SSHB officers, contact details and committee members
Future meetings
2010 symposium
The next SSHB symposium will be held on 16-17th September 2010 in Durham,
hosted jointly with the Biosocial Society on;
"Intergenerational influences on obesity and related conditions"
Further details to be announced shortly.
Proffered papers meeting
- The next Proffered Paper Meeting will be
held at the University of Westminster on 20th May 2010.
Call for Oral and
Poster Presentations
Please contact the Programme Secretary for further information.
Proffered papers meetings offer researchers the chance to present recent work or work in progress on any topic of their choice in human biology and biological anthropology. Spoken papers and posters can be presented. Abstracts will normally be published in the Annals. Graduate students and other early-stage researchers are particularly encouraged to present their work at proffered papers meetings, which offer a supportive and constructive atmosphere for discussion of research. There is usually a competition for the best poster or spoken paper by a student. Contributions eligible for the prize of UKŁ100 must have the presenting student as sole or senior author.
Past meetings
2009 Meetings
The
2009
SSHB symposium, on the theme of 'Human Dispersals', was held at
the beautiful Villa Mondragone, Rome, on 18-20th June 2009, under the
auspices of the AAI (Associazione Antropologica Italiana).
The aim of the Symposium was to reconstruct human colonization and
migrations out of Africa applying traditional and new approaches such
as archaeology, genetics, molecular anthropology, the recovery and
analyses of ancient biomolecules, food production and human diet.
Speakers included
Michael Petraglia, University of Cambridge - Out of Africa: An
archaeological assessment of the Indian Ocean dispersal route
Giuseppe Rotilio, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”- Nutritional factors
in human dispersals
Antonio Torroni, University of Pavia - Human dispersals: the
mitochondrial DNA (female) perspective
Joachim Burger, University of Mainz - Lactase persistence, dairying,
and the peopling of Central Europe during the early Holocene as seen
from genetic data of human archaeological populations and their
domestic animals.
Janet Montgomery, University of Bradford - Passports from the past -
the use of strontium isotope analysis to track human migration
50th Anniversary Meeting: 2008
The sun shined on the symposium celebrating 50 years of the SSHB in Oxford between 1st and 3rd April 2008. Over 50 delegates enjoyed the hospitality of New College in perfect spring weather.
New College gardens (credit: Tom Watson)
Professor David Barker of Southampton University gave the introductory keynote address on Tuesday 1st April. This was followed over the next two days by four further sessions, which included talks by invited speakers as well as proffered papers, on human growth and development; human evolution; human genetics and variation; human ecology and adaptation. Speakers included Prof. Lawrence Schell, SUNY; Prof. Michelle Lampl, Emory University; Dr Babette Zemel, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Prof. Chris Dean, UCL; Prof. Julia Lee-Thorp, University of Bradford; Prof. Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford; Prof. Maciej Henneberg, University of Adelaide and Dr Neville Bruce, University of Western Australia.
Frank Johnston (far left) and Noel Cameron (centre) with invited speakers from the growth and development session (l-r): Michelle Lampl, Babette Zemel and Larry Schell (credit: Babette Zemel).
The after-dinner address was given by Prof. Geoffrey Harrison, a founder member of the SSHB.
Geoff Harrison giving the after-dinner address (credit: Babette Zemel).
The programme for the 50th Anniversary meeting can be viewed here.
2007 meetings
2007 Symposium: Human Variation - from the laboratory to the field
The 2007 SSHB symposium, hosted jointly with the Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology (JSPA) was held between 24th and 26th September at the Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
The proceedings of this very successful symposium will be published in due course. Abstracts are available from here.
The 2007 proffered papers meeting was held on 31st May at the University of Oxford Pauling Centre, Banbury Road, Oxford. A programme for the 2007 meeting can be downloaded here.
2006 meetings
2006 Symposium: Medicine and Evolution
The 2006 symposium, held in association with the BioSocial Society and hosted by the Hull York Medical School, took place on 11-12th December in York. A meeting report by Catriona MacCallum published in PLoS Biology can be read here.
The 2006 proffered papers meeting was held at the University of Westminster.