19.12.2022:
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Board and myself, I am sending to you and your families season's greetings and best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year 2023!
Maria Kaczmarek, President

06.10.2022:

Statement
by the European Anthropological Association Board on the Suspension of the Russian and Byelorussian memberships

It is with great concern that we witness the current crisis in the heart of Europe. Unjustified and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by the leaderships of the Russian Federation and the involvement of Belarus in the ongoing war against Ukraine has provoked our strong reaction.
Our thoughts, sympathies and support are with Ukrainian Nation, innocent victims of Russian aggression.
Considering these dramatic circumstances, the Board of the European Anthropological Association has decided to fully and indefinitely suspend the EAA membership of colleagues from the Russian Federation and in Belarus. Consequently, they will be suspended from participating in, or at, any EAA's events or elections for the foreseeable future. They will also be suspended from the Council.
We are aware of the fact that a substantial proportion of our colleagues in the Russian Federation and Belarus are not supportive of the military aggression against Ukraine, but the message to the Russian and Belarusian leadership must be clear and unequivocal.

On behalf of the EAA Board
Professor Maria Kaczmarek, President

22.08.2022:
Dear EAA Members,
The EAA Council and Board meetings, as well as the EAA General Assembly will be held in the 22nd EAA Congress in Aula Parva, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania on the 26th of August 2022 - EAA Council meeting: 13.00-13.30, EAA Board meeting: 13.30-14.00, EAA General Assembly: 17.0-18.00.
Annamaria Zsakai

11.08.2022:
Dear Colleagues,
the new EAA Council (2022-2024) has been formed, you can find the list of the Council members in the following page: http://eaa.elte.hu/administration_council.html

08.07.2022:
Dear Colleagues,
the EAA Council election has started, the online voting surface is open until the 28th of July, 2022. Please send your votes as soon as possible! Information on voting was sent via email (for more information: annamaria.zsakai@ttk.elte.hu).
Annamaria Zsakai

03.07.2022:
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to announce that the 22nd Conference of the European Anthropological Association will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, August 24-26, 2022.
All information can be found in the official website of the conference: https://www.eaa2022.mf.vu.lt

 

02.06.2022:

OBITUARY - Napoleon Wolanski (1935-2020)

It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform our colleagues of the death of Professor Napoleon Wolanski, the senior of auxology and human ecology, professor emeritus of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Centre for Scientific Research in Mexico, a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, co-organizer and founded-member of the European Anthropological Association and International Association of Human Biologists, honorary member of scientific societies of anthropology, human ecology, and International Association of Sport Kinetics.
Professor Napoleon Wolanski passed away on March 2, 2022, at the age of 93.

from Maria Kaczmarek

 

20.03.2022:

OBITUARY - Yordan Alexiev Yordanov (1938-2020)

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences announces with great sadness that Prof. Dr. Yordan Alexiev Yordanov passed away on February 22. 2022.
Prof. Dr. Yordan Alexiev Yordanov is one of the most popular and recognized Bulgarian scientists in the field of physical anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, morphology of the human skeletal system. He is a creator of original methods for determining the biological age of man, quantitative assessment of the asymmetry of the human face, establishing of new relationships between facial dimensions in humans.
Prof.  Yordan Yordanov was born on November 6, 1938. He graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry of the Medical University - Sofia with a degree in Orthopedic dentistry with Orthodontics (1963) and Human anatomy (1973). He is a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) since 2004, longtime director of the Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology with a museum at BAS.  He is the author and creator of the National Anthropological Museum. Prof. Yordanov was chairman of the Bulgarian Anatomical Society and the Bulgarian Anthropological Society, author of 26 monographs, 360 scientific publications, over 70 anthropological reconstructions of the head by the skull, most of them are part of Bulgarian museum expositions.
The anthropological reconstructions, made by Prof. Yordanov, are known throughout Bulgaria - the Thracian princess from Vratsa, Ichirguboil Mostich from the time of Simeon the Great, Tsar Kaloyan, Tsar Samuil, a series of figures of the Bulgarian Renaissance and the Liberation movement such as Bacho Kiro, G. S. Rakovski, L. Karavelov, Zahariy Stoyanov and others. His reconstructions are exhibited in museums in Georgia (USA) - reconstruction on а male American Indian skull, Atlanta (USA) and Germany - reconstruction on a female skull of a Hun princess.
Prof.  Yordanov was awarded with various awards, including the medal "1300 Years of Bulgaria", the Academic Prize of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2000, the Marin Drinov Medal in 2003 and the “Merits to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences” (2007).

With the death of Prof. Yordan Yordanov, we lost a versatile scientist and patriot, a phenomenon of Bulgarian and world science, a wonderful and beloved teacher.

from Yanitsa Zhecheva

 

24.10.2020:

OBITUARY - Ferenc Kosa (1935-2020)

Prof. Ferenc Kosa was born in Bekescsaba (Hungary) on the 13rd of April, 1935. He started his higher education in the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Szeged in 1953. His student work on dermal cancers was awarded in 1958. He obtained his medical degree as summa cum laude in the same year.
After his higher education Prof. Kosa started his work in the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Szeged, Hungary as a research fellow (between 1959 and 1961), then worked as an assistant between 1961 and 1966, as an assistant lecturer between 1966 and 1974, as an associate lecturer from 1974 and as a professor after all. He served as a vice-director of the Institute between 1967 and 1973 in the directorship of Prof. Gyula I. Fazekas. He graduated in forensic medicine in 1963, awarded CSc degree in medicine in 1971 and DSc degree in medicine in 1991.
During his university years he married his classmate, Ms Klara Biro, who graduated as a paediatrician and otolaryngologists. Their son, Zsolt graduated as a gynaecologist, while their daughter as a biology and technology teacher.
He gave lectures and leaded practical courses in Hungarian both for medical and dentist students, and also in English for foreign students from 1989. In 1992 he wrote the textbook titled Compendium for Forensic Medicine. From 1968 he supervised 10-15 students' congress works and 35 students' diploma work.
His work concentrated on the supervision of judgements in the Forensic Medical Institute as well as on the scientific leadership of origin determination and criminal laboratory in the Institute.
His scientific interest covered medical law, medical ethics, forensic and paleoanthropological osteology, serologic and criminalistic laboratory examinations, histology, biochemistry and immunochemistry of vital injuries.
Prof. Kosa's publication activity includes more than 200 articles, 1 scientific book, 4 book chapters and several university text books.
Prof. Kosa's scientific work was awarded by Public Safety Gold Medal (1972), Thomasius Plaque (Halle, Germany, 1978), Home Service Gold Medal (1979, 1987), Purkinje Plaque (Prague, Czech Republic, 1988), the Award for Excellent Work (1989), Gold Ring of Ministry of Interior (1989).
Prof. Kosa's scientific and public work also manifested in his memberships of several national universities, ministry committees. He served as opponent, member of the review board or secretary in the Biology Review Board of the Hungarian Academy of Science.
He was member of 9 Hungarian and 11 international scientific associations. He had 16 research trips abroad (German Democratic Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, USA). He gave lectures in 24 international congresses abroad.
Prof. Kosa's scientific work was important in biological anthropology as well. He published several papers in biological anthropology with his co-authors, reviewed dissertations and applications. Beside his activity in the Hungarian biological anthropological congresses, his invited lecture in the congress of the American Association of Physical Anthropology in 1990 was also a milestone in his career.
In 1991 he was awarded a 3-month long scholarship in the Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA. During his research trip Prof. Kosa studied foetal bones in Washington.
Prof. Kosa served as a member of the anthropological committees of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2001.
The Hungarian anthropological community is very grateful for Prof. Kosa's tremendous work in biological anthropology. Upon learning of our very nice colleague's, Prof. Kosa's death we experience sadness and feelings of his loss. Prof. Kosa died in Szeged, Hungary on the 25th of July, 2020. The memory of Prof. Kosa and his work will always be in our hearts. Rest in peace.

from Gyula L. Farkas

12.09.2020:

OBITUARY - Francis E. Johnston (1931-2020)

It is with the greatest sadness that we announce the death of Professor Francis E. Johnston. Frank Johnston passed away peacefully on Thursday 20th August from the complications of Alzheimer's Disease.
Frank Johnston was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He had been an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge (1994-95 and 2000). He has been a postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Child Health, University of London (1966-67, 1988-89) and the Institute of Cancer Research, Philadelphia (1967-68), Visiting Fellow of the Department of Anthropology, University College, London, (1988-89) and Visiting Professor of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town (1989).
Frank Johnston's research focussed on the growth and development of children, especially in relation to nutritional status and health. He worked extensively throughout Latin America, especially Guatemala (since 1966) but also in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba. He has also been involved in the study of the health effects of modernization in Papua New Guinea liaising with Professor Barbara Honeyman-Heath-Roll. In 1982 he was the Gallagher Lecturer of the Society For Adolescent Medicine and in 1986 he received the award as author of the best article appearing that year in the Journal of Adolescent Medicine.
Since 1990, Johnston has been active in academically-based community service initiatives in West Philadelphia where he founded and directed the Urban Nutrition Initiative. He was a Distinguished Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania Center For Community Partnerships and co-Chair of its Faculty Advisory Committee. He was also a member of the U. of Pennsylvania Medical School Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the Council's Special Task Force on improving the health status of the West Philadelphia community.
Frank Johnston was a past-President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (1983-85) and was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1977-83), Human Biology (1987-88), and Founding Editor of the American Journal of Human Biology (1988-90). He served as Consultant to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, and the Pan American Health Organization. In 2003, Johnston received the Charles Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
(Reference: https://ldi.upenn.edu/expert/francis-e-johnston-phd)

from Noel Cameron


17.06.2020:
Dear Colleagues,
After careful consideration and comprehensive evaluation of currently available information related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Organizing Committee of the 22nd Congress of the European Anthropological Association has made the difficult decision to reschedule the meeting originally planned for August 26-29, 2020 in Vilnius, Lithuania to essentially one year later, August 24-28, 2021.
We aim to maintain the original program. We will continue to accept new abstract submissions, should you have missed the deadline. If you wish to update the material of your submitted abstract or present a new research topic, you can do it by submitting a new abstract in due time. Participants who have already paid the fee can maintain the registration as it will be valid for EAA Congress 2021. If you wish to retract your proposal - let us know. New deadlines for abstract submission and registration will be available soon.
Our heartfelt thoughts and sympathies go out to everyone impacted by this global health crisis.
In the meantime, we welcome your questions and queries and we thank you very much for your understanding and patience. We look forward to seeing all of you in Vilnius in 2021!

Kind regards,
on behalf of EAA and the Organizing Committee,
Prof. Noel Cameron and Prof. Janina Tutkuviene

07.06.2020:
Dear EAA Members,
the EAA Council (2020-2022) election has started, the online voting surface is open until the 28th of June, 2020. Please send your votes as soon as possible! Information on voting was sent via email (for more information: zsakaia@elte.hu).
Annamaria Zsakai

27.02.2020:
The Parkes Foundation invites nominations for the 2020 Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture on human/biosocial sciences, to be given on Friday 6th November 2020 at St John's College, Oxford, United Kingdom.
The lecture is awarded annually in Geoffrey Harrison's honour to persons who have made a substantial and sustained contribution to the study of the human biology of living populations and especially biosocial sciences (Parkes Foundation's announcement).
Nominations and self-nominations are welcome and must be accompanied by a CV of no more than two A4 pages (set in Arial font size 12). Please submit nominations via email to Mrs Caroline Edgley (cmg26@cam.ac.uk).
from Mrs Caroline Edgley, Executive Secretary of Parkes Foundation

24.02.2020:
The Parkes Foundation aims to promote the study of biological and social topics with the emphasis on human biosocial projects. Each year, the foundation awards up to 6-8 small grants of up to 1000 GBP each and 1 PhD grant up to 3000 GBP to help Masters and PhD students conduct research.
The opening date for applications is 16 March 2020 and the closing date is 19 April 2020 (Parkes Foundation's announcement).
For more information: http://www.parkesfoundation.org.uk/grants
from Mrs Caroline Edgley, Executive Secretary of Parkes Foundation

20.02.2020:
The Auxological Society, the Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie and the University of Potsdam announce the 4th International Student Summer School titled "Human Growth - Data Analyses and Statistics" (Potsdam - Gulpe, Germany, 20-26 July, 2020). The application should include the short curriculum vitae, publication list, motivation of the candidates and a short description of their data sets that re being analysed during the retreat working week (announcement).
The deadline for application is 15. 04. 2020. Participant fee is 450 Euro, the fee includes accommodation and food during the stay at the Ecological Station of Potsdam University, the transfer from Potsdam to Gulpe, and the fee for open access publication.
from Prof. Christiane Scheffler, University of Potsdam (christiane.scheffler@uni-potsdam.de)


26.09.2019:
The 22nd Congress of the European Anthropological Association will be held in Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania on the 26-29th August, 2020 (2nd Announcement).

Topics of the Congress:
Human Population Genetics
Human Evolution
Bioarchaeology
Growth, Development and Aging
Human and Environment
Applied Anthropology
Biopsychosocial Studies

Important dates:
Registration will start on January 30th, 2020
Deadline for abstracts - March 31st, 2020
Decision about acceptance - April 15th, 2020
Deadline for Pre-Congress Award (for students) - February 1st, 2020
Early bird registration - until April 30th, 2020
Deadline for registration - May 31st, 2020

Registration fees (Early Bird / Later)
For EAA members - 290 EUR / 330 EUR
For non EAA members - 370 EUR / 400 EUR
For students EAA members - 150 EUR / 150 EUR
For students non EAA members - 180 EUR / 180 EUR
For accompanying persons - 150 EUR/ 150 EUR

The website of the Congress has already been available: http://www.eaa2020.mf.vu.lt.

from Prof. Janina Tutkuviene, President of the Organizing Committee (janina.tutkuviene@mf.vu.lt)

16.09.2019:

OBITUARY - Eva B. Bodzsar (1947-2019)

Dear Colleagues and Members of the EAA,It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Eva Bodzsar on the 4th September 2019, after a long illness.
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Prof. Eva Bodzsar studied biology and chemistry between 1965 and 1970, followed by clinical psychology between 1975 and 1978 at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. She worked at the Department of Biological Anthropology, Eotvos Lorand University throughout her academic life from 1972 until her retirement as full-time Professor in 2017. She was the Head of the Department between 2005 and 2013. She obtained her doctoral degree for a dissertation on pubertal development in Hungarian girls (Data to Puberty of Girls, 1973), her CSc degree for a dissertation on the relationship between somato-constitution and socioeconomic factors in children (Bakony Growth Study, 1984) and her DSc degree for a dissertation on the variability of changes and complexity of puberty (2001) in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her habilitation at Eotvos Lorand University in 2000 dealt with the complexity of puberty.

Prof. Bodzsar's scientific activities and wide-ranging interests focused mainly on auxology. Her research career started with the studies of sexual maturation in Hungarian adolescents. These studies were pioneering studies in Hungary and Europe, and were widely read internationally. Her most important research dealt with each aspect of internal and external factors of human growth and development. She carried out national and regional growth studies in Hungary to explore the growth and maturity pattern of Hungarian children and adolescents to provide data and references for experts in the field of auxology and medical anthropology. Prof. Bodzsar supported international links and cooperation with colleagues in Europe and all over the world so as to provide wider insights into human growth and maturity processes. One of her most important contributions to auxology was the 2nd Hungarian Growth Study (2003-2006), which provided invaluable information on body structural variables and their variability in relation to socioeconomic, lifestyle and health factors.

The success of her research activities was recognised by her numerous positions on editorial boards of scientific journals and books (e.g. Anthropologiai Kozlemenyek, International Journal of Anthropology, Biennial Books of European Anthropological Association), and Presidency of international scientific associations (e.g. European Anthropological Association, International Association for Human Auxology, International Association of Human Biologists). One of her remarkable social activities was her service provided to the European Anthropological Association (EAA), she was the Vice-President as well as the Editor of EAA publications for several cycles, and she was the organizer of the 15th EAA Congress held in Budapest. The EAA honoured her services with the Honorary Membership of the Association in 2012. Further national and international awards (mentioning only the most important ones: 1986: Verzar Frigyes Award - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1997: Szechenyi Professor grant - Republic of Hungary, 2001: Szechenyi Istvan Grant - Republic of Hungary, 2003: Memorial Medal of Ales Hridlicka - Czech Anthropological Society, 2009: Memorial Medal of Gelei Jozsef - Anthropological Section, Hungarian Biological Society, 2012: ELTE Pro Universitate Award - Eotvos Lorand University, 2014: Apaczai Csere Janos Award - Ministry of Education, Hungary) honoured to Prof. Bodzsar which reflected her important role and function in the scientific life of biological anthropology.

Her teaching activities helped and supported generations of biologists and biology teachers in Hungary in acquiring essential knowledge in human biology and related fields of psychology, sociology and health sciences. Her BSc, MSc, MA and PhD students remember her comprehensive knowledge, devoted teaching and warm support.

With the death of Prof. Eva Bodzsar the community of Biological Anthropological science has lost one of its most dedicated and important contributors in auxology. Her contribution to Biological Anthropology is well documented through her numerous publications, her teaching activities and the enormous help she gave to students through her textbooks and her unforgettable lectures.

We will miss her in many ways - her generous personality, sense of humour, kindness and support. We have lost an extremely kind person, a beloved teacher, an open minded and helpful colleague who contributed enormously to human biology and was so committed and dedicated to furthering the aims and objectives of EAA. She will remain forever in our memory.

from Annamaria Zsakai and Nicholas Mascie-Taylor



29.06.2019:
Dear EAA Members,
The 1st Announcement of the 22nd Congress of the European Anthropological Association (Vilnius, Lithuania, August 26-29, 2020) is available at https://www.mf.vu.lt/images/eaa_22ndcongress2020_announcement.pdf

Important dates of the Congress:
Registration starts - January 30, 2020
Early bird registration - before April 30, 2020
Deadline for submission of abstracts - April 30, 2020

Registration fees (before April 30th, 2020):
EAA members - 290 EUR
Non EAA members - 370 EUR
Students EAA members - 150 EUR
Students non EAA members - 180 EUR

from Janina Tutkuviene

03.06.2019:
Dear EAA Members,
The forthcoming EAA Board meeting will be held during the EAA Summer School in Poznan, Poland on the 9th of July 2019 (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, 13.30-15.30).
from Annamaria Zsakai

05.03.2019:
The International Summer School "Problematizing Morality - Ethnographic Approaches to the Normative Dimensions of Everyday Life" will be held in Tübingen, Germany (September 24-29, 2019), which is targeted to ethnographically working PhD candidates and post-docs.
We look forward to receiving applications until March 10th, 2019. For more details: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/146559
from Helen Franziska Veit

29.03.2019:
Dear EAA Members, Dear Student Members,
We are very happy to remind you of the 3rd International Student Summer School, to be held again at Potsdam and Gülpe, July 15th to 20th 2019. Please distribute this invitation to your students and colleagues. The deadline for application is April 15th.
from Prof. Michael Hermanussen (michael.hermanussen@gmail.com)


13.03.2019:
Dear EAA Members, Dear Student Members of the EAA,
the European Anthropological Association and Faculty of Biology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland are delighted to offer a ten-day summer school on "Research Methods in Human Biology from the Field to the Lab" (3-13 July, 2019; see more information in the invitation letter of the organizer).
The aim of this summer intensive course is twofold: to provide self-motivated international students and young researchers who are studying human biology with conceptual understandings of various methods and the practical skills to put those methods into their own research work both in the field and the laboratory.
The summer school is free of charge for EAA student members. Please send your application form and the recommendation letter of your supervisor/professor until the 30th of April 2019 (makac@amu.edu.pl).
from Prof. Maria Kaczmarek, organizer of the summer school

08.12.2018:
Dear EAA Members,
The Parkes Foundation aims to promote the study of biological and social topics with the emphasis on human biosocial projects. Each year, the foundation awards up to 6-8 small grants of up to 1000 GBP each and 1 PhD grant up to 3000 GBP to help Masters and PhD students conduct research. The opening date for applications is 1st December 2018 and the closing date is 10th January 2019.
Small Grant Fund: The Foundation supports studies falling in the areas of reproduction, demography, fertility, human health, conservation and human genetics. They are directed particularly towards helping graduate research students meet their field work costs, but others may apply.
PhD Grant Fund: One grant is offered to enable a registered PhD student to undertake substantive field work as part of their higher degree in the subject areas of reproduction, demography or fertility.
For more information see here: http://www.parkesfoundation.org.uk/grants
from Rie Goto (email: rg277@cam.ac.uk)


20.09.2018:
We would like to invite student members to join Beta Analytic's first ever Carbon-14 date raffle open to undergrads and postgrads (https://www.radiocarbon.com/raffle.htm).
from Richelle Louisa (Beta Analytic Associate, richelle@betalabservices.com, www.betalabservices.com, www.radiocarbon.com)

13.08.2018:
Dear EAA Members,
The EAA Council and Board meetings will be held at the 21st EAA Congress on the 23rd of August 2018 (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Room O95, Council meeting: 12.30-13.30, Board meeting: 13.30-14.30), and the EAA General Assembly on the 25th of August 2018 (Auditorium O100, 13.00-13.30).
Annamaria Zsakai

26.03.2018:
The Parkes Foundation invites nominations for the 2018 Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture on human/biosocial sciences. The lecture is awarded annually in Geoffrey Harrison's honour to persons who have made a substantial and sustained contribution to the study of the human biology of living populations and especially biosocial sciences.
Nominations and self-nominations are welcome and must be accompanied by a CV of no more than two A4 pages (set in Arial font size 12). Please submit nominations via email to Mrs Caroline Edgley (cmg26@cam.ac.uk). The closing date for nominations is Thursday 31st May 2018 and the lecture will take place on Friday 9th November 2018 followed by a drinks reception at the Natural History Museum in Oxford. The Parkes Foundation will contribute to travel and accommodation of the speaker.
from Mrs Caroline Edgley, Parkes Foundation


20.03.2018:
Dear EAA Members,
the EAA Council (2018-2020) elections have already started, the deadline for voting is the 28th of March, 2018. If you have not got my email with the information on online voting, please contact me (zsakaia@elte.hu), I am going to send the information again. Thank you for your contribution in the elections!
Annamaria Zsakai, general secretary


21.11.2017:
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to announce that the 21st Conference of the European Anthropological Association will be held in Odense, Denmark, August 22-25, 2018.
Registration is open via our homepage www.eaa2018.com - call for abstracts from 1st December, 2017 (at Facebook with 'EAA2018Odense'). The conference takes place in the modern facilities of University of Southern Denmark.
from Professor Jesper L. Boldsen (Organizer)


21.02.2018:
The Summer International Advanced Course of the Portugal Osteological Program: Osteology, paleopathology and paleomedicine was announced for students who are interested in the anthropological analysis of human skeletons (3-27 July, 2018, Almada, Portugal). Info: http://www.egasmoniz.com.pt/pt-pt/notícias/summer-international-advanced-course-portugal-osteological-program-osteology,-paleopathology-and-paleomedicine.aspx
from Francisca Alves Cardoso


17.02.2018:
Dear Colleagues,
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers based in Athens, organizes its 4th Annual International Conference on Anthropology, 18-19 June 2018, Athens, Greece. You are more than welcome to submit a proposal for presentation. The abstract submission deadline is 19 February 2018. If you need more information, please let me know (info@athensconferences.gr), and our administration will send it to you, including the conference website, and abstract submission form. We do hope you can contribute to our academic activities.
from Dr. Ilja A. Luciak


17.02.2018:
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I would be very pleased if you might forward the invitation to our forthcoming International Student Summer School (Potsdam and Gülpe, Germany, July 2-7, 2018) to all who might be interested. For more information: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/summercampus/e/growth.html
from Prof. Michael Hermanussen


15.01.2018:
The Board and Council of the European Anthropological Association are pleased to announce the EAA Student Award(s) for the Best Student Oral Presentation 2018 based on a submitted abstract. There will be up to five awards which will provide free registration at the 21st EAA Congress (Odense, Denmark) and also a contribution to travel costs - a total of 500 Euros for each award.
The application form and the complete paper of the presentation must be submitted by the 1st March 2018 to the Secretary General of EAA (zsakaia@elte.hu). The application form includes all the information needed to complete an application for the award.


25.12.2017:

OBITUARY - Pia Bennike (1946-2017)

Denmark did not have university degrees in Physical or Biological Anthropology, so Pia more or less decided to make her own degree: She enrolled in the Social Anthropology programme, but probably surprised some of the faculty by insisting on writing her thesis on bones, in this case on skeletons found at an early settlement church on the Faroese Islands, where she also participated in the excavations. She graduated in 1979, and then pursued research focusing on paleopathology, which in 1984 resulted in the award of her PhD degree with her landmark publication: Paleopathology of Danish skeletons, thereby continuing and further establishing the long Danish tradition of studying disease in archaeological skeletons.
For many years Pia was affiliated with the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology at the Faculty of Health at the University of Copenhagen, both by securing numerous grants and performing skeletal analyses and research for Danish archaeological museums, alongside functioning as a lecturer for the Department of Archaeology at same university. Pia was also called upon to be a consulting curator at the university's Medical Museum, where she with relish curated the spectacular collection of skeletons and bones from Danish leprosaria excavated by Moller-Christensen. She immediately recognised their educational potential, and for many years organised postgraduate courses in Paleopathology, using not least these assemblages as a base. The 'Yellow House' in the back garden of the Medical History Museum also served as a splendid home for a European project Pia helped secure on childrens' skeletons from the iconic medieval sites of Naestved and Aebelholt.
Pia had a long history of serving offices in the European Association of Anthropologists. She served as vice-president for the association in several periods and from 2000-2004 she was the effective and well respected president of EAA. Pia was also very proud to be elected President of the PPA, and she served in this role from 2007-2009. For her, this really marked a high point in her career, and she was energetic in dealing with the many issues of the day, not least the first steps in creating the International Journal of Paleopathology.
Pia had a real knack for organising meetings. She organised the EEA meeting in Copenhagen in 1994, and then the European PPA in 2008. Both meetings were very successful, not just academically, but certainly also because Pia was a fantastic host and had planned fun excursions, festive dinners and happy get-togethers (e.g., Pia´s husband, Svend, making pancakes at the latter meeting´s get-together).
Just as Pia was a delightful and engaging host for meetings and guest researchers, so in the same vein Pia was an engaging and colorful teacher. This was arguably also what she loved doing best: teaching students about Biological Anthropology and Paleopathology. She has taught a course on these subjects for nearly her entire career, right up to the summer of 2017. Needless to say, this was one of the most popular courses, and probably attended by nearly all the Copenhagen archaeology students over the last 30 years. Her eagerness to show and tell about diseases in earlier times is also reflected in several books on the subject, not least her co-editorship of the first Scandinavian textbook on Human Osteology and Biological Anthropology (and authorship of that book´s chapter on, obviously, paleopathology). In 2015, to crown her lifetime achievements, Pia was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lund.
Pia did much to alert the Danish archaeologists, and indeed the Danish public, to the importance and the benefits of studying skeletons of past populations, and she certainly did much to alert our international scientific community to Danish paleopathology and biological anthropology. Not least for these efforts will she always be well remembered. The discipline lost an inspiring colleague, and many of us a wonderful friend.
from Professors Niels Lynnerup and Jesper L. Boldsen
(the obituary was published in the EAA Newsletter 3)

23.12.2017:
Dear Colleauges and Friends,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 22nd European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association (PPA, http://ppa2018.com/) that will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from 28th August to 1st September 2018. Since 1892 when the term 'paleopathology' was coined it evolved from a simple macroscopic approach based on recording and describing pathological changes on ancient bones and teeth to a multi- and inter-disciplinary study involving various state-of-the-art methods from different scientific fields.
We, as paleopathologists try to define and describe processes concerning the emergence and transmission of various diseases and other pathological changes as well as the occurrence of violence in past populations. Today, this is an important topic especially in the light of the recent global refugee crisis and the rise of the anti-vaccine movement resulting in emergence of the diseases that were thought to be eradicated a long time ago.
Therefore, the Zagreb meeting will provide participants from all parts of the world a unique opportunity to exchange ideas on various topics, discuss diverse perspectives and to learn about novel methods in paleopathological research.
On behalf of the Organizing & Scientific Committee we wish you a very warm welcome to Zagreb in 2018!
from dr. Barbara Cvitkusic

21.11.2017:
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to announce that the 21st Conference of the European Anthropological Association will be held in Odense, Denmark, August 22-25, 2018.
Registration is open via our homepage www.eaa2018.com - call for abstracts from 1st December, 2017. The conference takes place in the modern facilities of University of Southern Denmark.
Best regards,
Professor Jesper L. Boldsen (Organizer)

15.11.2017:
The Parkes Foundation aims to promote the study of biological and social topics with the emphasis on human biosocial projects. Each year, the foundation awards up to 6-8 small grants (usually about L800 each) and 1 PhD grant (up to L3000) to help Masters and PhD students conduct research.
Small Grant Fund. The Foundation supports studies falling in the areas of reproduction, demography, fertility, human health, conservation and human genetics. Studies outside these areas, for example animal (including primate) projects and evolution, will not be supported. Grants are usually of the order of L800 (but may be increased to L1500 in special circumstances). They are directed particularly towards helping graduate research students meet their field work costs, but others may apply. Requests for postdoctoral attendance grants to disseminate results will not be considered. Undergraduate projects are not supported.
PhD Grant Fund. One grant of up to L3000 is offered to enable a registered PhD student to undertake substantive field work as part of their higher degree in the subject areas of reproduction, demography or fertility. Students in receipt of a research council grant or equivalent are not eligible to apply for a PhD Grant. Sir Alan S. Parkes, FRS (1900-1990) For more information see here: http://www.parkesfoundation.org.uk/grants The opening date for applications is 1st December 2017 and the closing date is 10th January 2018.
For more information see: http://www.parkesfoundation.org.uk/grants
from dr. Rie Goto

12.11.2017:

OBITUARY - Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison (1927-2017)

Geoffrey was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England and read Natural Sciences at Cambridge (Trinity) where he obtained a 1st class degree. He then moved to Oxford where he worked under the supervision of Joe Weiner in the Department of Anatomy. His DPhil was on adaptation of inbred and hybrid mice to hot environments.
His first academic position was as a Lecturer at Liverpool University and in 1963 he returned to Oxford as Reader in Physical Anthropology and remained at Oxford for the rest of his academic career, rising to Professor in 1976. While at Oxford he promoted the Human Sciences degree, and established the Diploma in Human Biology, the Department of Biological Anthropology (later the Institute of Biological Anthropology) and the MSc in Human Biology.
Geoffrey's research explored a variety of problems central to biological anthropology including variation, adaptation, fitness and evolution - always focussed on living populations, with strong analytical and statistical research designs. His fieldwork was carried out in the UK and worldwide for example in Namibia, Ethiopia, Brazil, Papua New Guinea and in Australia.
Some of Geoffrey's most significant contributions were from research in his own neighbourhood - the Otmoor region of Oxfordshire. Here he worked with 400-year old parish records to establish extensive genealogies, patterns of exogamy and other evolutionary processes. Later work included collection of blood samples for genetic analysis of living residents and the study of lifestyle influences on health status, sleep patterns and stress indicators. This was a pioneering study that others followed, and Geoffrey's research on stress indicators carved out a whole new area of continuing exploration in biological anthropology.
Besides his Oxford chair Geoff was also a visiting Professor at Harvard University and at the Australian National University. He was a member of many learned societies and took senior roles including President of the RAI, Chair of the SSHB, Chair of the Biosocial Society and was the Founding Chair of the Parkes Foundation. He was also an Editor of the Annals of Human Biology for many years and authored or edited numerous books including Human Biology, Man in Urban Environments and the Human Biology of the English village.
Geoffrey received many honours and awards. He held honorary degrees from Adelaide and Durham Universities, the Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture from the RAI and the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award from the Human Biology Association, USA. Geoffrey retired in 1994 although he conducted research and wrote for another 20 years. Geoffrey's long and prosperous career set the directions of biological anthropology research in the UK and elsewhere for many years.
from Professors Mike Little and Nick Mascie-Taylor

06.06.2017:

OBITUARY - Alex F. Roche (1922-2017)

Professor Alex F. Roche, a well-known expert in public health and paediatrics, died on the 21st of May, 2017 (Yellow Springs, OH, USA) at the age of 95.
Professor Roche was known for his work with The Fels Longitudinal Study, which was founded in Yellow Springs in 1929 as part of the Fels Research Institute. The Fels Longitudinal Study was originally designed to study child growth and development. Physical growth, maturation and the psychological development of children were early key research areas of interest in the Fels Longitudinal Study.
The Fels Longitudinal Study focused on physical growth, skeletal maturation, body composition, risk factors for cardiovascular disease and obesity, skeletal and dental biology, longitudinal biostatistical analyses and aging. In 1977, the Fels Research Institute and the Fels Longitudinal Study became part of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. The Fels Longitudinal Study was the longest operational longitudinal study of its kind in the world.
The detailed obituaries, published by the Wright State University (Dayton, OH, USA) and The Yellow Springs News can be found here: http://medicine.wright.edu/about/news-and-events/announcements/article/fels-longitudinal-study-leader-researcher-dies-at-95 ,
http://ysnews.com/news/2017/06/alex-f-roche


28.05.2017:

OBITUARY - ROLAND HAUSPIE (1948-2017)

We are sad to announce you the death of our colleague Prof. ROLAND HAUSPIE, after a long disease he decided in all dignity to end his sufferings. Born on April the 8th 1948, he died on April 25th 2017 after a beautiful and active life.
In 1970, he got the Degree in Biological Sciences at the Free University of Brussels, and in 1977 his doctoral degree on "Growth and maturation in chronic respiratory patients: a mixed longitudinal survey on physical development, sexual maturation and bone age in a group of chronic respiratory patients, aged 2 to 20 years (original in Flemish)".
His research and teaching was about biometry, growth and development.
He was Assistant to the Laboratory of Anthropogenetics, Free University of Brussels (Dir. Prof. C. Susanne) from October 1970 until September 1977, and after a nomination as Senior Research Associate, Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders) from October 1977 until September 2000, he was nominated as Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel since October 2000.
He had also a fellowship to work with Prof. J.M. Tanner as NATO-Research Fellowship awarded for a period of 12 months (March 1978 - February 1979) at the Department of Growth and Development, Institute of Child Health, University of London (Dir. Prof. J.M. Tanner), project: Longitudinal Study of the Growth in West Bengal Children (Sarsuna-Barisha). After this fellowship, he became one of the best recognized specialist in this research topic.

His guidance was appreciated by many of our colleagues, let me cite between others KOZIEL Slawomir (Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland), CASTRO GARCIA-MUNOZ Sonia (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain), SALCES BETI Maria Itziar (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain), SAN MARTIN Leire Telo (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain), HERNANDEZ Raquel Juan (Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain), ESPARZA-PAGES Mireia (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain), RANCATO Giacoma (Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy), SMETS Eric (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium), GAIBAR ALONSO Maria (Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Alcala de Henares, Spain), RUDICS Zita (Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary), KRZEMIEN-DABROWSKA Anna (Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland), HARGITAI Gabor (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary), MODDE Sabine (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium), IRETON Marie-Jose (Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France), ZSAKAI Annamaria (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary), BACSKAI Krisztina (University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary), NTAIOU Chrysa (Aristoteles University of Thesaloniki, Katerini, Greece), CAMBRON Alfonso (Universidad La Coruna, Coruna, Spain).

Roland Hauspie was member of different associations, such as the Societe royal Belge d'Anthropologie et de Prehistoire, the Society for the Study of Human Biology (U.K.) (from which he was member of the Committee), the Human Biology Council (U.S.A.), the Societe d'Ecologie Humaine (France), and of course the European Anthropological Association from which he was for a long time a very active member of the Board and of the Council, he has been Secretary-general of the EAA (1993-1998).
He has been also Secretary-general of the IIIrd International Congress of Auxology (Brussels, August 26-30, 1982), Member of the Editorial Board of the Revue de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris (France, 1989-), Member of the Editorial Board of Annals of Human Biology (U.K., 1991-), Member of the Editorial Board of Anthropological Science (Japan, 1992-1998), Member of the Scientific Board of HOMO (Germany, 1994-), Co-editor of Annals of Human Biology (Official Journal of the Society for the Study of Human Biology), Taylor & Francis, London (1995-2005), Member of the Advisory Board of the Acta Medica Auxologica (Italy, 1996 -), Member of the Board of the "Groupement d'Anthropologistes de Langue Francaise" (1997-), Member of the Board of the International Association of Auxology (1997-), Member of the Editorial Board of Economics & Human Biology.
He received also an award: Conceder la Condecoracion "José Maria Velasco Ibarra" en el grado "Al Mérito" al doctor (equivalent to a doctor honoris causa) at the Universidad Tecnologica Equinoccial (Republica del Ecuador, Augustus 2013).

The list of his publication is too long to mention here, let me cite only some of the books he published:
• Borms, J., Hauspie, R., Sand, A., Susanne, C., Hebbelinck, M., 1984, Human Growth and Development (New York: Plenum Press), pp. 836.
• Hauspie, R., Lindgren, G., Falkner, F. (Eds.), 1995, Essays on Auxology (Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire: Castlemead Publications), pp. 552. Fogel]
• Dasgupta P., Hauspie R. (Editors), 2001, Perspectives in Human Growth Development and Maturation, (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers).
• Hauspie R.C., Cameron, N., Molinari, L. (Editors), 2004, Methods in Human Growth Research (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). pp. 399.

He participated also to many research projects:
• Mixed-longitudinal survey on physical development, sexual maturation and bone age in a group of chronic respiratory patients, aged 2 to 20 years (1973-1977). Project supported by the National Fund for Scientific Research.
• Comparative study of the growth in height and weight of Belgian and Hungarian children (1977-1978). In collaboration with the Institute of Anthropology at the Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest (Prof. Gy. Gyenis) and the National Sanatorium for children of Budapest (Dr. A. Madach).
• Comparative study the Preece Baines and double logistic growth models: analysis of longitudinal growth data of Belgian girls (1977-1978). In collaboration with the Ecole de Sante Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Dr. A. Wachholder).
• Longitudinal study of the growth in West Bengal children: Sarsuna-Barisha Project (1978- ). Project supported by a NATO-Research Fellowship. In collaboration with the Anthropological Survey of India (Calcutta, Prof. S.R. Das) and the Department of Growth and Development, Institute of Child Health, University of London (Prof. J.M. Tanner).
• Growth survey on height and weight of Swedish children born in 1955 and 1967 (1985-1989). In collaboration with the Department of Educational Research, Stockholm Institute of Education, Stockholm, Sweden (Prof. G. Lindgren).
• Study of the physical development of children living in an area exposed to lead pollution (Hoboken, Belgium; 1979-1985). In collaboration with the Provincial Institute for Hygiene (Antwerp, Belgium).
• Study of the skeletal maturation of Belgian boys: a longitudinal study (1986-1987). In collaboration with the Institute of Anthropology at the Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest (Prof. Gy. Gyenis) and the Ecole de Sante Publique, Unversite Libre de Bruxelles (Dr. A. Wachholder).
• Construction of cross-sectional standards for growth in height and weight of Belgian boys and girls (1986-1987). In collaboration with the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie et de Genetique Humaine, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Dr. M. Vercauteren).
• Longitudinal study of the growth of Central African babies, age 0-2 years, in relation to seasonal variation in nutritional factors and diseases, such as measles and whooping cough (1983-). In collaboration with the Centre National de Recherche Scientific (France), Pavillon de l'Enfant, Aix-en-Provence, France (Dr. H. Pagezy).
• Multi-disciplinary study of the genetics of polygenic characteristics on the basis of twin data: anthropometry, psychology, ergometry, cytogenetics, physiology (1984-1990). Project supported by the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium).
• Analysis of age at menarche among Ladakh (Himalayas) girls (1984). Collaboration in the data analysis of this project (University of Delhi, New Delhi, India: Dr. S.L. Malik).
• Construction of longitudinal growth standards for growth and growth velocity in height, allowing for variation in the shape of individual growth patterns of Belgian boys and girls (1987-1990). In collaboration with the Ecole de Sante Publique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Dr. A. Wachholder).
• Genetic determinants in the EEG-sleep patterns: a twin study (1988-). Collaboration with the Sleep Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Hopital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Dr. P. Linkowski).
• Study of the relation between socio-economic factors and various aspects of the individual growth pattern in length and weight of Lublin boys and girls: a pure longitudinal survey (1990-). Collaboration with the Institute of Pediatrics of the Medical Academy, Lublin, Poland (Prof. Dr. H. Chrzastek-Spruch).
• Heredity of the shape of the growth curve: a purely longitudinal twin study of Wroclaw boys and girls (1989-). In collaboration with the Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland (Prof. P. Bergman and Prof. T. Bielicki).
• Growth pattern of body length among children with hypophosphataemic vitamin-D resistant rachitis: a pure longitudinal growth study (1988-). In collaboration with Department of Pediatrics, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam (Prof. Dr. R. Steendijk).
• Study of the relationship between the skeletal maturation as a trigger for the timing of the adolescent growth spurt (1988-1991). In collaboration with Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland (Prof. T. Bielicki).
• Study of the variation in shape of the growth pattern in relation to the maturational status: a pure longitudinal survey (1988-). In collaboration with Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland (Prof. T. Bielicki).
• Construction of longitudinal growth standards for height and weight allowing for variation in individual growth patterns: Sweden (1990-). In collaboration with the Department of Educational Research, Stockholm Institute of Education, Stockholm, Sweden (Prof. G. Lindgren).
• Study of the infant growth in relation to confounding factors (1994-): In collaboration with Universite de Paris VII, Lab. d'Anthropologie Biologique, INSERM unite 155 (Dr. F. Demoulin).
• Study of growth in preterm and low-birth weight infants in relation to confounding factors (1993-). In collaboration with the Institute of Pediatrics of the Medical Academy, Lublin, Poland (Prof. Dr. H. Chrzastek-Spruch) and the Sackle School of Medicine, Division of Anthropology and Anatomy (Prof. E. Livshits and Prof. E. Kobylianski).
• Study of the short-term variation in growth velocity asthmatic and cystic fibrosis patients: (1995-). In collaboration with the Asthma Center in De Haan, Belgium (Dr. H. Franckx).
• Longitudinal analysis of distance and annual increase curves and distribution of the age of maximum increment in height among junior high school athletes (1997-). In collaboration with Prof. K. Nariyama, Kyoto Bunkyo University and Prof. T. Mino, Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Japan).
• Short-term growth increments as a measure of environmental constraints (1997-). In collaboration with the Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Anthropology, Wroclaw, Poland (Prof. B. Hulanicka).
• Genetic and environmental factors on pattern of fat deposition and distribution (1997-). In collaboration with the Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Anthropology, Wroclaw, Poland (Prof. T. Bielicki and Prof. B. Hulanicka).
• Analysis of BMI and skinfolds with the LMS method (1998-). In collaboration with the University of the Basque Country (Prof. E. Rebato).
• Growth and growth velocity of patients with Turner syndrome (1998-). In collaboration with the University and the Hospital de Pediatria of Buenos Aires (Prof. Lejarraga).
• Study of the effect of marital status on health in Polish adult males. Application of logistic regression techniques (1998-). In collaboration with the Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Anthropology, Wroclaw, Poland (Prof. T. Bielicki and Dr. E. Rogucka).
• Estimation of centile lines for growth variables in the Basque population (1999-). In collaboration with the University of the Basque Country (Prof. E. Rebato).
• Growth and final height in patients suffering from congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to classical 21-hydroxylase deficiency. A multicenter Study (1999-). In collaboration with the Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest, and the Working Party of the Middle-European Workshop on Paediatric Endocrinology (Prof. Gy. Gyenis).
• Semi-longitudinal study of growth and development of school children from 'El Yopal, Colombia (2000-). In collaboration with the University of Bogota and of Aix-en-Marseille (Dr. O. Dutour, Drs. M-J. Ireton).
• Longitudinal analysis of growth in twins (Budapest; 2000-). In collaboration with the Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest, Hungary (Prof. E. Bodzsar).
• Study of BMI in the Belgian population (2000-). In collaboration with the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Prof. M. Vercauteren).
• Study of growth of and development of Flemish infants, children and adolescents (2000-2006). Project supported by the Flemish Community, Ministry of Public Health and in collaboration with "Kind & Gezin", The Flemish Scientific Association for Youth Health and with various Departments of the University of Louvain (KUL), and Ghent.

But after all these details of his career, the most important thing to remember of ROLAND HAUSPIE is that he was a real gentleman appreciated by all the colleagues with whom he collaborated. At personal level, I will remember a co-worker who became a friend, a colleague hard-working, independent, active, loyal, worthy, helpful, hearty, friendly.

Prof. Charles Susanne

11.05.2017:
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate at the 9th conference of Baltic Morphology in Tartu, Estonia (first announcement). The conference will be held on September 27-29, 2017 at the Estonian National Museum and the Main Building of the University of Tartu.
The program of the traditional biannual conference will cover all fields of morphological sciences, including cell biology, developmental biology, macroscopic anatomy, histology, physical anthropology and veterinary anatomy. In addition, presentations about history of morphological sciences are invited.
The detailed information regarding the registration, the conference fee, the call for the abstracts and the full papers will be available at the site: https://sisu.ut.ee/balticmorphology2017. The full papers will be published in a special issue of the Papers on Anthropology (50 Euro will be charged for every full paper). The open access journal is available at https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/PoA.
The deadline for the submission of the papers is June 20, 2017 and for the abstracts May 20, 2017.
We look forward to seeing you all in Tartu in September 2017.
from Andres Arend (Department of Anatomy, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, andres.arend@ut.ee)

09.05.2017:
The scientific summer school "Nutritional status within life-cycle and among populations: anthropometric and body composition methods of assessment" will be held in Cagliari, Italy (Aug. 28th - Sept. 1st, 2017). Applications are welcome. For more information, please contact me (Universita di Cagliari, Italy, emarini@unica.it, elisabetta.marini@gmail.com).
from Elisabetta Marini

04.05.2017:
It is with great sadness that we inform the EAA members that Professor Roland Hauspie, our colleague and friend passed away on the 25th April, 2017. Professor Hauspie was one of the Honorary Members of the EAA. His longer obituary will be published soon.


03.05.2017:
Greetings EAA,
I am an American student who recently moved to the Netherlands to begin a PhD. I am a former foster youth and am interesting in establishing a larger support system as I begin my research journey. My work looks at the affects of the Greek debt crisis on young adults in Greece.
If any EAA members are interested in mentoring a young anthropologist just starting out, I would be very happy to talk with them.
from Jerika L. Heinze (j.Heinze@maw.ru.nl)

27.01.2017:
All detailed information on the EAA Summer School in Biological Anthropology (Poznan, Poland, 12 July - 22 July 2017) and the application form are available at the following websites: http://www.biologia.amu.edu.pl/ and http://www.summerschoolsineurope.eu/.
The deadline of application is comming soon (the 31st of January, 2017)!
from Prof. Maria Kaczmarek

16.01.2017:
The two previous Iberian Symposia on Geometric Morphometrics took place in Sabadell (Barcelona) at the Institut Catala de Paleontologia and in Madrid, at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Autonomous University of Madrid). We now have the pleasure to inform you that the third in this series of meetings is going to take place at the Universitat de Girona (University of Girona) in Girona (Catalonia, Spain) on the 9th-10th of June, 2017 (first call of 3rd ISGM).
The aim of the meeting is to provide a platform to promote the dissemination and exchange of knowledge among researchers and scholars, who are interested in the application of geometric morphometrics in their analyses. This conference is aimed at all those professors, researchers, professionals and students in any field of science, who are interested in the application of geometric morphometric within their scientific studies. Registration is open until March. Poster and podium presentations are welcome.
This congress is expected to be a meeting point for the GM community of the Iberian Peninsula for discussing all the applications, doubts and aspects of this fascinating method. We hope that many people come to present their research and to grow our network. We look forward to welcoming you at the Sala de Graus (Degree Room) of the Faculty of Arts in the in the heart of Girona.
For more information, see the web page www.3ISGMGirona.cat.
from Prof. Carme Rissech (University of Girona, carme.rissech@gmail.com)

20.12.2016:

OBITUARY - Derek Roberts (1926-2017)

It is with great sadness that we inform the EAA members that Professor Derek Roberts, age of 91, passed away on the 19th December, 2016.
Professor Derek Roberts was born in London, UK and after his army service during World War 2 Prof. Roberts received a degree in Geography from Cambridge University, developing an interest in the biology of human variation. From 1949 to 1963 he worked in the Department of Anatomy, undertaking anthropological field surveys in Sudan and forming an informal group of Oxford based workers interested in genetics. In 1963 he joined Alan Stevenson's Medical Research Council unit in Oxford and in 1965 was appointed to develop human genetics at Newcastle University, continuing population studies, notably of the evacuated Tristan da Cunha population, while laying the foundations for medical genetics, including a cytogenetics laboratory and clinical genetics services. (A longer obituary with more information on his scientific career will be published soon.)
Professor Roberts was one of the founder fathers of the European Anthropological Association, he served in the EAA Boards and Councils from the birth of the Association until his retirement. He was elected an Honorary Member of the EAA in 1996.
We will keep forever his memory.
Annamaria Zsakai

15.12.2016:
The European Anthropological Association in cooperation with the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland cordially invite postgraduate students and young scholars to attend the ten days intensive course of lectures and hands-on activities on the topic of
Human Growth and Nutrition and their Applications to Health - Summer School in Biological Anthropology (Poznan, Poland, 12 July - 22 July 2017). The programme is designed for postgraduate students (MSC and PhD) and postdoc scholars who wish to improve their knowledge and skills in applied human auxology.
This course intends to provide the learners with (1) an extended framework review of nutrition and its importance for human growth, health status and health problems, (2) practice in methods and techniques that can be applied to the community health assessment, and (3) research strategies that can be used in designing research activities conducted on own behalf.
Some of the proposed topics are: the biology of growth, human life history evolution, evolution of human nutrition, nutritional and epidemiologic transition, growth and health in transitional economies, developmental origins of health and disease: critical periods, human growth as an indicator of social and economic change, intergenerational effects in biocultural perspective, biostatistics.
Key-note speakers will be: Prof. Barry Bogin and Prof. Noel Cameron (Loughborough University, UK), Prof. C G Nicholas Mascie-Taylor (Cambridge University, UK), and Prof. Maria Ines Varela Silva (Loughborough University, UK).
The call for SSBA applications is open as of 1 December 2016 and the deadline is 31 January 2017. Notification of acceptance to the SSBA will be sent on 28th February 2017. Payment of registration fee (if applicable) until 30th April 2017. Summer School in Biological Anthropology will be held 10 days - July 12, 2017 to July 22, 2017.
Documents to be submitted:
1. Application form (can be downloaded from here)
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Letter of recommendation of the supervisor or academic staff dated not earlier than three months prior to the date of submission of the application
4. A copy of valid travel medical insurance
5. Confirmation of payment
Fee of particpation: free of charge for EAA members and 250 Euro for non-EAA members.
For more information please download the announcement of the Summer School or contact the organizer, Prof. Maria Kaczmarek by e-mail (makac@amu.edu.pl)!
from Prof. Maria Kaczmarek

09.12.2016:
The Parkes Foundation aims to promote the study of biological and social topics with the emphasis on human biosocial projects. Each year, the foundation awards up to 6-8 small grants (usually about L800 each) and 1 PhD grant (up to L3000) to help Masters and PhD students conduct research. The opening date for applications is 1st December 2016 and the closing date is 9th January 2017.
Small Grant Fund: The Foundation supports studies falling in the areas of reproduction, demography, fertility, human health, conservation and human genetics. Studies outside these areas, for example animal (including primate) projects and evolution, will not be supported. Grants are usually of the order of L800 (but may be increased to L1500 in special circumstances). They are directed particularly towards helping graduate research students meet their field work costs, but others may apply. Requests for postdoctoral attendance grants to disseminate results will not be considered. Undergraduate projects are not supported.
PhD Grant Fund: One grant of up to L3000 is offered to enable a registered PhD student to undertake substantive field work as part of their higher degree in the subject areas of reproduction, demography or fertility. Students in receipt of a research council grant or equivalent are not eligible to apply for a PhD Grant.
For more infomation: http://www.parkesfoundation.org.uk/grants
from dr. Rie Goto

18.08.2016:
The General Assembly of EAA (agenda of the meeting) will be held in Zagreb (Croatia) during the 20th EAA Congress (venue: Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, P1 room) on the 27th of August (at 15.30).
Annamaria Zsakai

21.06.2016:
The online voting for the EAA Council 2016-2018 has already started.
The new Council is elected from the Honorary and good-standing members of the EAA. Everyone, who is included in the voting bulletin, can send their votes for the Council members.
The online voting is open until the 11th of July, 2016. If you are a member of the EAA and have not got the automatically generated email about the voting process (from zsakai@speleology.hu), please contact me (zsakaia@elte.hu) to get your access to the voting site.
The elected members will be informed about their election, and will be requested to acknowledge the acceptance of their nomination as Council member.
Please follow the instructions of my email about the process. Please send your votes before the deadline and inform your colleagues about the voting. Thank you!
Annamaria Zsakai

31.05.2016:
The 42nd School of Biological Anthropology ”dr. Hubert Maver” - New Findings from Vindija Cave will be held under the high auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
(August 29th, 2016, Croatian Academy of Sciences And Arts, Nikola Šubiæ Zrinski Square 11, Zagreb, Croatia, information: barbara.cvitkusic@inantro.hr)
Lecturers:
S. Paabo (MPI-EVA): Neandertals and their History at Vindija Cave and Elsewhere
K. Pruefer (MPI-EVA): A High-Coverage Neandertal Genome from Vindija Cave
T. Higham (University of Oxford): New Dates from Vindija Cave
I. Karavanic (University of Zagreb): The Vindija Tool Kit
M. Meyer (MPI-EVA): Ultrasensitivity and Automation for Ancient DNA Retrieval
M. Hadinjak (MPI-EVA): The Late Neandertals from Vindija Cave
Scientific Organizer: Professor S. Paabo
Organizers: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; Department for Natural Sciences, Anthropological Centre and Scientific Council for Anthropological Research of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Croatian Anthropological Society; Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb; Croatian Medical Association, Croatian Society for Medical Anthropology
After the 42nd School of Biological Anthropology all participants are welcome at the postmeeting reception in the premises of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
from Barbara Cvitkusic

17.05.2016:
The members of the Department of Anthropology and the Slovak Anthropological Society have the sad duty to inform the scientific community, colleagues and friends of the death of two colleagues, Maria Drobnaand Marianna Selingerova.
from Prof. Daniela Sivakova

dr. Mariana Selingerová (19. 06. 1954 - 05. 05.2016)
Marianna Selingerová died on May 5th 2016 after a serious illness.
She was born in 19th June 1954 in Povazska Bystrica, Slovakia. She finished her study at the Department of Anthropology, Comenius University in Bratislava in 1980. She started to work at the Faculty of Physical Education, Comenius University in Bratislava as a scientific worker. Later on she defended her thesis dealing with different methods of estimation of biological age and was awarded Dr. rer. nat. In 1993 defended her PhD Thesis at the Department of Anthropology, Comenius University in Bratislava.
Her scientific interest focused on estimation of biological age, particularly bone age and its application in sport. She delivered lecture in the Kinanthropology for students specialized in Anthropology. Marianna was member of different scientific boards at the Department of Anthropology.
We will keep in honour her memory.