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Dear MVWG members and colleagues,

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As your Microvertebrate Working Group coordinators, we are happy to announce that the 6th biennial MVWG meeting will take place from Sept. 9th to 12th, 2022, in beautiful Malta! Hosted by the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta, in collaboration with The Archaeological Society Malta, this year’s meeting will take place at the Archaeology Center, in Msida (Malta; https://www.um.edu.mt/arts/classics-archaeo/). The meeting will be hybrid, with in-person presentations and online/pre-recorded talks. Participants can choose to attend in person (adhering to international travel requirements) or virtually.

 

We hereby announce the call for session topics and the call for general papers. We welcome proposals for session topics of 150-300 words with a list of tentative participants by May 30th 2026. Please confirm that all listed session participants plan to attend the MVWG meeting, either virtually or in person, before submitting your session proposal. Paper contributions, including podium presentations of max. 15 minutes and/or posters, must be related to the study of insectivore, rodent, bat, reptile and amphibian remains from archaeological deposits.

 

A registration form, abstract template for all podium and poster contributions, and a form to submit session topics and in honorarium sessions can be found on our website http://mvwgicaz.wixsite.come/mvwg. Please be sure to send us all forms via email to mvwg.icaz@gmail.com by May 1th, 2026, for general papers and participation.

 

All participants who plan to attend the meeting, in person or via the hybrid platform, even if they do not plan to present a talk or poster, are asked to register, as we will share the online participation link only with registered participants.

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To facilitate the logistics and timing of the poster session, this year we are introducing a few changes, and we will have a session for poster presentations named “3 in 3”. All the posters will be available online from at least a week before the event, so all the attendees can have access to a PDF version of the poster. Then, the poster’s presenters will have a 3-minute presentation with 3 slides to highlight their poster, followed by 2 minutes of questions, for a total of 5 minutes per speaker and poster. By doing so, we hope to avoid the hassle of travelling with a large poster, while also adopting a more environmentally sustainable format, with no additional costs for attendees.

 

As always, there will be no registration fees for the MVWG meeting and, as in previous years, there will be travel grants for students and/or early career researchers.

 

Keep an eye on the MVWG website (https://mvwgicaz.wixsite.com/mvwg) and the MVWG facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/icaz.mvwg/) for more details on the meeting and updates on current covid travel and participation restrictions.

 

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The dates: 9th-12th September 2026        Registration costs: FREE                Restricted capacity: 40

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