ASE in Rome: the European Association of Archaeologists conference

ASE’s Sarah Wolferstan presented in the session on Facilitating public engagement and participation in developer-funded archaeology. Looking at our work at Whitechapel, Sarah underlined the different opportunities we have had to engage with various publics, not least of which is a new phase of community partnership work using oral storytelling. The session was co-organised with Sadie Watson (MoLA), Kate Faccia, Mark Oldham of NIKU (Norway Institute for Cultural Heritage Research), and Francesca Benetti. There were examples from London (from ASE and Sadie Watson), Norway (from Mark, and Unn Pedersen of the University of Oslo), and Denmark (from Anna Severine Beck of Museum Sydøstdanmark)

Kayt Hawkins had a busy conference co-organising two sessions, speaking on a panel organised by the Enabled Archaeology Foundation on Why We Should Persist in Making Archaeology Accessible and Inclusive to All, facilitating the showing of the Archaeo-Sexism Exhibition and presenting a paper reflecting on the success of the exhibition. 

Kayt’s first session, Divide and Conquer? Advancing Multiscale Theoretical Frameworks for Archaeological Ceramics in Northwestern Europe, was organised with other pottery specialists; Eniko Hudak (Newcastle University), Adam Sutton (Aurelius Archaeology), Sonja Willems (Catholic University, Louvain, Belguim) and Vaiana Vincent (INRAP, France). 

Her second session The Anti-HABI Toolkit: 2nd workshop on Solutions and Measures for Preventing and Addressing Harassment, Assault, Bullying and Intimidation (HABI) in Archaeology, was co-organised with Bisserka Gaydaska and Laura Coltofean-Arizancu  (AGE community, EAA) and Marta Hlad (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). This included a practical training element by the Active Bystander Company, and various updates including one from the latest survey on HABI by the National Association of Archaeologists in Italy.

We hope Sarah and Kayt had a great time, and a well-deserved rest!