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SSCIP 2026 - Call for Papers Now Open - Deadline 15th February - SSCIP The 18th Annual SSCIP Conference will be held at the University of Oulu, in Linnanmaa, Finland from Wednesday, June 10th to Friday, June 12th, 2026. The theme for the conference will be Children, Emot...

Only five days left to get your abstract in for this year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social annual conference in Oulu, Finland, 10th - 12th June

Come to Finland - it'll be warm and sunny!

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Come to Oulu, Finland this summer for the annual conference of @sscipchildhood.bsky.social - CFP now open

Children, Emotions, and Relations 18th Annual Conference of the Society of the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION OPEN FOR SSCIP 2026 📣 www.oulu.fi/en/events/ch...

Children, Emotions, and Relations 18th Annual Conference of the Society of the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP)

🇫🇮 The 18th Annual @sscipchildhood.bsky.social Conference will be held at the University of Oulu, Linnanmaa, Finland

📅 Wednesday, June 10th to Friday, June 12th, 2026

📣The theme for the conference will be Children, Emotions, and Relations

ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15.2.26

www.oulu.fi/en/events/ch...

Welcome to the team Tom!

We are delighted to announce that next year @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
conference takes us to Oulu, Finland (June 10th-12th) where we will be hosted by Sanna Lipkin and colleagues

We announced the winner of this year's student presentation prize: Javier Salcines-Montana! Congratulations Javier on your fascinating talk about emotion and infant burial in the Bronze Age and Iron Age Iberia
@sscipchildhood.bsky.social

To close day two of the conference @sscipchildhood.bsky.social we thanked the organisers of this year's conference Felix, Mathilde, Izzy and Halle

And the other by colleagues from Videnskabsklubben - an afterschool initiative across Denmark that teaches children about science, including Archaeology.

This year @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
we've had a couple of amazing workshops; one on incremental isotope analyais with Julia Beaumont (aka Bradford Tooth Fairy) and Corinne Feuillatre

And finally, Marta Fernández-Viejo explored infant burial practices, health and disease in Valladolid, Spain @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Alba Navarro-Pérez looked at evidence for dental microwear in juvenile remains from Terrinches, Spain (sorry, I didn't get a picture of the speaker!)

Finally before a break, Marta García-Barreirro presented a possible case of hip dysplasia @sscipchildhood.bsky.social (sorry, I didn't get a picture of the speaker!)

@sscipchildhood.bsky.social Our very own Secretary, Creighton Avery, explored puberty in ancient Rome

Joining us online @sscipchildhood.bsky.social and asking us to 'Please think of the children' was Selene Rodríguez-Caraballo (sorry for the pic!)

@sscipchildhood.bsky.social Our very own journal editor Prof. Eileen Murphy spoke about the evidence of violent trauma on the remains of juveniles from medieval Ireland

The relationship between children and animals in the burial record was explored by Povilas Blazevicius @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Sonia Lopez-Chamizo and Elías Brossoise offered an interesting and powerful perspective on infant burial in Málaga @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Day Two @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
started with a thoughtful paper by Javier Salcines-Montana presenting on infant death and emotion in prehistoric Iberia

That ends on a note of hope...

Today's fascinating and sobering keynote by @kalexand.bsky.social @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Our next speaker before tea @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
is Sascha Bjerg Bøgebjerg talking about the Kidlink forum

Now to something more recent @sscipchildhood.bsky.social .....Sanna Lipkin looks at 20th century refugees in Finland

Joined now virtually @sscipchildhood.bsky.social by Daria Loznjak Dizdar speaking about bronze age and iron age children in river confluence environments

Now exploring life in the Carpathian basin during two climate change events, Csilla Libor @sscipchildhood.bsky.social

Now back from a tasty lunch @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
for our first speaker of the afternoon - Corinne Feuillatre speaks about her isotope research on populations in Sudan

Wow! Our next @sscipchildhood.bsky.social
speaker Majken Astrup tells us about Skalk Junior - a magazine about archaeology aimed at children here in Denmark

@izzywisher.bsky.social

Starting with our first session speaker, Izzy Wisher @sscipchildhood.bsky.social