Heritage Futures focuses on the shifting landscapes of cultural heritage work, including ethics, emerging technologies, climate and environmental challenges, policy changes, and evolving professional expectations, and how all of these are reshaping the ways we preserve and engage with the past. The symposium aims to foster a forward-looking conversation about where cultural heritage is headed and what new responsibilities and possibilities might define the coming generation.
9:30 — Coffee, Tea, and Nibbles
10:00 — Welcome and Opening Remarks
Panel 1: Technology and the Future of Heritage
10:05
Patterns of Cairo: Negotiating Heritage in a Digital Age
Yumna Moussa, Megawra-Built Environment Collective (virtual) and Hossam Elganainy, University of Texas at Austin
10:25
Hold the Phone: iPhone LiDAR and 3D Printing for Digital Heritage Conservation
Chris Ploetz, University of Texas at Austin
10:45
Inequities in Archaeometry: The Future of Education and Integration of Applied Sciences for Cultural Heritage Studies
Milo Pilgrim, University of Texas at Austin
11:05
Wajood-e-Irtika: What Remains After Erasure
Ali Shariq Jamali, Simon Fraser University (virtual)
11:25
Panel Discussion
11:40
Morning Coffee Break
Panel 2: Digital Humanities and Heritage Futures: Case Studies from UT Austin (Lightning Roundtable)
11:50
Benjamin J. Menard and Kelsey Kistner, Blanton Vases: An Approach to Digital Humanities; Adam Rabinowitz, Battle Casts; Chloe Foor, Virtual Angkor; Rafael Nieto, The Light of Navigators; Jade Gaither, Kira Kim, and Angel Yuan, Love, Healing, and Other Crimes; Raymond Hyser and Masha Koscheev, Quest for Quinine; Mia Walker, Jacob Matchen, and Kseniya Portnaya, A Living Map
1:00
Lunch Break, DFA 4.112
Panel 3: Heritage Futures in Community
2:00
What Cannot Be Rebuilt: Heritage Destruction, Irreversibility, and Counter-Archives in South Lebanon
Zaynab Nemr and Rami Zurayk, American University of Beirut (virtual)
2:20
Data Sovereignty and the Digital Afterlives of Zapotec Painted Tombs
Katherine Schumann, University of Texas at Austin
2:40
Reframing Heritage Stewardship Through Inclusive Engagement: The Gandhara Resource Center Pakistan Model
Izzah Khan, University of Texas at Austin
3:00
Archaeology in Dialogue: Building a Framework for Collaborative Research at Naranjo, Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala
Fernando José Véliz Corado, University of Texas at Austin
3:20
Panel Discussion
3:40
Afternoon Coffee Break
Panel 4: Keynote Address
4:00
Beyond Charity, Beyond Commodity: Toward a Future of Archaeology and Heritage that Feeds
Allison Mickel, H. Bruce McEver Chair in Archaeological Science and Technologies, Georgia Institute of Technology
5:00
Closing Remarks