Bolzano/Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy

Organized in cooperation between
EURAC Institute for mummies and the Iceman Bolzano, South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology Bolzano

Conference introduction
In March 2009, the world's largest mummy exhibition (previously shown in Mannheim and Schloss Gottorf in Germany) will move to the North Italian city Bolzano, home of the Tyrolean Iceman "Oetzi". To mark the occasion, the EURAC Institute for Mummies and the Iceman is staging the first Bolzano Mummy Congress with the main theme "Mummies and Life Sciences" on March 19-21, 2009. The scientific programme will primarily focus on the application of biomedical sciences in mummy studies.
More about the congress...

Programme:
- plenary lectures
- poster presentations
- visit of the Iceman in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
- visit of the temporary exhibition of mummies in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
- excursion to the finding place of the Iceman and social programme

Conference topics:
-          Ancient DNA
-          biomedical studies
-          mummy conservation
-          paleobotanics
-          paleopathology
-          mummification methods
-          biochemical studies
-          paleonutrition

Scientific Review Committee:
President (Chair): Albert Zink, head of the EURAC Institute for mummies and the Iceman
Honorary president: Arthur Aufderheide
Members: to be announced

Abstracts information:
You are invited to send an abstract with (provisional) title for speeches or posters.

Abstracts are invited in the main topic areas of the conference, for consideration by the scientific committee. Abstracts will be published in the congress catalogue. After the congress in 2009 will be published a Proceedings copy.

The abstract should not exceed 300 words including title and authors but not references. Please prepare your abstract in English, single spaced and 12 pt font. The Bolzano Mummy Congress 2009 Committee will notify the first (or sole) authors upon receipt of their abstracts, review each abstract before accepting it for the Scientific Program, and send a notification of the Committee's decision on acceptance and format of delivery allocated.  

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 15th December 2008.

Only contributions complying with the above specifications will be considered. Please send one copy of this complete information as a *.doc -File to the EURAC Institute for mummies and the Iceman, eMail: mummies.iceman@eurac.edu , Tel. (0039)-0471-055560.

Authors will be notified of the decision of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted abstracts will receive special guidelines for the preparation of the final papers for the Proceedings.

Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts:                    15th december 2008
Notification of acceptance:                                          end of january 2009
Early bird registration deadline:                                15th December 2008
Submission of full papers:                                         31st july 2009

Participants fee:
participants: 200 Euro
guests: 120 Euro
students: 80 Euro
early bird: participants 150 Euro and students 60 Euro until 15th december 2009

Review procedure:
Papers will be presented in plenary, oral and poster sessions and all presented papers will be published in the Proceedings. Authors wishing to submit a contribution should read the following instructions carefully and send an abstract to the EURAC-Institute for mummies and the Iceman, eMail: mummies.iceman@eurac.edu, Tel. (0039)-0471-055560.

-          applicable conference topic
-          full title
-          full name and address of one author for all correspondence
-          for each author and co-authors, full name, affiliation, address, phone/fax/eMail

For questions concerning abstract submission please contact:

PD Dr. Albert Zink
Institute for mummies and the Iceman
EURAC European Academy Bolzano
Viale Druso 1
I-3910 Bolzano
Italy
phone (+39) 0471-055560
fax (+39) 0471-055 339
eMail: albert.zink@eurac.edu