Symposia:

1. Major biotic events during the Ordovician and Silurian and their dynamics
2. Paleoneurology, cognition, and behaviour of vertebrates, from fish to hominins
3. The History and pre-history of palaeosciences, geomyths, and indigenous palaeontology
4. Recent advances in Mongolian Cretaceous Palaeontology and Geology
5. Life in the Phanerozoic Oceans: Evolution, diversity and ecology in deep time marine ecosystems
6. The Precambrian: the earliest chronicles of life on Earth
7. Ichnology – traces as multi-disciplinary lenses into the deep past
8. Biogeography: ranging through a dynamic Earth
9. The Evolution and Diversification of Life in the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian
10. Devonian stratigraphy, environments and palaeontology with focus on Gondwana
11. Filling knowledge gaps in the Early Palaeozoic Biodiversification
12. Recent advances in vertebrate taphonomy
13. Ichthyosaur evolution and biology
14. Origins: Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs
15. Paleobionics: the biomechanical factors that drive evolution
16. Pangea in crisis: life on land during the Permian–Triassic
17. Recent advances in dinosaur eggs and reproduction
18. Disease in the fossil record
19. Advances on the histology of the mineralised tissues of vertebrates
20. Flight evolution in vertebrates
21. Communicating palaeosciences
22. New directions in palaeoanthropological research in Southern Africa
23. Cenozoic vertebrates of Africa
24. Neogene primates and the origin and evolution of Hominidae
25. Freshwater paleoecosystems
26. Vegetation change and plant-insect interaction from the Palaeozoic until modern times - Case studies from Africa and beyond
27. Evolution of brain and cranial anatomy through five major extinctions
28. Bridging the molecular gap between life past and present
29. The Afrotheria: Origins & Evolution of Africa’s Iconic Mammals
30. General

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