Human Past Interdisciplinary Retreat
The main goal of the retreat is to strengthen collaboration between different disciplines and to learn about each other’s research through presentations and discussions. We hope this retreat will lay […]
12 events found.
Events
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Sigtunastiftelsen Hotell & Conference Sigtuna, Sweden
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SCAS seminar with David Goldstein – A New Approach to the Diversification of Ancient Greek
Thunberg Hall, Linneanum Thunbergsvägen 2, Uppsala, SwedenABSTRACT The diversification of the ancient Greek dialects has long posed a major challenge for Greek linguistics. Core questions—how the dialects are related, when they diverged, and how they were […]
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Human Past Journal Club
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenDiscussion paper: Gretzinger, J., Biermann, F., Mager, H. et al. Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. Nature 646, 384–393 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6 Abstract The second half of […]
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Mini-Seminar: Using the dog to date Torricelli languages with linguistic paleontology, with Erik Elgh
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenAbstract The earliest archaeological dog remains in Melanesia found to date are from Babase Island, New Ireland, and are associated with the Early Lapita layers on the site, thus dating […]
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Genetic relatedness in Stone Age Scandinavia, speaker Helena Malmström
Blåsenhus, seminar room 12:010 (ground floor) von Kraemers allé 1, Uppsala, SwedenAbstract Did genetic relatedness matter in Scandinavian Stone Age societies? And if so, how? The increase in the number of individuals with available ancient DNA data, coupled with new tools […]
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Mini-Seminar: Models, data, and their limits: What can we know about the deep history of language families? with Philipp Rönchen
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenAbstract Computational methods are increasingly used to reconstruct the deep history of language families, yet different models often produce strikingly different answers. This reflects a general challenge in the historical […]
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Higher Seminar in Baltic Studies, Stockholm University, with Anthony Jakob
Zoom , SwedenThe Higher Seminar in Baltic Languages with Signe Rirdance (SU) and Anthony Jakob (SCAS). The seminar is split into two sessions (with a coffee break in between): 14:00-15:30 – Signe […]
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Human Past Journal Club
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenDiscussion paper: Yakov Pichkar and Nicole Creanza (2026). The Evolution of Language. Editor(s): Jason B. Wolf, Claudia Augusta De Moraes Russo, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology (Second Edition), Academic Press, Pages […]
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Talks of the Past open seminar: From Phonology to Phylogeny: Inferring Language Trees from Cognate Word Forms
Blåsenhus, seminar room 12:010 (ground floor) von Kraemers allé 1, Uppsala, SwedenAbstract Linguistic phylogenies are commonly inferred from abstract cognate classifications that encode relationships among lexemes. Although widespread, this practice has well-recognised limitations: it discards phylogenetic signal contained in segmental word […]
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Human Past Journal Club
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenPaper to discuss: Colleter, R., Jaouen, K., Garcia, D., & Richards, M.P. (2026). Dietary inequality marker reveals 10,000 years of gender and cultural disparity in Europe, PNAS Nexus, vol. 5 […]
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SCAS Seminar: Echoes of Preliterate Voices on the Shores of the Baltic Sea, with Anthony Jakob
Thunberg Hall, Linneanum Thunbergsvägen 2, Uppsala, SwedenAbstract When people think of their ancestry, they are often just as concerned with the origins of their linguistic and cultural identity as they are with their genetic history. And […]
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Mini-Seminar: Corded Ware Dietary Practices, with Łukasz Pospieszny
Villa Lugnet von Kraemers allé 8, Uppsala, Sweden, SwedenAbstract (TBA) Łukasz Pospieszny is an archaeologist at the University of Gdańsk and an Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol