Programme
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Sunday 30 August 2026
Monday 31 August 2026
13:00 - 15:00
Registration
AMU Hall (Aula UAM), Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań
AMU Hall (Aula UAM), Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań
15:00 - 17:00
Opening ceremony (Part I)
Opening Performance
Jan Adamczewski Saxophone performance
Official Opening and Welcome
Opening of the Congress and welcome address by Professor Bogumiła Kaniewska, Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Welcome addresses by the President of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) and invited guests.
Piano Recital
Filip Budzik
Keynote Lecture: Professor Barbara Barich (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
“Shifting Paradigms: The Impact of Multidisciplinary Developments on the Study of Relations between North Africa and the Near East during the Holocene”
Official Group Photograph
Group photograph in front of the University building
AMU Hall (Aula UAM), Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań
Opening Performance
Jan Adamczewski Saxophone performance
Official Opening and Welcome
Opening of the Congress and welcome address by Professor Bogumiła Kaniewska, Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Welcome addresses by the President of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) and invited guests.
Piano Recital
Filip Budzik
- Fryderyk Chopin — Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 41, No. 1
- Filip Budzik — Fantasia in G and Prelude “The Giaour” — original compositions
Keynote Lecture: Professor Barbara Barich (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
“Shifting Paradigms: The Impact of Multidisciplinary Developments on the Study of Relations between North Africa and the Near East during the Holocene”
Official Group Photograph
Group photograph in front of the University building
AMU Hall (Aula UAM), Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań
17:00 - 17:30
Coffee break
17:30 - 19:00
Opening ceremony (Part II)
Keynote Lecture: Professor Tomasz Goslar (Poznań Radiocarbon Laboratory, Poznań Science and Technology Park, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
“Bayesian Analysis of ¹⁴C Dating Results as a Chronometric Tool in Archaeological Studies: Examples from the Poznań Radiocarbon Laboratory”
Presentation of the Congress publications
Choral Concert
Chór Kameralny of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts in Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, conducted by Beata Szymańska
Closing of the official programme of the Opening Ceremony.
AMU Hall (Aula UAM), Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań
Keynote Lecture: Professor Tomasz Goslar (Poznań Radiocarbon Laboratory, Poznań Science and Technology Park, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
“Bayesian Analysis of ¹⁴C Dating Results as a Chronometric Tool in Archaeological Studies: Examples from the Poznań Radiocarbon Laboratory”
Presentation of the Congress publications
- Exploring Prehistoric Poland: From the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic
- Exploring Prehistoric Poland: From Early Bronze Age Pastoralists to the Roman Period
Choral Concert
Chór Kameralny of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts in Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, conducted by Beata Szymańska
- Sergei Khvoshchinsky — Bogoroditse Devo, raduysia (Belarus) Soloists: Maciej Jesiołkiewicz and Adam Michalak
- Stoi lód na Prośnie (Poland) — arranged by Jacek Sykulski Soloists: Karolina Treska, Monika Jesiołkiewicz, and Sandra Bobrowska
- Lorenzo Donati — Every Door (Italy)
- Karl Jenkins — Cantate Domino (United Kingdom) Cajón: Sandra Bobrowska
- Makedonsko devojče (North Macedonia) — arranged by Brygida Sawicka Soloists: Maria Szczap and Maciej Jesiołkiewicz
Closing of the official programme of the Opening Ceremony.
AMU Hall (Aula UAM), Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań
19:00 - 22:00
Welcome reception - AMU Hall (Aula UAM), Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań
Tuesday 1 September 2026- Faculty of Archeology AMU (Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7 Str., Poznań)
9:00 - 15:30
9:00 - 14:50
9:00 - 12:50
9:00 - 18:00
9:00 - 16:30
9:00 - 16:10
9:00 - 15:10
9:00 - 16:10
9:00 - 15:30
9:00 - 12:10
9:00 - 18:00
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:50
11:30 - 18:00
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee break
14:30 - 17:40
18:30 - 19:30
Keynote lecture - Professor April Nowell / Paleolithic Children Come of Age
Wednesday 2 September 2026- Faculty of Archeology AMU (Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7 Str., Poznań)
9:00 - 12:10
9:00 - 10:00
9:00 - 13:10
9:00 - 13:30
9:00 - 11:50
9:00 - 11:00
9:00 - 13:30
9:00 - 11:00
9:00 - 12:10
9:00 - 13:30
9:00 - 11:00
9:00 - 10:40
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
15:00 - 20:00
Visiting the exhibition at the Archaeological Museum in Poznań, Wodna 27 Street
15:30 - 18:30
Guided tours of Poznań - Meeting point
Tours depart at 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. — you can sign up for one tour.
3:30 p.m. departure — 3 tours (group symbol: A + B + C) (max. 30 people each)
4:30 p.m. departure — 3 tours (group symbol: D + E + F) (max. 30 people each)
Sign up at the registration desk
15:30 - 16:30
Commissions 1-12 meeting
16:30 - 17:30
Commissions 13-23 meeting
Thursday 3 September 2026- Faculty of Archeology AMU (Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7 Str., Poznań)
9:00 - 14:50
9:00 - 11:50
9:00 - 16:10
9:00 - 13:30
10:00 - 12:50
9:00 - 18:00
9:00 - 11:00
9:00 - 17:40
9:00 - 13:30
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee break
18:30 - 19:30
Keynote lecture - Professor Nicholas J. Conard / Early Art and Music from the Swabian Jura and the Biogeography of Modern Humans
20:00 - 22:00
Friday 4 September 2026- Faculty of Archeology AMU (Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7 Str., Poznań)
9:00 - 11:00
9:00 - 15:10
9:00 - 15:30
9:00 - 15:10
9:40 - 15:30
9:00 - 13:00
9:00 - 12:50
9:00 - 13:30
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30
11:30 - 13:30
11:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
16:00 - 17:00
Keynote lecture - Professor Harry Widianto/From Homo erectus To Homo sapiens In Southeast Asia In Late Pleistocene, Replacement Or Local Evolution?
17:00 - 19:00
Executive Committee meeting
19:00 - 20:00
General Assembly
20:00 - 23:00
Closing reception- Faculty of Archeology AMU (Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 7 Str., Poznań)
Saturday, 5 September 2026
9:00 - 18:00
Saturday, September 5th, 2026 - Ostrów Lednicki, Greater Poland Ethnographic Park in Dziekanowice, Biskupin