If you are devoting any time over the festive season to thinking about EAA 2024, please note our call for papers on any aspect of "Public Benefit: Sharing, Critiquing, Brain-Storming and Blue-Skying Experience and Ideas to Help Archaeology Benefit Wider Society in the Future" " for EAA24 session 918. The abstract is below, and we in the Advisory Committee who are coordinating this session hope to get as wide a range of papers as possible, to help us all share and strengthen the ways in which archaeology benefits wider society. You can submit your abstract here https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/

With all best wishes,

Carenza Lewis (on behalf of the EAA Public Benefits Advisory Committee)


Session 918 Abstract:

The wider benefits of archaeology to society are many and varied, encompassing tourism and the visitor economy, placemaking, regeneration, education, health and wellbeing, communities and the environment. If archaeology is to retain and grow the public support it currently has, it is crucially important that public benefits like these are constantly delivered and recognised more widely and more effectively. To help with this, EAA has established an Advisory Committee whose aims is to help archaeologists, policy makers and people in Europe deliver, know, appreciate and promote the benefits of archaeology to people and places. 
This session, convened by members of EAA’s Advisory Group on the Public Benefits of Archaeology, aims to bring together EAA members interested in the wider public benefits of archaeology, to present exemplary case studies, share ideas, and discuss priorities for the future, which may include an EAA community for Public Benefit and an interconnected network of public benefit ‘champions’ in all European states.  Reflecting the Public Benefits Advisory Committee’s five key priorities, we welcome papers that relate to:
1.	Exemplifying the range of benefits archaeology can deliver to people and places and 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, society, communities and connectedness, and the environment.
2.	The commonalities and differences across Europe in the understanding of, aspirations for, and achievement of public benefit from archaeology, including interest in archaeology/heritage sectors in public benefit, different approaches to presenting archaeology to public, different opportunities for public engagement, different awareness/perceptions of archaeology in wider society, and transnational transferability of practice from one state to another.
3.	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 to achieving benefit, new types of benefit, and new approaches to transnational sharing.
4.	Emerging opportunities and threats impacting the capacity of archaeology to be of public benefit, including new discoveries and approaches, social change including public attitudes, social cohesion, health challenges; Political change including local/national/international government, devolution, security and legislative change; economic perturbation, headwinds and policy change; and environmental change and climate crisis.
5.	Strategies for sharing beyond our sector knowledge of the public benefits of archaeology so it can inspire archaeological practice, inform policy making and be valued by wider publics.

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