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 several colleagues from the Institute of Archaeogenomics.

• Balázs Gyuris presented the results of a multidisciplinary (archaeogenetic, archaeological, and isotopic) study of the Kölked-Feketekapu cemetery, showcasing the evolution of social relations in the Avar period in the Southern Transdanubia. Based on the whole genome analysis of ancient DNA samples taken as part of the HistoGenes project, as well as carbon/nitrogen and strontium isotopic analyses of additional samples and archaeological observations, he presented the emerging trends in the cemetery.
  The list of authors and title of his presentation: Balázs Gyuris, Zsuzsanna Hajnal, Tamás Szeniczey, Norbert Faragó, Zsófia Rácz, István Koncz, Balázs Gusztáv Mende, Tivadar Vida, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy: Social Relations in the Avar-Period Southern Transdanubia in the Light of Multidisciplinary Results from the Kölked-Feketekapu Cemetery.

Anna Szécsényi-Nagy was also a co-author of two other papers at the conference, the topics, list of authors, and titles of which 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