Dear colleagues,

We invite submissions of proposals for 15-min papers exploring the public benefits of archaeology for our Session #918 "Public Benefit: Sharing, Critiquing, Brain-Storming and Blue-Skying Experience and Ideas to Help Archaeology Benefit Wider Society in the Future". This session is coordinated by the EAA Public Benefits Advisory Committee to help us all present, share, debate and strengthen the ways in which archaeology benefits wider society. Recognising and increasing this value is of ever-increasing importance for archaeology, for society and for ensuring public support for archaeology is sustainable today and into the future. Please submit your abstract here https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/ - deadline 8th February 2024.

We hope to use this session to start to build a network of archaeologists who can 'champion' the public benefits of archaeology across our continent, so we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in this session.

(Session abstract below the signature)

With all best wishes,

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


Session #918 - Title and Abstract:

"Public Benefit: Sharing, Critiquing, Brain-Storming and Blue-Skying Experience and Ideas to Help Archaeology Benefit Wider Society in the Future".

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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