The organizing committee invites papers and posters that explore the contours of memory formation and influence from settings and contexts throughout the Southeast as a variety of professionals navigate multiple modern challenges, such as overdevelopment, gentrification, political polarization, and climate change.
Presentations and posters on community-based archaeologies, community consultation, creative mitigation strategies, and intergroup collaborations are especially encouraged. In keeping with the tradition of SECHSA, paper presentations and posters addressing all current research in historical archaeology are also welcome. Student researchers are warmly encouraged to present mentored research projects.
We invite submissions for paper presentations and posters addressing our theme (or other historical archaeology topics). Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Due to wall space, posters must be no larger than 5 feet wide. The final deadline for paper/poster abstracts is July 31, 2026.
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About SECHSA
Carl Steen, Natalie Adams Pope, and David Jones initiated SECHSA to provide archaeologists working at historic sites in the southeast a place to share their research and exchange ideas. The initial meeting of SECHSA was held at Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site on August 24-25, 2012. SECHSA took inspiration from Stanley South’s Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology, which held meetings annually between 1960 and 1982. Smaller than the national scope of the original concept, SECHSA’s regional emphasis provides a broader gathering than individual state meetings can provide, but one more focused and intimate than a national conference. SECHSA thus offers archaeologists a forum dedicated to topics of concern to historical archaeology in the southeast.