Planning, Values and Engagement in the Historic Environment

This series aims to highlight current research which engages with global challenges seen through the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As an entity, the Global Challenges agenda is a complex and multifaceted development that is interpreted and understood in different ways. Issues of sustainability outlined in the UN SDGs address a number of environmental issues which are aligned closely with cultural and social issues, such as social inclusion and rights to social resources. 

In some instances, it is difficult for the social and archaeological sciences to raise their profile in contributing to the global challenges agenda particularly with STEM subjects receiving more support and funding. However, we have seen a wealth of archaeological research and knowledge applied theoretically and in practice to address many of the goals outlined in global challenges. These ten presentations highlight ways in which archaeological and heritage research, skills and practice contribute towards sustainable development, and how in many instances have always been addressing sustainable issues through its connection and understanding of past landscapes in the present, past narratives in the present, and past cultures in the present. 

Programme

• January 13: Planning, Values and Engagement in the Historic Environment
  Hannah Fluck, Head of Environmental Research, Historic England
• January 20: Another Dead Lady: Looking at Women Looking at Women in Archaeology
  Brenna Hassett, UCL
• January 27: Co-Creating Sustainable Food Future with Communities
  Theano Moussouri and George Alexopoulos, UCL
• February 3: The Forging of Anthropocene? Metals, Fires and Fuels in prehistoric Eurasia
  Dorian Fuller and Miljana Radivojevic, UCL
• February 10: The Memorialising Ancestral Amazonian Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities
  Manuel Arroyo-Kalin, UCL
• February 24: The Climate Crisis and a Call for Action: A View to the Future of Heritage Management
  Sarah Forgesson, UCL and Louise Cooke, University of York
• March 2: Archaeologies Against Inequality? Power, Social Structure and the aDNA Revolution
  Elisa Perego, UCL
• March 9: Transformative Technologies, GIS and Central Asia
  Gai Jorayev and Marco Nebbia, UCL
• March 16: Heritage and Engagement in a Post-Democracy
  Hana Morel, UCL
• March 23: Energy Efficiency and Heritage values in Historic Cities
  Kalliopi Fouseki, UCL

All welcome! Any enquiries about the series may be directed to Hana Morel.