Theme:
3. The Life of Archaeological Heritage in Society
Session format:
Round table (without formal abstracts, only list of confirmed discussants / session co-organisers to be provided)
Title:
Why We Should Persist in Making Archaeology Accessible and Inclusive to All?
Content:
This round table will build on our panel at EAA 2023 where we asked if archaeology was a hospitable discipline. We will invite discussants from our 2023 panel, along with activists supporting a range of minority groups in archaeology to discuss why we all need to persist in making archaeology accessible and inclusive to all. We will aim to take an intersectional approach to the question and will consider that people have multiple identities, including age, gender, families and parenthood, disability, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation, that are discriminated against, and used to marginalise and exclude people from archaeology. Our consideration of why we need to persist with our work will help us formulate the key messages we need to convey to governments, archaeological funders, organisations, statutory bodies, and the general public about the benefits engaging a diverse range of people with the archaeological process, management, interpretation in our work for the benefit of the public and society across Europe.
Keywords:
Persistence, Change, Access, Inclusion
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:
EAF and EA
Main organiser:
Abi Hunt (United Kingdom) 1,2,3
Co-organisers:
Sebastian Gerberg Hostrup (Denmark) 4
Affiliations:
1. University of Lincoln
2. Harlaxton College
3. Enabled Archaeology Foundation
4. Museum Lolland-Falster
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