Symposium Program
FASE One-Day Symposium
Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe
Saturday, August 30, 2025 • Paris, France
Program Language: English
Format: Single plenary session with thematic groupings
Scientific Program: 14 oral presentations + 10 poster presentations
oral presentations: 15 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
Format: Single plenary session with thematic groupings
Scientific Program: 14 oral presentations + 10 poster presentations
oral presentations: 15 minutes talk + 5 minutes questions
08:30
Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00 - 09:05
Opening and Foreword
Tania Delabarde and Bertrand Ludes (Local Organizers) and Pascal Adalian (FASE President)
Morning Session I: Climate and forensic taphonomy
Session Chairs: Eugenia Cunha and Bertrand Ludes
09:05 - 09:40
Invited talk
B. Schrag (Switzerland)
Time Capsules in Meltdown – Forensic Encounters at the Edge of Ice
09:40 - 10:00
Daniel Gaudio (United Kingdom)
A Warming World and Its Forensic Consequences: Glacial Retreat in the European Alps
10:20 - 10:40
Antony Cevallos (Spain)
Tracing cortical bone loss in Barcelona in a diachronic analysis from Roman to Modern period (1st to 19th century)
10:40 - 11:00
Catherine Roberts (United Kingdom)
A Microscopic View of Dental Diagenesis at Early Postmortem Intervals
11:00 - 11:20
KatarĂna Hanzelyová (Slovakia)
Burned Bones, Missed Clues : A Slovak Case Report on the Limits of Forensic Pathology Alone
11:20 - 12:05
Coffee Break & Poster Viewing Session
Morning poster authors available for discussion
Morning Session II: Biological profile and identification
Session Chairs: Tania Delabarde and Desiré Brits
12:05 - 12:25
Marin Pilloud (USA)
Estimation of sex assigned at birth using a modern global sample of odontometric data
12:25 - 12:45
Joanna Drath (Poland)
Forensic Identification of Polish Soldiers in Normandy: Anthropological Analysis of WWII Battlefield Graves
12:45 - 13:05
Devin N. Williams (USA)
Through the Years: Casework Highlights from North Carolina State University's Human Identification and Forensic Analysis Laboratory
13:05 - 14:30
Lunch Break
Catered lunch on site
Afternoon Session : Advanced Technologies and Methods
Session Chairs: Ann Ross and Anja Petaros
14:30 - 14:50
Linda Ainscough (United Kingdom)
The Integrated Use of Forensic Anthropology, Archaeology, UAVs and Photogrammetry to Reconstruct Events in an Industrial Fatal Fire Incident
14:50 - 15:10
Lise Malfroy-Camine (France)
Virtual Bonescape: Integrating Virtual Re-Association, Geolocation Methods and 3D scene reconstruction for the management of Fragmented Human Remains in Mass Disasters
15:10 - 15:30
Christina Karydi (Greece)
Innovative approaches in PMI estimation: Development of multivariate models for Greek forensic contexts
15:30 - 15:50
Desiré Brits (South Africa)
Comparison of the biomechanical properties of wet and dry bone in response to bending: A pilot study using a porcine model
15:50 - 16:10
Judith Beier (Germany)
Estimating trauma prevalence from incompletely preserved human skeletal samples: A comparison of two approaches
16:10 - 16:55
Coffee Break & Poster Viewing Session
Afternoon poster authors available for discussion
16:55 - 17:45
Keynote: "Forensic anthropology and interdisciplinary collaborations in practice: a comparative overview between Paris and Ontario"
Speakers: Tania Delabarde, Bertrand Ludes, Michael S. Pollanen, Kathy Gruspier
17:45- 18:00
Closing Ceremony & Awards Announcement
Tania Delabarde and Bertrand Ludes (Local Organizers) and Pascal Adalian (FASE President)
Announcement of "Best Oral Presentation Award" and "Best Poster Award"
đź“‹ Poster Presentations (Display Throughout the Day)
Poster authors will be available for questions during coffee breaks:
Morning Coffee Break (09:50-10:35):
• Dominika Carikova (South Africa) - Landmark-free shape analysis: Creating an anatomical atlas of the pubic bone
• Madalina Maria Diac (Romania) - Application of Demirjian's method in a Romanian juvenile group
• Charlotte Lawrence (United Kingdom) - Forensic fracture ageing: a comparison of histological methods
• Giorgia Mittino (Italy) - Overlapping Distributions and Probabilistic Sex Estimation: A Case Study Using 3D Tibial Measurements
• Stavroula Papadodima (Greece) - Unusual Cranial Vault Thickening in a 53-Year-Old Woman Under Long-Term Antiepileptic Therapy
• Dominika Carikova (South Africa) - Landmark-free shape analysis: Creating an anatomical atlas of the pubic bone
• Madalina Maria Diac (Romania) - Application of Demirjian's method in a Romanian juvenile group
• Charlotte Lawrence (United Kingdom) - Forensic fracture ageing: a comparison of histological methods
• Giorgia Mittino (Italy) - Overlapping Distributions and Probabilistic Sex Estimation: A Case Study Using 3D Tibial Measurements
• Stavroula Papadodima (Greece) - Unusual Cranial Vault Thickening in a 53-Year-Old Woman Under Long-Term Antiepileptic Therapy
Afternoon Coffee Break (15:40-16:25):
• Stavroula Papadodima (Greece) - Assessing Sternal Dimensions for Sex Classification: Insights from a Greek Study
• Amit Patil (India) - Forensic investigation of a burnt human skeleton – A case report
• Filothei Polonyfi (United Kingdom) - Ontogeny of the sternum: a geometric morphometric approach
• Ilayda ŞAM (Turkey) - A Study on the Evaluation of the Applicability of Methods Used in Estimating Time of Death from Skeletal Remains
• Sandra Sousa (Portugal) - Do we still need to raise awareness of forensic anthropology expertise?
• Stavroula Papadodima (Greece) - Assessing Sternal Dimensions for Sex Classification: Insights from a Greek Study
• Amit Patil (India) - Forensic investigation of a burnt human skeleton – A case report
• Filothei Polonyfi (United Kingdom) - Ontogeny of the sternum: a geometric morphometric approach
• Ilayda ŞAM (Turkey) - A Study on the Evaluation of the Applicability of Methods Used in Estimating Time of Death from Skeletal Remains
• Sandra Sousa (Portugal) - Do we still need to raise awareness of forensic anthropology expertise?
🏆 Awards
Two awards will be presented during the closing ceremony:
- Best Oral Presentation Award - Judged by the scientific committee
- Best Poster Award - Judged by the scientific committee
Winners will be announced by the organizing committee during the closing ceremony.