EXARC AGM 2025

The EXARC Annual General Meeting ran as always via email, this year from 9th - 30th June. For those wanting to read the minutes and check the reports and prospects, you can see all details in this links below. Following the voting from our members, we also want to send out a warm welcome to our new board members: Marco Romeo-Pitone (Vice Chair), Svenja Fabian, Aija Heloīze Pince, and Bonnie Nilhamn. 

Peter Inker stepped down in his role as EXARC chair, and wishes to share the following message with our EXARC members:

Sadly, now the time has come for me to step down from my role as Chair of EXARC, and for me to heartily welcome our new Chair Julia Heeb.

My relationship with EXARC began 20 years ago, and I have spent almost half of that time on the board, with the privilege of the last three years as Chair.  It has been a pleasure to meet many new friends from across the world, and to work with so many skilled and dedicated professionals 

There have been many highlights during my role on the board, but I am most proud of being able to facilitate fellowships for EXARC members at Colonial Williamsburg.

We have been through many exciting times, the most recent of which was welcoming in EXARC’s new director Matilda Siebrecht and a new directions for the organization.  I am sure EXARC is in very capable hands with Julia as Chair and Matilda as Director.

I look forward to meeting you at future conferences.

Best wishes, Peter

We wish to echo Peter's words by welcoming the new chair of EXARC - Julia Heeb. Julia also has a message for our EXARC members:

Dear members,

Thank you so much for the trust you have placed in me to serve as Chair of the Board. I have been involved with EXARC for a long time and have been on the board since 2019 - the last three years as Vice-Chair. It has been a pleasure to work alongside Peter, and I want to thank him for all his work for EXARC.

Coming from academic experimental archaeology to now managing an archaeological open-air museum with an active living history society as well as ancient craft specialists, I think I can successfully represent the whole spectrum of EXARC members.

After some reorganisation of the management of EXARC, I am now very much looking forward to working with the (partly) new board as well as the EXARC office team, supporting our shared vision and furthering the use of experimental archaeology. 

Last but not at all least, I would like to thank Magdalena and Roeland for their years of hard but inspiring work for setting up EXARC and making it into this very successful and respected organisation that we are entrusted with now. We will take care of it!