BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:iasabaac2026conference X-WR-CALDESC:Event Calendar METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Sched.com IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261018T070000Z DTEND:20261018T110000Z SUMMARY:Executive Board Meeting (Closed) DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:COMMITTEE MEETING LOCATION:Meeting Room 204\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:c8945bcda36261da01a06229f21998a7 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/c8945bcda36261da01a06229f21998a7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T053000Z DTEND:20261019T063000Z SUMMARY:Morning Tea DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:MORNING TEA LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:a9024bbfcd75f521846d0b1d00b66098 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/a9024bbfcd75f521846d0b1d00b66098 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T063000Z DTEND:20261019T093000Z SUMMARY:Depolarising How We Talk About AI DESCRIPTION:Workplace conversations about AI often get stuck. This workshop gives participants the practical tools and confidence to change that – moving beyond the for-or-against standoff toward something more nuanced and constructive.\nAI isn't new\, especially for heritage communities. For over 20 years\, conversations about machine learning stayed within specialist circles (researchers developing sector-specific tools for metadata enrichment). Today\, those conversations have expanded to include curators\, project managers\, HR departments\, and legal teams. People with very different understandings of what AI is\, what it's for\, and what it means are being asked to sit down together and agree on organisational policies or cross-departmental “AI” projects. More often than not\, these conversations end in frustration. But it doesn’t have to.\n\nThat's what How to Talk to People About AI was made for. Developed by the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision and AIxDESIGN\, it's a practical playbook of workshop activities\, icebreakers\, and facilitation guides that help teams create an environment for more honest\, grounded\, and productive dialogue about using AI in the workplace.\n\nIn this interactive workshop\, participants try out these tools firsthand and leave with techniques they can bring back to their own organisations. Because the real work – reimagining stewardship ethics\, or building infrastructures for metadata exchange – is hard enough without getting derailed by arguments about AI. CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:b9a7d93b962a699299011a1d507325dc URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/b9a7d93b962a699299011a1d507325dc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T063000Z DTEND:20261019T093000Z SUMMARY:How Can I Help? DESCRIPTION:Can post-disaster recovery projects serve as a framework to prepare for future crises\, including armed conflict\, where similar audiovisual heritage may be at risk?\n\nThis workshop aims to develop a set of best practices for initiating audiovisual heritage recovery projects from outside affected areas\, whether impacted by natural disasters or political crises. It proposes a collective reflection based on real case studies\, addressing how to effectively design and implement recovery strategies in emergency contexts.\nParticipants will include both individuals and institutions with direct experience in disaster response\, as well as those who have sought to provide support but lacked the necessary tools or frameworks. Through this exchange\, the workshop seeks to bridge the gap between intention and effective action.\n\nDrawing on our experience with the project ¡NO LAS TIRES!\, focused on the recovery of home movies after the 2026 floods in Valencia\, we identified key challenges in responding to dispersed\, privately held audiovisual heritage. This type of material—non-institutional\, fragile\, and deeply embedded in personal memory—requires specific methodologies and coordination strategies.\n\nThe workshop will adopt a hands-on format\, using real problems encountered during the project to explore context-sensitive solutions. Participants will work through scenarios shaped by different sociopolitical and administrative conditions.\n\nBy extending existing disaster preparedness frameworks beyond institutional settings\, this proposal emphasizes the need to equip both affected communities and external actors with practical tools for collaboration. These insights may also inform responses to other crises\, including those arising from armed conflict. CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:15a9ebf847e12002c78efe4119501e0c URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/15a9ebf847e12002c78efe4119501e0c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T063000Z DTEND:20261019T093000Z SUMMARY:Protecting the Real and Identifying the Fake: Human Rights Centered Approaches to Disclosing Provenance and Detecting Generative AI DESCRIPTION:Trust is fundamental to archives. As generative AI becomes integrated throughout the digital content lifecycle\, archival collections may become accidentally or maliciously polluted with unlabeled manipulated content. Archives may find themselves unwittingly misrepresenting synthetic fake content as real\, gradually eroding the reliability of their collections. In a worst-case scenario\, archives’ hard-earned trust could even be weaponized by bad actors in disinformation campaigns in order to re-write historical narratives. \;\n\nDisclosure mechanisms and AI detection tools are key in asserting authenticity and tackling AI-generated deception. Disclosure includes methods like metadata\, watermarks\, and fingerprinting. Meanwhile\, AI detection consists of methods of identifying patterns that differentiate synthetic media from non-synthetic media to determine the likelihood that a piece of content was AI-generated/modified. Disclosure and detection can contribute to more secure and inclusive digital information ecosystems that can respond to emerging threats to democracy and human rights. \;\n\nThe tutorial seeks to share knowledge about the global landscape of deceptive AI and existing technical solutions\, drawing from WITNESS’s foundational research and advocacy on synthetic media in consultation with human rights defenders\, journalists\, and technologists\; and from years of supporting community-based human rights archiving initiatives. It will include insights gleaned from WITNESS’s participation in the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)\, and real-life examples analyzed by our Deepfake Rapid Response Force to illustrate the effectiveness and challenges of disclosure and detection. CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:b98496f80acdef2cab1754b791d9bb0b URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/b98496f80acdef2cab1754b791d9bb0b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T070000Z DTEND:20261019T140000Z SUMMARY:Community Archiving Workshop DESCRIPTION:The Community Archiving Workshop is a one-day workshop that centers community building and the preservation of audiovisual collections\, bringing together archivists and community volunteers to support the preservation of a local audiovisual collection. The workshop begins with educational presentations addressing the identification of audiovisual formats and their risk factors. Participants then break into groups and work together to inspect and inventory the collection. The primary outcome is to train workshop participants on the handling and care of audiovisual collections\, to engage local community members in processing and describing their community’s audiovisual assets\, and to process a small collection of recordings in preparation for preservation. \;\n\nReturning to the IASA conference for the third time\, the workshop will partner with Meno Avilys—a Vilnius-based non-governmental organization founded in 2005 by a group of like-minded people who work independently in the field of film and audiovisual media. Meno Avilys is committed to fostering media education and the cognition of film culture through organizing screenings of unconventional cinema\, inviting discussions and informal conversations\, and helping filmmakers to develop and produce their first films. Meno Avilys preserves audiovisual heritage and upholds its relevance\, promotes gender equality in the film industry through research\, and creates space for silenced or less-heard voices in film culture. CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Meno Avilys\, A Goštauto g 2 01104 Vilnius SEQUENCE:0 UID:fae457f5d017eb6c0d5bb102cc888fc9 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/fae457f5d017eb6c0d5bb102cc888fc9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T093000Z DTEND:20261019T103000Z SUMMARY:Lunch DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:LUNCH LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:d4247c3f5624208c5654de8faca7b6fa URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/d4247c3f5624208c5654de8faca7b6fa END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T103000Z DTEND:20261019T113000Z SUMMARY:Azimuth Adjustments: Will We Do All Our Collections Again? DESCRIPTION:The current methodology to correct azimuth on quarter inch audio tape based upon a combination of spectral tools and  \;listening abilities has led in the last 25 years to common practices how to digitize tapes with wrongly adjusted azimuth. In a recent field test with  \;senior archive audio engineers and young students\, a test was done to compare different approaches how to adjust azimuth – based upon ears\, spectral tools\, and completely new approaches. The test results of traditional and new methodologies will be presented\, which might put a new light and a question in the way how collections have been digitised in the past.\n \; CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:640cd101386cef0f84d1a5f8b794b731 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/640cd101386cef0f84d1a5f8b794b731 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T103000Z DTEND:20261019T133000Z SUMMARY:Getting on the same page: shaping AI organisational policy together DESCRIPTION:Many organisations in the IASA community are currently in the middle of developing and adopting organisational AI policies. These efforts require organisations to make practical choices about acceptable use\, risk\, responsibility\, staff capability and the relationship between AI adoption and institutional values. These processes are far from straightforward\, as many conflicting attitudes about how AI should and should not be used often coexist within the same organisational context. This means that inevitably some people will disagree with choices made at the policy level and will be hesitant or refuse to adhere to them. \;\n\nSo how can we ensure that the organisation as a whole gets behind its AI policies? We think it is important to consider not only what these policies say but also how they are developed. We frame AI policy development as a trust and capacity building exercise that can help different parts of the organisation better understand each other’s perspectives on AI.\n\nThis workshop is generative\; instead of offering a successful recipe for how to develop AI policies\, we are inviting the IASA community members to exchange successes and common pitfalls. During the session\, participants will converse in groups on strategies to engage colleagues in their organisations in co-development of AI policies which can lead to better understanding\, ownership and accountability. Participants will leave with practical ideas\, peer-tested approaches and concrete questions to take back to their own organisations. CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:8a2f518e80c99a0ec6b354c9fc75dfea URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/8a2f518e80c99a0ec6b354c9fc75dfea END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T103000Z DTEND:20261019T133000Z SUMMARY:Performing the Archive: An Experiment in Collective Memory in the Face of Technological\, Geopolitical and Climate Crisis DESCRIPTION:This workshop will be an experimental performance-based process that will ask participants to work with scores and notational systems that require collective conversation\, rehearsal and performance. Techniques borrowed from conceptual art practice (specifically Robert Smithson's *Nonsites* from 1968) and experimental music practice (the lineage of John Cage\, Robert Ashley\, Pauline Oliveros\, and Anthony Braxton) will be discussed and workshopped\, with scores provided to participants to begin the process. The scores that we will work with do not require a music background and in fact do not need to be used to produce music or sound. At their root\, they are orientation devices and engines for creating collective movement. Through reading and thinking about scores--which are by definition\, *prescriptive* and *descriptive*-- we will think through how our archives work in their current state and theorize different possible outcomes for memory work when the sites which house this work are (already) under attack or may be imminently under threat. \;\n \;\nAt stake are questions about how the human resources of memory\, ritual\, and performance can be leveraged to tackle questions around the preservation of community and institutional archives in the face of the massive global crises that we currently face and their impact on natural and physical resources. Beyond an engagement with conceptual art and experimental music practice\, this workshop will draw from the theory and practice of Counter Archives\, the Dark Forest of Theory of the Internet\, Mutual Aid\, and environmental activism.  \; CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:f9fcd1b13c0cfe2f9f3d392fdd234e90 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/f9fcd1b13c0cfe2f9f3d392fdd234e90 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T113000Z DTEND:20261019T120000Z SUMMARY:MediaShield: Preserving the Authenticity of Community Radio Archives in the Age of AI-Generated Audio DESCRIPTION:MediaShield is a preservation-oriented framework designed to protect the authenticity and integrity of sound archives in the age of generative artificial intelligence. As deepfake audio and voice cloning technologies become increasingly accessible\, audiovisual heritage—especially within community and associative radio—faces growing risks of manipulation and loss of trust.\n\nMediaShield addresses this challenge by combining acoustic identification with AI-assisted analysis to verify both the origin and integrity of audio recordings. The system is designed for local deployment\, without cloud dependency\, making it suitable for low-resource environments where many cultural archives are maintained.\n\nBy supporting authenticity\, traceability\, and long-term preservation\, MediaShield contributes to safeguarding sound memory and strengthening trust in audiovisual archives in the context of rapidly evolving AI technologies. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:21c61fc3dd9f518206f87e850088ed40 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/21c61fc3dd9f518206f87e850088ed40 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T120000Z DTEND:20261019T123000Z SUMMARY:Afternoon Tea DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:AFTERNOON TEA LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:c7cfe6138a58d0296a65891c29e8f404 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/c7cfe6138a58d0296a65891c29e8f404 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T123000Z DTEND:20261019T133000Z SUMMARY:Permanent Records\, Permanent Access\, Permanent Readability: Cerabyte The New Storage Technology DESCRIPTION:Existing storage technologies for medium- to long-term preservation\, such as magnetic tape\, as well as emerging approaches for very long-term storage\, including DNA\, Microsoft Silica/SPhotonix\, and Holomem\, still face significant limitations in fast access and high-performance readout. Without these capabilities\, any new storage medium is unlikely to meet the practical requirements of contemporary and future data storage infrastructures.\n\nCerabyte introduces a new technology for permanent\, sustainable\, and cost-efficient data storage over extended periods\, while delivering high-performance and random-access. Based on ceramic materials\, the medium suffers no bit rot and withstands humidity\, high temperature\, corrosion\, and magnetic pulses.\n\nA technology intended to preserve data across centuries raises two fundamental questions for archives: first\, how can data be read if the original reading technology is no longer available\; and second\, assuming the bits can be recovered\, how can they be translated into meaningful information?\n\nAlthough Cerabyte provides dedicated high-performance readers\, the stored data can also be read independently using standard industrial microscopy. Provided that the error-correction algorithms remain known\, the encoded information can be reconstructed from the recovered bit patterns.\n\nOur presentation will demonstrate such an independent recovery workflow. A feature film from one of the world’s largest entertainment corporations\, whose name will be disclosed prior to IASA\, will be written to Cerabyte media. It will be read using an industrial microscope and a makeshift decoder developed by CERN.\n\nThe workflow\, technical approach\, and results will be presented and discussed at IASA. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:6c7e43ca3b61ba717dbf2fbb2ca7ba2c URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/6c7e43ca3b61ba717dbf2fbb2ca7ba2c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T133000Z DTEND:20261019T140000Z SUMMARY:Piql Technology as a safeguard for memory\, Identity and authenticity of audio visual archives DESCRIPTION:The study identifies adoption of Piql technology as one of the ways through which archival institutions can preserve the memory\, identity and authenticity of audio-visual archives in the face of unforeseen disasters. Using the United Arab Emirates (UAE) National Library and Archives (NLA) as a case study and based on literature review\, the paper assesses the ways in which the UAE NLA safeguards it audio visual archives from possible effects of disaster and conflict. Secondly\, it outlines how the adoption of Piql technology by the UAE NLA preserves the memory and identity of  \;audio-visual heritage. Lastly\, it describes ways in which the use of Piql technology at the UAE NLA safeguards the authenticity of audio-visual archives in the age of AI and misinformation. The study revealed that Piql’s Arctic World Archives is located in a geographically stable\, mountainous location that protects audio visual archives from extreme weather conditions such as floods from rising ocean levels. Further\, it’s a disaster proof vault  \;that requires zero electricity thus offering ecofriendly storage with zero carbon emissions. Secondly\, the permanency nature of the Piqlfilm safeguards the memory and identity of UAE heritage by storing data in a photosensitive film that  \;does not require regular technology upgrades and is designed to last over 1000 years. Lastly\, it emerged that the authenticity of UAE’s archives in Piqlfilm format  \;is maintained by storing data offline in a read only medium that cannot be hacked\, modified and deleted. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:6fb7ae87d4437ee1ca0e38cb1971bfcf URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/6fb7ae87d4437ee1ca0e38cb1971bfcf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261019T150000Z DTEND:20261019T170000Z SUMMARY:Opening Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Opening ceremony will take place in Merchant's club in the heart of \;Vilnius. The splendid Palace was built in 1913 by a public organization \;the General Meeting of Trade and Industry or the so-called Merchant's \;Club which at that time included the richest and publicly known \;residents of Vilnius City. Nowadays it is a modern bussiness centre also \;offering venues for different events. The three-meter sculpture of Atlas \;decorates the current Merchant's club as well. \nDuring the opening \;ceremony the conference participants will enjoy snacks\, drinks and \;informal talks. Lithuanian folk band will make a short performance and \;invite to dance some traditional folk dances.\n CATEGORIES: LOCATION:The Merchants’ Club\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:31b274a3031e9a2f0ac60df3d1f48be6 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/31b274a3031e9a2f0ac60df3d1f48be6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T053000Z DTEND:20261020T063000Z SUMMARY:Morning Tea DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:MORNING TEA LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:4c3a01399397f096bf6a559bd4dd630e URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/4c3a01399397f096bf6a559bd4dd630e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T063000Z DTEND:20261020T080000Z SUMMARY:Dr Giedrė Milerytė-Japertienė DESCRIPTION:Dr Giedrė Milerytė-Japertienė is a Lithuanian historian and Deputy Director General for Research and Outreach at the National Museum of Lithuania. Previously\, she served as Head of the Lithuanian Studies Unit at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. Her research and professional work focus on diaspora archives\, documentary heritage\, and cultural memory.She has extensive experience working with Lithuanian diaspora collections in Europe and North America\, leading projects on their preservation\, digitisation\, and international accessibility. An internationally recognised expert on Lithuanian diaspora documentary heritage\, she has contributed to numerous publications and collaborative initiatives connecting dispersed archival collections with researchers and the public CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE LOCATION:Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:06cb6e26e2715a90977623480e674618 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/06cb6e26e2715a90977623480e674618 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T080000Z DTEND:20261020T090000Z SUMMARY:Archives as a Witness: A Case of National Social Security Fund-Uganda DESCRIPTION:Four years ago the National Social Security Fund of Uganda faced a parliamentary probe. This probe requested for archives dating back in the 80s\, fortunately\, the Fund had digitised its records dating the late 1970s and all the records and archives were available within the required time. This amazed the probe\, because like most institutions in developing countries\, there is a poor culture of records keeping and moreso challenges of resources to digitise their records. To us\, when we digitised our archives was focus was for preservation and future\, little did we know\, that our archives would become the much needed witness we needed. In this presentation\, we share our digital transformation journey\, how the decision to digitise saved us and is now contributing to the strategic direction of the organisation\, the challenges and some of the emerging technologies we are adopting to meet the demands of our users and clients. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:bfc2b5557ee0ecd0bfe3b70cfa3aefb3 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/bfc2b5557ee0ecd0bfe3b70cfa3aefb3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T080000Z DTEND:20261020T090000Z SUMMARY:Safeguarding Baltic Voices: Collaborative Approaches to Video Testimony Preservation DESCRIPTION:This panel of four presentations brings together experts from the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia\, the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory\, Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom\, and Stanford University Libraries to discuss collaborative models for the preservation\, management\, and use of Baltic video testimonies at each institution. The discussion explores how Estonian and Latvian video testimony collections – which include thousands of video interviews pertaining to WWII\, the Soviet period\, and expat communities – have been created and what joint efforts are underway to improve their preservation and accessibility. Through shared insights and examples\, the panel highlights challenges and opportunities in fostering international partnerships and enhancing metadata interoperability\, and illuminates the crucial role of audiovisual heritage in both preserving and presenting Baltic histories.\n\n1. The Significance of Stanford’s Collaborative Efforts with the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia\, and Preventive Measures for the Security of the Video Testimony Collection\nEvita Feldentāle\, Lelde Neimane\, Museum of the Occupation of Latvia\n\n2. Oral History as a Cross-border Tool for Preserving Community Memory and Identity: The Case of Kogu Me Lugu\nMarko Poolamets\, Estonian Institute of Historical Memory\n\n3. From Archive to Exhibition: Managing and Activating Audiovisual Testimonies at Vabamu \;\nLiisi Ploom\, Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom\n\n4. Safeguarding Baltic Voices: Stanford’s Approach to Video Testimony Preservation and Collaboration with Baltic Institutions\nLiisi Esse\, Hannah Frost\, Stanford University Libraries CATEGORIES:PANEL LOCATION:Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:d11be446ba09d5b075dde518d532ea01 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/d11be446ba09d5b075dde518d532ea01 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T080000Z DTEND:20261020T083000Z SUMMARY:Discovering "L’Assedio Dei Sogni\, The Siege of Dreams” DESCRIPTION:I work with a small not-for-profit reissue label called Recordiana\, dedicated to discovering and digitising out-of-print South African recordings where master tapes no longer exist. Through this work\, I recently became involved in the rediscovery of a piece of music\, an original war time composition\, that had not been heard for over 80 years.\n\nThe story begins with my partner in Recordiana\, Rob Allingham\, a long-time music archivist and record collector (formerly archivist at Gallo Record Company). In the 1990s he purchased a large box of South African 78rpm shellac records at an estate auction. \;\n\nAmong them were ten mysterious white-label test pressings with handwritten notes referencing “Zonderwater 1946” and “Gallo (Pty) Ltd”.\n\nZonderwater was the biggest Prisoner of War detention camp built by the Allies during World War II. Located 43 kms east of Pretoria\, South Africa\, more than 100\,000 Italian soldiers captured by the British on the North and East Africa fronts were interned at Zonderwater from April 1941 to January 1947.\n\nFollowing the precepts of the Geneva Convention to the letter\, the South African camp management focused on the humane treatment of their captives\, and the camp developed into a productive and creative hub with POWs engaged in numerous activities in the endless fight against boredom and depression. Musical performance was a key part of these activities. (Dr Donato Somma\, University of the Witwatersrand\, 2007.)\n\nThrough our research we have determined that in December 1946\, three of the most prominent musical talents in the camp\, Mino Martucci\, a renowned violinist in Italy prior to the war\, pianist Davio Almangano and composer Raoul Maccari recorded ten performances for recording engineer\, John Hecdt of the Gallo Recording Company.\n\nNine of the recordings are light classical pieces such as 'Capresse Viennoise' and 'Nocturne in E Flat’ made popular in the 1920s and 30s by the likes of Fritz Kreisler and Yehudi Menuhin. The other two recordings are solo piano pieces played by Davio Almangano - including the recording of an original composition for piano: a piece identified with a note on the sleeve as 'composed in captivity' called 'L'Assedio Dei Sogni’ (The Siege of Dreams)\, composed by a POW named Raoul Maccari.\n\nThis specific composition and recording has never previously been heard\, nor was any information\nabout the recording session ever documented\, as these recordings were never issued for commercial release by the company and the 10 shellac "test pressing" 78” RPM discs remained in the private collection of the recording engineer until his death in the 1980s.\n\nThis presentation will offer an opportunity for delegates to hear the remarkable story of how these specific recordings were recently re-discovered\, digitised and preserved for future generations through the work of Recordiana and the ILMC (Institute of Concentrationary Musical Literature) foundation in Italy - and an opportunity to hear\, for the first time\, an original composition performed and captured in the Zonderwater POW camp in 1946: "L’Assedio Dei Sogni\, The Siege of Dreams.”\n\nThe presentation was successfully delivered at the International Association of Music Libraries\, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) conference in 2024 (Stellenbosch\, South Africa) on a panel chaired by Ferenc Janós Szabó (Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian of Sciences and the Liszt Ference Academy of Music) CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:c20ca396d6ab80c32678244f5a5567f3 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/c20ca396d6ab80c32678244f5a5567f3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T080000Z DTEND:20261020T083000Z SUMMARY:Listening Across the Iron Curtain: Western Popular Music in Soviet Latvia\, 1970–1985 DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the circulation and cultural significance of Western popular music in Soviet Latvia from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. Despite strict ideological control and limited official access to Western recordings\, rock and pop music from the West became widely known among Latvian audiences through informal and semi-legal channels. Records entered the country through sailors and the black market\, were sent by relatives abroad\, and were copied and redistributed further on reel-to-reel tapes and audio cassettes. Western music also spread through radio broadcasts from stations such as Radio Luxembourg\, the BBC\, and Deutsche Welle\, whose programs were often recorded and shared among friends.\n\nYouth culture played an important role in this process. Informal listening gatherings and the rise of discos created spaces where Western music circulated despite ideological restrictions. At the same time\, Soviet cultural authorities attempted to counter this influence by promoting domestically produced “estrada” music while limiting rock music and other genres associated with Western culture. Nevertheless\, Western bands such as the Beatles\, Led Zeppelin\, and Deep Purple became highly influential among Latvian listeners and musicians.\n\nThe paper also examines the role of official media\, including the Latvian Radio programme \;Mikrofons and its annual song poll\, which promoted local popular music while revealing tensions between official cultural policy and audience preferences.\n\nDrawing on memoirs\, press materials\, and contemporary accounts\, the paper argues that Western popular music significantly shaped youth culture and musical life in Soviet Latvia despite ideological constraints. \; CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:d94b7a46441b6c8d73b80128a41ed55e URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/d94b7a46441b6c8d73b80128a41ed55e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T083000Z DTEND:20261020T090000Z SUMMARY:From Loss to Resilience: Safeguarding Bangladesh’s Audiovisual Heritage in Times of Crisis DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines the challenges and opportunities of safeguarding audiovisual heritage in Bangladesh\, a context shaped by historical loss\, environmental vulnerability\, and limited archival infrastructure. It takes as a starting point the legacy of Hiralal Sen\, one of the earliest filmmakers in South Asia\, whose pioneering works were largely destroyed by fire. This early loss highlights the fragility of audiovisual memory and the long-standing absence of systematic preservation practices in the region.\n\nBuilding on this historical case\, the paper explores contemporary risks facing audiovisual archives in Bangladesh\, including climate-related threats such as flooding and humidity\, resource constraints in archival institutions\, and the vulnerability of independent and community-based collections. Particular attention is given to the preservation of materials that document marginalized voices\, including grassroots movements\, indigenous communities\, and socially engaged media practices\, which are often at risk of neglect or erasure.\n\nThe presentation also addresses emerging concerns regarding the authenticity and integrity of audiovisual records in the digital era. With the growing influence of artificial intelligence and the spread of manipulated media\, ensuring the reliability of archival materials has become increasingly complex\, especially in contexts with limited technological capacity.\nIn response to these challenges\, the paper proposes practical and scalable strategies for resilience\, including low-cost digitization\, community-led archiving initiatives\, capacity-building programs\, and regional collaboration. It argues that safeguarding audiovisual heritage in Bangladesh requires an approach that integrates local knowledge with global best practices.\n\nBy situating Bangladesh within broader discussions of archives in times of peace and crisis\, this presentation contributes to ongoing efforts to protect memory\, identity\, and authenticity in vulnerable archival contexts. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:27da4ad64cab78e1e65ccbd790c7f89f URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/27da4ad64cab78e1e65ccbd790c7f89f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T083000Z DTEND:20261020T090000Z SUMMARY:Il mondo dei vinti: Voices from the Past Calling for a Future DESCRIPTION:Nuto Revelli is a key figure in the history of 20th-century Italy\; he lived through the entire period\, bearing witness through his own life experiences to the political\, economic and social upheavals that helped shape it: the Second World War\, the Resistenza\, of which he was one of the commanders\, the birth of democracy\, the industrialization\, the mass workers’ movements and the cold war in the Italian Republic.\n\nAmong Nuto’s literary masterpieces is - \;Il mondo dei vinti - (The World of the Vanquished)\, a lucid and collective account of the remnants of Alpine civilization.\n\nThis was based on hundreds of interviews conducted between 1970 and 1984 with a tape recorder as he travelled through the impoverished countryside of the province of Cuneo\, in Piedmont.\n\nAll these autobiographical accounts in Patois\, Occitan and Piedmontese\, are contained in the digital archive which will be launched and made available online in 2027\, to mark the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication.\n\nIn this presentation\, we will explore this unique archive with the aid of audio clips subtitled in English\, and we will travel through its main themes: emigration\, hunger and despair\, the wars seen by the people\, and the memory of a civilization which had endured for millennia and crumbled so easily under the onslaught of progress at any cost.\n\nCan the voices of the defeated – those who have been excluded from the neo-liberal plunder – show us a way forward\, a genuine transition in which we can finally make our home on Earth? CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:b9e4c4c1a8738729a0482ae60277c902 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/b9e4c4c1a8738729a0482ae60277c902 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T090000Z DTEND:20261020T093000Z SUMMARY:Relistening for Aural Justice: The Case of Alternative Community Radio in Ukraine DESCRIPTION:“They were singing about burning churches and the churches are burning now” \;\n \;(20ft radio host\, interview\, 2022). \;\n \;\nRussia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has exposed the fragility of both material and living memory: destroyed archives and libraries\, killed artists\, knowledge from the occupied territories cut off from information exchange. In an almost instantaneous grassroot response\, local musicians and music lovers joined broader shifts to preserve – but also search for gaps in Ukrainian cultural memory and history.\n\nThis presentation\, based on broader fieldwork with online community radio practitioners in Ukraine\, explores how such alternative sound media offers ways to listen to both the more distant and immediate pasts. From the re-releases of the niche 90s new wave and post-punk recordings to podcasts on Ukrainian poetry\; rediscovering folklore music tradition\; or archival recordings from the national radio and television studios\, hosts and DJs recontextualise various aural traditions in contemporary popular and electronic music culture. By becoming an ad-hoc archive\, and a platform to recontextualise historical recordings and musical traditions\, analysed stations engage with two questions: how can the lesser explored pasts of Ukrainian music – and its absence in the mainstream public memory – connect the systematic epistemic pressure from the imperial centre(s) with the war\; and how can the aural side of life at war be remembered in the future.\n\nRead through Carolyn Birdsall’s notion of “earwitnessing”\, Gascia Ozunian study of sonic memories of Armenian genocide survivors\, Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier’s decolonial approach to the aural epistemologies\, Maria Sonevytsky’s work indigenous archival silences in Crimean War\, and Diana Taylor’s critique of an object-centric archival practices\, I argue that such animation of a sonic memory is a way to relisten to the past from the wartime perspective in search for the useful knowledge – and a practice of sound-based epistemic justice seeking. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:693c47004621fd6fd327d343687eb153 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/693c47004621fd6fd327d343687eb153 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T090000Z DTEND:20261020T093000Z SUMMARY:Sound Archives and Colonial Memory: Preserving Malagasy Musical Heritage (1900–1960) DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the role of early sound archives in the construction\, preservation\, and representation of Malagasy musical heritage during the colonial period (1900–1960). It focuses on how sound recordings—produced through scientific missions\, colonial exhibitions\, and early commercial initiatives—have contributed to shaping both historical memory and contemporary understandings of Malagasy music.\n\nThe study addresses the following questions: how were Malagasy musical forms selected\, recorded\, and archived during the colonial period? To what extent do these sound archives reflect processes of preservation\, and how do they also embody forms of cultural selection\, transformation\, or bias? Drawing on archival recordings\, historical documents\, and ethnomusicological analysis\, this research explores the contexts in which these recordings were produced and later preserved.\n\nMany of the earliest recordings of Malagasy music were carried out by European ethnographers\, colonial institutions\, and foreign record companies. These actors played a decisive role in determining which musical forms were recorded and transmitted\, often privileging certain genres while excluding others. As a result\, these archives do not represent a neutral or complete record of Malagasy musical practices but rather a selective construction shaped by technological\, institutional\, and political factors.\n\nTechnical constraints\, including recording duration and early equipment limitations\, also influenced the content and structure of recorded material. Furthermore\, the processes of archiving and preservation have contributed to stabilizing certain representations of Malagasy music\, transforming them into reference points for both research and cultural heritage.\n\nBy analyzing sound archives as both historical sources and cultural artifacts\, this paper argues that they play a dual role: they preserve musical heritage while simultaneously shaping its interpretation and transmission. In this sense\, sound archives are not only tools of conservation but also active agents in the construction of cultural memory.\n\nThis study contributes to ongoing discussions on audiovisual archiving\, colonial knowledge production\, and the preservation of intangible cultural heritage. It highlights the importance of critically engaging with sound archives in order to better understand their role in mediating between past musical practices and present-day interpretations. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:6b41926ce267924f785ab83cab526c35 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/6b41926ce267924f785ab83cab526c35 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T090000Z DTEND:20261020T093000Z SUMMARY:Uncovering\, Recontextualising and Publishing Recordings of Female Fiddlers in Sweden DESCRIPTION:In 2024\, Folkmusikens hus released Spelkvinnor i Dalarna\, an album bringing together archive recordings of female fiddle players from Dalarna who were born between the 1890s and 1930s. These field recordings\, gathered from across amateur and institutional collections in the Folkmusikens hus archive\, give an insight into the lives and music-making of nine women who began playing the fiddle in the first half of the 1900s\, a time when it was supposed that women were largely absent from instrumental folk music in Sweden. To present these recordings and their contexts to a wider audience the album combined the field recordings with new spoken word vignettes\, written biographies and artwork\, and an accompanying exhibition and concert were commissioned. This presentation highlights how material in sound archives can be used challenge historical preconceptions and reflects on the challenges and possibilities of presenting musical field recordings in an artistic form that engages with the people and stories behind the music. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:eca05894785c43a4cfb52488f7eb1434 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/eca05894785c43a4cfb52488f7eb1434 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T090000Z DTEND:20261020T093000Z SUMMARY:Voices That Won’t Be Erased: Archiving Nairobi’s Gen Z Maandamano DESCRIPTION:In 2024\, Nairobi’s streets pulsed with the energy of the Maandamano Gen Z protests — a youth-led wave of civic expression that transformed public spaces into arenas of resistance\, identity\, and democratic engagement. Mobile phones became lifelines of memory\, capturing videos\, photographs\, voice notes\, and live streams that documented a generation demanding to be heard. During this period\, the Directorate of Records and Archives Management working alongside the Governor’s Media team at Nairobi City County Government took on the critical responsibility of documenting and preserving these moments. Their work focused on safeguarding voices often excluded from official narratives through the structured archiving of digital and audiovisual content.\n\nThis paper recounts the process of capturing Nairobi’s protest memory to addressing complex issues of authenticity\, consent\, and safety. It highlights the ethical responsibility of archival practices\, recognizing that archives are not neutral but active spaces where inclusion\, exclusion\, and meaning are shaped. Using a narrative approach\, the paper examines how protest footage\, interviews\, and citizen recordings were appraised and preserved. It explores the challenges of verifying content\, protecting contributors\, and ensuring fair representation\, particularly for young voices that are frequently absent from formal archives.\n\nIn moments of civic tension\, archives serve as spaces of truth-telling and accountability\, bridging generations and preserving collective memory. This case demonstrates the vital role of local archival practice in protecting identity\, authenticity\, and historical memory during periods of social transformation. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:0e5e2e28ea671b27202a40e1d734d282 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/0e5e2e28ea671b27202a40e1d734d282 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T093000Z DTEND:20261020T103000Z SUMMARY:Lunch DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:LUNCH LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:bd39d40a231c0ccb5afc443d3332ffaa URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/bd39d40a231c0ccb5afc443d3332ffaa END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T103000Z DTEND:20261020T113000Z SUMMARY:Digital Preservation and Conservation of the Audiovisual Collections in Archives in South Africa In Times Peace and War DESCRIPTION:Globally\, archives exist to preserve rare and archival collection of enduring nature. Audiovisual (AV) recordings specifically need to be preserved from factors such as water\, fire\, temperature and humidity which have a potentiality to destroy them permanently. Wars also pose threat as fragile and rare AV recordings can be destroyed in archives during the war. As the world is in digital era\, traditional archives need to adapt to the era to ensure long term preservation and optimal accessibility of the archival audiovisual collection even post wars. Digital preservation of audiovisual heritage in archives is of utmost important to protect their originality\, authenticity and uniqueness. Adequate digital storage facilities\, outside replication centres and data security are essential to ensure protection of the AV collections. The purpose of this study was to investigate digital preservation of AV collections to ensure that the archival collections are still accessible post wars. The study adopted the qualitative research approach. To collect in-depth data\, seven AV archivists were interviewed virtually. Interview schedule was used to collect data. The findings indicated that all archives in South Africa are busy digitising their AV heritage. The findings indicate that there is a backlog in the digitisation of millions of AV recordings. More budget is also essential for the archives to buy requisite state-of-the-art equipment to digitise AV collections. With adequate budget\, more qualified archivists can be employed to accelerate digitisation. The study recommended cloud storage of the digitised AV collections so that they are accessible post wars.  \;\n \; CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:cec7ccf8d1053d3c9f13803cfa3ad642 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/cec7ccf8d1053d3c9f13803cfa3ad642 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T103000Z DTEND:20261020T113000Z SUMMARY:"Closing the Circle” Bringing the Diasporic Experience Back to the Homeland DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together three Chicago-based audiovisual archival projects representing three diasporic communities—the Not-So-Ordinary Polish American home movie collection\, the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago\, and the Lithuanian Archives Project—each representing distinct waves of migration to that city. Each organization engages audiovisual archives as active agents of transnational connection\, circulating the diasporic experience back to the homeland.\n\nAll three projects reframe amateur audiovisual materials (home movies\, radio broadcasts\, oral histories) as primary historical sources for understanding migrant life and creating bridges between private memory and public history. Polish families exchanged videotapes and cameras between Chicago and Poland as a form of presence across absence. Filipino American home movies on 16mm film\, now appraised as among the earliest surviving documentary records of this diasporic community\, capture migrant leisure and mobility as acts of self-authorship. Lithuanian community recordings sustained cultural and political identity through the Cold War and into the post-Soviet era\, linking diaspora nodes from Chicago to Argentina to Australia.\n\nPanelists will discuss shared ethical and methodological considerations across all three projects\, as well as their efforts to engage communities\, both in Chicago and the homeland\, with the materials. CATEGORIES:PANEL LOCATION:Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:1353a3baad6de5bec8c00023c973b3b7 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/1353a3baad6de5bec8c00023c973b3b7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T103000Z DTEND:20261020T110000Z SUMMARY:Archival Resilience in Practice: The Archivo de la Palabra at the Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Puertorriqueña DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines the Archivo de la Palabra at the Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Puertorriqueña of the University of Puerto Rico\, Río Piedras Campus\, as a case of archival resilience developed under conditions of institutional and fiscal vulnerability. The project focuses on the preservation of audio recordings that document cultural\, intellectual\, and public life\, including materials related to Preguntas de Buena Fe\, a television program created in 1969\, a significant year in Puerto Rico’s political history marked by the transition to a new government administration. \;\n\nAmid Puerto Rico’s prolonged fiscal crisis\, recurring budget reductions\, and the structural challenges facing the University of Puerto Rico\, the preservation of this sound archive has required strategic planning\, collaboration\, and adaptive responses. A key component has been interinstitutional cooperation with the Audiovisual Media Archive\, part of the Film\, Radio\, and Television Unit in the School of Communication and Information at the University of Puerto Rico\, which has helped sustain the project and strengthen its continuity. This case highlights how archival preparedness can emerge through local partnerships\, technical support\, and shared stewardship to preserve vulnerable recorded heritage. \; CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:d22dafea5b241aa1312d1184c0f730c8 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/d22dafea5b241aa1312d1184c0f730c8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T103000Z DTEND:20261020T110000Z SUMMARY:Archived Sounds of World War I Prisoners from Serbia: Rethinking Comparative Musicology DESCRIPTION:Throughout the twentieth century\, wars led to the loss of valuable sound collections in Serbia. At the\nsame time\, the captivity of prisoners of war from Serbia (Serbs and Roma) in the early twentieth\ncentury also resulted in sound recordings that remain largely unknown in Serbia today. These\nrecordings are important to analyze as a missing link in the history of local ethnomusicology\, while\nalso listening to them as sonic traces of human marginalization. The research material for this\npresentation consists of digitized sound recordings and their metadata from German prison camps\,\nrecorded between 1915 and 1918 and preserved at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Ethnological\nMuseum and the Lautarchiv of Humboldt University in Berlin. The presentation will explore the\nquestions these archived recordings raise today: the voices of captives\, the methods of German\ncomparative musicologists\, and the ways in which war functioned as an active force in the\ndehumanization of music-making\, archiving and research practices. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:9cc26ded1e9d807c2b8be987b92f4e9b URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/9cc26ded1e9d807c2b8be987b92f4e9b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T110000Z DTEND:20261020T120000Z SUMMARY:Radio/Archive: Exploring Literary Radio Archives as Sites of Memory and Cultural Identity DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on a newly launched research project conducted in collaboration with CKUA Radio\, Canada’s oldest public radio station. Founded in 1927\, CKUA radio was launched by the University of Alberta’s Department of Extension as a form of educational outreach through in-person lecture circuits in rural Alberta. Broadcasting initially from the University of Alberta campus\, the station focused from the outset on literary readings\, dramatic performances\, music concerts\, and academic lectures. University faculty continued to develop CKUA radio programming for over 40 years following CKUA’s departure from campus\, first under the Radio Service\, and then the Department of Radio and Television (RTV). The CKUA archives\, both at its downtown Edmonton location and related archives of RTV held at the University of Alberta Archives\, offer valuable media and textual records of the station’s role in shaping diverse creative cultures regionally and nationally. This talk will open up questions about the place of literary radio in audiovisual archives as sites of memory and cultural identity worthy of preservation and attention. \; CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:df0517d9e9ef28199150092784653d5c URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/df0517d9e9ef28199150092784653d5c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T110000Z DTEND:20261020T120000Z SUMMARY:Restoring Image and Sound\, Rebuilding Stories: Polish Pre-War movies from FINA archives. DESCRIPTION:The presentation addresses the restoration projects of two pre-war Polish feature films: Paweł and Gaweł (Paweł i Gaweł\, 1938\, dir. M. Krawicz) and What Women Want (O czym marzą kobiety\, 1937\, dir. A. Marten). The restorations were based on pre-war nitrate-based copies 16 mm and 35 mm\, positive and internegatives. All available materials were heavily degraded and incomplete\, displaying extensive mechanical damage and defects.\n\nA key challenge in both projects was the integration of 35 mm and 16 mm sources into a coherent restored version. The 16mm elements\, often used to replace missing sections of the 35 mm materials\, were of significantly lower image and sound quality\, with reduced resolution\, increased grain\, limited tonal range\, and severely degraded optical soundtracks. Achieving visual and auditory consistency across formats required careful balancing of restoration interventions while preserving the historical authenticity of the films.\n\nIn the case of Paweł and Gaweł\, the restoration process was further complicated by the need to reconstruct the film’s edit from multiple fragmentary sources. Editorial decisions were guided by comparative analysis of the surviving copies and narrative continuity\, making reconstruction an essential component of the restoration.\n\nThe presentation outlines the principal stages of digital image and sound restoration\, including scanning\, image stabilization and cleaning\, tonal correction\, and sound processing such as noise reduction and synchronization. These case studies illustrate the broader challenges involved in restoring early sound films from heterogeneous and severely damaged archival materials. \; CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:0972ebd1a51368b0a10bb50e73539acf URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/0972ebd1a51368b0a10bb50e73539acf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T113000Z DTEND:20261020T120000Z SUMMARY:Future-Proofing AV Archives in Europe during Uncertain Times DESCRIPTION:Which risks and threats are AV archives facing in the current geopolitical moment? And how can AV archives learn from global best practices for contending with climate risk\, political instability and military conflict? These concerns have been central in a recent collaborative project with the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (NISV) for which more than 25 AV archivists from 15 European countries were interviewed in 2025. The resulting report\, “Future-Proofing the AV Archive: Pathways to Resilient Heritage in Uncertain Times\,” draws attention to the precautions that archives are currently taking against diverse risks and threats\, and outlines the potential to further improve their disaster preparedness. \;\n \;\nThis presentation will first identify examples of how AV archives in Europe are currently learning from their peers about maintaining archival services in the context of war (e.g. Ukraine’s Suspilne broadcaster) and from the emergency response/recovery protocols developed by institutions exposed to severe storms\, floods\, bushfires\, and earthquakes (e.g. across the Asia-Pacific region). \;It will then outline how – in collaboration with NISV – we together developed \;an interactive digital story “Heritage under threat” that uses the Dutch history of radio archivists protecting at-risk collections during German military occupation (1940-45) in order to frame the topic of threats faced by AV archives today. The presentation will end with a critical reflection on how such digital formats can be used to engage the broader public and archive professionals in the ‘story’ of AV archives as well as the critical need to protect AV collections in uncertain times. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:1dd19141437143d29052d6b61e7800f5 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/1dd19141437143d29052d6b61e7800f5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T120000Z DTEND:20261020T123000Z SUMMARY:Afternoon Tea DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:AFTERNOON TEA LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:914159f445d5df36e78c425a871ae610 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/914159f445d5df36e78c425a871ae610 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T123000Z DTEND:20261020T133000Z SUMMARY:Objects of Governance: Indigenous Community Archives\, State Intervention\, and the Struggle for Autonomy DESCRIPTION:Indigenous First Nation archives in remote Australian homeland communities can represent autonomy and renewal but also dependency and loss. The \;Australian federal government’s \;Emergency Response in 2007 intensified these tensions. Military intervention\, together with the systematic defunding and restructuring of locally controlled organisations\, challenged the information sovereignty underpinning the early development of Indigenous First Nation community archives. But the effects of this state-induced crisis on culturally significant audiovisual archives received little attention in either official evaluations\, or archival scholarship. Drawing on critical archival studies and long-term fieldwork in Northern Territory communities\, the paper contends that during a crisis\, the true extent community archives govern their own historical records is revealed. If community archives become objects of governance rather than agents of their own documentary heritage\, it reframes preservation projects as political technologies. \;For communities dedicated to autonomous archives\, self-determination becomes a struggle against the competing archival logics. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:df64e97e5bc87b26d3b757bf89551345 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/df64e97e5bc87b26d3b757bf89551345 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T123000Z DTEND:20261020T130000Z SUMMARY:Collecting Conflict: An Australian Perspective DESCRIPTION:The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a shrine\, a museum and an archive\, committed to telling Australia’s continuing story of service\, sacrifice and military history.\n\nWithin the archive\, the audiovisual collection holds over one hundred thousand items\, in all formats\, that record the Australian experience of and connection to war and conflict throughout the 20th and 21st centuries – from pre-Federation colonial wars to ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.\n\nSince its inception in the middle of the First World War\, the AWM has been collecting stories and recordings of war from front lines\, war zones and military bases across the world\, as well as from the Australian home front and community. Through a retrospective of the AWM collection and its acquisition and collection development history\, this paper will explore the many different means of collecting before\, during and after a conflict\, and how this has changed over time.\n\nIt will also consider the practical and ethical considerations of collecting\, working with\, sharing and displaying such content\, with particular focus on recent AWM exhibitions – Operation Kudu: supporting Ukraine and Action! Film & War. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:aa57f9878c02b53c43871c125b3b331c URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/aa57f9878c02b53c43871c125b3b331c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T123000Z DTEND:20261020T130000Z SUMMARY:Not Afraid of Lossless Compression DESCRIPTION:Lossless encodings for audiovisual data offer a number of efficiencies over uncompressed variants but use more complex methods to gain those efficiencies. This presentation shall provide a tour of how one lossless encoding works: FFV1\, which was standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force in 2021. The tour will include approachable demonstrations of quantization\, range coding\, median prediction and other techniques of the design of FFV1 that can reduce the use of scarce resources such as digital storage and bandwidth. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:01e2d2109beb96fc4d847914e3d396f5 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/01e2d2109beb96fc4d847914e3d396f5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T130000Z DTEND:20261020T140000Z SUMMARY:IASA Ambassadors Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:The IASA Ambassadors was conceived in 2018 as a flexible platform for informal information exchange\, networking\, and knowledge-sharing. The program seeks to decenter traditional hierarchies by fostering connections between large\, well-resourced institutions and smaller cultural and community-based archives. IASA Ambassadors aims to forge informal network building -  \;between archivists who may be working as “lone arrangers” in the developing world\, and colleagues in large scale archives throughout the globe. In doing so\, it aligns with broader efforts to redistribute authority\, amplify underrepresented voices\, and recognize the value of localized knowledge within a global archival ecosystem.\n\nIn this meeting\, open to all members willing to take part\, we will discuss the Ambassador Committee role as a relational and transformative practice. Rather than viewing outreach solely as dissemination\, we will work searching for reciprocal processes of engagement that enables transnational knowledge circulation and collaborative meaning-making. CATEGORIES:COMMITTEE MEETING LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:24850eee6b528e888ba328741e3fc6c5 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/24850eee6b528e888ba328741e3fc6c5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T130000Z DTEND:20261020T140000Z SUMMARY:Celluloid Diplomacy: USIA Films\, Propaganda\, and the Making of Cold War Latin America DESCRIPTION:From 1953 to 1999\, the United States Information Agency (USIA) produced or distributed approximately 20\,000 motion pictures worldwide. Films focused on Latin America were designed to advance U.S. foreign policy objectives\, promoting initiatives such as the Alliance for Progress\, anticommunism\, and modernization\, while countering Soviet influence in the region. Intended primarily for international audiences\, these films showcased U.S.-led development projects and encouraged cultural alignment with the United States\, offering a counternarrative to the perceived threat of socialism and communism following the Cuban Revolution. Although often categorized as propaganda\, USIA films encompass a wide range of subjects and employ diverse cinematic styles. Despite this breadth\, cultural and political historians have devoted limited attention to the specific production practices and enduring legacies of this extensive body of work.\n\nWhile some USIA films remain recognizable in different parts of the world\, their visibility has long been constrained by a domestic distribution ban that was only lifted in 2013. More recently\, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park\, Maryland\, has digitized a substantial corpus of USIA films along with extensive accompanying documentation. In the case of Latin America\, this includes approximately 750 films covering presidential visits\, diplomatic exchanges\, U.S. aid programs\, instructional campaigns\, and sociopolitical representations. Physical 16 mm copies of these films are often dispersed across archives\, universities\, and cultural institutions throughout Latin America. The growing availability of digital access now creates new opportunities to examine the complex significance of these films\, the conditions of their production\, and their historical contexts. It also enables fresh interpretations at a moment when institutional stewardship—particularly at NARA—faces uncertainty and when shifting political climates call for renewed engagement with the legacies of the Cold War. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:8d9abd17b99c31745d0e7f4047524cb8 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/8d9abd17b99c31745d0e7f4047524cb8 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261020T133000Z DTEND:20261020T140000Z SUMMARY:Towards the Transmedia Archive: A Methodological Approach to Preserving Interactive Audiovisual Works in Colombia DESCRIPTION:The preservation of cinema rests on a century of consolidated methodology\, but the digital preservation of interactive and transmedia works still lacks clear frameworks. Their technological substrates are unstable by design.\n\nThis presentation reports on a methodological approach developed from the analysis of five Colombian interactive works (2014–2021): 4 Ríos\, Reconstrucción\, Crónica de una ciudad que fue\, Entre luces y sombras\, and El Cubo. A shared analytical template surfaced common vulnerabilities — obsolete browsers\, defunct game engines\, discontinued immersive hardware — across a spectrum ranging from active development to substantially compromised access. Wider surveys of Colombian interactive production from the same period document more advanced loss (Arciniegas\, 2019).\n\nA structural finding reframes the technical problem: although Colombia's legal-deposit framework formally covers digital heritage\, no institution currently has the capacity or methodologies to archive interactive or transmedia works operationally\, and none of the works in this corpus has been acquired by an audiovisual archive. The works face obsolescence and a methodological gap in institutional custody simultaneously.\n\nDrawing on the Variable Media Approach\, the theory of evolutive conservation\, code resituation\, OAIS-based long-term preservation\, and work-defining properties\, the presentation proposes a four-phase methodology — creation\, early documentation\, active conservation\, and re-presentation/access — together with a typology of four archive instances: conservation\, research\, access and curation\, and experimental or recreation. These instances can coexist within a single institution or be distributed across collaborating ones\, and the methodology can be applied in full or in parts as institutional capacity allows.\n\nThe contribution is twofold: a transferable analytical template for diagnosing fragility\, and an argument that archival standards for behaviour-driven works require importing methods from new-media art conservation and defining institutional custody before the works disappear. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:ed197a4affb72f55f8290b516c10d283 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/ed197a4affb72f55f8290b516c10d283 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T053000Z DTEND:20261021T063000Z SUMMARY:Morning Tea DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:MORNING TEA LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:6a468169ee857dd0fb0bb0461b67534c URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/6a468169ee857dd0fb0bb0461b67534c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T063000Z DTEND:20261021T073000Z SUMMARY:IASA Research Archive Section Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Research Archives Section of IASA addresses issues of sound and audiovisual archives whose holdings include collections of unique and usually non-commercial recordings\, such as field recordings\, curated primarily for research purposes. The meetings of the Research Archive Section include possibilities for its members to share information on ongoing projects as well as discuss common issues with colleagues from all over the world. The Research Archive Section invites its members to meetings twice a year\, at the annual conference as well as an online meeting in between.\n\nAt every meeting\, the Research Archive Section invites lecturers on topics of relevance to archivists and researchers working with audiovisual collections at research archives. The topic of this years meeting will be “Rescuing Sámi Voices from Wax: Czech–Swedish Collaboration in Preserving the Karl Tirén Joik Collection“\; a report on an ongoing collaboration project between Svenskt visarkiv (The Centre for Swedish Folk music and Jazz Research) in Stockholm and the Sound lab at the National Museum in Prague. With the expertise in sound preservation from phonograph cylinders at the Sound Lab at the National Museum of Prague\, the project aims to digitize broken and damaged phonograph cylinders of the Karl Tirén Collection of Sámi Joik held at Svenskt visarkivs and recently added to the\nUNESCO Memory of the World List. The invited speakers will be Wictor Johansson (Svenskt visarkiv\, Stockholm)\, Filip Sir and Geoff Tyson (National Museum\, Prague). CATEGORIES:COMMITTEE MEETING LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:1746d7c0751712f1713f29a353ba69b6 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/1746d7c0751712f1713f29a353ba69b6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T063000Z DTEND:20261021T073000Z SUMMARY:Silences in the Archive: Stories of Transborder Resistance in Mendoza\, Argentina During the Last Civil-Military Dictatorship DESCRIPTION: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. \;\n\nPáez’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. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:9186ccb4f418e47c49aa46e8b23402ce URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/9186ccb4f418e47c49aa46e8b23402ce END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T063000Z DTEND:20261021T070000Z SUMMARY:Building on the SADC Early Warning System for the Protection of Documentary Cultural Heritage in Africa’s Peace and War Contexts DESCRIPTION:In peacebuilding and conflict prevention setups\, early warning systems are in place – but with little or nothing to do with the documentary heritage despite the latter existing in the same risk environment characterized by political instability and conflict escalation. With no structured systems to identify vulnerable archives before conflict escalates\, damage becomes reactive rather than preventive – and often irreversible. Using the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Regional Early Warning System as a reference point\, this paper explores how Africa’s documentary cultural heritage can be safeguarded across peace and war contexts through early warning systems. It argues that current mechanisms for conflict monitoring exclude vulnerable heritage assets such as archives and audio-visual records. Drawing on several examples in Africa or elsewhere\, with insights from relevant international relations political theories\, the study highlights risks posed by political instability and digital warfare. It proposes integrating documentary heritage indicators into the existing early warning frameworks\, if not designing separate\, enhanced and functional documentary heritage-centered early warning system(s)\, anticipatory and resilient - across Africa’s peace-war spectrum. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:dc47a109a73825c338c84688d3c519f2 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/dc47a109a73825c338c84688d3c519f2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T070000Z DTEND:20261021T073000Z SUMMARY:Safeguarding Audiovisual Memory in Fragile Contexts: Challenges and Strategies from Burkina Faso DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines the challenges of safeguarding audiovisual archives in fragile and resource-constrained contexts\, focusing on Burkina Faso. Audiovisual materials play a key role in preserving cultural identity\, yet they face risks such as limited infrastructure\, technological obsolescence\, and lack of formal preservation systems.\n\nBased on academic research and field observations\, this presentation highlights how local actors develop adaptive strategies\, including informal archiving practices and community-based preservation. It also emphasizes the importance of integrating risk preparedness and strengthening digital resilience.\n\nBy offering a West African perspective\, this contribution aims to enrich global discussions on audiovisual preservation\, resilience\, and cultural sustainability. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:a131b0a699fd9588b0697a1373731741 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/a131b0a699fd9588b0697a1373731741 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T073000Z DTEND:20261021T080000Z SUMMARY:A Case for Mandatory Deposit: Archiving the Mammoth Indian Film Industry DESCRIPTION:What if the only version of a national award-winning film in a state/regional archive is a wantonly censored YouTube copy? How will we protect the cinema of the world’s largest film producer\, which contributes to over 26% of the global film production\, as per the World Intellectual Property Organisation?\n\nWith access and storage of films mainly being controlled by private players\, a mandatory film deposit policy becomes important to save information from the profit-driven rules of the market and the preferences of the cultural majority. Besides the fear of some films being neglected as not worth preserving\, the chances of modifying content (there is news of muting parts of dialogues\, editing scenes out\, and colour grading films differently for streaming platforms and theatrical re-releases) are high\, too. To combat this\, the government must introduce a two-tier approach to archiving\, with every film appearing for copyright/exhibition certification\, submitting a copy to the national film archive and the respective regional archive. Though most Indian states (28 in total) and some union territories have their own film industry\, not all of them have an archive. Lacking a well-oiled production-to-archives pipeline becomes even more worrying in times of crisis when market disruption alters the usual venues for access and storage. A collaboration between the film fraternity\, state governments\, and the national government\, focusing on the principle of LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)\, is essential. By keeping the onus of preserving films exclusively on for-profit private entities\, India risks losing its film heritage. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:3fc19ad4c49b97c1e82d1a639930d78a URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/3fc19ad4c49b97c1e82d1a639930d78a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T073000Z DTEND:20261021T080000Z SUMMARY:Between Material Decay and Political Erasure: Preserving a 16mm Newsreel of the Plaza de Mayo Bombing (Argentina\, 1955) DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nMore 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. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:5a79499ad41ff40946b7128e46be6ef0 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/5a79499ad41ff40946b7128e46be6ef0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T073000Z DTEND:20261021T080000Z SUMMARY:Trust in Archives Initiative: A Community Response to Digital Authenticity in the Age of AI DESCRIPTION:Audiovisual archives face novel challenges with the rise of generative AI\, which can manipulate audiovisual materials\, but AI is also trained\, in part\, through metadata and content scraping. Archives face daunting tasks in preserving and protecting audiovisual collections\, placing additional strains on archival staff who shoulder the responsibility of validating provenance and authenticity of audiovisual collections\, but lack established standards and guidelines. There is a need for practical tools\, shared language\, and capacity-building that support both internal decision-making and public-facing communication. While there may be AI tools that provide certain benefits to archives\, such as programs improving workflows and metadata creation\, the growing use of AI carries serious risks that call for urgent study and work toward creating safeguards. To further the discussion around AI\, this session will focus on ongoing efforts by the Trust in Archives Initiative (TAI)\, a coalition of archivists and archival producers centered in the moving image community\, who are actively developing guidelines and rubrics for use of AI in archives. The panel will report on current guidance for authenticating digital records to guard against AI-generated misinformation\, legal language and frameworks archives may adopt to prevent or manage the use of AI\, describing the use of AI\, and engaging with tech institutions to assess collaboration opportunities. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:3f51b7acf8187e756ff6da311a5cd873 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/3f51b7acf8187e756ff6da311a5cd873 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T080000Z DTEND:20261021T090000Z SUMMARY:AI-CODE\, Debunk\, and the Evidentiary Future of Audiovisual Archives DESCRIPTION:Preserving the authenticity of digital records in an era of AI-generated content is a growing challenge for archives. This presentation offers one approach through AI-CODE\, a Horizon Europe project developing AI-supported services for media asset annotation\, content analysis\, verification\, and credibility assessment. The session will give audiovisual archivists a practical overview of the AI-CODE service ecosystem\, with attention to how these tools may support discovery\, contextualization\, verification\, and assessment of audiovisual materials.\n\nThe presentation will include an expert contribution from Debunk.org\, a Vilnius-based independent technology think tank and NGO working on disinformation analysis\, education\, research\, and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI). Debunk will present AI-CODE’s Media Asset Annotation and Management service (MAAM) created by the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). MAAM uses AI models for content annotation\, retrieval\, and media verification\, including synthetic media and deepfake detection. For audiovisual archivists\, MAAM offers a practical view into AI-assisted annotation\, retrieval\, and authenticity assessment. The presentation will consider how machine-generated labels\, synthetic media detection\, and explainable model outputs can contribute to verification-oriented approaches to audiovisual materials\, especially where provenance\, authenticity\, and evidentiary context are at stake. Ample time will be reserved for discussion\, with the aim of exploring how AI-CODE services might support real-world archival use cases. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:ae906e46852a0efbeb0ff08d3ae0fc36 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/ae906e46852a0efbeb0ff08d3ae0fc36 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T080000Z DTEND:20261021T090000Z SUMMARY:QC for Reformatted Audio Projects DESCRIPTION:In archival settings\, outsourced reformatting projects create an unusual melding between the industrial processes of mass digitization and the uniqueness of archival assets. Mass digitization methods prioritize saving both effort and cost\, but institutions often have little time for a systematic approach to quality control. In this talk\, we suggest an approach to quality control for reformatted audio that focuses on developing workflows that work for your institution. We will introduce a variety of time-tested tools at our disposal\, from developing quality plans to acceptance sampling techniques. We will then suggest other ambits where QC can be applied\, and touch on later developments in QC from projects such as Six Sigma and Lean. Finally\, we will look at efforts to standardize perceived audio quality in other fields such as broadcasting (PESQ\, PEAQ). CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:53c712535f601dedc1264d524d5b8eb1 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/53c712535f601dedc1264d524d5b8eb1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T080000Z DTEND:20261021T083000Z SUMMARY:Voices from the End of the World: The Koluel Archive as a Safeguard of Memory\, Identity\, and Audiovisual Authenticity in the Malvinas Conflict DESCRIPTION: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. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:5711829786a2bee2d7ddca446f0c5e06 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/5711829786a2bee2d7ddca446f0c5e06 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T083000Z DTEND:20261021T090000Z SUMMARY:Ukrainian Non-State Film Collections in Wartime: Liminal Archivism and Decolonial Reframing DESCRIPTION: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. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:80387c7bf9a0f36734e30c4ff18dbc41 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/80387c7bf9a0f36734e30c4ff18dbc41 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T090000Z DTEND:20261021T093000Z SUMMARY:Community Archives: Refugee Narratives and Political Prisoners’ Histories DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nSince 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThis 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. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:e4214332921a96d769702d3121c76d44 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/e4214332921a96d769702d3121c76d44 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T090000Z DTEND:20261021T093000Z SUMMARY:Post-Disaster Catalogue: Photographic Plates of the National Museum in the Reconstruction of Audiovisual Memory DESCRIPTION:O incêndio no Museu Nacional do Brasil em 2018 causou a destruição quase total de seu acervo\, incluindo cerca de 11 mil negativos de vidro. Essa perda representou não apenas um dano material extremo\, mas também uma profunda ruptura na memória científica e audiovisual da mais antiga instituição científica do país.\n\nPor meio dos procedimentos de conservação e restauração\, foi possível garantir a recuperação e a salvaguarda deste acervo. O presente trabalho analisa o processo de elaboração do catálogo dessas peças não como um produto editorial ou museográfico\, mas como um instrumento arquivístico para a reconstrução da memória institucional por meio da imagem.\n\nO catálogo confirmou que as placas são reproduções diretas dos negativos de vidro perdidos\, de modo que as imagens originalmente produzidas como material auxiliar passaram a funcionar como documentos primários de testemunho após a destruição dos negativos originais.\n\nInserido no debate internacional sobre arquivos em tempos de paz e crise\, o estudo demonstra que\, em contextos de destruição\, a função do arquivo se desloca da preservação integral dos suportes para a reconstrução a partir dos fragmentos sobreviventes. A experiência do Museu Nacional oferece\, assim\, lições aplicáveis a arquivos audiovisuais localizados em contextos de vulnerabilidade\, conflito ou risco cultural\, destacando o papel estratégico da imagem na salvaguarda da identidade\, da autenticidade e da memória coletiva.\n\nAo analisar o catálogo de placas fotográficas como uma prática arquivística de reconstrução pós-catástrofe\, este trabalho contribui para as discussões do IASA-BAAC sobre restauração de acervos\, resiliência institucional e preservação da autenticidade audiovisual em cenários de destruição. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:e3550b824cdea2e373441292d8ce6baa URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/e3550b824cdea2e373441292d8ce6baa END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T090000Z DTEND:20261021T093000Z SUMMARY:Safeguarding Indigenous Sound: Archival Integrity\, Resilience\, and Authenticity in Australia’s National Audiovisual Memory DESCRIPTION:National Archives of Australia’s two audio studios have recently undergone a major refurbishment\, encompassing a significant procurement process\, a complete redesign of audio signal pathways\, and the renewal of digitisation workflows. This work has reinforced a central archival principle: that the foundations of analogue‑to‑digital transfer are inseparable from the long‑term integrity\, authenticity\, and trustworthiness of archival audiovisual files.\n\nIn a global context where cultural memory is increasingly threatened—by conflict\, technological disruption\, and misinformation—this presentation positions technical infrastructure as a form of preparedness and resilience planning. Robust signal design\, transparent workflows\, metadata integrity\, and security frameworks are not merely operational considerations\; they are essential safeguards that ensure audiovisual records \;remain \;credible and defensible in contested environments.\n\nAt the National Archives of Australia\, these concerns are especially significant given our custodianship of irreplaceable recordings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices\, past and present. These recordings embody ancient and living cultures and carry deep responsibilities around access\, care\, cultural authority\, and protection. Preserving Indigenous audiovisual heritage requires approaches that \;prioritise \;respect\, collaboration\, and ethical stewardship alongside technical excellence—particularly when communities and their histories have been\, and remain\, vulnerable to erasure or misrepresentation.\n\nSenior Audio Officer Craig Field will share how the National Archives of Australia has applied new technologies to strengthen archival standards and professional principles\, outline the role of security and integrity controls in protecting both collections and people\, and discuss how authenticity can be maintained in an era of AI‑generated and manipulated audiovisual content. The presentation will also reflect on the Archives’ vision for accessible\, culturally \;appropriate curation \;that \;honours \;Indigenous knowledge systems while ensuring long‑term preservation.\n\nBy embedding resilience\, integrity\, and collaboration into everyday technical practice\, this work \;demonstrates \;how audiovisual archives can actively safeguard memory\, identity\, and trust—both in times of stability and in moments of crisis. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:902c7aa513d606376571a221023f2d2b URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/902c7aa513d606376571a221023f2d2b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T093000Z DTEND:20261021T103000Z SUMMARY:Lunch DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:LUNCH LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:4f3f5e1d60f4a5e4a069ac377c5b7db9 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/4f3f5e1d60f4a5e4a069ac377c5b7db9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T100000Z DTEND:20261021T110000Z SUMMARY:Digital Witnesses: Safeguarding Audiovisual Memory and Authenticity in the Age of AI and Conflict DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Audiovisual archives have become crucial witnesses to political violence\, humanitarian crises\, and cultural transformation. Yet in contemporary conflicts—such as the ongoing war in Ukraine—audiovisual records face dual threats: physical destruction and digital manipulation. This paper explores how archival institutions can safeguard audiovisual memory\, identity\, and authenticity in contexts where war\, displacement\, and AI-generated misinformation undermine trust in recorded evidence.\n\nIntroduction: In the digital era\, audiovisual archives are no longer passive repositories but active custodians of historical truth. As conflicts increasingly unfold online and in hybrid information environments\, archives must adapt new strategies for preservation\, verification\, and ethical stewardship.\n\nObjective: This study investigates how audiovisual archives can maintain authenticity and evidentiary integrity during conflict\, particularly when digital manipulation technologies—such as deepfakes and synthetic media—challenge the credibility of recorded memory.\n\nMethods: The research employs interdisciplinary analysis combining archival studies\, digital forensics\, and media governance. Case studies from conflict-zone documentation projects and community-based digital archives are examined alongside emerging verification tools\, metadata standards\, and chain-of-custody protocols.\n\nResults: Findings suggest that resilient archival practice depends on three key strategies: distributed digital preservation networks\, forensic verification technologies\, and community-centered documentation frameworks that protect vulnerable voices while maintaining evidentiary credibility.\n\nConclusion: Audiovisual archives must evolve into trusted infrastructures for truth in times of crisis. By integrating digital authentication methods with ethical archival stewardship\, institutions can safeguard cultural memory and support accountability in an era of conflict and AI-driven misinformation. CATEGORIES:POSTER LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:3b61d8274b0e823132711dfb4b03bcc0 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/3b61d8274b0e823132711dfb4b03bcc0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T100000Z DTEND:20261021T110000Z SUMMARY:Digitize and Discard: Preserving Audiovisual Memory Beyond the Carrier DESCRIPTION:Archives and libraries face growing preservation challenges from aging audiovisual collections due to carrier degradation and playback equipment obsolescence. As the media becomes more difficult to access its archival value decreases\, leading to questions about its ongoing storage. One proposed solution has been to digitize and discard the original media\, preserving the recordings as digital masters with derivative files for public access.  \;The suggestion to reformat audiovisual materials raises questions for cultural heritage professionals\, and each stakeholder group may have its own concerns. Yet as media capture and digital preservation technology improve\, to maintain our program’s sustainability we have begun exploring how this audio and video migration might proceed at scale.\n \;\nThe comprehensive processing of AV media through appraisal\, digitization\, imaging\, re-appraisal\, authority-controlled metadata capture\, and multi-layered curatorial and archivist review can preserve the informational and contextual integrity of audiovisual records even after physical carriers are discarded.\n \;\nIn this way\, the archive retains the intellectual and historical identity of the recordings while clearing space and resources for the acquisition and preservation of material reflecting contemporary events and voices.\n \;\nIn a global context shaped by conflict\, displacement\, and climate instability\, this approach offers a practical model for safeguarding audiovisual memory—not by preserving every object indefinitely\, but by ensuring that memory\, meaning\, and authenticity endure beyond the carrier. CATEGORIES:POSTER LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:21620ee87fbb21b3dc838d34f875f200 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/21620ee87fbb21b3dc838d34f875f200 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T100000Z DTEND:20261021T110000Z SUMMARY:Preparedness in Practice: Risk Management for Audiovisual Archives in Oman DESCRIPTION:This poster examines risk management practices for audiovisual archives in the Sultanate of Oman within the context of escalating geopolitical tensions in the Gulf region. Audiovisual collections are increasingly exposed to a range of risks\, including physical damage\, technological failure\, and data security vulnerabilities\, all of which may compromise their long-term preservation\, integrity\, and accessibility.\n\nThe poster presents a focused case study of the Audiovisual Archives Division at the National Records and Archives Authority\, drawing on current institutional practices related to preparedness and risk mitigation. It highlights existing measures such as preliminary risk assessment\, backup strategies\, and initial efforts to safeguard digital content\, while also identifying critical gaps. These include limited resources\, the absence of comprehensive risk management frameworks\, and the need for specialized training and capacity building.\n\nThe poster will discuss practical insights derived from this experience and will argue for the importance of incremental and scalable approaches to strengthening archival resilience. The findings aim to contribute to ongoing discussions on preparedness in conflict-prone and uncertain environments. CATEGORIES:POSTER LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:c31056a2728411fc68e50994ee53da16 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/c31056a2728411fc68e50994ee53da16 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T100000Z DTEND:20261021T110000Z SUMMARY:Visual and Audio Documents of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Their Preventive Conservation and Contribution to the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage DESCRIPTION:This study examines the role of audiovisual media in the representation and safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)\, emphasizing their significance as both documentation tools and cultural artifacts. It begins with a historical overview of audiovisual media—photography\, sound recording\, and moving image—tracing their evolution and their contribution to cultural expression. The research then explores the conceptual framework of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage\, highlighting the complex relationship between them as reflected in audiovisual records.\nThrough the analysis of selected case studies\, particularly drawing on the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Greece\, the study investigates how ICH is documented\, represented\, and transmitted through audiovisual means. Special attention is given to the dual nature of these media\, which embody both material vulnerability and intangible cultural value.\n\nFurthermore\, the research addresses the risks of deterioration affecting audiovisual materials and underlines the importance of preventive conservation strategies\, including proper storage and digitization. The findings stress the need for a balanced and sustainable approach to preservation\, ensuring both the protection of the physical medium and the long-term accessibility of the cultural information it carries. CATEGORIES:POSTER LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:81e25977a980c4bdd04a275acfc713ce URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/81e25977a980c4bdd04a275acfc713ce END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T110000Z DTEND:20261021T120000Z SUMMARY:IASA Editorial Board (Closed) DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Meeting Room 204\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:1b4e7caf0e9118e8cd300f53ebcaf275 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/1b4e7caf0e9118e8cd300f53ebcaf275 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T110000Z DTEND:20261021T120000Z SUMMARY:IASA DEI Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\nFor more information about the committee\, see: \;https://iasa-web.org/diversity-equity-inclusion-committee. CATEGORIES:COMMITTEE MEETING LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:c8c66eb54462110f11d8bb8c6cba6a7b URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/c8c66eb54462110f11d8bb8c6cba6a7b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T110000Z DTEND:20261021T120000Z SUMMARY:IASA Technical Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:COMMITTEE MEETING LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:626675d654b56f32f925432ab35fb50a URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/626675d654b56f32f925432ab35fb50a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T110000Z DTEND:20261021T120000Z SUMMARY:Training and Education Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:During the open meeting\, the Training and Education Committee will present its work to the attendees. A special focus will be given to the Training for Trainers held in Lugano last March and to the PTP that will probably be held in 2027. CATEGORIES:COMMITTEE MEETING LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:209b482f758fa5f20f757d09b0f14a9f URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/209b482f758fa5f20f757d09b0f14a9f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T120000Z DTEND:20261021T140000Z SUMMARY:CCAAA Meeting (Closed) DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:COMMITTEE MEETING LOCATION:Meeting Room 204\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:a6ff95a662e40daa675667543ea2b13c URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/a6ff95a662e40daa675667543ea2b13c END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T120000Z DTEND:20261021T140000Z SUMMARY:Professional visit 1: Lithuanian Central State Archive DESCRIPTION:Lithuanian Central State Archive. The Archive is the biggest one in \;Lithuania. The Archive preserves paper-based and audiovisual documents. \;During the professional visit conference participants will be guided \;through audiovisual part of the Archive: storage rooms of films\, photo\, \;sound and video recordings\; technical control of film reels\; \;digitization of films\, sound and video recordings. At the end of the \;visit participants will be able to watch some archival films in the \;Cinema hall.\n CATEGORIES:PROFESSIONAL VISIT LOCATION:Lithuanian Central State Archive\, O. Milašiaus g. 19\, 10102 Vilnius\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:9611da5a7d4207afe5335d3afcf71f53 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/9611da5a7d4207afe5335d3afcf71f53 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T120000Z DTEND:20261021T140000Z SUMMARY:Professional visit 2: Lithuanian National Television and Radio DESCRIPTION:Lithuanian National Television and Radio. The National broadcaster of \;Lithuania. During the professional visit conference participants will be \;guided through different parts of the National broadcaster archives and \;will have a short tour in television and radio buildings\, as well as museum.\n CATEGORIES:PROFESSIONAL VISIT LOCATION:Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT)\, S. Konarskio g. 49\, 03123 Vilnius\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:a92176cf08761cc14cb6450fae83d785 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/a92176cf08761cc14cb6450fae83d785 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261021T120000Z DTEND:20261021T140000Z SUMMARY:Professional visit 3: Kinoteka Hall in Ozo Street DESCRIPTION:Kinoteka Hall in Ozo street. It is one of the oldest cinemas in \;Vilnius\, showing non-commercial\, auteur\, experimental\, "non-repertoire" \;cinema and classic works\, and also the only one where the film \;repertoire is shown only from analogue film reels. During the \;professional visit conference participants will have a tour\, see old \;film equipment and be able to watch a film directly from analogue film reel.\n CATEGORIES:PROFESSIONAL VISIT LOCATION:The Kinoteka Hall\, Ozo g. 4\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:a8e083b3482f8a5af444c1b8de6d617e URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/a8e083b3482f8a5af444c1b8de6d617e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T053000Z DTEND:20261022T063000Z SUMMARY:Morning Tea DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:MORNING TEA LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:eaea2d6551097be5e507fc4e149af187 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/eaea2d6551097be5e507fc4e149af187 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T063000Z DTEND:20261022T080000Z SUMMARY:General Assembly DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:19b42aa718294649858563ca024dacca URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/19b42aa718294649858563ca024dacca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T080000Z DTEND:20261022T090000Z SUMMARY:Wartime Recordings of Voskovec and Werich: Optical Digitisation of Damaged Lacquer Discs Using the INA-Saphir System: Technical Resilience and Preservation Refresh Strategies DESCRIPTION:The Sound Laboratory of the National Museum has recently expanded its preservation workflows for severely degraded historical sound recordings through the implementation of non-contact optical scanning technologies. Since 2023\, the INA-Saphir system has been used to digitise lacquer discs that cannot be safely reproduced using conventional mechanical playback. This approach enables the recovery of audio content from cracked\, delaminated\, and fragmented carriers and represents a viable preservation strategy for vulnerable sound recordings from the World War II period.\n\nThis contribution presents a case study of wartime radio broadcasts by Voskovec and Werich\, produced during their exile in the United States for transmission to occupied Czechoslovakia. The original lacquer discs\, manufactured and used under wartime conditions\, exhibit significant material degradation that limits their accessibility today.\nFocusing on applied preservation practice\, the paper outlines key stages of the optical digitisation workflow\, including condition assessment\, capture\, signal reconstruction\, and post-processing. It highlights practical decision-making in handling fragile media and demonstrates how material analysis informs the selection of appropriate digitisation strategies. The case study illustrates how optical scanning can function as a resilience-oriented approach for preserving obsolete and physically compromised audio carriers that are otherwise unplayable. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:12dee36b4a62b413923b0d562d31274f URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/12dee36b4a62b413923b0d562d31274f END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T080000Z DTEND:20261022T090000Z SUMMARY:A Community of Communities: Collaborative Preservation of LGBTQ+ Archives in the Balkans DESCRIPTION:As international funding for LGBTQ+ cultural heritage initiatives declines\, community archives are increasingly building and maintaining their own infrastructure to preserve queer histories. In this session\, panelists from Serbia and the United States present the work of Arkadija Archive\, Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) Collective\, Balkan Community Memory Project (BCM) and \;Balkan Network of Queer Archives \;as a model for collective preservation and stewardship of LGBTQ+ heritage in the Balkans.\n\nArkadija archive \;exists to resist erasure by collecting\, preserving\, and amplifying LGBTIQ+ memories\, histories\, and voices that have been systematically marginalized. They \;have collaborated with the CAW Collective and BCM to support community skill-sharing and jump-start preservation of these materials through a series of workshops that invite archivists and librarians from the region to participate. A 2024 workshop in Belgrade brought community members together for training in VHS and newspaper preservation\, alongside screenings of rare footage documenting the city’s first Pride parade. A 2026 workshop (scheduled for April 2026) expands this model into a two-day\, regional training focused on digital preservation and community-led digitization of analog media. The invitation for participation extends to queer organizations throughout the Balkans via the Balkan Network of Queer Archives inaugural gathering in Belgrade.\n\nThis session offers a model for sustaining community-driven audiovisual preservation under conditions of financial precarity\, with practical and ethical insights for archivists working in similarly constrained contexts worldwide. Grounded in collective care and community\, panelists share lessons learned in ensuring sustainable long-term storage and access for audiovisual materials\, and in navigating privacy\, consent\, and risk—particularly where visibility carries social or political consequences. CATEGORIES:PANEL LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:aad31572002ab31c650dac9705d849cc URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/aad31572002ab31c650dac9705d849cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T080000Z DTEND:20261022T090000Z SUMMARY:Context Lost\, Trust Broken: Safeguarding Provenance in an Age of Audiovisual Misuse DESCRIPTION:Authentic photographs\, sound recordings\, and moving images are increasingly being detached from their original context and re‑released into the public sphere without explanation - or with deliberately false narratives. When this happens\, even genuine archival materials can become instruments of manipulation\, shaping public opinion or fueling social tension. This emerging challenge places new pressures on audiovisual archives\, which must now respond not only as custodians of cultural memory but also as defenders of evidential integrity.\n\nThis panel proposes to examine how institutions can strengthen their capacity to validate provenance\, preserve contextual information\, and communicate authenticity in an era where audiovisual content can be easily appropriated\, reframed\, and weaponized. CATEGORIES:PANEL LOCATION:Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:60dec5347684b5a5673b333eeb1bd3cd URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/60dec5347684b5a5673b333eeb1bd3cd END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T080000Z DTEND:20261022T083000Z SUMMARY:Preservation of Archives and Library Materials During Civil Wars in Africa: Case of Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali DESCRIPTION:Archives and library manuscripts are expected to be safeguarded during periods of armed conflict. While a substantial body of literature has examined the destruction and loss of archival and library materials in conflicts such as the Ukraine–Russia war (Chorna\, 2023) and in the Middle East (Moustafa\, 2016)\, other studies\, including those by Um (2020) and Luft (2020)\, have focused on the reconstruction of archives during and after the Holocaust. However\, existing research on the destruction and recovery of library and archival manuscripts has largely concentrated on the Global North. In contrast\, there is limited empirical research addressing this issue within the African context\, with few exceptions such as Jethro and Karina (2024)\, who examined the case of the University of Cape Town. Furthermore\, scholars such as Isola (2013) and Keese and Urbano (2023) highlight the lack of international media attention on the looting and destruction of archives and libraries in Africa\, particularly in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali. Consequently\, the preservation of libraries and archives remains an underexplored yet potentially transformative area for understanding the extent and impact of archival losses in Africa. This presentation intends to assess the preservation of archives both Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:f117a53270770d5c5c0d1b051bab8850 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/f117a53270770d5c5c0d1b051bab8850 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T083000Z DTEND:20261022T090000Z SUMMARY:SEAing History: Digitizing Audiovisual Materials in the Southeast Asian Archive DESCRIPTION:Attendees will hear from Julia Huynh\, Curator for the Southeast Asian Archive (SEAA) and Melissa Torres\, Digitization Coordinator from the University of California\, Irvine Libraries Special Collections and Archives. The SEAA is home to broad and interdisciplinary collections documenting the social\, cultural\, religious\, political\, and economic life of the Cambodian\, Hmong\, Laotian\, and Vietnamese diasporas. Early collections in the SEAA contain numerous first hand accounts documenting the refugee crisis and commentary on human rights. \;\n\nPresenters will share strategies for collaboratively preserving at-risk audiovisual materials in the SEAA as a demonstration of community-centered care in action. Specifically\, they will highlight digitizing Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Vietnamese Services Broadcasts\, one of the first and oldest collections in the archive as a case study. \;RFA\, a private\, non-profit corporation\, was established by the US Congress in 1994 through the International Broadcasting Act. News of RFA’s federal defundment in March 2025 \;catalyzed our need to strategize for funding and develop reformatting project plans for the thousands of audiovisual materials in the archive.\n\nThis session relates to the following core themes: ethical stewardship\, protecting cultural heritage under threat and uncertainty\, technical resilience through digitization\, and developing structured workflows to mitigate loss and inform future planning.  \;\n\nMoreover\, the following questions will be explored:\nHow can long-term preservation and ethical stewardship for politically vulnerable collections be sustainable?How does the archive put principles of CARE (collaboration\, attentiveness\, responsiveness and engagement) into practice?What role does project documentation play in reflecting institutional memory? CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:1a0db266b2d7b050ad3fe24bf8dbbe53 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/1a0db266b2d7b050ad3fe24bf8dbbe53 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T090000Z DTEND:20261022T093000Z SUMMARY:A Necessary Challenge: Critical Audio Edition of Hitler’s Speeches 1933-1945 DESCRIPTION:Editing Adolf Hitler’s speeches is a necessary challenge. As key documents produced by perpetrators\, they are essential for critically examining the Nazi era. Making these sources accessible requires careful ethical consideration. In a joint project\, funded by the German Research Foundation\, the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (Munich / Berlin)\, the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main\, the Marburg University\, the Leibniz Institute for German Language (Mannheim) and the German Broadcasting Archive (Frankfurt am Main / Potsdam) will identify\, analyse and edit the extensive amount of speeches that Hitler delivered between 1933 and 1945. 735 speeches will be made available as a text edition (digital / print)\, accompanied by introductions to the current state of knowledge and the historical context. The 346 speeches that have been preserved as audio documents will be made available to a restricted group of users in the form of a critically annotated digital audio edition that can be searched and analysed using advanced machine learning methods. This edition will enable scholars to answer specific questions that remained unresolved due to the limited accessibility of the sources in the past. At the same time\, the edition aims at our present: analysing Hitler’s speeches enables comparisons to be drawn with the language used by contemporary extremists and populists. \;Next to providing an overview of the project as a whole\, the presentation will be given from the perspective of the archive and will focus on the audio edition: We will reflect on the challenges of (a) compiling and documenting a collection that has been preserved in different archives across Europe as a result of World War II\, (b) digitising audio sources that have been preserved on different carriers\, in different formats and in various conditions\, and (c) – our key aspect –  \;digitally restoring a heterogeneous collection of audio files\, which makes it difficult to adopt a consistent technical approach. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:1fede0abd3f09f22306656bd3fd91728 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/1fede0abd3f09f22306656bd3fd91728 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T090000Z DTEND:20261022T093000Z SUMMARY:How To Deal With The Perfect Storm: A Crisis Management Strategy DESCRIPTION:Climate crisis and environmental tragic accidents of immense consequences\, unexpected disruptions in funding sources\, financial crisis\, transnational and international military conflicts\, political pressure regarding discurses and heritage materials\, easily and accessible human-like manipulative tools… This is the context affecting memory institutions\, not only in less developed countries but also in countries traditionally regarded as “safe” and “stable”.\nNo institution is prepared for this reality.\n\nWhen an institution\, in any geography\, faces a critical situation—let alone various simultaneous concurring crises— it is never fully prepared\, because preparation\, however extensive\, is designed for more or less expected risk situations (floods\, fires\, infestations\, etc.)\, never when a “perfect storm” happens. Despite the extent of the preparation\, when a critical situation occurs\, cooperation with external entities is paramount. Depending on the size of the crisis\, this externality takes on different scales.\n\nWith this paper\, I propose to start a debate around the need to create a trans-institutional\, possibly transnational\, entity that can be activated in situations that sometimes far exceed the intervention capacity of each institution\, even country\, alone. Regarding Sound and Audio-visual documentary heritage IASA can / should have a word to say and a role to assume. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:ef46b86aa3a82fbb6f84b2d7bfb7cdfa URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/ef46b86aa3a82fbb6f84b2d7bfb7cdfa END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T090000Z DTEND:20261022T093000Z SUMMARY:Strategies of Concealment and Newly Gained Visibility: Lesbian Coding in Dutch Cinema DESCRIPTION:Uncovering stories that were once forced into concealment requires deciphering the coded languages and terminologies communities used over time—an ever-shifting challenge. Yet bringing these narratives to light decades later\, whether through databases or public screenings\, demands careful negotiation: communities can feel misinterpreted\, and narratives can be misread.\n\nDrawing on film-related documents—distribution leaflets\, festival catalogues\, and newspaper clippings from diverse contexts and era—this presentation explores the evolving strategies of concealment and coded documentation used to describe queer-related films and some of the strategies employed to uncover closeted storylines. It introduces a layered cataloguing approach\, where film are annotated with multiple interpretative frameworks to account the shifting meaning and evolving context of minority representation in both underground and mainstream cinema. Finally\, through three curated screenings at the Eye Filmmuseum—a homage to a lesbian filmmaker\, a program on queer coding\, and a selection of queer-related silent films—the presentation examines how these films have been presented and received by audiences. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:e50234b86bcb4c5d53a63daec41896fc URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/e50234b86bcb4c5d53a63daec41896fc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T093000Z DTEND:20261022T103000Z SUMMARY:Lunch DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:LUNCH LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:5c23fa0c72267389ce646ab1f0950319 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/5c23fa0c72267389ce646ab1f0950319 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T103000Z DTEND:20261022T113000Z SUMMARY:Beyond Checksums: Conformance Checking as a Core Component of Authentic Digital Preservation DESCRIPTION:Born-digital audiovisual collections increasingly enter archives with incomplete provenance information\, heterogeneous production environments\, and varying levels of technical quality. While checksum-based fixity methods reliably confirm bit-level stability after transfer\, they do not reveal structural defects already present within files—defects that may affect authenticity\, accessibility\, and long-term preservation decisions.\n\nThis joint presentation brings together archival practice and tool development by the Austrian Mediathek and Jerome Martinez\, developer of the MediaInfo project. From the institutional perspective\, the Austrian Mediathek presents how systematic conformance checking was integrated into ingest workflows for born-digital audiovisual materials and how this reshaped internal assessment and decision-making processes. Based on the analysis of 4\,771 incoming files\, the archive identified internal inconsistencies such as truncated bitstreams\, container irregularities\, and mismatches between declared and actual data structures that remain invisible in traditional workflows.\n\nComplementing this practice-based view\, the MediaInfo developer introduces the principles behind the conformance checker\, explaining how structural analysis at container and bitstream level makes such inconsistencies detectable and interpretable.\n\nBy combining operational archival experience with tool-level insight\, the presentation demonstrates how conformance checking strengthens authenticity assessment\, improves risk awareness at ingest\, and supports informed\, transparent preservation planning.\n\nConformance checking complements fixity by making structural integrity visible—turning stability into trust. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:7ba2629186f9592a738746a1a912102a URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/7ba2629186f9592a738746a1a912102a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T103000Z DTEND:20261022T110000Z SUMMARY:Preserving Memory Under Threat: LGBTQ+ Oral Histories in Post-HB 261 Utah DESCRIPTION:With the passage of Utah’s house bill 261 (HB 261)\, titled “Equal Opportunity Initiatives”\, cultural centers were dismantled across all Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (DEI) offices on all public universities across the state. For the University of Utah\, this meant the closure of LGBTQ+ Resource Center\, among many others\, in 2024. \;\n \;\nSince this closure\, Special Collections at the University of Utah has been put in a balancing act of navigating a world of persistent trepidation and accessibility to collections promoting LGBTQ histories. In highlighting two oral history collections\, The HIV Oral History Project and Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons Oral History Collection\, I examine how differing conditions of creations of creation shape present-day risk. Factors of where interviews were conducted\, facilitation\, and original intent inform levels around vulnerability and disclosure\, particularly with information of health status\, religious affiliation\, and visibility intersect. These decisions require differentiated access strategies\, where decisions around description and availability are decided by the specific ethical and contextual risks embedded in each collection.\n \;\nThis presentation situates these collections within a broader framework of targeted community memory of the LGBTQ community under threat in wake of HB 261. I examine how archival practice becomes a site of intervention\, and functions as a mode of resistance and survival. Using these oral history collections\, I outline strategies for navigating these parameters in an environment where support is unstable. Central to this discussion are the ethics of visibility and consent under repressive regimes\, especially for interviewees whose identities\, health histories\, or affiliations may place them at risk. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:de12444401b33090f5a831b830ad8969 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/de12444401b33090f5a831b830ad8969 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T103000Z DTEND:20261022T110000Z SUMMARY:The Calm After the Storm: Disaster Recovery as a Catalyst for Growth DESCRIPTION:Two of Linda's three MIAP internship sites experienced floods at various points in their history\, and past student cohorts have assisted in disaster recovery at other audiovisual archives. Linda's experience and curiosity combined into her thesis\, a project that ultimately showed that the valuable stories of these collections were at risk of complete loss. However\, part of her findings also showed that in the wake of disaster recovery\, small community archives used the negative situation as a catalyst for institutional change they had been wanting. Now\, these archives have more robust systems in place for future disasters\, have digitized more materials\, and have changed how they provide programming and materials access to patrons. The appendix of Linda's thesis culminated in a printable zine\, which institutions can turn to as a condensed source of information from the thesis and as a place to fill in their own disaster plans and turn to as a resource in the wake of a crisis\, should they need it. This zine is an attempt to democratize this critical information\, providing community archives with a valuable resource that is not behind an institution or paywall. By sharing these experiences\, these empowering messages\, and these resources\, all community and small archives can benefit. \; CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:c82370b43d11949128cb413fe55807bb URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/c82370b43d11949128cb413fe55807bb END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T110000Z DTEND:20261022T120000Z SUMMARY:Decentering Archival Authority: Informal Networks\, Post-Custodial Practice\, and the IASA Ambassador Framework DESCRIPTION:Contemporary archival discourse increasingly emphasizes the need to move beyond custodial paradigms toward more distributed\, relational\, and participatory models of stewardship. Within the field of sound and audiovisual heritage\, this shift is particularly urgent\, as preservation and access are shaped by global asymmetries in resources\, infrastructure\, and institutional authority. Mobilizing meaningful collaboration across such disparities remains a central challenge\, especially where the outcomes of collective action are long-term and not immediately tangible. Within the framework of the IASA\, emerging initiatives such as the \;Ambassador Committee\, \;offer a productive forum for rethinking archival engagement through a post-custodial and decolonial lens.\n\nParticipants on the panel will critically examine structural and contextual barriers—including funding inequities\, technological divides\, and institutional silos—while also interrogating how such constraints intersect with questions of power\, representation\, and epistemic authority. Conceived as an open and dialogic forum\, the panel invites participants to contribute to the co-development of strategies that strengthen informal networks of mutual support and exchange with a participatory platform for shaping the future direction of the Committee. We encourage attendees to actively engage in defining its forthcoming goals\, priorities\, and activities. \;This panel also serves as an entry point for broader engagement. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:76221e58feef7f2f4f6c473799b18655 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/76221e58feef7f2f4f6c473799b18655 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T110000Z DTEND:20261022T113000Z SUMMARY:Sound as Sanctuary: Cooperative Record Labels as Decentralized Archives for Queer Diasporic Memory DESCRIPTION:In this session\, I examine cooperative record labels as decentralized archival infrastructures that safeguard queer diasporic memory under conditions of precarity\, censorship\, and cultural erasure. Framing sound as sanctuary\, I argue that this model of cultural production is not neutral\, but is rather an active site of refusal—building necessarily fluid\, community-governed systems of preservation\, narrative sovereignty\, and material redistribution outside institutional and corporate control.\n\nI ground this work in APOCALIPSIS\, the transnational record label I founded in 2017 to amplify artists “de aquí / de allá” (from here/from there)\, as a living archive where curatorial practice\, diasporic memory through sound\, and infrastructural design operate as political practice. This model emerges as an intervention against institutional exclusion and extractive music industry logics\, asserting autonomous and sustainable modes of cultural production.\nAt its core\, this framework centers shared stewardship as a collective obligation\, grounded in consent-based\, co-authored documentation\, multilingual accessibility\, and intergenerational cultural transmission. I trace how distributed hosting\, licensing-based collaboration\, and redundant circulation function as survival strategies in response to erasure\, platform volatility\, surveillance\, and the politics of visibility. These practices are not merely technical\; they are infrastructural acts of care and resistance shaped by the imperative to protect communities while sustaining memory across contested digital and physical spaces.\n\nThis presentation frames decentralized music ecosystems as insurgent archival practice and proposes cooperative networks as necessary infrastructures for audiovisual preservation under acute and sustained conditions of crisis. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:cb19be6c1c72933acea878cb64ff9865 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/cb19be6c1c72933acea878cb64ff9865 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T113000Z DTEND:20261022T120000Z SUMMARY:Challenges of Discography in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Since 1936\, a significant number of discographies have been compiled\, which can serve as\nsecondary sources for further discographic research. But how do we know that the data in a\ndiscography are reliable? What are the criteria for the reliability of discographies? This topic\nhas been a concern for some discographers since the 1970s. Tim Brooks’ 1996 proposal to\napply the reference system of scientific publications to discographies points to the\nmethodological issue that\, while references were not needed for the first discographies\,\nfollowing the principle of ’first to do it’\, this is no longer acceptable for today’s discographers\nespecially when using earlier discographies as sources. Brooks’ call has provoked sharp\ncriticism from parts of the discographic community\, arguing that the extensive referencing of\ndiscographic data sets not only overloads the data but also increases printing costs\nenormously.\n\nFor an online published discography\, this problem can be solved in several ways. In addition\,\nit would now in principle be possible to compile a universal discography from the set of\nnational discographies\, with practical display\, search and access options. However\, there\nappear to be a number of obstacles to the creation of a global discographic database. Some of\nthe obstacles are financial and IT-related\, while others are methodological\, such as the issue\nof standardisation or the fact that some national discographies have not yet been completed.\nIn my presentation\, I will discuss these two of the current challenges of discography\, the\nreliability of discographies and the issues of a global discography\, using literature and\ninternational examples. The presentation is linked to my research on the history and\nmethodology of discography funded by the Bolyai János Research Fellowship (2022–2025). CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:0861ee4ca0e2b60b67b6260702fea617 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/0861ee4ca0e2b60b67b6260702fea617 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T120000Z DTEND:20261022T123000Z SUMMARY:Afternoon Tea DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:AFTERNOON TEA LOCATION:Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:8f1c419bc179a86c6334b1af76051492 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/8f1c419bc179a86c6334b1af76051492 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T123000Z DTEND:20261022T133000Z SUMMARY:Towards Shared Stewardship and Support: Strategies for Collaboration and Training from the Library of Congress\, WITNESS\, the CAW Collective\, and the University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:How can organizations that support community-based archiving facilitate shared stewardship and other models of safeguarding cultural and documentary materials in a collaborative amd productive way? This panel discusses strategies for supporting collective and communal documentation of cultural activities.\n\nRepresentatives from the American Folklife Center will discuss the Community Collections Grant program. Panelists will discuss community-based collaboration and the process of creating collections that will be part of the Library of Congress’ holdings. \;\n\nA representative from WITNESS will discuss initiatives to train\, provide support\, and develop guidance aimed at\, and in collaboration with\, frontline communities who are documenting human rights violations and using their audiovisual evidence to challenge lies and misinformation in the age of generative AI. They will share examples of work with activists\, journalists\, fact-checkers\, and other human rights defenders to strengthen their ability to capture\, preserve\, and verify audiovisual documentation.\n\nA representative from CAW will discuss the collective's work over 15 years supporting cultural heritage preservation by activating care in community-held collections and exchanging knowledge through training\, networking opportunities\, and the production and distribution of resources. The \;panelist will share an overview of CAW’s history\, projects\, emerging services and ongoing partnerships.\n\nA representative from the University of Michigan will discuss community-centered work at the Bentley Historical Library\, undertaken in partnership with the Inclusive History Project to document university and state history from broader\, more inclusive perspectives. The presentation will highlight outcomes from these engagements\, with attention to how sustained community partnership has shaped archival practice and collection stewardship. CATEGORIES:PANEL LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:b555068544b97635e581a539bfab9cf1 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/b555068544b97635e581a539bfab9cf1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T123000Z DTEND:20261022T130000Z SUMMARY:How to Preserve and Work with Minority Archives in Nordland\, Norway DESCRIPTION:We propose an approximately 18-minute presentation by Ketil Jensen from Arkiv i Nordland at the upcoming conference\, focusing on two significant areas of work: the “Skeiv i Nordland – Queer in Nordland\, a northern region of Norway” project and the documentation of the history of immigrants who have settled in Nordland.\n\nIn his talk\, Ketil Jensen\, who leads the regional archive institution in Nordland and is also a board member of the Norwegian Association of Archives (Arkivforbundet)\, will first present the objectives\, methods\, and outcomes of the “Skeiv i Nordland” initiative. This project has played a crucial role in collecting\, preserving\, and sharing the stories and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community in the Nordland region. Jensen will discuss the challenges encountered during the project\, including the importance of building trust and establishing access with the communities involved. He will also describe how Arkiv i Nordland has taken part in relevant meeting places and community arenas\, for example through presence and dialogue during Pride\, creating safer entry points for collecting stories and archival material. He will also highlight how meaningful it has been for many that their lives have been documented and that they have had the opportunity to tell their own stories in an archival context.\n\nThe second part of the presentation will explore the work done to document the lives and histories of immigrants from non-Western parts of the world who have moved to Nordland. Both projects have used similar methods\, including outreach\, trust-building\, and audiovisual documentation such as recorded interviews\, in order to preserve stories that might otherwise be absent from the archival record. Jensen will share insights into the archival process\, highlight notable stories\, and reflect on how these narratives contribute to a broader understanding of Nordland’s evolving identity. A key point is that this work is not only about the past\; it is first and foremost about collecting stories for people living today\, supporting recognition\, belonging\, and representation in the present. He will also address how trust-building and long-term relationship work can be essential to gain access and ensure that people feel safe sharing their experiences. The presentation will also highlight practical and ethical approaches to documenting underrepresented communities through trust-building\, outreach\, and long-term relationship work. It will also touch on the ways in which these projects foster inclusion and diversity within the local community.\n\nThis session offers valuable perspectives on regional history\, diversity\, and the significance of inclusive archival practices in documenting underrepresented communities. We look forward to the opportunity for Ketil Jensen to share Arkiv i Nordland’s experiences and inspire further dialogue on these important topics.\n\nFollowing Jensen’s presentation\, Kjetil Landrog\, Secretary General of the Norwegian Association of Archives\, will comment on national initiatives related to multicultural\, queer\, and other underrepresented groups\, including the Sámi population. This will be about 8 minutes. The session will then conclude with approximately 5 minutes for questions and discussion. 30 minutes in total. \; CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:cadd0eb72984e86cf0195b1fb3377732 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/cadd0eb72984e86cf0195b1fb3377732 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T123000Z DTEND:20261022T130000Z SUMMARY:Technological Resilience and Preservation Refresh Measures in Handling Obsolete Audio-Visual Collections "Silent Archives": The Case of Unisa Library Archives DESCRIPTION:Audio-visual material kept by the Unisa Library is an important part of heritage and history of various cultures\, recording oral traditions\, traditional melodies\, and events\, which were recorded using non-textual media only. A significant portion of audio-visual archives have been rendered obsolete due to quick evolution of formats\, degradation of physical medium\, out-of-date methods of reproduction\, and lack of means for maintenance.\n\nIn this article\, we explore technical obstacles in handling and conserving audio-visual materials that became obsolete and outline measures aimed at preserving and revitalising such collections to restore their utility. Using case of the Unisa Library Archives\, the study considers the state of deterioration\, the problem of obsolescent file formats\, and necessity of developing preservation refresh strategy involving digitisation and migration.\n\nSpecific measures outlined in this study include implementing sustainable processes of digitisation with acquisition of proper playback hardware\, software\, and related infrastructure\, setting up check-summing routines and integrity controls\, developing metadata system to guarantee provenance\, and employing hybrid on-site and off-site storage facilities. It also includes seeking financial support from heritage sponsors\, establishing cooperation to share resources\, and developing an audio-visual collection preservation policy including regular refreshing cycles.\n\nIn addition\, implementing measures of preservation refresh and digitisation will lead to increased technological resilience and will allow addressing the challenge of obsolescence and ensuring access in case of possible disruptions. This study gives practical examples for archivists who want to implement a successful preservation refresh strategy. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:4b130db30808f98c600d4a427df14e9b URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/4b130db30808f98c600d4a427df14e9b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T130000Z DTEND:20261022T140000Z SUMMARY:Hearing Udi Voices: The New Online Edition of the Austrian Phonogrammarchiv as Infrastructure for Vulnerable Sonic Memory DESCRIPTION:In its 1899 founding document\, the Phonogrammarchiv (Austrian Academy of Sciences) was conceived with imperial ambition: to document all languages and dialects of Europe—and then the world. In the following decades\, researchers and missionaries equipped with the Archive‑Phonograph contributed to this project. Many people were recorded under conditions of violence—under colonial rule\, or as prisoners-of-war during WWI—while others later experienced displacement or minoritisation\, as imperial\, colonial\, or national ideologies prevailed\, as in several of Adolf Dirr’s Recordings from the Caucasus (1909–1910).\n\nThis paper presents the new online version of the Phonogrammarchiv’s ongoing Edition Series\, \;The Complete Historical Collections (1899–1950)\, \;focusing on its first edition mentioned above. This publication provides open streaming\, interactive transcriptions\, and downloads for study and sharing\, while discussing the context \;of production. \;We address collaborative editing\, open access\, and accessibility for descendant communities and communities of practice\, critically engaging with online publication \;amid uncertain digital futures and global inequalities.\n\nThe second part turns to the earliest known audio recordings of the Udi language\, made by Dirr. Situating the recordings within the Udi community’s history—marked by repeated displacement and persecution\, including upheavals shortly after the recordings—we highlight the fragility of minority archives in times of political crises. Currently\, the audio recordings\, photographs and related materials are being prepared for presentation in Zinobiani\, the only Udi village in Georgia\, highlighting the significance of these discoveries for small communities. Finally\, we discuss the ethics and politics of recirculation\, on and offline\, and argue for the vital role of linguistic documentation as part of community memory and identity. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:53747cb45140ba3f3439bf108b238ae7 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/53747cb45140ba3f3439bf108b238ae7 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T130000Z DTEND:20261022T140000Z SUMMARY:Radio Haiti Archive: Toward a Community Politics of Repatriation DESCRIPTION:This presentation tracks dissertation work on how various groups view the repatriation and return of the Radio Haiti Archive\, which the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University in North Carolina\, USA\, currently houses\, and the role the Haitian diaspora plays in such efforts.  \;It tracks the concepts emerging from the literature on archival repatriation\, describes two interlocking bodies of theoretically informed scholarship: critical archival studies and anti-colonial archivy that serve as theoretical lenses to help frame the research and through which to examine archival repatriation and return\, outlines the case study methodology pursued using specifically the methods of interviews and archival research\, and offers findings. CATEGORIES:LONG PRESENTATION LOCATION:Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:e7673671fa67c71a18bb78621a97251b URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/e7673671fa67c71a18bb78621a97251b END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T133000Z DTEND:20261022T140000Z SUMMARY:Safeguarding the Audiovisual Heritage: Resilience\, Identity\, and Risk Management Approach to Preservation in Eastern and Southern African Audiovisual Archives DESCRIPTION:Preservation of audiovisual records is not merely a technical task\, but a radical act of protecting African identity\, memory\, and historical fats during times of peace and conflict alike. This paper examines strategies for safeguarding audiovisual collections by aligning Eastern and Southern Africa regional preservation efforts with the focus on crisis preparedness and resilience. It specifically investigates the role of preservation practitioners and archivists in protecting "threatened collections” before\, during\, and after war or conflict" focusing on the ‘at risk’ heritage within Eastern and Southern African archival institutions. Using a quantitative research approach with a 62% response rate\, the findings highlighted poor governance\, absence of preservation planning\, poor staff development\, and that inadequate preservation frameworks have been made concrete by the socio-political volatility of regions prone to civil unrest\, climate-induced crises\, and environmental disaster. These risks demonstrate with clarity that the "piecemeal approach" critiqued in this paper is not merely a technical deficiency but a form of institutional vulnerability that renders irreplaceable audiovisual memory defenseless when crises strike. Through empirical results\, a framework that integrates governance\, preservation strategies\, preservation planning\, staff development\, and the use of artificial intelligence tools with modern risk-management protocols was proposed. This will contribute to archival theory. The practical implication of this study is the enhanced regional cooperation within archival institutions of the Eastern and Southern Africa\, and an example of a good archival practice for other institutions of other regions too. CATEGORIES:SHORT PRESENTATION LOCATION:Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:eba69069a329e7553e7769d1050ad349 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/eba69069a329e7553e7769d1050ad349 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261022T160000Z DTEND:20261022T180000Z SUMMARY:Conference Dinner DESCRIPTION:Entertainment and leisure centre „Belmontas“. The French (Belmont) mill \;was built in 1838 and stopped working in the middle of the 20th century. \;The renovation of this unique complex started in 2001. Currently there \;are 10 highest levet banquet halls of various purpose and size. The \;swift-flowing Vilnia\, which gave its name to the capital of Lithuania\, \;overcomes obstacles formed by the ice ages and makes its grandest loops \;in these surroundings: the river valley here is at its widest and most \;picturesque. The unique beauty of the landscape is shaped by the wide \;terraces of the Vilnia\, playful combinations of hills\, ridges\, and \;ravines\, and forested hills. The dinner will take place in the Charles \;Vim hall named after the French landlord who built the mill here\n CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Belmontas\, Charle's de Vims hall\, Belmontas\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:3d8d8ddfe8a219739f64dd3b8403bb27 URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/3d8d8ddfe8a219739f64dd3b8403bb27 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260725T052716Z DTSTART:20261023T070000Z DTEND:20261023T110000Z SUMMARY:Executive Board Meeting (Closed) DESCRIPTION:\n CATEGORIES:COMMITTEE MEETING LOCATION:Meeting Room 204\, Gediminas Avenue 51\, Vilnius\, Vilnius City Municipality\, Lithuania SEQUENCE:0 UID:4d83f8f1e524537570f6d444d189852d URL:http://iasabaac2026conference.sched.com/event/4d83f8f1e524537570f6d444d189852d END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR