Csilla Libor (Hungarian National Museum) and colleagues will be hosting a SSCIP Supported Session at 32nd EAA Annual Meeting (26-29 August 2026, Athens), entitled, “From Cradles to Graves: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Childhood in the Post-Medieval Period”. Call for submissions closes February 5, 2026. The abstract is included below: The post-medieval period, in particular, […]
The 18th Annual SSCIP Conference will be held at the University of Oulu, in Linnanmaa, Finland from Wednesday, June 10th to Friday, June 12th, 2026. The theme for the conference will be Children, Emotions, and Relations. The organizers invite participants to explore the intersection of childhood, emotions, attachments, and social relationships to uncover how children […]
From June 25 to 27 2025, the 17th annual meeting for the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past took place in Aarhus, Denmark. The meeting took place at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), and was hosted by SSCIP-member Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer together with Professor Felix Riede, Associate Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen, […]
We are delighted to announce our speaker for the next SSCIP Annual Lecture – Professor Mary Lewis (University of Reading). Adolescence represent a unique stage of the human life course. Recent interest in the health of adolescents (defined here as those aged between 10-25 years) has stemmed from new methods for tracking growth and maturation […]
We are delighted to share the call for abstracts for the 17th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past. SSCIP goes north! This year’s theme for the conference will be Children and Climate Change inviting us to consider the effects climatic changes have had on children, but also how children responded to […]
CALL FOR PAPERS – DEADLINE EXTENDED – 24th January 2025 Date: 7 – 9 July 2025 This event is hosted by the Institute for Inclusive Communities and Environments and the Institute for Lifecourse Development, of the University of Greenwich with the Institute of Historical Research Life-Cycles Seminar Series Overview Language and Communication in Histories of Children and Young People will focus […]
We are happy to announce that the preliminary scientific programme of the SSCIP 2024 conference, held in Bordeaux and Pessac, France from November 20th to 23rd, 2024, is now available online. Please follow this link for more information: https://sscip2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5 Please note that registration fees will increase from 11 October and that registration will be close after 6 […]
Please see below for an update regarding the next Annual SSCIP conference, hosted by Dr Antony Colombo (École Pratique des Hautes Études) We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the 16th annual conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, which will be held in Bordeaux (France) between November […]
The tenth volume in the SSCIP Monograph Series has now been published, and is available in an Open Access format via the Archaeopress website – click here for the link. Edited by Eileen Murphy and Mélie Le Roy – pictured below at the official book launch hosted at the EAA Conference in Belfast on Saturday […]
Second announcement for the 15th Annual SSCIP Conference (2023) from Conference Organiser Dra. Rocío García Mancuso We are pleased to communicate important information about the next Annual Congress of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) to be held in La Plata on October 18-20, 2023. The theme of the Conference: […]