The full scientific program will be published after the abstract review process. Currently, only the Invited Lecturers and their lecture topics are listed:
Professor Anna SzEcsEnyi-Nagy
Plenary Talk Topic: Life and death in Roman Pannonia: reconstructing diversity through multiproxy analyses
Short Biography: Anna Szecsenyi-Nagy is an archaeogeneticist, researcher, and Head of the Institute of Archaeogenomics at the ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, a position she has held for the past five years. She completed her PhD in 2015 at the Department of Anthropology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
For the past decade, she has been working at the Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest, in close collaboration with archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians. Her research focuses on the genetic relationships among prehistoric, ancient, and early medieval human populations across Eurasia, with particular emphasis on the Carpathian Basin.
In 2023, she established a five-year MTA–ELTE Lendulet Bioarchaeology Research Group, which investigates the biological connections, lifestyles, and cultural patterns of populations living in the Roman province of Pannonia from a comparative perspective.
Professor Ivor Jankovic
Plenary Talk Topic: Dragutin Gorjanovic Kramberger, Krapina and Vindija sites and their role in Neandertal research
Professor Nicholas Mascie-Taylor
Plenary Talk Topic: The contribution of cohort studies in biological anthropology, medicine, epidemiology and social sciences
Short Biography: Nick Mascie-Taylor is Professor of Human Biology and Health and was in the Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge for over 40 years. On retirement he was re-employed as Director of Research in Global Health in the Cambridge Institute of Public Health where he helped set up and runs a Bangladesh cohort study on non-communicable diseases. Previously he conducted a 10-year cohort study on the relationship between poverty, health and nutrition in Bangladesh and over 1 million people were moved out of extreme poverty. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, holds the higher ScD degree, has supervised over 40 PhD students, was editor of the Journal of Biosocial Science for 31 years and in 2004 was elected as an Overseas Fellow of the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences.
professor Csaba Pronai
Plenary Talk Topic: One of the key goals of Sydel Silverman’s work was to restore anthropology as a unified discipline. Why is this significant? And to what extent is this vision relevant today?
Short Biography: Csaba Pronai is associate professor at Department of Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest, Hungary). He is interested in history of cultural anthropology, in visual anthropology, and in Gypsy Studies.
professor Albert zink
Plenary Talk Topic: From mummies to pathogens: Paleogenetics and ancient human remains
Short Biography: Albert Zink is the former Head of the EURAC Research Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzano and is currently Director of the Bavarian State Collection for Anthropology as well as Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.