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UBHeritage
UBHeritage LLC helps community organizations and local governments increase their capacity to preserve and present their material heritage. Consulting focuses on heritage analysis and interpretation for local governments, non-profit organizations, and more: a proven record over two decades of increasing engagement with our past for the future. Services include transforming archaeological information into meaningful community-based heritage, public speaking, educational program for school-aged children, grant writing, cultural resource management, and developing tours of heritage, history, archaeology.
Uzi Baram is available for public speaking engagements. Typically a 45-minute illustrated presentation and tailored for your audience. Current topics include:
A History No Longer Hidden: Angola on the Manatee River
Angola, an early 19th-century maroon community on the Florida Gulf Coast, was a haven from slavery for hundreds of freedom-seeking people. Archaeology has revealed daily life for the community that lasted from the 1770s to 1821. The presentation gives the context for Florida as the southern route of the Network to Freedom and the community-based research that makes the finds meaningful. Descendants of survivors of the tragic end of Angola who found liberty in the Bahamas have come to Bradenton to celebrate its robust heritage by the excavated areas.
Professor Baram is listed on the Florida Humanities Speakers Bureau for the below two presentations https://floridahumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Florida-Talks-Speakers-Bureau-1.pdf as part of Florida Talks. Funding for the presentation is possible for Florida nonprofit organizations, local municipalities, cultural and civic organizations, and educational entities, see https://floridahumanities.org/funding-opportunities/florida-talks-program/
Sea Level Rise and Heritage Sites in Florida and around the World
New weather patterns, larger storms, and rising sea levels are challenging communities and transforming conventional thinking. Archaeologists documenting the shifting seascape’s destruction of archaeological and historic sites are offering the long-term perspective on human adaptation, and maladaptations to environmental changes; more recently archaeologists are contributing insights for the present generation to envision our possible futures. This presentation will offer examples of, and lessons for, community resilience to rising sea levels. The slide-illustrated lecture is global in scope, but with one of the most endangered places for rising sea levels being Florida, we will focus on insights from local archaeology and discuss regional ongoing programs for monitoring heritage sites and adaptations to the Anthropocene. The presentation concludes with the question: what kind of ancestor do you want to be? https://floridahumanities.org/project/what-kind-of-ancestors-do-you-want-to-be-sea-level-rise-and-heritage-sites-in-florida/
Seeing Florida's Heritage through Archaeology
The history of Florida is fascinating, and archaeological research provides a tactile, visual, and place-based approach to appreciating what people have achieved. The aspects of the past that are in the present, that are being seen, used, and visited by people today, are heritage and this presentation explores the dynamics of heritage by highlighting archaeological insights into Indigenous landscapes, colonial sites, utopian settlements, minority communities, and modern cities. Understanding the past as heritage encourages preservation efforts, our collective responsibility to the past. https://floridahumanities.org/project/the-historical-archaeology-of-the-sunshine-state/
Other presentations include the anthropological critique of racism and race, the history of tourism, the politics of the past in the eastern Mediterranean, the history of the Ottoman Empire and its legacies, archaeology in Israel, and strategies for confronting anti-Semitism and JewHatred
If you have an event you would like to discuss, please email <ubheritagefl@gmail.com> with your location, budget, and audience
UBHeritage is the framework for Uzi Baram's community-based approach, which across multiple projects, showcases archaeology and history in a manner that is sustainable for organizations. The approach is future-oriented, focused on preserving and presenting the past for the next generations. Services include:
Heritage Interpretation and Community-based Representations for parks, non-profits, and local governments, including research, grant writing, and public programs, with a proven ability to transform CRM reports, original excavation data, and archival research into successful sustainable community heritage programs that build capacity for your organization
Creation and management of diversity programs, including instructional development and curriculum, integrating Indigenous history and marginalized heritage while respectful of dominant folklore into new, engaging representations of place and people
Advisory services to homes and properties in the coastal zone as the sea level rises, including archaeological genealogy, a view of who came before on the land of your dwelling and lands
If you have a project or opportunity you would like to discuss, get in touch via <Baram@ncf.edu> or <https://www.facebook.com/UBHeritageFL/> for solutions