IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

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11:30am EEST

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm EEST

The IASA Discography Committee invites you to attend our open meeting at the annual conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. This in-person meeting will also offer an online option for IASA members who are unable to attend the conference. The Zoom link to attend virtually appears below.

In the past our committee has been active in creating the International Bibliography of Discographies, and in developing the IASA guidelines for National Discography. We are currently working with the ARSC Discography Committee (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) and others to develop a universal discographic database (UDD), a
peer-reviewed resource for research into historical sound recordings. At this conference meeting we’ll provide an overview of the UDD project proposal and allow time for attendees to give updates about their own projects. We’ll also hold an election for committee officers.

For more information about the committee, see: https://www.iasa-web.org/discography-committee.

Speakers

Ferenc János Szabó

Senior research fellow, Institute for Musicology, Budapest

pianist and musicologist, senior research fellow at theArchives for 20 th -21 st -Century Hungarian Music at theInstitute for Musicology ELTE RCH and acting director ofthe Library of the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy. Hisresearch focuses on the history of the recorded sound,discography... Read More →

Peter Laurence

Librarian for Recorded Sound and Media, Harvard University

Peter Laurence is Librarian for Recorded Sound and Media at Harvard’s Loeb Music Library. He oversees the library’s general recordings collection and his recent projects include: creating an online collection of early 20th century shellac disc recordings, collaborations with Harvard's... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm EEST
Meeting Room 204

Committee Meeting, Hybrid