bacoup (FSR postdoc – UCLouvain)

11:40 – Coffee break

11:55 – Planning Mycenaean Monumental Architecture: A Case Study Approach to Identifying a Design Module
Marco Prete (UGent – ERC DAEDALOS)

12:45 – Lunch break

14:25 – In the Footsteps of Hands: Workshops, Craftsmanship, and Mobility of Greek Potters in Archaic Sicily
Lou de Barbarin (Chargée de recherches FNRS – ULB)

14:50 – Karthaia on Kea and Paul Graindor — “The Belgian Connection”
Dyfri Williams (MRAH/KMKG – ULB)

14:50 – Coffee break

15:05 – A Drama in Time. Urbanism in Hellenistic Pisidia
Bas Beaujean (KU Leuven)

15:30 – The Pottery of the Greek–Albanian Excavations in Butrint: a Publication Project
Roald Docter (UGent) & Kees Neeft (ULB)

15:55 – General discussion

16:10 – Closure

The event is free and open to all, but registration is required by November 25, 2025, for organisational reasons (coffee, tea, and lunch).
Presentations will be in English.

For participants abroad, the event will also be available online via Microsoft Teams.

• Registration: https://urls.fr/2IQzqB
• Online access link: https://urls.fr/e3cB3_