IKUWA8, the 8th International Congress for Underwater Archaeology, takes place in Oostende (Belgium) from October 13th to October 17th, 2025

The congress is organised by the IKUWA Steering Committee, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Flanders Heritage Agency, Agence Wallonne du Patrimoine, Ghent University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VisitFlanders and the City of Ostend.

Sessions:

Below you can find a list of the accepted sessions, distributed across various themes. Click on a session for more information.

Session A – Telling the Tales

Session B – UCH & Avocational Archaeology

Session C – UN Decade

Session D – Underwater and Coastal Landscapes

Session E – River Archaeology

Session F – Intertidal Archaeology

Session G – Ships & Navigation

Session H – Regional Overviews

Session I – Trade and Material Culture

Session J – UCH and the Environment

Session K – Methodology

Session L – Management and Legal Actions

Session M – Inventories

Session N – Spatial planning

Session O – Preservation of UCH

Session P – UNESCO Convention