2025 in a nutshell


The activities

Talks of the Past open seminars

with invited speakers: Ester Oras, Jenny Hagenblad, Outi Vesakoski, Mehmet Somel, Tanya Uldin, Hugo Reyes-Centeno & Julia Sturm

Mini-Seminars

with guest researchers Joakim Wehlin, Yair Sapir, Samuli Simelius & Julia Velkova

Journal Club discussion meetings

with guest speakers and/or moderators: Noel Amano, Luciana G. Simoes, Anthony Jakob, Hugo Reyes Centeno, and others

The first Human Past Interdisciplinary Retreat

with 23 senior and junior researchers and PhD students at Sigtuna Stiftelsen.

The people

Axel Palmér joined the Center as a new Assistant University Lecturer (known as BUL, in Swedish) in linguistics.

Francesco Giannelli is the second postdoctoral researcher in the Center (Mattias Sjölander, the first postdoc, has been with us 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.