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Wednesday, October 21
 

9:30am EEST

Silences in the Archive: Stories of Transborder Resistance in Mendoza, Argentina During the Last Civil-Military Dictatorship
Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am EEST
We will share stories from two archives in Mendoza, Argentina, which contain information about the human networks, artistic creations, communication and codes, and experiences of clandestine resistance to dictatorships in the Southern Cone. These stories reveal how, through networks of cooperation, the highest range of the Andes Mountains separating Mendoza and Santiago, Chile, functioned as a hidden bridge between communities. Unregistered stories such as these and the objects surrounding them, due to the secrecy necessitated by their repressive political environment, will remain a lasting silence in archives unless initiatives are taken to register and preserve them. 

Páez’s work with the Asociación Ecumenica de Cuyo preserves the archive of the Comité Ecuménico de Acción Social (CEAS), active from 1973 to 1992, which was created to support Chilean exiles in Mendoza during Pinochet’s dictatorship. This collection comprises the case files documenting the passage of Chilean exiles, as well as secret communications between networks of human rights organizations in Santiago and Mendoza. Skinner’s work with Memorias Sonoras includes interviews related to clandestine artistic gatherings and musical composition during the last dictatorship in Argentina. We propose to share stories from these two related projects, draw connections between the encrypted codes in both archives, communicational and musical, and explore the role of the Andes as a connector rather than a border. Finally, we will analyze these sources through the lens of a public consultation realized together in March of 2026, in which many of these ideas were brought forth by members of the community.
Speakers
avatar for Mariana Páez

Mariana Páez

Director, Bibilioteca y Centro de Documentación Mauricio A López
Mariana Páez is the director of the Mauricio A. López Library and Documentation Center in Mendoza, Argentina. As director, she oversees an archive pertaining to ecumenical thought, feminism and liberation theology. The archive includes collections relating to the following figures... Read More →
avatar for Andrew Skinner

Andrew Skinner

Co-Director, Memorias Sonoras
Andrew Skinner is the co-director of Memorias Sonoras, an initiative dedicated to supporting musical archives in Mendoza, Argentina, through community collaboration. Over the past three years, through Memorias Sonoras, he managed the preservation of the Zanessi Studios collection... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

10:30am EEST

Between Material Decay and Political Erasure: Preserving a 16mm Newsreel of the Plaza de Mayo Bombing (Argentina, 1955)
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
We present a work in progress based on a 16mm film reel from the First Argentine Television News Programme, which recounts the events of the 1955 bombing of Plaza de Mayo and the Government House by military aircraft, intended to overthrow President Juan Domingo Perón. Amidst a turbulent political climate that proved crucial for the subsequent decades, the event deepened the long-standing tension between Peronism and anti-Peronism that continues to this day. It was one of the largest attacks in Argentine history, resulting in the murder of more than 300 civilians. The coup d’état was finally carried out three months later with the self-proclaimed Liberating Revolution taking power – an extreme right-wing opposition that sought to liberate the people from Perón’s ‘tyranny’. This attack was effectively rendered invisible for many decades and, despite some research that emerged from the return to democracy in 1983 to this day, it has failed to be recalled in the collective memory.

More than 70 years later, through a private job, this material presented numerous challenges for us: an advanced case of vinegar syndrome and, on a personal level, political contradictions associated with working on a broadcast featuring anti-democratic discourse alongside rare footage of corpses and the aftermath of the attack. However, it also provided an opportunity to take a specialised approach to a deteriorating film and to bring the event back into public debate, at a time when Argentina’s far right is drawing inspiration from the Liberating Revolution and using the rhetoric of ‘freedom’ once again.
Speakers
avatar for Laura Gómez Gauna

Laura Gómez Gauna

Co-coordinator of the Commission on Archives and Audiovisual Heritage, Argentine Association for Film and Audiovisual Studies (AsAECA)
Independent conservator. She holds a diploma in the Preservation of Photographic, Sound and Audiovisual Collections from the National School of Restoration and Museography from Ibermemoria. She was awarded a scholarship to the Film Preservation & Restoration School Latin America by... Read More →
avatar for Mayumi Romina Higa

Mayumi Romina Higa

Teacher, National University of Arts, Argentina
Conservator and restorer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Conservation and Restoration from the National University of Arts and holds diplomas in Audiovisual Preservation and Restoration from the University of Buenos Aires and in Cultural Mediation from the Latin... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

11:00am EEST

Voices from the End of the World: The Koluel Archive as a Safeguard of Memory, Identity, and Audiovisual Authenticity in the Malvinas Conflict
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
This paper presents the Koluel oral and audiovisual archive project, focused on the memories of Southern Patagonia, and its dedicated collection on the Malvinas War (1982). It will analyze how this community archive stands as a fundamental tool for safeguarding memory in post-war contexts, addressing the challenges of constructing regional identity through direct testimonies and, crucially, the technical and ethical issues surrounding the authenticity of audiovisual supports. The presentation aims to contribute to the debate on the role of regional archives in preserving peripheral narratives and the need for collaborative standards to ensure the faithful transmission of these memories to future generations.
Speakers
avatar for Gustavo Navarro

Gustavo Navarro

Teacher, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral . UNPA
Director del proyecto Memorias de la Patagonia Austral . 
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, In Person

11:30am EEST

Ukrainian Non-State Film Collections in Wartime: Liminal Archivism and Decolonial Reframing
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
While the Soviet film archive exemplified a colonial model of cultural preservation, serving a centralised, militarised state and determining which films and language versions deserved conservation; national archives in the ‘no-longer-post-Soviet’ space (Tlostanova 2024), particularly in Ukraine, largely emulated this structure. Their collections were built around state studio feature production, however, often remaining incomplete and improvised due to the unwillingness of the Russian film archives to repatriate non-Russian films to their countries of production. Meanwhile, Ukrainian students’ works, amateur films, ‘useful cinema’ (Acland and Wasson 2011), and other ‘ephemeral’ forms (Prelinger 2006) remained in a preservation grey zone. Russia’s neocolonial war against Ukraine has further foregrounded the vulnerability of state archival collections, including those of the Dovzhenko Centre and the Central State Audiovisual and Electronic Archive, while also prompting significant discoveries outside formal institutional frameworks. These findings challenge the notion of national film heritage and raise questions about the future of these materials. This paper examines three examples of liminal archives: 1) an amateur film collection compiled by Oleksandr Makhanets at the Lviv Center for Urban History; 2) rushes of popular science films discovered by Oleksii Radynskyi in the Kyivnaukfilm studio attic; and 3) a collection of student films identified by Alik Derman and Volodymyr Prylutskyi at the Ukrkinokhronika/Karpenko-Kary University facilities. Despite the fact that a number of these materials have been catalogued, digitised, or publicly screened, there is still a lack of clarity regarding their long-term preservation in proper environmental condition.
Speakers
avatar for Oleksandr Teliuk

Oleksandr Teliuk

Postgraduate Researcher, Queen Mary University of London
Oleksandr Teliuk is a film archivist, scholar, artist, and currently a postgraduate researcher at Queen Mary University of London. As a film archivist, he worked at the Dovzhenko Center, the Ukrainian state film archive (2015–23), where he headed the non-film archives department... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

12:00pm EEST

Community Archives: Refugee Narratives and Political Prisoners’ Histories
Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
The Digital Repository of Ireland is a Core Trust Seal-certified repository for the preservation of Ireland’s humanities, cultural heritage, and social sciences digital data for long-term access and discovery.

Since 2018, the DRI has run a Community Archive Award scheme, allowing unfunded archives and researchers the opportunity to avail of preservation services at the DRI, providing training and assistance to the winners and making these collections accessible to both the communities they represent and the wider public.

The winner in 2020 was the ‘Asylum Archive’, a collection that documents life under  Ireland's Direct Provision system, collected by artist and activist Vukašin Nedeljković. This collection represents a hugely important effort to capture the experience of the Direct Provision System in Ireland.

The winner in 2026 was the ‘Long Kesh Style’ collection. This is an exceptional collection of historical documents relating to the conflict in Northern Ireland known as ‘the Troubles’ (1968-1998). The collection comprises hundreds of prison letters, communiqués, crafts, and other artefacts. Curated by Holly Lennon, this collection seeks to centre the stories of protesting and non-protesting republican prisoners who have been censored politically and historically, and whose voices are absent from dominant institutional archives.

This paper explores the importance of the Community Archive Scheme and its role in giving visibility to alternative narratives and fostering a more inclusive understanding of social and political history, represented in these two collections.
Speakers
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Holly Lennon

Executive Officer, Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)
Holly Lennon is a writer from Belfast. She began collecting archival material from Long Kesh prison while completing her master's degree in English literature, during which she wrote her thesis on Bobby Sands and the 1976–1981 prison protests. A bursary from The Bobby Sands Trust... Read More →
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Noelia Romero

Digital Archivist and Training Manager, Digital Repository of Ireland
Noelia Romero holds the position of training manager and digital archivist as part of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) team based at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). In her role, Noelia provides expert advice and hands-on assistance to DRI members to facilitate the ingest, preservation... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
  Short Presentation, In Person

2:00pm EEST

IASA DEI Committee Meeting
Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is pleased to hold its 2026 meeting in Vilnius, welcoming both in-person and online participation from committee members (existing and new) and anyone from the IASA organisation or conference community.

This meeting addresses the practical work of the committee - strengthening equitable and inclusive practices within the organisation, and pro-actively supporting the diverse contributions and perspectives that shape the organisation and its networks of practice in the field. This work concerns all activities and practices within IASA, while also looking outward to the diverse contexts of real-world practice in the wider audiovisual archiving field.

We encourage attendees to share current concerns and forward-looking ideas during the meeting, to inform the planning of activities and strategies for 2026-2028. This process itself supports the organization’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. In line with the work of the committee, we welcome input from IASA’s varied communities, networks and areas of practice.

For more information about the committee, see: https://iasa-web.org/diversity-equity-inclusion-committee.
Speakers
avatar for Randi Cecchine

Randi Cecchine

researcher, AI-CODE
Randi Cecchine has a background in documentary filmmaking, media education, and educational film distribution. Her work focuses on the intersections of audiovisual archives, artificial intelligence, and media literacy. She has researched AI implementation in audiovisual archives... Read More →
avatar for Ketevan Davitashvili

Ketevan Davitashvili

Archivist, Tbilisi State Conservatoire
Ketevan Davitashvili is a performer, sound artist, and archivist from Tbilisi, Georgia. She works as an archivist at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and specializes in the digitization of unique recordings of Georgian folk songs and interviews from magnetic tapes at the Tbilisi State... Read More →
avatar for Helen Grogan

Helen Grogan

Visiting Fellow, University of Amsterdam
Helen Grogan is an artist, curator, researcher, and lecturer based in Amsterdam and Naarm/Melbourne. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam (2026–2027), and a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholar (2025–2026... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
 
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