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We invite you to the International Conference Neolithic and Eneolithic of Our Countries 2025

Registration for the 44th International Conference on the Neolithic and Eneolithic of Central Europe is open. We would like to welcome all those who wish to share their findings from rescue or systematic archaeological investigations, material culture studies, thematic syntheses, and finally student theses.

In its 44th year, the conference returns to Slovakia. It is organised by the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Zemplín Museum in Michalovce in cooperation with the Slovak Archaeological Society. It will take place from 23rd September to 25th September 2025 in the premises of the Zemplín Museum in Michalovce (map). The programme will consist of two days of lectures, a social evening and a full-day excursion, during which we will present the area of Zemplín with its rich Neolithic and Eneolithic settlement.

We welcome either topic-specific talks accompanied by a *.ppt presentation with a maximum length of 15 min, or colour-printed posters in DIN A0 format (841 x 1189 mm). Talks can be presented in Slovak, Czech and Polish, or in English or German.

Registration is a prerequisite for participation, the registration form in PDF form can be downloaded here. The application form can be sent to the email address neolit.eneolit2025@gmail.com until 31st May 2025. Participation is also conditional on sending an abstract of the presentation/poster in your native language and in English (recommended length 300-500 words). These abstracts will be published in book form, both in print and electronic versions.

Registered participants will receive a preliminary conference and field trip programme during July 2025. The final version of the programme will be published on the website in August 2025 and circulated to registered participants.

The conference fee was set at 65 €, discount for students (Bc., Mgr., PhD) at 30 €. The amount covers the cost of conference room and equipment rental, refreshments during breaks, a social evening, as well as travel costs and entrance fees during the excursion. Further information on the method of payment will be provided to registered participants.

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29th International Conference on the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Central Europe

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.

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100th anniversary of Bohuslav Klíma’s birth

We invite you to the scientific conference in honour of Bohuslav Klíma, his work, and his legacy will be organized. The conference will be held in the Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno (Čechyňská 363/19) during March 26–28th.

 

 

 

 

If you want to contribute to this meeting, please send us a title and an abstract (1,000–2,000 characters, including spaces) of your presentation by Jannuary 31st, 2025 to klima100@arub.cz. We prefer contributions related to the scientific activities of Bohuslav Klíma, including Pavlovian (Gravettian) and cave excavations.

 

Preliminary program:

March 26th: Registration, presentations (ARÚB, Čechyňská street)

Evening: Social event held in the same bulding

March 27th: Presentations

March 28th: Excursion (Slovak Museum in Staré Město near Uherské Hradiště)

 

Dominika Oravkinová received the ‘Danubius Young Scientist Awards’

Dominika Oravkinová is receiving the award.

‘At the ‘Danubius Awards 2023,’ several researchers from regions traversed by the Danube River were honoured for their academic achievements. On October 19, researchers who significantly contributed to the development of the Danube region were recognized. Our colleague, Mgr. Dominika Oravkinová, PhD., received the ‘Danubius Young Scientist Award.’

The ‘Danubius Award’ assessment was established in 2011 to commend individuals who have excelled in their dedication to the Danube region through their academic work or cultural creations.

This award is open to all disciplines and, among other things, helps promote the involvement of young scientists in research and cultural creation related to the Danube River basin. The awards are granted by an independent expert jury. These awards also contribute to the implementation of the European Union strategy for the Danube Region, adopted by the European Parliament in 2011.

We warmly congratulate Dominika!

 

Young scientists are awarded.

41st international conference Questions of the Neolithic and Eneolithic of our countries

A copy of the statue of Venus of Hrádok in Nitrianský Hrádok (Foto: P. Pogány/ Wikimedia Commons).

On September 27–29 2022 the 41st international conference Questions of the Neolithic and Eneolithic of our countries will take place in Palárikovo.

 

Programme for download here

 

V dňoch 27.–29. septembra 2022 sa v Poľovníckom kaštieli Palárikovo uskutoční 41. medzinárodná konferencia Otázky neolitu a eneolitu našich krajín.

Program na stiahnutie tu

The Slovak Academy of Sciences Awards for 2021

From left: prof. RNDr. Pavol Šajgalík, DrSc., president of SAS; Jozef Chudík, RTVS; Mgr. Tereza Štolcová, PhD., PhDr. Karol Pieta, DrSc. and doc. PhDr. Matej Ruttkay, CSc., IA SAS; Mgr. Michal Kšiňan, PhD., member of the presidium of SAS (Photo: K. Gáliková, SAV).

On 30th of June 2022, a ceremony was held at the SAS Congress Centre in Smolenice, where the Slovak Academy of Sciences awards for outstanding achievements in scientific research, international scientific and technical cooperation and popularisation of science were presented.

The Slovak Academy of Sciences award for popularization of science and social applications of science was awarded by prof. RNDr. Pavol Šajgalík, DrSc., the President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, to: PhDr. Karol Pieta, DrSc., doc. PhDr. Matej Ruttkay, CSc., Mgr. Tereza Štolcová, PhD., Mgr. Zbigniew Robak, PhD., from the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and to Róbert Benkovits, Marína Juríčková and Jozef Chudík from RTVS (Radio and Television of Slovakia) for the series of popular scientific documentary films “Slovak Archaeologists,” which in an accessible way brought to the public significant Slovak and foreign archaeological sites mapped by Slovak experts.

 

All documentaries about Slovak Archaeologists can be viewed in the RTVS archive:

 

Bojná hillfort

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/14735/201018

 

Princely grave from Poprad

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/14735/201677

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/14735/202258

 

Excavation of Slovak team in Guatemala

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/136059

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/137242

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/139063

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/140372

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/142089

 

Archaelogists in Sudan (Duwejm Wad Hadž)

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300110

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300149

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300224

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300814

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300858

https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300901

PhD thesis topics

The Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (founded in 1939) is a modern workplace that currently employs more than 70 professional and scientific staff – archaeologists, but also colleagues from several collaborating natural science disciplines. For more information about the department, see www. sav.sk/Science groups/Historical sciences/Institute of Archaeology; www. archeol.sav.sk.

The Institute is an independent education centre for three (Constantine The Philosopher University in Nitra) and four-year (Comenius university, Bratislava) studies in external and internal mode in the field of archaeology in conjunction with several Slovak universities. Upon successful graduation, the doctoral student receives the title “Philosophiae doctor” (PhD.) Currently, internal doctoral students receive a tax-free scholarship of 807 € per month during the first part of study and 940 € per month after a successful dissertation examination.  Doctoral students supervised by renowned supervisors have good working conditions at the institute and are usually immediately involved in research projects, which improves their communication in the research area, work mobility and material and technical equipment.

The thesis topics offered are based on the needs of contemporary archaeological research in the Central European area and can be a good start to systematic scientific work for their future researchers.

 

More information about study:

Constantine The Philosopher University in Nitra

Comenius university, Bratislava

 

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