The University of Alcalá is delighted to invite you to the 14th Annual Conference for the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP), hosted by Dr. Daniel Justel Vicente. This meeting will take place from November 8th to November 10th 2022, in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain), and the main theme will be “Valuing Children: Past and Present”. “It […]
The first SSCIP biannual lecture for 2022 is due to be held online on the 28th March 2022, 4-5pm (GMT) Our guest speaker Dr April Nowell (University of Victoria, Canada) will give a talk on – Growing Up in the Ice Age: Were Children Drivers of Human Cultural Evolution? It is estimated that in prehistoric […]
The free virtual workshop ‘Emerging Adolescence’, hosted by Creighton Avery and Megan Brickley of McMaster University, and Mary Lewis of Reading University, is now less than a week away! See below for more information, and follow this link for details on how to register.
There is still time to register for the second SSCIP biannual lecture for 2021! This event will be held online on the 3rd November, 3-4pm (GMT) and is free to attend. Our guest speaker is Katie Woodhouse-Skinner (Loughborough University) who will be giving a talk on her doctoral research – Adolescents in the Archive: Recovering […]
A reminder that the 13th Annual SSCIP Conference is being held via Zoom from the 25th to 28th of October (British Summer Time). It is hosted and organised by Associate Professor Siân Halcrow of the University of Otago, New Zealand, and has been scheduled into eight short sessions over four days to accommodate the different time zones of participants. Keynote […]
The conference, hosted by Associate Professor Siân Halcrow of the University of Otago, New Zealand, will be held on the 25th to 28th October 2021. The conference theme this year is – The Maternal-Infant Nexus in the Past. It will be free to attend, and in an online format, please register via Eventbrite here.
The second SSCIP biannual lecture for 2021 is due to be held online on the 3rd November, 3-4pm (GMT) Katie Woodhouse-Skinner (Loughborough University) will give a talk on – Adolescents in the Archive: Recovering Female Adolescence in the Writing of Young Women between 1660-1785 In this paper, Katie Woodhouse-Skinner describes her search for female adolescent […]
Mark your calenders for the 1st-2nd November 2021 for the free virtual workshop ‘Emerging Adolescence’, hosted by Creighton Avery and Megan Brickley of McMaster University, and Mary Lewis of Reading University. See below for more information regarding registration.
The XV Jornadas Nacionales de Antropología Biológica, will be held in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 19th-22nd 2021. This is a biannual event that gathers biological anthropologists from all subdisciplines of basic and applied research, for example (and not limited to); – American Settlement– Human Growth and Nutrition– Bioarcheology– Paleopathology– […]
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book edited by Ellen Kendall and Ross Kendall focusing on families in the past. Developing out of the 9th Annual SSCIP Conference held in Durham, UK in 2016, The Family in Past Perspective integrates interdisciplinary perspectives from archaeology, history, art history, and bioarchaeology to contextualise the […]