OOOS – Odense Occasional Osteology Seminars. In order to promote research, ADBOU runs a series of seminars called “the Odense Occasional Osteology Seminars” (OOOS). Throughout the past decade over 30 of these meetings have taken place, where guest lecturers from Denmark and abroad as well as students have presented their projects and research on relevant topics.

Coming: Mini-OOOS on 25th September, 2025 – Topic: Master projects from ADBOU during 2024-25 Program



Nordic Network for Human Remains in Collections on 23-24. Oct, 2025

ADBOU is hosting the next meeting, taking place on 23-24. October, 2025 in the DIAS Building at SDU.

We look forward to welcoming museum people and researchers from the nordic countries to a two-day seminar with presentations and discussions among other things about documentation of excavation data, ethics and scientific development.

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Preliminary Program NNHRC meeting 23-24 Oct, 2025

Topics: Documentation and data management – Repatriation and reburial – Excavations, collections.

Keynote speakers:

  • Maya Sialuk Jacobsen, Indigenous Scholar (Beliefs in the Skin. Tattoos on Human Remains)
  • Åsa Larsson/Nicoló Dell’Unto: SweDigArch (Title to come)

Other speakers:

  • Sara Næss Elleskov, Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland) & Greenland National Museum.
  • Ingeborg Larssen, Senior advisor, Rights, Sami Parliament
  • Ann Gustavson, archivist/curator, Medical History, and Heritage, Karolinska Institutet
  • Ulla Nordfors, PhD, Docent, University of Turku
  • Paola Derudas, DARKLab – Digital Archaeology Laboratory, Lund University
  • Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, ADBOU, University of Southern Denmark
  • Adam Zimmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Vicki R. Kristensen, ADBOU, University of Southern Denmark