Theme:
1. Archaeologists and Archaeology Here and Now
Session format:
Round table (without formal abstracts, only list of confirmed discussants / session co-organisers to be provided)
Title:
Archaeology Matters. The Need to Re-define the Relevance of Archaeology [EAA ExB]
Content:
At EAA 2021 a round table was held on the future of archaeological research in the light of ERC’s Horizon Europe. A proposal to align with the UN SDGs was sympathetically discussed but without defining a clear way forward. Now we propose to discuss three more particular objectives: how can archaeology bridge STEM and SHAPE disciplines; how can archaeology best address the current climate change crisis – and how can archaeology gain more visibility and a more opinion-forming role in society?
As an area of research that deploys both STEM and SHAPE disciplines we are well placed to advance a broad agenda that can embrace many new projects suitable for funding by Horizon Europe and elsewhere.
The Round Table plans to address these questions (among others):
1. How can EAA help promote the social, political and environmental value of archaeology?
2. How can we enhance cooperation between archaeologists, scientists and heritage managers to ensure that our joint research results in beneficial social and environmental action?
3. How can we better inform and include the general public about archaeology’s current contribution to the past history of the world, and how it can serve its future?
4. How can we restructure archaeology to serve these goals more clearly? The young are already sensitive to the needs of the planet. Can archaeology degree courses offer a more certain feeling of engagement in its future? Can grant giving bodies, including ERC , reflect the global needs of research in their panels, rather than representing existing single disciplines?
5. How should we promote a bold new effective and collegiate attitude to STEM/SHAPE combinations in research and teaching?
Keywords:
UN Sustainable Development Goals vs archaeology, archaeology as STEM and SHAPE discipline, the role of archaeology in modern society, archaeology and future challenges
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Promoted by the EAA Executive Board
Associated with the German Arch.Inst.
Main organiser:
Eszter Banffy (Germany) 1
Co-organisers:
Martin Carver (United Kingdom) 2
Philipp von Rummel (Germany) 1
Affiliations:
1. German Archaeological Institute
2. University of York
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