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Coastal sites are essential for understanding human history and are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts, including sea-level rise, ocean wave height variability, and changing weather patterns. The significant threat that climate change poses to coastal archaeological sites globally, emphasizes the urgent need for new strategies in public archaeology and cultural resource management. This symposium aims to connect French, American and Indigenous researchers, academics, and cultural resource managers to exchange ideas and practices around preserving coastal cultural heritage threatened by climate change. The discussions will highlight examples where partnerships and community engagement in public archeology are essential in making heritage management relevant to a wider population, gathering meaningful data, and building collective resilience in coastal heritage.
The symposium will bring together teams working in different areas and legal frameworks to discuss how they have been addressing these issues from a variety of perspectives and traditions.
Common issues relating to coastal cultural heritage threatened by climate change:
1) national or regional policies implemented to address coastal cultural heritage threatened by climate change.
2) the role of scientists and research projects dedicated to coastal cultural heritage threatened by climate change.
3) the role of mediation actions and structures, as well as communities through citizen and participatory sciences, regional narratives, and decision-making.
This is hosted by the Deering Estate, Deering Estate Foundation, Consulate general of France in Miami, French Ministry of Culture - Villa Albertine and Florida Public Archeology Network.
Partners include: France Florida Foundation for the Arts.
