This page will host the the academic program for WAC-7.

WAC Congresses are organised around overarching themes, each of which contains multiple sessions that relate to the same overall issue. Sessions and individual contributions (papers, posters, multi-media presentations) can be proposed for existing sessions, or independently, to be placed into the programme as it develops.

Click here for Sessions at a Glance (PDF)

Theme titles are organized to complete the phrase: “Archaeology as…”

• Public: Education, Communication and Various Understandings of the Past
• Science and Technology: Methods, Analysis, and Tools
• Discussion and Debate: Ethics, Politics, and Engagement
• Understanding and Interpretation
• Heritage Conservation and Protection
• The Future: New Perspectives on the Past
• Business: Profitability and Sustainability of Cultural Heritage
• Economic Development: Community Engagement and Grassroots Movements
• Entertainment
• Open Access: Freedom of Information, Peer Review
• Identity Politics: Ethnicity, Nationalism, Globalization
• A Target: Preservation and Heritage Identities in Times of Conflict
• Indigenous
• Useful: Reintroduction of Ancient Techniques and Recovered Knowledge
• Sustenance: Foodways, Subsistence
• Discovery: Field Reports
• Answering the Big Questions
• Subjective
• Approved Sessions Not Yet Assigned a Theme