Upcoming events
Below, you can find all upcoming events organized and (partially) funded by OIKOS. It also lists antiquity-related events (co)organized by members of OIKOS. Would you like to see an event added to this list? Please contact us to let us know.
Events organized by OIKOS are indicated as such. Note that OIKOS members are requested to refrain from planning events on dates on which another OIKOS event will take place.
If you want to learn more about events organized by the OIKOS research groups and platforms take a look at our webpages on research. If you want to know more about courses that are organized this year, take a look at the list of Upcoming courses; if you want to know more about OIKOS courses, take a look at the ReMA and PhD curriculum.
OIKOS/UG/UGhent course Ancient Greek cities: A lived history of the Greek Polis
From:Mo 02-02-2026Until:Mo 01-06-2026Where:Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Narrative, Cognition and Rhetoric: How Narratives Shape(d) Ancient Culture - Session 1
When:Mo 13-04-2026 13:00 - 17:00Where:UvA
Anchoring Athenian Democracy: Origins, Crises, Legacies
From:Tu 14-04-2026Until:We 22-04-2026Where:NIA (Athens)
Book presentation Basil Nelis
When:Fr 01-05-2026 15:00 - 17:00Where:Leiden University
OIKOS research group Classical Literature: Workshop on Ecocriticism
When:Fr 08-05-2026Where:University of Amsterdam
Narrative, Cognition and Rhetoric: How Narratives Shape(d) Ancient Culture - Session 2
When:Mo 11-05-2026 13:00 - 17:00Where:UvA
MECANO Spring School
From:Mo 18-05-2026Until:Th 21-05-2026Where:Nijmegen
Narrative, Cognition and Rhetoric: How Narratives Shape(d) Ancient Culture - Session 3
When:Mo 18-05-2026 13:00 - 17:00Where:UvA
The values of poikilia in late classical Greece
From:Tu 19-05-2026Until:We 20-05-2026Where:Leiden University (t.b.a.)
Publishing in peer reviewed journals - session 2
When:Fr 22-05-2026 12:00 - 15:00Where:Amsterdam, t.b.d.
Inaugural lecture by Rutger Allan
When:Fr 22-05-2026 15:45 - 17:00Where:Aula VU Main Building, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam
Crash Course in Greek Paleography
From:Tu 26-05-2026Until:We 27-05-2026Where:University Library Leiden, Witte Singel 27
OIKOS day
When:Fr 29-05-2026Where:Universiteit Gent
Narrative, Cognition and Rhetoric: How Narratives Shape(d) Ancient Culture - Session 4
When:Mo 01-06-2026 13:00 - 17:00Where:UvA
Conference: Staging the Heroine. The Construction and Performance of Female Heroism in Literature, the Visual Arts and Theatre (c. 1350-1800)
From:We 03-06-2026Until:Fr 05-06-2026Where:Leiden University
Anchoring Innovation Conference on ‘Anchoring Objects’
From:Th 04-06-2026Until:Sa 06-06-2026Where:t.b.c.
Workshop: Landscapes of Power: The Colonial Legacies of the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum
When:Fr 05-06-2026Where:Groningen
Narrative, Cognition and Rhetoric: How Narratives Shape(d) Ancient Culture - Session 5
When:Mo 08-06-2026 13:00 - 17:00Where:UvA
Impact of Empire Workshop: The Impact of Empire on the Lived City
From:We 10-06-2026Until:Fr 12-06-2026Where:Copenhagen
Workshop: Woodworking in the Roman Imagination
From:Th 18-06-2026Until:Fr 19-06-2026Where:Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, t.b.a.
Conference - Ancient Weather Perspectives. Perceptions, representations and realities (400-700)
From:We 24-06-2026Until:Sa 27-06-2026Where:t.b.d.
Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Epigram
From:Th 25-06-2026Until:Fr 26-06-2026Where:Leiden (t.b.a.)
‘The Garlands of Meleager and Philip in Dialogue: International Conference on Hellenistic and Early Imperial Greek Book Epigram’
From:Th 25-06-2026Until:Fr 26-06-2026Where:Leiden University (t.b.a.)
Workshop: The Monumentum Ancyranum as Anchor of Power and Engine of Change. Understanding processes of anchoring through the lens of the many lives of the Monumentum Ancyranum
From:Th 24-09-2026Until:Fr 25-09-2026Where:Nijmegen, Radboud University
Symposium on the Herculaneum Papyri
From:Th 15-10-2026Until:Fr 16-10-2026Where:Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
Theme in Context day (TiC)
When:Fr 23-10-2026Where:Ghent University
OIKOS Nunspeet Seminar
From:Fr 06-11-2026Until:Sa 07-11-2026Where:Nunspeet, t.b.a.
Anchoring Innovation Expert Meeting
From:Fr 20-11-2026Until:Sa 21-11-2026Where:t.b.a.
Anchoring Innovation 23rd Expert Meeting
From:Fr 20-11-2026Until:Sa 21-11-2026Where:Soeterbeeck
International PhD Days
From:Tu 16-03-2027Until:Th 18-03-2027Where:Würzburg
Anchoring Innovation 24rd Expert Meeting
From:Th 15-04-2027Until:Fr 16-04-2027Where:t.b.a.
International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Leiden en Amsterdam
From:Su 06-06-2027Until:Sa 12-06-2027Where:Amsterdam and Leiden
Spring School (Masterclass) OIKOS/KNIR
From:We 16-06-2027Until:We 23-06-2027Where:KNIR (Rome)