Talks
2025. Stanford Archaeology Center, Invited Lecture, From Kinship to Household and Back? Why Kinship Still Needs Anthropologists in the 21st Century, Stanford, CA, United States
2025. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Invited Lecture, Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory: Settlements, Figurines, and the Absence of Men, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Milwaukee Society, Milwaukee, WI, United States
2024. Invited Lecture, From Household to Kinship at Çukuriçi Höyük and Beyond, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye
2024. Invited Lecture, Household, House, and Kinship Revisited: From a Case Study to New Interdisciplinary Framework, Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Lecture, Chicago, IL, United States
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.
Organizatoin of Conferences, Workshops, and Round Tables
2025 [with William A. Parkinson] Innovation: Exploring Great Transformations as Ghosts and Inspirations from the Local Past, American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting 2025, November 19–23, New Orleans, LA, United States. Session.
2025 [with Penny Bickle, Laura Waldvogel, Iseabail Wilks, Sofija Stefanović] Human Remains in Settlements: Burials, Non-Burials and…what else? European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting 2025, September 3–6, Belgrade, Serbia. Panel. (virtual)
2024 [with Agustín Fuentes] Gender and Kinship in Deep Past: Unified Analysis in the 21st Century? American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting 2024, November 20–23, Tampa, FL, United States. Round Table.
2024 [with Ana Herrero Coral, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury] Beyond Genetics: Exploring Non-Biological Kinship in Prehistoric Times, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, International Conference, Workshop co-organizer (15 international speakers), October 4–5, Vienna, Austria
2024 [with Maanasa Raghavan and Penny Bickle] Kinship Trouble: Traversing Interdisciplinary Boundaries between Archaeology, Archaeogenetics, and Socio-cultural Anthropology. Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting 2024, January 4–7, Chicago, IL, United States. Workshop.
2023 Reconstructing Kinship Practices in Archaeology: Materiality, Socio-cultural Anthropology, and Archaeogenetics. American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society (AAA/CASCA) Annual Meeting 2023, November 15–19, Toronto, Canada. Panel.
2022 [with Barbara Horejs] The Seasonal and the Material: Anthropology of Seasonal Practices), VANDA: Vienna Anthropology Days, September 26–30, Vienna, Austria. Panel.
2018 [with Maria Röcklinger, Constanze Moser, Stephanie Emra] Household Archaeology in Old World Prehistory: An Interdisciplinary Approach, OREA – Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, International Workshop, Workshop co-organizer (7 international speakers), November 21–23, Vienna, Austria
Invited Public Lectures
2026 Tulane University, Invited Lecture, Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory: Settlements, Figurines, and the Absence of Men, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), New Orleans Society, March 5, 2025, New Orleans, LA, United States
2025 Charles University Prague, Invited Lecture, X-KIN: Exploring Patterns of Prehistoric Kinship from Socio-Cultural Anthropolgoical Perspectives, Institute of Archaeology, December 4, 2025, Prague, Czech Republic
2025 Austrian Archaeological Institute in Athens, Invited Lecture, Matrilineal Kinship in the Aegean Neolithic and Bronze Age: An Anthropological Perspective, December 3, 2025, Athens, Greece
2025 University of California, Berkeley, Invited Lecture, All Our Kin? Reconsidering Spatial Proximity and Genetic Distance during the Neolithic in Southwestern Asia, Archaeological Research Facility, November 12, 2025
2025 Washington State University, Invited Lecture, Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory: Settlements, Figurines, and the Absence of Men, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Spokane Society, October 16, 2025, Spokane, WA, United States
2025 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Invited Lecture, Matrilineal Kinship in Aegean Prehistory: Settlements, Figurines, and the Absence of Men, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Milwaukee Society, September 14, 2025, Milwaukee, WI, United States
2025 Stanford Archaeology Center, Invited Lecture, From Kinship to Household and Back? Why Kinship Still Needs Anthropologists in the 21st Century, April 16, 2025, Stanford, CA, United States
2025 University of Chicago, Workshop, Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop, April 2, 2025, Chicago, IL, United States
2025 Archaeology and Ale, Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Chicago Society, Invited Lecture, All Our Kin? Reconsidering Spatial Proximity and Genetic Distance during the Neolithic in Southwestern Asia, Embassy Public House, February 19, 2025, Chicago, IL, United States
2025 International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Invited Lecture, I Can’t Be Contained Because I am a Container, International Workshop, Behold the Containers!, January 24–25, 2025, Vienna, Austria
2024 University of Illinois at Chicago, Households and Kinship in the Making: Insights from a New Interdisciplinary Framework, Anthropology Department, November 11, 2024, Chicago, IL.
2024 Le CEPAM (Cultures – Environnements. Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge / Prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages), Invited Lecture, Household Economics and Social Organization in Early Bronze Age Aegean: An Interdisciplinary Exploration at Çukuriçi Höyük, Platia Magoula Zarkou, and Beyond, September 26, 2024, Nice, France
2024 COMOS (Comportement mortuaire des sociétés / Mortuary behavior of societies) Working Group, Invited Lecture, Genealogical Trees: Between the Emic, the Etic, and the Genetic Representations of Kin, September 24, 2024, Bordeaux, France
2024 Deakin University, Invited Lecture, In Search of Ethnographically Grounded Research on Prehistoric Kinship, International Workshop, Social Studies of Ancient DNA, September 17–18, 2024, Melbourne, Australia (virtual)
2024 Hacettepe University, Invited Lecture, Revitalizing Kinship Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Eurasian Archaeology, March 1, 2024, Ankara, Türkiye
2024 University of Gothenburg, Invited Lecture, Kin-based Social Inequality Reconsidered, International Workshop, Embracing Transdisciplinarity I: Equality and Inequality in Prehistory, February 23, 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden
2023 University of Ljubljana, Invited Lecture, 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 (virtual)
2023 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Invited Lecture, Descent through Socio-Cultural Anthropological Eyes: Capturing the “Social” in Kinship Models, Department of Archaeogenetics, July 27, 2023, Leipzig, Germany
2023 University of Cologne, Invited Lecture, [with Stephanie Emra] From Households to Society: Zooarchaeological and Cross-Cultural Perspectives at Early Bronze Age Çukuriçi Höyük, Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, January 12, 2023, Cologne, Germany
2021 International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Invited Lecture, Metalworkers’ Homes: Food, Arsenic-Copper, and Knowledge Sharing, University of Art and Design Linz, January 18, 2023, Vienna, Austria
2019 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Departmental Seminar, Coppersmiths, Homes, and Economies at the Dawn of the ‘long 3rd Millennium BCE’ in Western Anatolia, June 19, Halle/Saale, Germany.
2019 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Departmental Seminar, Room 18: The Evidence of Socio-Political Decentralization at Çukuriçi Höyük from Socio-Cultural Anthropological Perspectives, Department for Prehistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Middle Ages, May 21, Halle/Saale, Germany.
2018 Austrian Academy of Sciences [with Stephanie Emra, Maria Röcklinger, Constanze Moser], Departmental Seminar, Households at the Dawn of the Bronze Age, OREA – Oriental and European Archaeology, May 15, 2023, Vienna, Austria.
2016 University of Vienna, Households at the dawn of the Bronze Age: Anthropological contextualizations of local social organization within the Aegean basin, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Departmental Seminar, October 20, 2016, 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)