The "Communities of Dark Times" conference was organized by the Déri Museum in Debrecen on February 27–28, 2025.
The presentations, covering a variety of research topics related to the Late Roman period and the Migration period, also provided insight into the work of the MTA-BTK Momentum Bioarchaeology Research Group.

The topics, lists of authors, and titles of the papers are listed below:

• A presentation on two Hun-period burials discovered in front of the wall of a Roman fortification at Rákos Stream, Budapest, discussed the results of the bioarchaeological analysis of the graves.
  Boglárka Mészáros, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Tamás Szeniczey: Hun-Period Burials from Budapest, from the Shadow of a Late Roman Fortification Wall
• The results of archaeogenetic and archaeological studies conducted on materials from the late Roman cemetery on Kossuth Lajos Street in Esztergom provided insights into the possibilities of mapping kinship relations.
  Mónika Merczi, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy: Possible Kinship Relations in the Late Roman Cemetery on Kossuth Lajos Street, Esztergom

Plan of the Late Roman cemetery on Kossuth Lajos Street, Esztergom (blue: men, pink: women, green: children)