Overview
The 70th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association will be held at the University of Oxford, UK. The organising committee brings together colleagues from Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences and Museum of Natural History. It is chaired by Ross Anderson, with Frankie Dunn, Duncan Murdock, Emma Nicholls, Luke Parry, Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente and Erin Saupe.
Registration is expected to open in the summer. Enquiries regarding the meeting should be addressed to annualmeeting2026@palass.org.
Programme and Venues
The meeting will take place from 8th to 11th December 2026 and will be based primarily at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
An assortment of workshops (including on quantitative approaches to palaeobiology) as well as tours of the Museum of Natural History collections and the University’s colleges will take place on the morning of 8th December. These will be followed by a themed symposium on “The Deep Time Record of Major Evolutionary Transitions”. The symposium will include a diverse range of researchers at different career stages to showcase how fossil specimens reveal major evolutionary transitions. An ice-breaker reception will be held that evening at the Museum of Natural History, providing the opportunity for delegates to take in the new re-display project in the main court.
The main scientific sessions of talks and posters will be held on 9th and 10th December. The Annual Address will be given in the late afternoon of 9th December and will be followed in the evening by the Annual Dinner at historic Merton College, founded 1264.