Join us online for the CBA Annual General Meeting and de Cardi Lecture with Dr Claire Nolan
CBA Members and non-members are welcome to join us for the AGM on Saturday 8th February 2024, followed by this year's de Cardi Lecture.
The full programme can be found below.
CBA 2025 Annual General Meeting
The CBA's AGM will take place during this event. Members and non-members are welcome to attend, but only CBA members will be entitled to vote.
Alternatively, non-members can join us online at 11.30am once the AGM has finished.
Resources for the AGM can be accessed by clicking the button below:
de Cardi Lecture
This year's de Cardi lecture will be given by Dr Claire Nolan, a postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork.
Being Present with the Past: Finding meaning through mindful engagement with archaeology
Over the past 20 years, studies have demonstrated that engagement with heritage can facilitate wellbeing in a variety of ways, particularly through involvement in archaeological excavation. However, such heritage-related wellbeing projects require extensive time and resources from both organisations and participants, and may not always be feasible or accessible to everyone. Addressing this issue, this lecture will consider how we might derive wellbeing through engagement with archaeology and heritage in everyday contexts, and how we can find personal meaning by simply being present with the past in the present. Based on research carried out with participants at prehistoric sites in Wiltshire in 2016 and 2017, the lecture will unpack what it is about our direct relationship to heritage assets that creates wellbeing and how reflecting on this connection can facilitate personal insights. Drawing on practices from mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and landscape archaeology, amongst other approaches, it will review some of the methods we can use to enable these insights and ultimately enhance our experience of archaeology.
Event programme
|
TIME |
ACTIVITY |
|
9.15am |
Zoom webinar opens |
|
9.30am |
CBA AGM |
|
11.15am |
Break and Video: The CBA in 2024 |
|
11.30am |
Marsh Community Archaeology Awards – Launch |
|
11.45am |
de Cardi Lecture – Dr Claire Nolan |
|
12.45pm |
Launch of the 2025 Festival of Archaeology - Archaeology and Wellbeing |
|
12.55pm |
Thank you and goodbye |
|
1pm |
Close |
