Just a reminder that the next Café Scientifique; Wet futures: understanding wetland heritage in contested environments, with Dr Ben Jennings, is taking place next week.

Date: Thursday 23 January 2020
Time: 18:30 to 20:30
Location: Wonderlab Studio, Level 3, Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Registration: please click here to book a place

Wetland environments are dynamic, with climatic, demographic, economic and political influences. These environments are neither constant nor stable, and have been utilised by human populations for millennia, resulting in an incredible richness and diversity of heritage.

Ben works to identify the impacts of those changes on the heritage contained within wetland environments. Change can also lead to conflict between populations working in, managing, and accessing these environments. Reconciling such conflict and identifying impacts of change is crucial to a creating a future for wetlands which encompasses the broad range of activities and perceptions of heritage and significance that they encourage.

Dr Ben Jennings is a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Bradford. He completed his PhD at the University of Basel, studying lake-dwellings of the Alpine region. His research interests focus on wetland settlement and exploitation in prehistory, and the modelling of exchange and interaction systems.

Location

Science and Media Museum, Bradford