We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming 29th edition of the international conference focused on the current research of the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Central Europe. The call for in-person attendance and active participation is open to all those interested in sharing their findings from rescue and systematic excavations, studies on material culture, more complex thematic syntheses, as well as student works.
The conference, organized by the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Slovak Archaeological Society at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, will take place on October 13–16, 2025, at the SAV Academia Congress Center in Stará Lesná (map). The program will include three presentation days, a social evening, and a full-day excursion.
We invite contributions in the form of oral presentations with a max. duration of 15 minutes, accompanied by a presentation *.ppt format. Participants may also submit a poster in a printed color version in DIN A0 format (841 × 1189 mm). Speeches may be given in Slovak or Czech, but the text of presentations and posters are required in English or German.
Registration is available via the online form until June 30, 2025. To complete the registration, each participant has to submit a presentation/poster abstract (300–500 words) in English. After the processing, the texts will be published in the printed abstract book.
Registered participants will receive a preliminary conference and excursion program in August 2025, while the final program will be available on the conference website in September 2025.
The conference fee is €60, with a discounted rate of €30 for students at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The fee covers venue and equipment rental, refreshments during breaks, the social evening, as well as travel costs and entry fees for the excursion. The fee will be collected in cash upon registration, and participants will receive a payment confirmation on-site.
Call for publication – journal Slovenská archeológia
Participants (and other researchers) have the opportunity to publish their contributions and original scientific papers in a special issue of the journal Slovenská archeológia, dedicated to the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Central Europe. Published studies will be indexed and registered in international databases SCOPUS, WoS, ERIH PLUS, CEJSH, and EBSCO. The journal is fully available in open access, and publication is free of charge. Depending on the number of submissions, the issue will be published either as Volume 2 or as a double issue for the year 2026.
Interested authors are requested to submit a preliminary title and an abstract (up to 1,800 characters) by October 31, 2025. Full manuscripts must be submitted by May 31, 2026. Abstracts and manuscripts should be sent to slovenska.archeologia@savba.sk, and detailed guidelines for manuscript formatting and further information are available on the official journal website.
For any questions and inquiries, please contact the organizers at ebamba2025@gmail.com.
We look forward to the meeting,
Jozef Bátora
Pavol Bobek
Klaudia Daňová
Štefan Olšav
Dominika Oravkinová
Conference organizing committee