We are happy to have gained several worldwide well-known keynote speakers in the following themes: critical global health concepts; stress indicators in skeletal populations; maternal/fetal/child/woman’s health, health and illness in cross-cultural perspective and the environment and health. Following scholars have confirmed their willing to present plenary lectures:

Noël Cameron, Loughborough University, UK

Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Winfried Henke, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

Jan Kornafel  Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

Robert M. Malina, Tarleton State University, USA

Holger Schutkowski, University of Bradford, UK

Lynette Leidy Sievert, University of Massachusetts, USA

Anne-Marie Tillier, Universite Bordeaux 1, France