SSCIP Annual Conference – University of Alcalá, Spain 2022 – Abstract Submission now open

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 […]

Reminder – SSCIP Biannual Lecture – Wednesday 3rd November 2021, 3-4pm (GMT)

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 […]

SSCIP Annual Conference – University of Otago, New Zealand 2021 – Registration and conference schedule

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 […]

SSCIP Annual Conference – University of Otago, New Zealand 2021 – Registration now open!

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.

Register now for the SSCIP Biannual Lecture – Wednesday 3rd November 2021, 3-4pm (GMT)

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 […]

Event – XV Jornadas Nacionales de Antropología Biológica – Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 19th-22nd 2021

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– […]

New Publication – The Family in Past Perspective – discount available for a limited time!

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 […]