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Winter Meeting 2025
We are happy to announce that the next Winter Meeting of the North-West European Section of the IUSSI will take place on 18–19 December 2025 in Leuven, Belgium. This year’s meeting will again be hybrid and is hosted by the Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution (LSSE) at KU Leuven. The conference will start at ~9am on the 18 December and end at ~4pm on the 19 December.
Confirmed plenary speakers: Ido Pen from the University of Groningen and Rahia Mashoodh from University College London.
Abstract submission deadline for talks (~15 minutes) and posters: 15 October 2025:
You can submit an abstract via the new section web page: https://www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings
Registration will open soon and stay open until the 30 November 2025
Travel
Leuven is a ~20-30 min train ride from Brussels, with trains leaving every ~15min. From the UK, you can conveniently travel to Brussels by train using Eurostar (or fly to Brussels Airport).
If you have questions, get in touch with members of the organising committee: Viviana, Helena and Tom.
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16-20 August 2026 |
XX IUSSI International Congress Freiburg, Germany We would like to invite you to the 20th International Congress of the IUSSI to Freiburg (Germany). It will be held from the 16th to the 20th of August, 2026. Freiburg is a University City with around 230 000 inhabitants, known for its beautiful old town. It is located next to the Rhine valley in the southwestern part of Germany, next to the border of France and Switzerland. By plane, it can be reached via the Frankfurt International Airport or the Euro Airport Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg with direct train connections to Freiburg. F reiburg is one of the sunniest cities in Germany with a green ethos, surrounded by the nature of the Black Forest and the Rhine valley with its many vineyards. More information with be circulated later this year. We are looking forward to welcoming you! Judith Korb (on behalf of the organizing committee) |
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3-7 July 2022![]() |
XIX IUSSI International Congress Marriott Marquis, San Diego, California, USA For more information about the congress, please see: http://burkclients.com//IUSSI/meetings/2022/site Although the in-person meeting is over, you can continue to experience IUSSI 2022 through IUSSI+, our on-demand conference archive, which will remain active through September. Please go to the Pathable site, where you will find most of the conference presentations available for viewing. This includes all the plenary addresses, over 80% of the posters, and over 70% of the talks. Not all presentations are available, either because the presenters did not upload them or because technical difficulties were encountered during the live sessions. |
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