Presentations

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• P.Sz., Přemysl Bobek & Lydie Dudová. "Hospodaření na jesenických horských holích za posledních 500 let." Public lecture at the Czech Botanical Society + Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 19 October 2023. 

• "'Untameable and misguided hordes attacked the sanctuary of Silvanus and Diana': Scientific forestry versus traditional forest use in the 19th century in Central Europe. Rural History 2023 - International Conference of the European Rural History Organization. Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. 11-14 September 2023.

• "'We have just launched a completely new and unique venture': Successes and failures to utilize marginal mountain grasslands in northern Moravia since the Middle Ages. 12th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. University of Bern, Switzerland.  22-26 August 2023.

• "Environmentální dějiny a historická ekologie: jak najít místo pro přírodu v dějinách a pro člověka v přírodě." Centrum pro teoretická studia, UK & AV ČR. Praha, Czech Republic. 11 May 2023.

• "Not seeing the forest for the trees: The environmental history of non-timber woodland uses in the Early Modern Period." Brno-Pécs environmental humanities conference. University of Pécs, Hungary. 29 March 2023.

• "Historical ecology through the eyes of a historian." SOURCES: Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. Casa de la Ciencia, Sevilla, Spain. 20-24 March 2023. Keynote lecture.

• "Environmental history and the global sustainability crisis: contributions and research gaps." Roundtable at the 11th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. With Stefania Barca, Simone Gingrich, Anna Varga & Bo Poulsen. University of Bristol, UK. 4-8 July 2022.

• "Scarce, scattered and incompatible: How to make archival information suitable for ecological analysis. The case of forests around the world." Historical Modelling of Biodiversity Loss: Reassessing European Imperial History. Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany. 15-16 June 2022. Invited lecture.

• "Modernization by the state and its ecological consequences in East-Central Europe." Roundtable at the Online Workshop on Modernization by the State and its Ecological Consequences in East-Central Europe. With Josef Djordjevski, Jiří Janáč, Sławomir Łotysz c Michaela Závodná. Centre for Economic and Social History, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. 5-6 May 2022. 

• P. Sz., Přemysl Bobek, Miroslav Dejmal & Silvie Suchánková. "The interpretative value of charcoal remains in palaeoecology is dependent on spatial scale: a case-study from Central Europe." Ecology Across Borders 2021. Annual Conference of the British Ecological Society. Liverpool, UK. 12-15 December 2021. Poster.

• "The 'other' forest: a historical ecology of non-timber forest products, their management and use." Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Charles University, Prague. 4 November 2021.

• "Erdei alomgyűjtés: egy kevéssé ismert hagyományos erdőhasználati mód története Közép-Európában." Magyar Történelmi Társulat - Tájtörténeti Konferencia. Budapest, Hungary. 28 October 2021.

• ""Solchen Orkanen gleich denen des Jahres 1868 widersteht Nichts." Velké vichřice v 19. století a jejich vliv na lesy a lesnictví." Workshop Pro les nevidíme stromy? Praha, Czech Republic. 25 October 2021.

• "Jak se dříve hrabalo v lesích. Tradiční hospodaření v historickém kontextu." Zkušenosti s tradičními managementy v lesích. Beroun-Hostim, Czech Republic. 13 October 2021.

• "Historie výmladkového hospodaření v ČR." Seminář k výmladkovým lesům. Brno, Czech Republic. 14 September 2021.

• "Kauza les. Kulturní a historické aspekty krajiny" Roundtable at the conference Ekologické dny Olomouc. With Karel Stibral, Radim Hédl & Michal Peprník. Horka nad Moravou, Czech Republic. 10 September 2021.

• P. Sz. & Jana Müllerová. "The history of litter raking in Czech forests." Historical Ecology for the Future. International online conference in historical ecology. 25-28 May 2021. Poster.

• "Historical ecology: why and how to connect the natural sciences and the humanities." ODS17: Cross Sciences: Partnership for Sustainability. Ecology and History: Multidisciplinary Opportunities. Online seminar, NOVA University Lisbon and Center for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra, Portugal. 14 October 2020. Keynote lecture.

• "Medieval forests in Central Europe: from history to ecology." Séminaire TERRAE 2020. Hors-Champs: Regards croisés sur les forêts et les incultes au Moyen Âge. Toulouse, France, 17 January 2020. Invited lecture.

• "Environmental history, historical ecology and restoration: why and how can we cooperate?" British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2019. Belfast, UK, 10-13 December 2019.

• "People and forests in historical perspective" Frontier research: Creating pathways to sustainability. Annual conference of the ERC Executive Agency. Brussels, Belgium, 2-3 December 2019. Invited lecture.

• "Historie agrolesnictví v českých zemích." Konference 'Co můžeme očekávat od agrolesnictví v ČR?'. Žabčice, Czech Republic, 20 November 2019.

• "Történet- és természettudomány: miért és hogyan működhetünk együtt?" Környezettörténet 2019 Konferencia. Környezeti események történeti és természettudományos források tükrében. Budapest, Hungary, 30 October 2019. Keynote lecture.

• "Environmental history and historical ecology: Boundaries and connections between the humanities and the natural sciences." Roundtable at the 10th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. With Radim Hédl, Gertrud Haidvogl, Triin Reitalu & Giuseppe Bazan. Tallinn, Estonia, 20-26 August 2019. 

• "Long-term woodland dynamics in Central Europe." European Forum for Science, Research and Innovation. Dresden, Germany, 25 June 2019. Invited lecture.

• (P. Sz., Silvie Suchánková, Marek Havlíček & Jana Müllerová) "Traditional agroforestry in the Czech Republic." 4th World Congress on Agroforestry. Montpellier, France. 20-22 May 2019. Poster.

• "Traditional non-timber forest uses in Central Europe." International Conference on European Forests - Our Cultural Heritage. St. Georgen am Längsee, Austria. 4-7 December 2018.

• "Nature conservation: a revival of medieval resource management?" International Medieval Congress. Leeds, UK. 2-5 July 2018.

• "Environmental history: its history, methods and current research trends." Historia środowiskowa: teoria i praktyka. Environmental history: theory and practice. Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. Warsaw, Poland. 23 November 2017. Invited lecture.

• "The history of wooded landscapes: how to study it and why should we care." International Conference on Wooded Rural Landscapes in Central and Eastern Europe: Biodiversity, Cultural Legacy and Conservation. Rzeszow, Poland. 20-22 September 2017. Keynote lecture.

• "Historical ecology: connecting the natural sciences and the humanities to understand ecosystem change." SCCS Hungary. Connecting Eastern and Western Europe in Conservation Biology. Tihany, Hungary. 29 August -September 2 2017. Keynote lecture.

• "Forest history and forest conservation: why the two are inseparable." 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. Zagreb, Croatia. 28 June - 2 July 2017.

• "The role of interdisciplinarity in discovering the history of ancient forests." Into the woods: Overlapping perspectives on the history of ancient forests. Padova, Italy. 18-20 April 2017. Keynote lecture.

• (P.Sz., Petr Kuneš, Helena Svobodová-Svitavská, Markéta Švarcová, Lucie Křížová, Silvie Suchánková, Jana Müllerová & Radim Hédl) "Historical ecology helps to reassess the conservation status of coniferous trees in Central Europe: Between a rock and a hard place?" 5th International EcoSummit: Ecological Sustainability, Engineering Change. Montpellier, France. 29 August - 1 September 2016.

• (P. Sz. & Silvie Suchánková) "Natural catastrophes in forests as drivers of innovation towards sustainability." 43d Conference of the International Committee for the History of Technology - Technology, Innovation and Sustainability: Historical and Contemporary Narratives. University of Porto, Portugal. 26-31 July 2016.

• (P. Sz., Jana Müllerová, Martin Macek, Silvie Suchánková & Martin Kotačka) "Patterns of change in the extent of coppicing at the landscape scale." Coppice forests in Europe: ecosystem services, protection and nature conservation. University of Antwerp, Belgium. 16-17 June 2016. Poster

• (P.Sz., Radim Hédl, Petr Kuneš, Jan Kolář and Jana Müllerová) "Forests and people through eight millennia: how to bridge the sciences-humanities divide through quantification and models." International Association for Landscape Ecology, World Congress. Portland, USA. 9 July 2015.

• (P.Sz., Radim Hédl, Petr Kuneš, Jan Kolář and Jana Müllerová) "8000 years of woodland history: the potential of interdisciplinary models." 8th International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. Versailles, France. 1 July 2015.

• (P.Sz., Jana Müllerová, Silvie Suchánková and Martin Kotačka) "Coppice woodland since the Middle Ages: spatial modelling based on archival sources." Coppice forests: past, present and future. Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic. 9-11 April 2015.

• "A novel perspective in the usage of written historical evidence for vegetation reconstruction." 2nd World Congress of Environmental History. Guimaraes, Portugal. 11 July 2014.

• "Royal Forests in East Central Europe: Merovingian ideas and local realities" A forgotten region? East Central Europe in the global Middle Ages. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. 27 March 2014.

• "A merénylet színhelye: A pilisi királyi erdő a középkorban" (The murder scene: The Pilis Royal Forest in the Middle Ages). Tudományos konferencia Merániai Gertrúd halálának 800. évfordulója alkalmából. Ferenczy Múzeum. Szentendre, Hungary. 28 September 2013.

• "They didn't know what they were doing": The realities of the transition to 'scientific' forestry in the Czech Lands" 7th International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. München, Germany. 22 August 2013.

• (P. Sz., Petr Kuneš, Jan Kolář, Helena Svitavská Svobodová, Jana Müllerová, Eva Jamrichová and Radim Hédl) "Archaeological data management in an interdisciplinary environment." Socio-environmental dynamics over the last 12,000 years: The creation of landscapes III. Open workshop, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany. 15-18 April 2013. Poster.

• "Inside or outside the wood? Individual trees in historical sources." Trees beyond the Wood. An exploration of concepts of woods, forests and trees. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK. 7 September 2012.

• "The history of Czech woodlands in a Central European context from the Middle Ages to the present." Current knowledge on flora and vegetation of Central Europe and their changes over time. 10th congress of the Czech Botanical Society. Prague, Czech Republic. 4 September 2012.

• "Every forest has a history: various sources for studying forest history." Conference on the Natural history of forests - how to identify, study and protect historical heritage in woodlands. Bialowieza, Poland. 28 February 2012.

• "Rethinking pannage: historical interactions between oak and swine." International Conference on Animals, Man & Treescapes. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK. 15 September 2011.

• "The pre-1800 dilemma: How to deal with early written sources in historical ecology." International Conference on Frontiers in Historical Ecology. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. 1 September 2011.

• "How to read between the lines: research on medieval woodland management." 6th International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. Turku, Finland. 29 June 2011.

• "The end of common uses and traditional management in Central European woods." End of Tradition? Aspects of Commons and Cultural Severance in the Landscape Conference. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK. 15 September 2010.

• “Woodland historical ecology in East-Central Europe.” Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte (ZUG) Minisymposium. Alpen-Adria University, IFF- Institute of Social Ecology and Institute for Science Communication and Higher Education Research, Vienna, Austria. 9 December 2009.

• “The history of forest management” Public lecture at the Czech Botanical Society. Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 5 November 2009.

• (P. Sz. and Radim Hédl) "Woodland Exploitation in Central Europe 1400-1800: Changes vs. Stability." 1st World Congress of Environmental History. Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. 8 August 2009.

• “Historical Woodland Ecology: What Is It, and What Is It Good for?” Public lecture at the Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. 31 March 2009.

• “Monastic Landscapes and Royal Forests.” Monastic Landscapes – Physical and Spiritual. International, interdisciplinary workshop. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. 7 March 2009.

• “Hungarian National Landscapes.” 2009 Annual Conference of the American Society for Environmental History. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 26 February 2009.

• “Of Trees and Men: Ancient Woodland Management in Central Europe.” Public lecture in course of the Science Festival of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Central European University. Budapest, Hungary. 27 November 2008.

• “Traditional Lowland Woodland Management in Moravia.” Forum Urbes Medii Aevi VII. Natural Resources and Their Use in the Medieval Town. Archaia Brno and Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry. Křtiny, Czech Republic. 13 May 2008.

• (P. Sz. and Jana Müllerová) “Ancient Woodland, Landscape Archaeology and GIS: Towards an Integrated Approach” 36th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantative Methods in Archaeology. Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Central European University. Budapest, Hungary. 3 March 2008.

• “The History of Hungarian Woodland: Where Do We Stand?” International Conference on Trends in Research and Teaching of Historical Ecology in Central Europe. Central European University. Budapest, Hungary. 27 October 2007.

• “Erdő: A legösszetetteb történeti táj?” (Woodland: The most complex historical landscape?) A műemlékvédelem sajátos tárgya: a történeti táj. Scientific conference organised by the Dept. of Garden and Landscape Art of the Budapest Corvinus University. Budapest, Hungary. 12 October, 2007.

• “Castles, Trees and Game: Royal Forests in Hungary.”  4th International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 8 June 2007.

• “Erdőgazdálkodás a középkorban” (Woodland management in the Middle Ages). Középkori magyar gazdaságtörténet a régészet és az anyagi kultúra tükrében. ELTE BTK Archaeological Institute, Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology. Budapest, Hungary. 16 February 2007.

• “Az erdőgazdálkodás régészeti emlékei” (Archaeological remains of woodland management). Környezetrégészeti Oktatónapok. MATRICA Museum and Archaeological Park. Százhalombatta, Hungary. 6 October 2006.

• “Hagyományos erdőgazdálkodás a Kárpát-medencében” (Traditional woodland management in the Carpathian Basin). A Kárpát-medence felszínének változása a földhasználat és az életmód változásának következtében. Antropogén ökológiai változások a Kárpát-medencében. PTE BTK Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and Center for Social Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary. 23 May 2006.

• “Historical Woodland Management in Central Europe.” British Ecological Society Meeting: Woodland Reserves in the Eastern Czech Republic. Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Science. Brno, Czech Republic. 2 May 2006.

• “Erdők a kora újkorban: történelem, régészet, ökológia” (Woodland in the Early Modern Period: History, Archaeology, Ecology). Környezettörténet 2006. Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Palaeonthology. Budapest, Hungary. 9 February 2006.

• “Interdisciplinary Approaches in Environmental History.” European Science Foundation LESC Exploratory Workshop: Environmental History: Problems and Potential in the Integration of the Sciences and Humanities. Stirling, Scotland, UK. 3 November 2005.

• “Restoration Ecology, Historical Ecology and Environmental History: Experiences in Poland and Hungary.” Exploratory Workshop ‘Restoration for the Future’: Aims, Functions and Benefits of a Centre for European Environmental History. Neuburg, Germany. 19 May 2005.

• “Environmental History and Woodland History in Hungary: An Overview.” Workshop on Environmental History. Central European University. Budapest, Hungary. 3 March 2005.

• “Traditional Woodland Management in Central Europe.” 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. Florence, Italy. 19 February 2005.

• “Problems and Tasks concerning the Visegrád World Heritage Project.” EPOCH-Archaeolingua International Workshop on Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Preservation within the Light of New Technologies. MATRICA Museum. Százhalombatta, Hungary. 29 September 2004.

• “Aszó: völgy vagy erdőirtás?” (Aszó: valley or woodland clearance?). A Kárpát-medence felszínének változása a földhasználat és életmód változásainak következtében. University of Pécs, Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. Pécs, Hungary. 14 May 2004.

• “Communis, Permissionalis, Dolabrosa, Rubetum: Woodland Terminology in Medieval Hungary.” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, USA. 6 May 2004.

• “Erdők az erdészet előtt” (Woodland before forestry). Guest lecture in the research programme A Kárpát-medence felszínének változása a földhasználat és életmód változásainak következtében (Changes in the landscape of the Carpathian Basin as a result of changes in land-uses and lifestyles), University of Pécs, Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. Pécs, Hungary. 31 March 2004.

• “More than Little, Less than Much: Woodland in Medieval Hungary.” 2nd International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. Prague, Czech Republic. 3 September 2003.

• “Coppice Woods in Medieval Hungary.” Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts: The Ecology, Archaeology and Management of Ancient Woods and Associated Land. International Conference of the South Yorkshire Biodiversity Research Group and the Landscape Conservation Forum. Sheffield, UK. 29 May 2003.

• “Medieval Life and Modern Ecology: Sources and Approaches.” International Medieval Congress. Leeds, UK. 10 July 2002.

• “Erdők a középkori Angliában” (Forests and Woodland in Medieval England). Roundtables in British History. Eötvös Loránd University. Budapest, Hungary. 4 April 2002.

• “Tree Pollarding in Medieval Hungary.” 1st International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History. St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. 8 September 2001.

• “Silua Bakony: In Quest of a Royal Forest.” 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, USA. 5 May 2000.

• “Pilis Forest: Natural or Cultural Heritage?” National Heritage, World Heritage, Medievalism: An International Workshop. Central European University. Budapest, Hungary. 24 January 2000.

• “Walking on the Boundary: Perambulations as Sources for the Woodland Historian” Constructing and Deconstructing Frontiers: An International Workshop. Central European University. Budapest, Hungary. 20 February 1999.

• “Pilis: Changing Settlements in a Hungarian Forest in the Middle Ages.” 5th International Medieval Congress. Leeds, UK. 15 July 1998.

Other

• Ondřej Vild, Jan Šipoš, P. Sz., Martin Macek, Markéta Chudomelová, Martin Kopecký, Silvie Suchánková, Jakub Houška, Martin Kotačka & Radim Hédl. "Legacy of historical litter raking in temperate forest plant communities." 17th workshop of the German working group on vegetation databases: Vegetation Databases and Detection of Environmental Change. Jena, Germany, 13-16 March 2018.

• Martin Macek, Jana Müllerová, Martin Kopecký & P. Sz. "Historical distribution of tree species: a bridge between native and actual range?" British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2016, Liverpool, UK. 11-14 December 2016.

• Radim Hédl, Jan Šipoš, Martin Macek, Martin Kopecký, Markéta Chudomelová, Jakub Houška, Ondřej Vild, Jana Müllerová J. & P. Sz. "Impact of historical coppicing on the current vegetation diversity of temperate forests." British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2016, Liverpool, UK. 11-14 December 2016.

• Ondřej Vild, Radim Hédl, Martin Kopecký, P. Sz., Silvie Suchánková & Václav Zouhar. "The paradox of grazing impact: Long-term changes of biodiversity in a temperate forest." 5th International EcoSummit: Ecological Sustainability, Engineering Change. MontpellJaier, France. 29 August - 1 September 2016.

• Eva Jamrichová, Jan Kolář, Radim Hédl,  Peter Tkáč, P. Sz., Maria Hajnalová, Peter Tóth, Markéta Chudomelová, Přemysl Bobek & Petr Kuneš. "Prehistoric human impact on lowland open woodland in Central-Eastern Europe.“ 8th World Archaeological Congress. Kyoto, Japan. 28 August – 2 September 2016.

• Jan Kolář, Peter Tkáč, Petr Kuneš, Martin Macek, Maria Hajnalová & P. Sz. "Past human activities, woodland and climate during the Holocene in Central Europe: large-scale quantitative approach." 4th Landscape Archaeology Conference. Uppsala, Sweden. 22-25 August 2016.

• Jana Müllerová, Jan Altman, Jiří Doležal, Petr Dörner, Radim Hédl, Vít Pejcha & P. Sz. "The legacy of coppicing: the present reflects the past." Coppice forests in Europe: ecosystem services, protection and nature conservation. University of Antwerp, Belgium. 16-17 June 2016.

• Radim Hédl, P. Sz., Martin Macek, Jan Šipoš, Jana Müllerová, Martin Kopecký, Jakub Houška, Silvie Suchánková, Markéta Chudomelová & Ondřej Vild. "Forgotten but present: the legacy of historical coppicing in the forest herbaceous vegetation of central Europe." 59th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science, Pirenópolis, Brazil. 12–17 June 2016.

• Petr Kuneš, Lydie Dudová, Radim Hédl, Eva Jamrichová, Jan Kolář, Lucie Křížová, Jana Müllerová, Silvie Suchánková, Markéta Švarcová, Helena Svobodová-Svitavská, Peter Tkáč & P. Sz. “New Pollen Sites in Central-Eastern Europe: Results of the interdisciplinary project on long-term woodland dynamics”. European Pollen Database Meeting, Aix-en-Provence, France. 1–3 June 2016. Poster.

• Markéta Švarcová, Helena Svobodová-Svitavská, Petr Kuneš & P. Sz. „Late Glacial and Early Holocene Vegetation and Climate in Bohemian–Moravian Highlands“  European Pollen Database Meeting, Aix-en-Provence, France. 1–3 June 2016. Poster

• Jan Kolář, Petr Kuneš, Maria Hajnalová, P. Sz., Peter Tkáč, Martin Macek, & Helena Svitavská-Svobodová. "Population and forest dynamics in Central Europe. Large-scale quantitative approach combining archaeology, palaeoecology and climate." PAGES workshop Dynamics of socio-ecosystems on a changing Earth: sustainability or collapse?, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France. 30 May - 1st June 2016.

• Radim Hédl, P. Sz. & Jan Kolář. "Velcí herbivoři v krajině od prehistorie po současnost" (Large herbivores in the landscape from prehistory until the present). Keynote lecture at the conference Pastva v chráněných územích (Grazing in protected areas) Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. 10 March 2016

• Radim Hédl, P. Sz., Martin Kopecký, Markéta Chudomelová, Ondřej Vild, Martin Macek, Petr Petřík, Silvie Suchánková, Tadeaš Štěrba & Václav Zouhar. "Towards an integrated research platform of the Czech forest vegetation: combining long-term plot resurveys and historical management data.“ 15th Meeting on Vegetation Databases, Potsdam, Germany. 2–4 March 2016.

• Markéta Švarcová, Helena Svobodová-Svitavská, Petr Kuneš P & P. Sz. "Lateglacial and Early Holocene Vegetation and Climate Development in Bohemian – Moravian Highlands" 12. konference environmentální archeologie, Prague, Czech Republic. 8-9 February 2016. Poster.

• Jana Müllerová, P. Sz & Martin Macek. "Dlouhodobá dynamika lesů ve střední Evropě: od odhadů k realistickému modelu." 12. historickogeografická konference. Proměny historické geograÍie: výzkum a vzdělávání, Prague, Czech Republic. 27 January 2016.

• Radim Hédl, Jakub Houška, Markéta Chudomelová, Martin Kopecký, P. Sz.., Jan Šipoš and Ondřej Vild.  "Coppicing systems: current knowledge from the perspective of vegetation ecology." Ekologie 2015, 5th conference of the Czech Society for Ecology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. 23–25 October 2015.

• Kolář J., Kuneš P., Hajnalová M., Svitavská Svobodová H., Macek M., Tkáč P. & Szabó P. "Copper Age landscape and population dynamics – A multi-proxy case study from south-eastern Moravia (Czech Republic)." Internationales ÖGUF-Symposium 2015. Copper Age. Age of Change and Innovations. Mistelbach, Austria, 14-16 October 2015.

• Petr Kuneš, Vojtěch Abraham, Helena Svitavská-Svobodová, Jan Kolář, Maria Hajnalová, Martin Macek, Peter Tkáč, Eva Jamrichová and P. Sz. "Pollen-based land-cover reconstruction, human activity and climate explain the origin of vegetation patterns in Central Europe." 19th INQUA congress. Nagoya, Japan. 26 July – 2 August 2015.

• Petr Kuneš, Vojtěch Abraham, Helevan Svitavská-Svobodová, Jan Kolář, Maria Hajnalová, Martin Macek, Peter Tkáč, Eva Jamrichová and P. Sz. „Pollen-based land-cover reconstruction, human activity and climate explain the origin of vegetation patterns at various spatial scales.“ 58th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science: Understanding broad-scale vegetation patterns. Brno, Czech Republic. 19-24 July 2015.

• Radim Hédl, Markéta Chudomelová, Martin Kopecký, Martin Macek, Vladan Riedl, P. Sz. and Ondřej Vild „You cannot step twice into the same river: the transformation of Central European temperate forest communities over the past century.“ 58th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science: Understanding broad-scale vegetation patterns. Brno, Czech Republic. 19-24 July 2015.

• Lydie Dudová and P. Sz. „Did Larix survive the Holocene climatic optimum in the Czech Republic?“ 58th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science: Understanding broad-scale vegetation patterns. Brno, Czech Republic. 19-24 July 2015. Poster.

• Jan Kolář, Petr Kuneš, Maria Hajnalová, Helena Svitavská Svobodová, Martin Macek, Peter Tkáč, and P. Sz. "Large-scale databases, simulations and modelling as a way the reveal past socio-environmental dynamics in Central Europe. A multi-proxy case study from south-eastern Moravia (Czech Republic)." Conference on Computer Applications in Archaeology Visegrad 2015. Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, Cieszyn, Poland. 28-29 May 2015.

• Radim Hédl, Markéta Chudomelová, Jan Kolář, Martin Kopecký, Jana Müllerová and P. Sz. "Historical legacy of coppice systems in the herbaceous vegetation of central European forests." Coppice forests: past, present and future. Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic. 9-11 April 2015.

• Jana Müllerová, P. Sz., Radim Hédl, Petr Dörner and Alina Veverková. "The rise and fall of coppicing - historical processes and consequences for nature conservation." Coppice forests: past, present and future. Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic. 9-11 April 2015.

• Petr Kuneš, Helena Svobodová-Svitavská, Jan Kolář, Peter Tkáč, Maria Hajnalová, Martin Macek Vojtěch Abraham & P. Sz. "The origin of grasslands in the temperate forest zone of east-central Europe: long-term legacy of climate and human impact." Conference of Environmental Archaeology. České Budějovice, Czech Republic. 9-11 February 2015

• Eva Jamrichová, Radim Hédl, P. Sz., Jan Kolář, Peter Tkáč & Přemysl Bobek. "Persistence of temperate open woodland in Europe under the influence of historical human management." 9th European Palaeobotany – Palynology Conference. Padova, Italy. 26-31 August 2014.

• Petr Kuneš, Helena Svobodová-Svitavská, Jan Kolář, Peter Tkáč, Maria Hajnalová, Martin Macek, Vojtěch Abraham & P. Sz. "Regional land-cover, human activity and climate reconstructions provide novel insights into human-landscape interactions." 9th European Palaeobotany – Palynology Conference. Padova, Italy. 26-31 August 2014.

• Helena Svobodová-Svitavská, Maria Hajnalová, Jan Kolář, Petr Kuneš, Martin Macek, Peter Tkáč & P. Sz. "A new approach to human-landscape interactions using the comparison of past quantitative and land-cover estimates and prehistoric human activity models." International Conference on Culture and Climate. Culture, Climate and Environment Interactions at Prehistoric Wetland Sites. University of Bern, Switzerland. 11-14 June 2014. Poster.

• Jan Kolář, Peter Tkáč, P. Sz., Petr Kuneš, Helena Svitavská Svobodová, Jana Müllerová, Eva Jamrichová & Radim Hédl "Lidé v minulé krajině. Archeologická data v interdisciplinárním vědeckém prostředí." Počítačová podpora v archeologii. Svratka, Czech Republic. 28-30 May 2014. Poster.

• Radim Hédl, P. Sz. and Jana Müllerová "Procesy opouštění a obnovy pařezení v Českých zemích." Workshop Les v době industrializace. Prague, Czech Republic. 30 May 2014.

• Petr Kuneš, Helena Svobodová-Svitavská, Jan Kolář, Peter Tkáč, Mária Hajnalová and P. Sz. "Comparing past quantitative land-cover estimates and data on human impact provide novel insights into human-landscape interactions." Open PAGES Focus 4 Workshop Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions: Towards a more accurate quantification of human-environment interactions in the past. Leuven, Belgium. 3-7 February 2014.

• Radim Hédl, P. Sz. and Petr Kuneš. "Hledání smysluplných analogií při studiu vývoje naší flóry a vegetace" (Looking for meaningful analogues in the study of flora and vegetation). Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: The history of flora and vegetation in the Late Glacial and the Holocene in the light of recent knowledge. Prague, Czech Republic. 23–24 November 2013.

• Andrea Gálová, Radim Hédl, Eva Jamrichová, P. Sz., Přemysl Bobek, Petr Kuneš and Peter Tkáč. "Holocenní dynamika vegetace Hodonínské Dúbravy: reliktnost a stabilita nebo proměnlivost vlivem hospodaření?"(The Holocene dynamics of Hodonínská Dúbrava: relict and stability or changes caused by management?) Conference of the Czech Botanical Society: The history of flora and vegetation in the Late Glacial and the Holocene in the light of recent knowledge. Prague, Czech Republic. 23–24 November 2013.

• Radim Hédl, Petr Kuneš and P. Sz. "Linking past with present: Towards a wise use of analogues in vegetation ecology."  56th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science. Tartu, Estonia. 26 June 2013.

• Jana Müllerová, Radim Hédl and P. Sz. "Coppice neglect: impact on forest diversity and drivers of change." 56th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science. Tartu, Estonia. 26-30 June 2013. Poster.

• Radim Hédl, Jan Altman, P. Sz., Vladan Riedl, Petr Mazůrek, Jana Müllerová, Martin Kopecký and Jiří Doležal. "Tree rings mirror management legacy: growth and regeneration of oak standards in coppice woodlands." British Ecological Society 2012 Annual Meeting. Birmingham, UK. 20 December 2012.

• Radim Hédl, P. Sz., Jana Müllerová and Alina Veverková. "Historie a vegetace lesé v Českém krasu." Historie a současnost ochrany přírody v Českém krasu. Svatý Jan pod Skalou, Czech Republic. 14 November 2012.

• Eva Jamrichová, P. Sz., Jana Müllerová, Petr Kuneš and Barbora Pelánková. "The role of management in the establishment of European oakwoods." Poster at the International Conference on Frontiers in Historical Ecology. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.  30 August - 2 September September 2011. Winner of best of poster award

• Jana Müllerová, Radim Hédl and P. Sz.  "Does landscape history influence current forest state? Drivers of change." Poster at the International Conference on Frontiers in Historical Ecology. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.  30 August - 2 September September 2011.

• Radim Hédl and P. Sz. “Prehistory, history and recent dynamics of lowland woodland.” Invited lecture at the Fourth International Meeting of PhD students in Vegetation Science and Plant Ecology. Fülöpháza, Hungary, 23 October 2009.

• Radim Hédl, Martin Kopecký and P. Sz. “Linking Historical Data with Repeated Surveys: Vegetation Dynamics in a Central European Coppice Wood.” British Ecological Society Annual Meeting. University of Hertfordshire. Hatfield, UK, 10 September 2009.

• Jana Müllerová, Radim Hédl and P. Sz. “Ancient Woodland in Historical Perspective: Landscape Archaeology and Remote Sensing/GIS” 52nd International Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science. Chania, Crete, 4 June 2009.

• Martin Svátek, Radim Hédl and P. Sz. “Lesy výmladkového původu východní Anglie” (Coppice woods in eastern England). Poster at the conference Nízké a střední lesy v krajině. Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry. Brno, 3–4 April 2009.

• Jana Müllerová, Radim Hédl and P. Sz. “Nížinné lesy v historické perspektivě: krajinná archeologie a GIS” (Lowland woodlands in historical perspective: landscape archaeology and GIS). Nízké a střední lesy v krajině. Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry. Brno, 3 April 2009.

• Radim Hédl, Martin Kopecký  and P. Sz. “Dlouhodobé změny diverzity vegetace bývalých pařezin Milovického lesa” (Long-term changes in the vegetation diversity in the former coppices of Milovice Wood). Nízké a střední lesy v krajině. Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry. Brno, 3 April 2009.

• Radim Hédl, P. Sz., Martin Kopecký, Veronika Wernerová and Josef Komárek “How Natural Are Thermophilous Oakwoods in Sub-Continental Central Europe?” EUROPEAN VEGETATION SURVEY, 18th Workshop. Rome, 25 March 2009.

• Jana Müllerová, Radim Hédl and P. Sz. “Nížinné lesy v historické perspektivě: krajinná archeologie a GIS” (Lowland woodlands in historical perspective: landscape archaeology and GIS). GEO- a BIODIVERZITA: integrující perspektivy. Conference of CZ-IALE – Czech Branch of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Prague, 23 February 2009.

• Radim Hédl, Martin Kopecký, Petr Petřík, Tomáš Černý and P. Sz. “Faktory určující diverzitu, zachovalost a dynamiku lesů v Českém krasu” (Determining factors in the diversity, preservation and dynamics of woods in the Czech karst). Conference of the Czech Botanical Society. Prague, 30 November 2008.

• Radim Hédl, Martin Kopecký and P. Sz. “Druhy rostlin vázané na starobylé lesy: analýza tří území v ČR” (Plant species connected to ancient woodland: the analysis of three areas in the Czech Republic). Poster at the Conference of the Czech Botanical Society. Prague, 30 November 2008.

• Erzsébet Jerem, József Laszlovszky, P. Sz., Zsolt Vasáros and Zsolt Végvári “A Historical Landscape at the Crossroads of Cultures: A Digital Landscape at the Crossroads of Computer-Aided Reconstructions and GIS Approaches.” VSMM2008 Conference, Limassol, Cyprus. 21 October 2008.

• Radim Hédl and P. Sz. “Historická ekologie: zaměření a perspektivy v České republice” (Historical ecology: directions and perspectives in the Czech Republic). Ekologie ve 21. století. Zakládající konference České společnosti pro ekologii. Třeboň, 26 April 2008.