ICAZ 2027
On 25 August 2026 abstracts (200 words) are due for the International Council for Archaeozoology 15th Conference. Interconnections Among Communities Past and Present — Ocean, Land, and Sky (ICAZ 2027), to be held on 17–22 May 2027 in Vancouver, Canada. Further information is available at https://sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6td4Y. The conference themes include:
• Ocean Connected Communities / Communautés connectées à l’océan
• Public, Stakeholder Engagement, and Descendant Community Priorities / Engagement du public et des parties prenantes, priorités des communautés descendants
• Transboundary Approaches in Archaeozoology / Approches transfrontalières en archéozoologie : à travers les terres et les mers, et au-delà
• Social Zooarchaeology / Zooarchéologie sociale
• Old Bones – New Methods – Blue Skies / Vieux os, Nouvelles méthodes, nouveaux horizons
• Economy and Domestication / Économie et domestication
• Multispecies Worlds / Mondes multi-espèces
SOMA 2026
On 13 September 2026 abstracts (250 words) are due for the 27th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology: The Impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage (SOMA 2026), to be held on 5–7 November 2026 in Warsaw, Poland. Further information is available at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/larogonzalez_soma-xxvii-activity-7480923725010407424-LKq4/.
ICAANE 2027
On 20 September 2026 submissions for workshop proposals and oral or poster abstracts (300 words) are due for the 15th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE 2027), to be held on 4–8 May 2027 in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Further information is available at https://15icaane.tsu.ge/. Themes at 15th ICAANE are:
• Excavations and Survey Reports
• Transitions and Transformations: Methodologies for Defining the Dynamics of Cultural Change between the Chalcolithic and the Achaemenid periods
• Environment, Landscape, and Climate Transformations
• Political Organization, Urbanism, and Settlement Patterns
• Metallurgy, Craft, and Trade Networks: The crossroads of Exchanges in Technology, Minerals and Finished Products
• Mortuary Practices, Ritual Landscapes, and Identity
• Scripts and Shifts: Cultural Innovation and Transformation
• Islamic Archaeology
• Genomic, Biological, and Bioarchaeological Analysis: New Perspectives and the Broader View
• Cultural Heritage and Museum: Ethics, Technologies & Public Engagement
• Teaching Archaeology: The Dig as a Field School for Didactic and Training
EMAC2027
On 31 October 2026 abstract submissions for oral or poster presentations and applications for enrollment in the Lab&Museum School are due for the 18th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics (EMAC2027), to be held on 24–28 May 2027 in Brussels, Belgium. The application form and further information are available at https://emac2027.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en. Oral and poster presentations on the archaeometry of ceramics are welcomed through the following thematic sessions:
• Mobility of crafts, skills, and pottery products
• Pottery technology, from production to use
• The art of terracotta
• Innovation and tradition in ceramic crafts
• Ceramic ecology
• Ceramics and society
• Archaeometry at the museum
• New advances in the archaeometry of ceramics
ScapeCon9
On 10 November 2026 abstracts (250 words) are due for the 9th ScapeCon. Transforming Scapes: Processes of Transformation and Continuity in the Prehistoric Aegean (ScapeCon9), to be held on 27–28 May 2027 in Lublin, Poland. Further information is available at https://www.facebook.com/ScapeCon. The conference will focus on the following thematic areas:
• Transforming Materials
• Transforming Technologies
• Transforming Places
• Transforming Bodies
• Transforming Communities
• Transforming Beliefs and Representations
• Transforming Knowledge
• Approaches to Transformation