Talks
2022. Homes in the Making at the Dawn of the Accountancy and Metrology in western Anatolia, An International Virtual Conference on the History and Archaeology of the Home.
2021. Ghost Children: Fluid Identities of Children in Prehistoric Anatolia, Theoretical Archaeology Group - Turkey 2021 Virtual Conference.
2021. Metalworkers’ Homes: Food, Arsenic Copper, and Knowledge Sharing, IFK Lecture.
Workshops and Panels Organized
1/2024 American Institute of Archaeology (AIA) Annual Meeting, Kinship Trouble: Traversing Interdisciplinary Boundaries between Archaeology, Archaeogenetics, and Socio-cultural Anthropology. Workshop co-organizer (6 international speakers, 2 co-organizers), January 4–7, Chicago, IL, United States.
11/2023 American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Reconstructing Kinship Practices in Archaeology: Materiality, Socio-cultural Anthropology, and Archaeogenetics Panel organizer and chair (6 international speakers, 1 discussant), November 15–19, Toronto, Canada
09/2022 VANDA: Vienna Anthropology Days, The Seasonal and the Material: Anthropology of Seasonal Practices. Panel co-organizer (6 international speakers), September 26–30, Vienna, Austria
11/2018 International Workshop, Household Archaeology in Old World Prehistory: An Interdisciplinary Approach, OREA – Oriental and European Archaeology, OeAW, Workshop co-organizer (7 international speakers), November 21–23, 2022, Vienna, Austria
09/2018 VANDA: Vienna Anthropology Days, Theorizing social change: social organization, complexity, and inequality. Panel co-organizer, September 19–21, 2018, Vienna, Austria
Invited Public Lectures
2024 From Household to Kinship at Çukuriçi Höyük: and beyond, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, March 7, 2023, Ankara, Türkiye.
2024 Revitalizing Kinship Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Eurasian Archaeology, Hacettepe University, March 1, 2024, Ankara,Türkiye.
2024 Kin-based Social Inequality Reconsidered, Embracing Transdisciplinarity I: Equality and Inequality in prehistory, February 23, 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2023 Za obdelovalce kovin ni lepšega kraja od doma: proizvodnja arzenalnega bakra v zgodnji bronasti dobi z antropološke perspective [No place like home for metalworkers: arsenic copper production in the Early Bronze Age from an anthropological perspective], 8th Symposium of Slovenian Researchers Abroad, December 20–21, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2023 Descent through Socio-Cultural Anthropological Eyes: Capturing the “Social” in Kinship Models, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Archaeogenetics, July 27, 2023, Leipzig, Germany.
2023 From Households to Society: Zooarchaeological and Cross-Cultural Perspectives at Early Bronze Age .ukuri.i H.yük (with Stephanie Emra), University of Cologne, Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, January 12, 2023, Cologne, Germany.
2021 Metalworkers’ Homes: Food, Arsenic-Copper, and Knowledge Sharing, International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), University of Art and Design Linz, January 18, 2023, Vienna, Austria
Conference Presentations
8/2024 Revisiting “Anomalous” Burial Practices: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting, August 28–31, Rome, Italy.
7/2024 New Kid on the Block: A Shift from Individuals to Persons, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference, July 23–26, Barcelona, Spain.
4/2024 Beyond Kinship Trees: Capturing the Social Tapestry in European Prehistory, Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting, April 17–21, New Orleans, LA, United States.
1/2024 How Socio-Cultural Anthropology Can Engage with Prehistoric Kinship, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting, 2024, January 4–7, Chicago, IL, United States.
11/2023 American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting 2023, X-KIN: Exploring patterns of prehistoric kinship from socio-cultural anthropological perspectives, Toronto, Canada
8/2023 European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 2021, Kinship from cross-cultural perspectives: A mixed methods approach to seemingly quantitative issue, Belfast, United Kingdom
15/3/2023 Kiel Conference 2023 – Scales of Social, Environmental and cultural Change in Past Societies, Matrilineal/Patrilineal: Diversities within a Single Kinship Model, Kiel, Deutschland
07/2022 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons, Egalitarian, Hierarchical, or Heterarchical Society? Competition and Sharing at the Dawn of the Bronze Age in Western Anatolia, Belfast, United Kingdom
07/2022 WAC-9: World Archaeology Congress, Çukuriçi Höyük: Household economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean, Prague, Czech Republic
07/2022 WAC-9: World Archaeology Congress, Kinship and Relatedness in Socio-Cultural Anthropology: Yesterday and Today, Prague, Czech Republic
06/2022 Notes from Home: An International Virtual Conference on the History and Archaeology of the Home, Homes in the Making at the Dawn of Accountancy and Metrology in western Anatolia (with Horejs, B.), New Castle, United Kingdom (virtual)
09/2021 European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 2021, Tiny world and Neolithic society: New insight from the house model of Platia Magoula Zarkou/Western Thessaly, Greece, (with Alram-Stern, E.), Kiel, Germany (virtual)
07/2021 Society and Morality in Eurasia: from Prehistory to the Present Day, Discussant, Halle/Saale, Germany (virtual)
06/2021 SIEF 2021: International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Helsinki, Finland, Mr. or Mrs. Smith? Metalworking as Gendered Craft in (pre)History? (virtual)
05/2021 Theoretical Archaeology Group, TAG-Turkey III, Ghost Children: Fluid Identities of Children in Prehistoric western Anatolia, (with Schwall. C.), Ankara, Turkey (virtual)
08/2020 No (E)Scape? Relational Archaeology in the Aegean Bronze Age, Negotiation and Interaction in EBA Çukuriçi Höyük: Differing Solutions to Competing ‘Scapes' with the Beginning of Rising Inequality, (with Emra, S.), Groningen, Netherlands (virtual)
09/2020 Royal Anthropological Institute, Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, Toxic Households: Arsenical Copper Production at the Centre of the House, London, United Kingdom (online)
09/2018 VANDA: Vienna Anthropology Days, Social Dynamics at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: Archaeo-anthropological Insights from Western Anatolia, (with Röcklinger, M.) Vienna, Austria
08/2017 Roots of Europe Summer School, Eastern Mediterranean Households in the Early Bronze Age, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
03/2017 Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conference, Two EBA Trade Models between Anatolia and Aegean in late Early and Middle Bronze Age: Some Analyses of Finds through Cross-Cultural Comparison, Oxford, United Kingdom
Poster Presentations
3/2024 Making Kin with or without Shared Genetic Ancestry in European Prehistory, Marie Curie Alumni Association Annual Conference and General Assembly, Milan, Italy (S. Cveček).
12/2019 Advisory board meeting at the Institute for the Oriental and European Archaeology, OeAW, Vienna (S. Cveček, S. Emra, C. Moser, M. Röcklinger)
06/2017 Award Ceremony of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (S. Cveček, S. Emra, C. Moser, M. Röcklinger)