The Center would not exist without the people who make us what we are. We thank you all for your assistance, contributions, commitment, engaging discussions, and passion for asking questions, and we hope to see you all back at Villa Lugnet next year.
Here’s the 2025 summary:
The activities
7
Talks of the Past open seminars
with invited speakers: Ester Oras, Jenny Hagenblad, Outi Vesakoski, Mehmet Somel, Tanya Uldin, Hugo Reyes-Centeno & Julia Sturm
3
Mini-Seminars
with guest researchers Joakim Wehlin, Yair Sapir, Samuli Simelius & Julia Velkova
6
Journal Club discussion meetings
with guest speakers and/or moderators: Noel Amano, Luciana G. Simoes, Anthony Jakob, Hugo Reyes Centeno, and others
1
The first Human Past Interdisciplinary Retreat
with 23 senior and junior researchers and PhD students at Sigtuna Stiftelsen.
The people
Axel Palmér joined us as our new BUL (Assistant University Lecturer in linguistics), and we welcomed Francesco Giannelli as our second postdoctoral researcher (Mattias Sjölander has been with us as our first postdoc since October 2024).
We also had the pleasure of working with the Human Past SCAS fellows: Axel Palmér, Mehmet Somel, Hugo Reyes Centeno and Anthony Jakob this year.



