Day 1 – Wednesday, June 4, 2025 

 

11.00 –   Registration

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13.00–13.30 Opening Speech and Introduction to the ‘Child Space’ Conference’

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Session 1 — Rise of Children

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13.30–14.00 Rebecca Gowland: Small Beginnings: Theoretical and Methodological Advances in the Bioarchaeological Analysis of Infants in the Past

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14.00–14.30  Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: The Archaeology of Childhood: Past, Present and Future

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14.30–15.00 Coffee break

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15.00–15.30 Eileen Murphy: Emotional Responses to Child Loss in Medieval Ireland: Evidence from Multi-Proxy Approaches

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15.30–16.00 Barbara Hausmair: Death at the Beginning of Life: Historical Responses to Pre- and Perinatal Death and What We Can Learn from Them for Today 

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16.00–16.30 Alexandra Anders: Reflections: Studies on Prehistoric Childhood

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16.30–17.00 Orsolya Mateovics-László et alii: Biological Signals of „Set-Backs” in Past Societies – Detection of Biosocial Crisis by Skeletal Signs of Early Life Stress in Medieval Rural Populations from Hungary

 

17.00–18.00 Life in the Past — Past Through Children's Eyes Children's Drawings Contest — Awards and Exhibition Opening (Gallery, in Hungarian)

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18.00–19.30 Different Cultures – Same Problems: Children's Spaces in a Global and Digital World — Public Roundtable (Conference Room, in Hungarian) 

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Day 2  – Thursday, June 5, 2025 

 

9.00– Registration

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Session 2 — Children in Society

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9.30–9.50 Claudio Cavazzuti: Infant Burials in Bronze Age Italy and Their Significance for the Reconstruction of Rituals, Social Stratification and Demographic Cycles

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9.50–10.10 Michaela Kosová et alii: Born Privileged? Children from the Early Bronze Age Cemeteries in Kolín and Mikulovice (Bohemia)

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10.10–10.30 Michal Ernée et alii: Children of the Early Bronze Age Community in Mikulovice, East Bohemia. Archaeology and Archaeogenetics – First Results

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10.30–10.50 Eszter Melis et alii: Children on the Edge: The Youngest Members in the Early and Middle Bronze Age Communities of Western Hungary

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10.50–11.20 Coffee break 

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11.20–11.40 Zsófia Rácz et alii: Children of the Avars: Insights into Social Organization from Fully Sampled 6th–9th Century Cemeteries in the Tisza Region

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11.40–12.00  Doris Pany-Kucera et alii: Relations and Demography of Children in Austrian Avar Period Sites: New Research Avenues

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12.00–12.20 Tamás Szeniczey et alii: A Paleodemographic Approach to Childhood Survivorship in the Avar Period: Insights from the Subadult Burials of Kölked-Feketekapu

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12.20–12.40  Balázs Gyuris et alii: Unveiling Childhood Through Bioarchaeology in the Avar Period Carpathian Basin: Kinship, Mobility, and Social Insights 

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12.40–13.00 István Koncz: Experiencing Childhood in 6th Century CE – The Good, The Bad and The Interesting

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13.00–13.30 Discussion after the session

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13.30–14.30 Fingerfood lunch​

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Session 3 — Feeding with Love

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14.30–14.50 Daria Ložnjak Dizdar: Caring for Children in Protohistory in the Southern Carpathian Basin

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14.50–15.10 Mario Novak: Growing Up in the Provinces: Reconstruction of Child Health and Diet on the Outskirts of the Roman Empire

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15.10–15.30  Zrinka Premužić et alii: Childhood on the Beach: Subadult Burials from the Cemetery of the Dominican Monastery in Bol, Croatia

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15.30–15.50 Željka Bedić: Reconstructing the Subadult Dietary Habits and Health in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Continental Croatia – State of Research and Future Plans

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15.50–16.20 Coffee break

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16.20–16.40 Enikő Somogyvári-Lajtár et alii: Being a Child in the Neolithic — Stable Isotope Dietary Reconstructions from Two Neolithic Sites in Northeastern Hungary 

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16.40–17.00 Nataša Miladinović-Radmilović and Dragana Vulović: The Appearance of Infantile and Child Scurvy in the Bishopric of Syrmia: The 17th–18th Century Necropolis at the Site of Palanka in Sremska Mitrovica

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17.00–17.20 Paul Klostermann et alii: Bioarchaeological Approaches to Adolescence in Early Medieval Central Europe

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17.20–17.40 Discussion after the session

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17.40–18.20 Poster presentations by flash talks

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19.30 Conference dinner for invitees

 

Day 3 – Friday, June 6, 2025

 

9.00– Registration

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Session 4 — Child in Space and Time

 

 

9.30–9.50 Ana Mercedes Herrero-Corral: Children in Copper Age Iberia: Gender, Kinship, and Social Identity in Funerary Practices

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9.50–10.10 Klaudia Daňová: Different Ways of Children's Burial in the Nitra Culture (Early Bronze Age) 

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10.10–10.30 Kristóf Fülöp et alii: Children Behind the Objects: Interdisciplinary Examination of Bronze Age Ceramic Objects

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10.30–10.50 Ciprian Crețu: (Bio)archaeology of Children at the Edge of the Roman Empire. A View from Late Antique Scythia (Southeastern Romania)

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10.50–11.20 Coffee break

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11.20–11.40 Sofija Stefanović: Children of the Past: How Prehistoric Societies Shaped Growing Up

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11.40–12.00 Alessia Nava: Investigating Childhood and the Mother-Infant Nexus in Past Human Populations Through Dental Mineralized Tissues

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12.00–12.20 Mateusz Jaeger et alii: Being a Child in the Early Bronze Age Community at Nižná Myšľa: Pilot Results

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12.20–12.40 Ildikó Pap et alii: Do “Sleeping” Children Talk? – Mummies of Vác, Hungary

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12.40–13.00 Overall discussion, led by session keynote speakers (one of each session)

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13.00 Organisers: Little Souls — Deep Grief — Closing Thoughts

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End of Conference