The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) conference in 2025 will be a hybrid meeting, hosted by the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Lawrence, KS, from 27 to 31 May, 2025.

Essential early information has been posted on the SPNHC 2025 conference website. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.

We invite you to submit a proposal for an organized session or workshop at SPNHC 2025 that reflects the work of SPNHC, and collections standards and best practices that contribute to our understanding and documentation of biodiversity. Organized sessions can be symposia, panel discussions, lightning sessions, and other formats whose primary purpose is to convey information and engage the SPNHC audience.  

We strongly encourage you to submit proposals that fit the conference theme:   Sustainable Futures: Challenges and Opportunities for Modern Collections.

Sessions may be open or closed to presentation submissions; we highly encourage diversity and inclusivity, and session ideas not explored during previous SPNHC conferences as well as follow-up discussions of sessions in Okinawa. Session proposers will be responsible for soliciting and coordinating presentations, reviewing, approving, and ordering abstracts for the session, and moderating the proposed session(s). At least one session organizer must be present, in person, at the meeting. Every symposium must have an abstract that will be published on the conference website. Session organizers and all presenters must be registered for the conference.

Workshops

If you wish to host a workshop, please contact the conference organizers for more information.  

Calls for abstracts will be announced in February.

If your proposal is accepted, your session title and description will be posted on the SPNHC 2025 conference website.

Submission deadline:  January 10, 2025

Please get in touch with the conference organizers with any questions.