Theme:
3. The Life of Archaeological Heritage in Society
Title:
Public Benefit: Sharing, Critiquing, Brain-Storming and Blue-Skying Experience and Ideas to Help Archaeology Benefit Wider Society in the Future
Content:
To retain public support, archaeology’s wider benefits must be felt and recognised as widely as possible. This session explores how well we are doing this, and how it might be done better in the future by sharing case studies, ideas, issues and opportunities. Reflecting the five key priorities of the EAA's Public Benefits of Archaeology Advisory Committee, we welcome papers that:
1. Present and assess case studies which show how archaeology has benefitted people and places and/or the range of approaches being used to do this, including benefits to tourism, visitor economies, employment, places, place-making, heritage assets, regeneration, education, health and wellbeing, communities and connectedness, the environment and more.
2. Explore the commonalities and differences across Europe in the understanding of, aspirations for, and achievement of public benefit from archaeology, including attitudes in archaeology/heritage sectors; different approaches to presenting archaeology; different opportunities for public engagement; different awareness/perceptions of archaeology in wider society.
3. Consider our understanding of the means, mechanisms and processes through which archaeology benefits people and places, including the use of new discoveries, new data, new approaches, new types of benefit, and new approaches to transnational sharing.
4. Identify emerging opportunities and threats impacting the capacity of archaeology to benefit - or harm - wider society, including changing public attitudes; social cohesion; education; health priorities; political change (at local, national and/or international levels) including devolution and conflict; legislative change; economic perturbation, headwinds and policy change; environmental change and climate crisis and more.
5. Offer strategies for disseminating awareness of the public benefits of archaeology so it can inspire archaeological practice and inform policy-making that will increase archaeology’s capacity to benefit society in the future.
The session will include ample opportunities for open and inclusive discussion.
Keywords:
Public, Benefit, Society, Health, Economy, Environment
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:
Public Benefits of Archaeology Advisory Group
Main organiser:
Carenza Lewis (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Almut Schulke (Norway) 2
Jesús Fernández Fernández (Spain) 3
Christoph Rummel (Germany) 4
Affiliations:
1. University of Lincoln
2. University of Oslo
3. University of Oviedo
4. Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
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