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Programme

DAY 1: Wednesday June 25th

09:00

09:30

Registration and coffee

09:30

10:30

Keynote: Sheina Lew-Levy

10:30

11:00

Morning coffee

11:00

12:00

Session 1: Toys and art

11:00 Izzy Wisher & Felix Riede - Children as Playful Artists: Implications for

             Understanding Artistic Behaviours in the Upper Palaeolithic

11:20 Mary Clare Martin - Creativity, Autonomy and Agency: Children Making

             their Own Toys in the Twentieth Century

11:40 Majken Astrup - Skalk Junior – A Children’s Magazine on the Past

12:00

13:00

Lunch

13:00

14:00

Session 2: Climate and children

13:00 Corinne Feuillatre et al. - Revealing Apocalypse: Stable Light Isotope

             Analysis, Drought, Famine and Migration in 20th Century Sudan

13:20 Csilla Libor et al. - „.. for Better or Worse…” Life in the Carpathian Basin

             During two Climate Change Eras

13:40 Daria Loznjak Dizdar - Children in River Confluence Environments:          

             Sustainability, Change, Heritage

14:00

14:10

Short break

14:10

14:50

Session 3: Agency

14:10 Sanna Lipkin - The everyday Life and Social Bonds of Karelian Refugee

             Children in Early 20th-Century Finland

14:30 Sascha Bjerg Bøgebjerg & Helle Strandgaard Jensen - KidLink: Children’s

             Agency on the New Information Superhighway

14:50

15:00

Afternoon tea and coffee

15:00

17:00

Workshop: Videnskabsklubben

DAY 2: Thursday June 26th

09:00

10:30

Session 4: Death

09:00 Javier Salcines-Montaña &  Teresa Fernández-Crespo - Unlocking

             Emotions and Attitudes towards Infant Death in Late Bronze and Iron Age

             Communities of North-Central Iberia

09:20 Sonia López-Chamizo & Elías Brossoise - Absent Yet Central: Children,

             Ritual Invisibility and Social Exclusion in the Necropolis of the Bay of

             Málaga (9th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE)

09:40 Povilas Blaževičius & Giedrė Piličiauskienė - "It’s a Dangerous World: A

             Little One Needs Many Friends" – Animal Remains in Children’s Graves from

             Prehistoric and Medieval Lithuania

10:00 Eileen Murphy & Colm Donnelly - Interpreting Juvenile Violent Death in

             Medieval Ireland

10:30

11:00

Morning coffee

11:00

12:00

Keynote: Kristine Alexander

12:00

13:00

Lunch

13:00

14:00

Session 5: Life

13:00 Selene Rodríguez-Caraballo - Won’t Somebody Please Think of the 

             Children?!?

13:20 Creighton Avery - Pubertal Timing in Velia: Considering Biological and

             Social Changes

13:40 Marta García-Barreiro et al. - Characterising a Possible Case of Pre-

             Adolescent Dysplasia: A Multi-Proxy Approach

14:00

14:10

Short break

14:10

14:50

Session 6: Health

14:10 Alba Navarro-Pérez et al. - Analysis of Dental Microwear Patterns in the

             Non-Adult Population of the Castillejo del Bonete Site (Terrinches, Spain)

14:30 Marta Fernández-Viejo et al. - Tiled Resting Places: Infant Burials and

             Health Insights from Prado Guadaña (Valladolid, NW Spain)

14:50

15:10

Final words

15:10

15:30

Afternoon tea and coffee

15:30

17:30

Workshop: Julia Beaumont & Corinne Feuillatre - Identifying Childhood Stress: Changes in the Isotope Ratios in Incremental Tissues

19:00

Conference dinner

DAY 3: Friday June 27th

Volunteer excursions to Den Gamle By and Moesgaard (free admission for delegates)

Moesgaard is a state-of-the-art culture historical museums lying in beautiful surroundings next to the old manor house and with forest and beach just a short walk away. A little outside of Aarhus, bus 18 will take you straight from Aarhus central station to the foot of the museum, the last stop on the route. See more here: https://www.moesgaardmuseum.dk/en/

Den Gamle By (the Old Town) is an open-air museum in the heart of Aarhus. Here you can travel through Danish history from the early 1900s to present day, showing how life has been like through time in Denmark. See more here: https://www.dengamleby.dk/en/