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The Swedish Australian Innovation, Technology & Design Summit is a two-day event showcasing the power of collaboration between Sweden and Australia in driving sustainable innovation. Held at Melbourne Connect, the summit brings together academia, students, thought leaders, innovators, policy-makers, and business pioneers across sectors. The event includes panels, networking sessions and a keynote address from the Director of the Melbourne School of Design, Professor Dan Hill.

Thursday 18 and Friday 19 September at Melbourne Connect

Students and academics: FREE | General pass: from $35

Although close to Athens, Kythnos remains one of the lesser-known islands of the Cyclades. Its capital, today called Vryokastro, has a rich ancient history from the 12th century BC to the 7th century AD. Land and underwater fieldwork have brought to light four sanctuaries, each dedicated to different deities. One of these was unplundered, a unique finding that greatly advances our knowledge about the use of ancient Greek temples from the Archaic period to the Roman era.

This public lecture presents this exceptional discovery, as well as Vyrokastro’s other temples, its settlement on the acropolis, the Hellenistic ‘prytaneion’, a proto-Byzantine basilica church, and the city’s harbour installations, to celebrate what has been called ‘the best Greek island you have never heard of’.

This public lecture is co-sponsored by the Classical Association of Victoria (CAV), which since 1912 has operated for the propagation and well-being of Classics and Ancient World Studies in the state of Victoria; and by the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA), which is the national centre for advanced research by Australian scholars on the Hellenic world from the distant past to the modern day. Both the CAV and the University of Melbourne are Institutional Members of the AAIA.