Location BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 and online
Date and time
Tuesday 21 April 2026
15:30 - 16:30 (London BST)
17:30 - 18:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
Speakers
Felix Pirson
German Archaeological Institute | Istanbul
The ancient city of Pergamon (today Bergama, Izmir Province, Türkiye) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site best known for the Great Altar of Zeus (displayed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Berlin, Museum Island).
As a Hellenistic royal residence and a Roman Imperial Metropolis, Pergamon is among the most significant and best studied ancient sites of the Eastern Mediterranean. But despite 150 years of archaeological research, key aspects of ancient life such as the human-environment interaction are little known yet and still offer great potential for interdisciplinary investigations. Recent works by the German Archaeological Institute and its Turkish and international partners will be presented in the lecture together with the most recent results.
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Felix Pirson is a Classical Archaeologist. He holds a MA and a PhD from LMU Munich, a MPhil from Cambridge University, and a postdoctoral lecture qualification (“Habilitation”) from Leipzig University, where he is Honorary Professor. Since 2006 he is director of the German Archaeological Institute at Istanbul and head of the Pergamon-Excavation (Bergama, Türkiye). He is senior fellow at ISAW (New York University) and member of several international archaeological institutes. His current research interests include Pergamon and Pompeji, cities and micro-regions in the ancient Mediterranean, and historical human-environment interaction.