Conference Programme April 2011

Friday 8th April
19:00 – late	Evening drop in reception : The ‘Snug’ at the Pitcher & Piano, Arches 9 & 10, Deansgate Locks, Manchester, M1 5LH. The welcome event is free to attend. There will be a paying bar and guests can order food until 9pm. Come along and meet old friends – and make some new ones. Further details of the venue can be found at: http://www.pitcherandpiano.com/locations/bar.cfm?area=Deansgate%20Locks
Saturday 9th April
09:00 – 09:30	Registration
Invited Session	Chair Niamh Nic Daeid
09:30 – 09:40	Opening address: Alan Puxley, President of BAHID
09:40 – 10:20	Keynote address: Truth and Reconciliation: The work of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) Geoff Knupfer and Rob Janaway
10:20 – 10:50	Special address by The Forensic Regulator Andrew Rennison: The Quality of Forensic Science in Criminal Proceedings: Pressures for Change
10:50 – 11:10	Break
11:10 – 11:30	A Multidisciplinary Approach to an International Missing Persons Investigation in The Netherlands Antilles Doris Eerhart
11:30 – 11:50	The Jig-Saw Man Case Michael Trotman
11:50 – 12:10	Antemortem Framework of Missing Person Investigations Duncan McGarry
12:10 – 12:30	Mortuary Management and Managed Expectations; the Role of Forensic Anthropology in the Human Identification Process Anthony Falsetti
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch and poster presentations
General Session I	Chair Anthony Falsetti
13:30 – 13:50	The Fromelles Project – The Recovery of 250 British and Australian WWI Soldiers and their Artefacts from six Mass Graves – Roland Wessling
13:50 – 14:10	The Nikumaroro Bones and Amelia Earhart – Found or Still Missing? Pamela Cross (student prize eligible)
14:10 – 14:30	The Missing: The Role of Forensic Anthropology in the search for Truth and Justice in Guatemala Gillian Fowler
14:30 – 14:50	Operation Allegro (Pamir flight 112): Victim Identification through Anthropology and DNA Michael Wallbank
14:50 – 15:10	Presumed dead: Contributions of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Ecology to Missing Persons Investigation with Case Studies from the UK and Beyond Julie Roberts
15:10 – 15:30	Break
General Session II	Chair Rob Janaway
15:30 – 15:50	Anthropological Measurement of the Juvenile Clavicle Using Multi-Detector Computed Tomography Alison Brough (student prize eligible)
15:50 – 16:10	The Psychology of Face Identification: Effects of Description and Expertise Karen Landers
16:10 – 16:30	The Application of In-Situ Reflectance Spectroscopy for the Detection of Mass Graves Emily Norton
16:30 – 16:50	Decomposition Scores & Accumulated Degree Days: Calculating the Post-mortem Submersion Interval in a Dutch Sample Scott Paterson (student prize eligible)
16:50 – 17:10	Irish Case Report on the Multidisciplinary Approach towards Identification of a Human Skull Recovered from the Sea Gerard Kealy
17:10 –17:20	Closing remarks
17:30	BAHID AGM
18:00	BAHID council meeting
19:30 – late	Buffet dinner at Chancellor’s
Sunday 10th April
09:30 – 13:00	British Association for Forensic Anthropology (BAFA) meeting
09:30 – 13:00	Workshop: Clandestine burials and mass graves: search strategies, remote sensing, archaeological recovery and post-excavation analyses
09:30 – 13:00	Workshop: CCTV imaging and digital image enhancement

Posters

Death of a Pilot: Morphological Analysis of a Bone Fragment Recovered from a World War 2 Plane Crash
Site in Austria
Rene Gapert

NFI applies new DVI software: Software based on Bayesian networks assists in DVI following the crash of
Afriqiyah Airways Flight 8U771 near Tripoli, Libya
Arnoud Kal

Conflicting pelvic morphology in a pathological Late Medieval skeleton from the Netherlands
Cheryl Katzmarzyk (student prize eligible)

Forensic Jewellery Classification System
Maria MacLennan (student prize eligible)

A multidisciplinary approach to the identification of a missing victim of a motorcycle accident
Costa Eliopoulos

DNA degradation analysis in post-mortem soft muscle tissues in relation to accumulated degree-days
Muhammad Shahid Nazir (student prize eligible)

How long is a piece of string? A Study of Interobserver Variation in Cranial Measurements and the
Resulting Consequences when analysed using CranID
Richard Slater (student prize eligible)

Developmental juvenile osteology; comparison of different techniques used to age a non-adult medieval
population
Rebecca Spiers (student prize eligible)

The Fromelles Project – Organisational and Operational Structures of a Large Scale Mass Grave
Excavation and on-site Anthropological Analysis
Roland Wessling