CITiZAN Conference: Connecting Coastal Heritage, Communities and Climate Change
05/03/2022 | 9:30 a.m.
Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head, Liverpool
We are pleased to host an in-person and virtual event on coastal heritage and climate change as our first conference since lockdown!
Climate change today represents one of the greatest threats to our lives and livelihoods, directly impacting on societies, people’s health, biodiversity, the economy and, overall, our futures. It also threatens our culture and heritage, whether that be the more tangible and daily heritage we see throughout our everyday lives, or that which harbours in our memories, practices and ways of knowing. The UK, as an island nation, is home to thousands of coastal communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change – whether that is from the loss of livelihoods, homes or even entire landscapes. Archaeologists and other practitioners can help understand and respond to these threats and hazards via our work, using our expertise and access to the past.
This conference explores the opportunities and challenges of understanding these coastal processes and the impact that they have on our shoreline heritage and on the communities who live along them.
The conference will be focused specifically on:
• The impact of climate change and how heritage can contribute to its understanding
• The inevitability of damage and loss, and what this might mean to our communities
• The relevance of maritime/coastal/intertidal research in regards to climate action
Outline of sessions:
Session 1: Warm, wet and windy: the impact of climate change-driven extreme weather on coastal heritage.
Session 2: The inevitability of loss: How understanding the historic environment can help adapt to loss.
Panel Discussion: How relevant/important to tackling climate change is understanding our coastlines?
Speakers will come from a range of backgrounds and disciplines. Below is the working programme with all confirmed speakers:
10:00-10:30 Welcome: Opening Remarks
Caroline Barrie-Smith, CITiZAN/MOLA
10:30-11:00 The need to engage with coastal communities
Antony Firth, Historic England
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-13:00 Warm, wet and windy: the impact of climate change on coastal heritage
Chair: Michael Curtis, Nautical Archaeology Society
Sarah Forgesson, University College London
Joseph Earl, Lancaster University/Coast Watchers
Salma Sabour, University of Southampton
Abigail Allan, University of Oxford/National Historic Ships UK
Natalie Coffey & Isabell Spall, Dynamic Dunescapes and Formby National Trust
Clare Martynski, Time and Tide Bell
13:00-14:00 Networking Lunch
14:00-15:30 The inevitability of loss: How understanding the historic/natural environment can help adapt to loss?
Chair: Neil Redfern, Council for British Archaeology
Tanya Venture, University of Exeter
Dr Louise Ann Wilson, Louise Ann Wilson Company
Alice Harvey-Fishenden, University of Liverpool
Helen Johnson, Thames Discovery Programme
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:30 Panel Discussion: How relevant and important to tackling climate change is understanding our coastlines?
Chair: Hana Morel, CITiZAN
Tom Dawson/Joanna Hambly, SCAPE
Dr Julian Whitewright, Royal Commission for the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Anthony Corns, CHERISH
Dr Crystal El Safadi, University of Southampton
16:30-16:40 Break
16:40-17:00 Hope, Imagination, Power, Change: Citizens at the interface of the past, present and future.
Dr Sara Perry, MOLA
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IN-PERSON EVENT (NOTE: Ticket sales for in-person attendance will end at midnight on 17th February, after which tickets to attend will be for the online livestream only).
PLEASE NOTE: in order to keep everyone as safe as possible during the event, we are requesting that all attendees wear masks whilst at the event unless you are medically exempt (speakers may remove their mask whilst presenting), and that all attendees take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event. If the result is positive for COVID-19, you must not attend the event under any circumstances.
Due to some of those attending either being vulnerable themselves or potentially caring for vulnerable people, if you are displaying flu-like symptoms, you will be asked to leave the event. We reserve the right to turn away anyone who is perceived to be exhibiting symptoms associated with COVID-19. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in keeping everyone as safe as possible whilst at the event.
Further information on how to order Lateral Flow COVID-19 Tests is available on the Government website:
https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests
For a full programme for this event including abstracts click on the link below.
Programme for the fifth CITiZAN conference (CITiZAN)
