IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

9:30am EEST

How Can I Help?

Monday October 19, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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?This 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...
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Speakers

Clara Sánchez-Dehesa

Founder and member, La red de cine doméstico

Clara has over 15 years of experience in audiovisual conservation as a freelancer. Coordinator of the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola Film Preservation Program since 2018, where she designs training programs and leads practical workshops. She combines her technical work in audiovisual... Read More →

Monday October 19, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

9:30am EEST

Protecting the Real and Identifying the Fake: Human Rights Centered Approaches to Disclosing Provenance and Detecting Generative AI

Monday October 19, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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’...
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Speakers

Yvonne Ng

Senior Program Manager, WITNESS

Yvonne is an audiovisual archivist and a Senior Program Manager at WITNESS, where she trains and supports people to archive and preserve their human rights documentation. She currently serves on the Board of the CAW Collective and on the steering committee of the Trust in Archives... Read More →

Monday October 19, 2026 9:30am - 12:30pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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10:00am EEST

Community Archiving Workshop

Monday October 19, 2026 10:00am - 5:00pm EEST

Meno Avilys

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...
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Speakers

Shay Hix

Founding Member, CAW Collective

Shay Hix is a core member of the Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) Collective and a Fulbright Specialist. She co-authored the study Mapping the Magnetic Media Landscape, published by BAVC Media in September 2025. She has worked as curator at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum... Read More →

Marie Lascu

Founding Member, Audiovisual Archivist, Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) Collective

Marie is an audiovisual archivist and a founding member of CAW Collective. She is also the digital archivist for Ballet Tech, a public dance school in New York City. Marie has consulted for Crowing Rooster Arts, Third World Newsreel, Smithsonian Institution, Queens Public Library... Read More →

Moriah Ulinskas

Founding Member, CAW Collective

Moriah Ulinskas is a community archivist and public historian whose research examines histories of dispossession, focusing on how marginalized communities organized to resist displacement and how that history of resistance lies latent in archival collections today. She is a founding... Read More →

Monday October 19, 2026 10:00am - 5:00pm EEST
Meno Avilys A Goštauto g 2 01104 Vilnius

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12:30pm EEST

Lunch

Monday October 19, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Monday October 19, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Lunch

1:30pm EEST

Azimuth Adjustments: Will We Do All Our Collections Again?

Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Jean-Christophe Kummer

Managing Partner, NOA GmbH

Jean-Christophe Kummer is responsible for business development, company management, and the worldwide expansion of NOA systems. From his early days, he has been an entrepreneur. After earning his Tonmeister degree in Vienna in the early 90s, he was involved in many classical recordings... Read More →

Prof.in Dr. Nadja Wallaszkovits

Professor for Conservation of New Media and Digital Information, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design

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Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Long Presentation, Hybrid

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

1:30pm EEST

Getting on the same page: shaping AI organisational policy together

Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Rasa Bocyte

Senior Advisor for Research Collaborations, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Johan Oomen

Research Director, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Johan Oomen is Research Director at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision and a researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. With an academic background in Media Studies and Information Science, he has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of cultural heritage... Read More →

Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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1:30pm EEST

Performing the Archive: An Experiment in Collective Memory in the Face of Technological, Geopolitical and Climate Crisis

Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Alex Waterman

Music & Audiovisual Archivist World Music Archives, World Music Archives and Music Library, Wesleyan University.

Alex Waterman was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1975. He is a cellist and composer as well as a musicologist, curator, and archivist, currently the audiovisual archivist atthe World Music Archives at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. A founding member of the Plus-Minus... Read More →

Monday October 19, 2026 1:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

2:30pm EEST

MediaShield: Preserving the Authenticity of Community Radio Archives in the Age of AI-Generated Audio

Monday October 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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.MediaShield addresses...
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Speakers

Nûjîn Kartal

Chief Innovation Officer, MediaApes

Nûjîn Kartal is an immersive producer based in Germany, active in the creative and digital industries. He works on innovative projects blending interactive media, 3D technologies, and immersive experiences, notably within MediaApes GmbH. His role involves designing, coordinating, and producing... Read More →

sami meddeb

president, digital cooperation association

Sami Meddeb is an audiovisual archiving expert dedicated to digital preservation since 2020. Specializing in media management application development since 2023, he pivoted strategically toward Artificial Intelligence in 2025.He notably developed innovative solutions for deepfake... Read More →

Carlos Nascimento

Founder and Director :, Qualia Audio Lab

Carlos Nascimento is an audio engineering expert and founder of Qualia Audio Lab Specializing in sound restoration and digital archiving, he collaborates on international research regarding audio authentication and watermarking, bridging the gap between heritage preservation and... Read More →

Monday October 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Short Presentation, Hybrid

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

3:00pm EEST

Afternoon Tea

Monday October 19, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Monday October 19, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Afternoon Tea

3:30pm EEST

Permanent Records, Permanent Access, Permanent Readability: Cerabyte The New Storage Technology

Monday October 19, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Martin Kunze

CMO, Cerabyte & Memory of Mankind

Martin Kunze is an Austrian silicate technologist, ceramics specialist, and visionary inventor dedicated to preserving information for future generations. In 2012, he founded the groundbreaking Memory of Mankind project, a unique time capsule of our civilization etched onto durable ceramic tiles a... Read More →

Monday October 19, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

4:30pm EEST

Piql Technology as a safeguard for memory, Identity and authenticity of audio visual archives

Monday October 19, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Victor Kabata

Assistant Professor, Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi

Victor Kabata is currently an Assistant Professor at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, History Department. He possesses a Doctorate in Information Studies from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. He teaches records and archives management students at undergraduate and master’s... Read More →

Monday October 19, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Theme Technical Resilience and Preservation Refresh Strategies
Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

6:00pm EEST

Opening Ceremony

Monday October 19, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm EEST

The Merchants’ Club

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...
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Monday October 19, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm EEST
The Merchants’ Club

8:30am EEST

Morning Tea

Tuesday October 20, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Tuesday October 20, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Morning Tea

9:30am EEST

Dr Giedrė Milerytė-Japertienė

Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EEST

Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Tuesday October 20, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EEST
Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Keynote

11:00am EEST

Discovering "L’Assedio Dei Sogni, The Siege of Dreams”

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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.The story begins with my partner in Recordiana, Rob...
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Speakers

Duncan John Shelwell

Partner, Recordiana

Duncan John Shelwell is a practicing and published photographer, music curator and researcher, currently working and exhibiting in Cape Town, South Africa.He is a partner in RECORDIANA https://recordiana.bandcamp.com a non-profit record label and music consultancy digitising out-of-print South African recordings. Previously, he was head of catalogue at Sony Music Africa until 2018, before that working at Gallo Record Company, Africa’s oldest independent label from 2005... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Short Presentation, Hybrid

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

11:00am EEST

Listening Across the Iron Curtain: Western Popular Music in Soviet Latvia, 1970–1985

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Zane Grosa

Head of Audiovisual Collection, National Library of Latvia

Zane Grosa studied music professionally in Latvia and the USA and completed a degree in Information Management in Australia. Since 2008, she has worked at the National Library of Latvia, first cataloguing sound recordings and, since 2012, managing the library’s audiovisual collection... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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11:00am EEST

Archives as a Witness: A Case of National Social Security Fund-Uganda

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Winny Nekesa Akullo

Records Manager, National Social Security Fund - Uganda

Winny Nekesa Akullo is a Records and Information Management professional at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) with expertise in institutional records governance, archives management, and digital transformation. Her work focuses on strengthening records systems, ensuring regulatory... Read More →

Shaban Bwayo

Tead Leader - Records, National Social Security Fund - Uganda

Shaban Bwayo is a records management professional for over 10 years. He is currently a Tead leader - records at the National Social Security Fund. He is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Records and Archival Management at Makerere University

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

11:00am EEST

Safeguarding Baltic Voices: Collaborative Approaches to Video Testimony Preservation

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST

Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Liisi Esse

Curator for Estonian and Baltic Studies, Stanford University Libraries

Liisi Esse serves as Curator for Estonian and Baltic Studies at Stanford Libraries. Her primary responsibility is to build and maintain Stanford’s collection of Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Finnish material and to enhance Baltic studies by advising scholars and students interested... Read More →

Evita Feldentāle

Head of the Audiovisual Archive, Museum of the Occupation of Latvia

Evita Feldentāle is the Head of the Audiovisual Archive of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. She graduated from the University of Latvia in 2017 with a master’s degree in history and has worked at the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia since 2015. Evita Feldentāle works... Read More →

Hannah Frost

Associate Director of Digital Library Services, Stanford University Libraries

Hannah Frost is Associate Director of Digital Library Services at Stanford University Libraries. Hannah holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin, with a specialization in archives and preservation. Since joining Stanford... Read More →

Lelde Neimane

Senior expert of The Audiovisual Archive, Museum of the Occupation of Latvia

Lelde Neimane is the Senior expert of the Audiovisual Archive of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia and was the Curator and Head of the Audiovisual Archive until 2020. She graduated from the University of Latvia in 2001 with a master’s degree in history and has worked at the... Read More →

Liisi Ploom

Head of Collections, Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom

Liisi Ploom is the Head of Collections at Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom in Tallinn, Estonia. Their work focuses on the preservation, management, and accessibility of museum collections, including audiovisual testimonies. They are responsible for collection systems, metadata... Read More →

Marko Poolamets

Head of audiovisual media and marketing, Estonian Institute of Historical Memory

Marko Poolamets has worked at the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory since 2019. He is responsible for the production and editing of interviews, production of documentary and educational films, and AI developments of the KML portal.

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST
Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82331938215
Zoom password 815104

11:30am EEST

From Loss to Resilience: Safeguarding Bangladesh’s Audiovisual Heritage in Times of Crisis

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Smita Barua

Sub Assistant Engineer, Member

Sub-Assistant Engineer | Digital Archiving & Document Control Specialist
Dhaka, Bangladesh
📞 +88-01744272336
📧 [email protected]PROFESSIONAL PROFILESenior audiovisual archive and digital preservation professional with 14+ years of experience in national-level film archiving... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Short Presentation, Hybrid

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

11:30am EEST

Il mondo dei vinti: Voices from the Past Calling for a Future

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Diego Mometti

Digital archivist, Fondazione Nuto Revelli ETS (Cuneo - Italy)

I was born in 1977 in the countryside near Turin (Italy), at the foot of the Alps.Having completed my secondary education in mathematics, physics and computer science in the mid-1990s, I realized that my passion for contemporary art required a philosophicaland artistic foundation... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Short Presentation, In Person

12:00pm EEST

Relistening for Aural Justice: The Case of Alternative Community Radio in Ukraine

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

“They were singing about burning churches and the churches are burning now” (20ft radio host, interview, 2022). Russia’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...
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Speakers

Ieva Gudaitytė

Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo

Dr Ieva Gudaitytė is a music, sound, and media researcher at the University of Oslo. Her recently defended doctoral work, Listening to War Through Community Radio in Ukraine and Beyond investigates the aural politics of alternative sound media communities in Ukraine and their partners across Eastern and Central Europe. Following her previous research and current involvement in the independent community radio scene in the region, her practice operates on the inte... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

12:00pm EEST

Sound Archives and Colonial Memory: Preserving Malagasy Musical Heritage (1900–1960)

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Jocelyn SOLONJATOVO

Doctoral candidate, University of Antananarivo (Madagascar) Doctoral candidate

Jocelyn Solonjatovo holds a Master’s degree in History (2025) from the University of Antananarivo, with a thesis on Betsileo musical and oral heritage (1900–1976). He previously completed a Master 1 in History (2009) on record culture in Madagascar (1900–1960). A researcher... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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12:00pm EEST

Uncovering, Recontextualising and Publishing Recordings of Female Fiddlers in Sweden

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

John-Francis Goodacre

Archivist, Folkmusikens hus

John-Francis Goodacre is a sound archivist and musician. He works at Folkmusikens hus, a non-profit organisation in Rättvik, Sweden that promotes folk music as a living practice and preserves its history by collecting and making accessible archive recordings of traditional music... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82331938215
Zoom password 815104

12:00pm EEST

Voices That Won’t Be Erased: Archiving Nairobi’s Gen Z Maandamano

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

SUSAN KIBAARA

DEPUTY DIRECTOR RECORDS AND ARCHIVES MANAGEMENT, NAIROBI CITY COUNTY MANAGEMENT

Susan Wambui Kibaara is the Deputy Director of County Records and Archives Management at the Nairobi City County Government, where she leads all records management functions. She is responsible for policy development, staff supervision, budget planning, training, and ensuring compliance... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

12:30pm EEST

Lunch

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Tuesday October 20, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Lunch

1:30pm EEST

Archival Resilience in Practice: The Archivo de la Palabra at the Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Puertorriqueña

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Melanie Vargas-Cintrón

Librarian/ Profesor, University of Puerto Rico, Río Pedras Campus

Melanie Vargas Cintrón is an academic librarian at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She completed her studies at this institution, earning a bachelor’s degree in Information and Journalism and a master’s degree in Information Science. She currently works at... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Short Presentation, In Person

1:30pm EEST

Archived Sounds of World War I Prisoners from Serbia: Rethinking Comparative Musicology

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Throughout the twentieth century, wars led to the loss of valuable sound collections in Serbia. At thesame time, the captivity of prisoners of war from Serbia (Serbs and Roma) in the early twentiethcentury also resulted in sound recordings that remain largely unknown in Serbia today. Theserecordings are important to analyze as a missing link in the history of local ethnomusicology, whilealso...
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Speakers

Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

Senior Research Associate, Institute of Musicology SASA

Marija Dumnić Vilotijević holds MA and PhD in ethnomusicology from Faculty of Music of theUniversity of Arts in Belgrade. She is Senior Research Associate at Institute of Musicology of SerbianAcademy of Sciences and Arts. She specialized in similar institutions of Austrian and BulgarianAcademies... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

global Y
Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

1:30pm EEST

Digital Preservation and Conservation of the Audiovisual Collections in Archives in South Africa In Times Peace and War

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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,...
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Speakers

Samuel Maredi Mojapelo

Full Professor, University of South Africa

Samuel Maredi Mojapelo (PhD) is the Professor in the Department of Information Science, University of South Africa (Unisa). He worked as a teacher in Limpopo province for 22 years. After that, he joined the Gauteng Department of Basic Education in 2008 as a Senior Education Specialist... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

1:30pm EEST

"Closing the Circle” Bringing the Diasporic Experience Back to the Homeland

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST

Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Audra V. Adomenas

President, Lithuanian Archives Project

Audra Adomenas is an archivist and nonprofit leader based in Chicago. She is the founder and president of the Lithuanian Archives Project (LAP), established in 2009 and incorporated in 2012 as a not-for-profit organization in the State of Illinois, USA, dedicated to preserving, digitizing... Read More →

Ashley Dequilla

Artist-filmmaker and Archivist, University of Illinois Chicago

Ashley Dequilla is an artist-filmmaker and archivist specializing in Philippine ethnographic and diasporic collections based in Chicago, Illinois. She holds an MFA in Moving Image and is completing her MA in Art History from the University of Illinois Chicago. Her efforts in community... Read More →

Moriah Ulinskas

Founding Member, CAW Collective

Agata Zborowska

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral F, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/University of Chicago/University of Warsaw

Agata Zborowska is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Chicago and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her current research and archival project investigates home movies and related oral histories of Polish... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST
Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82331938215
Zoom password 815104

2:00pm EEST

Radio/Archive: Exploring Literary Radio Archives as Sites of Memory and Cultural Identity

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Sean Luyk

Digital Curation Librarian, University of Alberta

Sean Luyk is the Digital Curation Librarian at the University of Alberta Library where he is responsible for the University of Alberta’s Aviary repository, and is a co-investigator on the SpokenWeb project. Sean is an Affiliated Researcher of the Sound Studies Institute, and a Fellow... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Long Presentation, Online

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

2:00pm EEST

Restoring Image and Sound, Rebuilding Stories: Polish Pre-War movies from FINA archives.

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Grzegorz Krynicki

Head of the Digitization and Restoration Department, National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA)

Master of Science in Engineering, a graduate of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. For many years professionally associated with the National Audiovisual Institute, and subsequently with the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute... Read More →

Jakub Stadnik

Senior Specialist for Sound Digitization and Restoration, National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA)

Dr. Jakub Stadnik is a sound engineer specializing in film sound restoration. He is employed as a Senior Specialist for Sound Digitization and Restoration at the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA) and serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sound... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Long Presentation, In Person

2:30pm EEST

Future-Proofing AV Archives in Europe during Uncertain Times

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Carolyn Birdsall

Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

Carolyn Birdsall is Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Her publications include Nazi Soundscapes (2012) and Radiophilia (2023), as well as “Listening to the Archive” (2019, co-ed. V. Tkaczyk) and “Historical Traces of European Radio Archives” (2022, co-ed. E. Harrison). Along with leading the funded research projects TRACE (2019-2024) and AV-DATA (2024-2-26), she previously served as Vice-C... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

3:00pm EEST

Afternoon Tea

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Afternoon Tea

3:30pm EEST

Collecting Conflict: An Australian Perspective

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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.Within 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...
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Speakers

Sarah Kershaw

Senior Curator, Australian War Memorial

Sarah Kershaw is Senior Curator of Photographs, Film and Sound at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. She is the lead curator of the current exhibition Operation Kudu: supporting Ukraine, co-curator of the upcoming Action! Film & War, and has been involved in the development o... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

3:30pm EEST

Not Afraid of Lossless Compression

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Dave Rice

Archivist, CUNY

Dave Rice is an audiovisual archivist and technologist. His work focuses on independent media, open source technology in preservation applications, and quality control analytics. He worked as an archivist or archival consultant at media organizations like CUNY, Democracy Now, the... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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3:30pm EEST

Objects of Governance: Indigenous Community Archives, State Intervention, and the Struggle for Autonomy

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Robert Lazarus

Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne

Dr Robert Lazarus is Senior Lecturer in the Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation at the University of Melbourne. His work focuses on the documentation and conservation of cultural heritage. Current research explores diverse archival practices in Australia, especially... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

4:00pm EEST

IASA Ambassadors Committee Meeting

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Ambassadors Committee

Chair, IASA committee

IASA Ambassadors
A IASA Ambassador is a IASA Member who represents IASA on a community, national or exceptionally, a regional level (e.g., Latin America or Southern African).There may be more than one Ambassador in any one country. Once approved by the IASA Executive Board, Ambassadors will be listed... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Committee Meeting, Hybrid

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

4:00pm EEST

Celluloid Diplomacy: USIA Films, Propaganda, and the Making of Cold War Latin America

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Juana Suárez

Associate Professor/ MIAP Director, New York University

Juana Suárez combines careers as a scholar, film critic, and media archivist/preservation activist. Her research interests include Media Preservation, Film Archives, Media Archeology, Administration of Memory Institutions, Film Studies, Latin American/Latino-a Cinema, Cultural Studies... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Long Presentation, In Person

4:30pm EEST

Towards the Transmedia Archive: A Methodological Approach to Preserving Interactive Audiovisual Works in Colombia

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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.This presentation reports on a methodological approach developed from the analysis of five Colombian interactive works (2014–2021): 4 Ríos, Reconstrucción, Crónica de una...
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Speakers

Henry Caicedo Caicedo

Independent consultant, audiovisual conservation and digital preservation, Independent researcher

Since 2019, coordinator of the Archivo Vivo y Memoria programme at the Gerencia de Artes Audiovisuales del Idartes – Cinemateca de Bogotá. Member of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and the International Council on Archives (ICA). He holds... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

8:30am EEST

Morning Tea

Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Wednesday October 21, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Morning Tea

9:30am EEST

Building on the SADC Early Warning System for the Protection of Documentary Cultural Heritage in Africa’s Peace and War Contexts

Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

SHADRECK BAYANE

Privacy & Records Consultant & Researcher, Independent Consultant & Researcher

Shadreck Bayane is a Botswana-based certified Records Analyst and certified Privacy professional pursuing a Masters degree in Politics & International Relations, with interdisciplinary research interests spanning data protection, risk management, AI & digitization, diplomacy, and... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

9:30am EEST

IASA Research Archive Section Meeting

Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

Senior Research Associate, Institute of Musicology SASA

Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Committee Meeting, In Person

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

9:30am EEST

Silences in the Archive: Stories of Transborder Resistance in Mendoza, Argentina During the Last Civil-Military Dictatorship

Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Mariana Páez

Director, Bibilioteca y Centro de Documentación Mauricio A López

Mariana Páez is the director of the Mauricio A. López Library and Documentation Center in Mendoza, Argentina. As director, she oversees an archive pertaining to ecumenical thought, feminism and liberation theology. The archive includes collections relating to the following figures... Read More →

Andrew Skinner

Co-Director, Memorias Sonoras

Andrew Skinner is the co-director of Memorias Sonoras, an initiative dedicated to supporting musical archives in Mendoza, Argentina, through community collaboration. Over the past three years, through Memorias Sonoras, he managed the preservation of the Zanessi Studios collection... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 9:30am - 10:30am EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

10:00am EEST

Safeguarding Audiovisual Memory in Fragile Contexts: Challenges and Strategies from Burkina Faso

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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.Based on academic research and field observations, this...
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Speakers

PARE Aboubacar Franck Hermann

Master’s Student in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

I am a Burkinabè audiovisual professional and a Master’s student in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies. My work is situated at the intersection of film, project management, and cultural development, with a particular focus on the role of audiovisual media in preserving cultural identity... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

10:30am EEST

A Case for Mandatory Deposit: Archiving the Mammoth Indian Film Industry

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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?With access and storage of films mainly being controlled by private players, a mandatory film...
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Speakers

Gayathri Rajkumar

Archivist, Prasad Corporation

I'm a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. I worked as a cataloguer with the National Film Archive of India and later as an assistant conservator at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru. I'm currently an archivist with Prasad Corporation.

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

10:30am EEST

Between Material Decay and Political Erasure: Preserving a 16mm Newsreel of the Plaza de Mayo Bombing (Argentina, 1955)

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Laura Gómez Gauna

Co-coordinator of the Commission on Archives and Audiovisual Heritage, Argentine Association for Film and Audiovisual Studies (AsAECA)

Independent conservator. She holds a diploma in the Preservation of Photographic, Sound and Audiovisual Collections from the National School of Restoration and Museography from Ibermemoria. She was awarded a scholarship to the Film Preservation & Restoration School Latin America by... Read More →

Mayumi Romina Higa

Teacher, National University of Arts, Argentina

Conservator and restorer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Conservation and Restoration from the National University of Arts and holds diplomas in Audiovisual Preservation and Restoration from the University of Buenos Aires and in Cultural Mediation from the Latin... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

10:30am EEST

Trust in Archives Initiative: A Community Response to Digital Authenticity in the Age of AI

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Laura Rooney

Managing Director, Association of Moving Image Archivists

Managing Director for the Association of Moving Image Archivists

Wednesday October 21, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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11:00am EEST

Voices from the End of the World: The Koluel Archive as a Safeguard of Memory, Identity, and Audiovisual Authenticity in the Malvinas Conflict

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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,...
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Speakers

Gustavo Navarro

Teacher, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral . UNPA

Director del proyecto Memorias de la Patagonia Austral .

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

11:00am EEST

AI-CODE, Debunk, and the Evidentiary Future of Audiovisual Archives

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Randi Cecchine

researcher, AI-CODE

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

Laura Šėrytė

Head of Projects, Debunk

Laura Šėrytė is Head of Projects at Debunk.org, a Vilnius-based independent technology think tank and non-governmental organization that researches disinformation and runs educational media literacy campaigns. She leads the AI-CODE task on user-centered service validation.

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Long Presentation, In Person

11:00am EEST

QC for Reformatted Audio Projects

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Marcos Sueiro Bal

Digital Collections Manager, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College

Marcos Sueiro Bal is the Digital Collections Manager at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City, USA. Marcos is a member of the technical committees of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) and IASA, and was part of the Collection Management... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Long Presentation, Online - TBD

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

11:30am EEST

Ukrainian Non-State Film Collections in Wartime: Liminal Archivism and Decolonial Reframing

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Oleksandr Teliuk

Postgraduate Researcher, Queen Mary University of London

Oleksandr Teliuk is a film archivist, scholar, artist, and currently a postgraduate researcher at Queen Mary University of London. As a film archivist, he worked at the Dovzhenko Center, the Ukrainian state film archive (2015–23), where he headed the non-film archives department... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

12:00pm EEST

Community Archives: Refugee Narratives and Political Prisoners’ Histories

Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

The Digital Repository of Ireland is a Core Trust Seal-certified repository for the preservation of Ireland’s humanities, cultural heritage, and social sciences digital data for long-term access and discovery.Since 2018, the DRI has run a Community Archive Award scheme, allowing unfunded archives and researchers the opportunity to avail of preservation services at the DRI, providing training and...
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Speakers

Holly Lennon

Executive Officer, Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)

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

Noelia Romero

Digital Archivist and Training Manager, Digital Repository of Ireland

Noelia Romero holds the position of training manager and digital archivist as part of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) team based at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). In her role, Noelia provides expert advice and hands-on assistance to DRI members to facilitate the ingest, preservation... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

12:00pm EEST

Post-Disaster Catalogue: Photographic Plates of the National Museum in the Reconstruction of Audiovisual Memory

Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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.Por meio dos procedimentos de conservação e restauração, foi possível...
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Speakers

Ana Luiza Castro do Amaral

Head of the Central Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration, Museu Nacional / UFRJ

Master’s degree in Social Memory from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Museology from the same institution. Currently serves as a Conservation Technician at the Museu Nacional of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro... Read More →

Jorge Dias da Silva Junior

Head of the Section of Memory and Archives, Museu Nacional / UFRJ

Jorge Dias da Silva Junior is an archivist and holds a Master’s degree in Records and Archives Management from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. He is Head of the Section of Memory and Archives at the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, where he coordinates preservation, reconfiguration... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

12:00pm EEST

Safeguarding Indigenous Sound: Archival Integrity, Resilience, and Authenticity in Australia’s National Audiovisual Memory

Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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,...
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Speakers

Craig Field

Senior Audio Officer, National Archives of Australia

Craig Field is a Senior Audio Preservation Officer at the National Archives of Australia, bringing more than 26 years of professional experience across music, audio, and sound pre- and post-production. His career spans extensive work in Australia and internationally as a commercial... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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12:30pm EEST

Lunch

Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Wednesday October 21, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Lunch

1:00pm EEST

Digital Witnesses: Safeguarding Audiovisual Memory and Authenticity in the Age of AI and Conflict

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Chidera Miracle Igwe

Legal Practitioner and Independent Researcher, Independent Researcher in Law, Culture, and Digital Governance, Nigeria

Chidera Miracle Igwe is an independent researcher and legal practitioner whose work explores the intersection of law, digital technology, cultural memory, and information governance. His research focuses on how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital archives... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Poster, In Person

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1:00pm EEST

Digitize and Discard: Preserving Audiovisual Memory Beyond the Carrier

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Michael Gates

Audiovisual Digitization Lab Manager, Brigham Young University

Michael Gates is the Audiovisual lab manager at the BYU Library in Provo, Utah. He is responsible for the digitization of legacy audio and video media in the library. While at BYU he spent 2 years as a Digital Preservation Specialist for the Library validating, ingesting and monitoring... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Poster, In Person

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1:00pm EEST

Preparedness in Practice: Risk Management for Audiovisual Archives in Oman

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Ibtisam Said Alshuhoumi

Records and Archives Specialist, National Records and Archives Authority, Audiovisual Department, Sultanate of Oman

Ibtisam Al Shuhoumi is a Records and Archives Specialist in the Audiovisual Department at the National Records and Archives Authority in the Sultanate of Oman. She holds a Master’s degree in Information Studies from Sultan Qaboos University (2020) and a Bachelor’s degree in the... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Poster, In Person

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1:00pm EEST

Visual and Audio Documents of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Their Preventive Conservation and Contribution to the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Niki Adamidou

Conservator of Canvas, Kunstkonserveringen Vest, Silkeborg, Denmark

My name is Niki Adamidou and I come from Greece. I have a Bachelor degree in Conservation of Works of Art. On 03.01.2019 I supported the undergraduate thesis entitled "Study and maintenance of 1970s 1980s vinyl discs from industrial paper", supervised by Mr Konstantinos Choulis... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Poster, Hybrid

2:00pm EEST

IASA Editorial Board (Closed)

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST

Meeting Room 204

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Meeting Room 204

2:00pm EEST

IASA DEI Committee Meeting

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is pleased to hold its 2026 meeting in Vilnius, welcoming both in-person and online participation from committee members (existing and new) and anyone from the IASA organisation or conference community.This meeting addresses the practical work of the committee - strengthening equitable and inclusive practices within the organisation, and...
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Speakers

Randi Cecchine

researcher, AI-CODE

Ketevan Davitashvili

Archivist, Tbilisi State Conservatoire

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

Helen Grogan

Visiting Fellow, University of Amsterdam

Helen Grogan is an artist, curator, researcher, and lecturer based in Amsterdam and Naarm/Melbourne. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam (2026–2027), and a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholar (2025–2026... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Committee Meeting, Hybrid

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

2:00pm EEST

IASA Technical Committee Meeting

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Committee Meeting, In Person

2:00pm EEST

Training and Education Committee Meeting

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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.

Speakers

Nadia Lai

Deputy Head and Head of Cataloguing and Training, Swiss National Sound Archives

Nadia Lai has worked as head of cataloguing and training at the Swiss National Sound Archives in Lugano since September 2015. She mainly deals with data quality controls, data consistency, cataloguing rules as well as with the training of the Swiss National Sound Archives staff. In... Read More →

Wednesday October 21, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Committee Meeting, In Person

3:00pm EEST

CCAAA Meeting (Closed)

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EEST

Meeting Room 204

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
Meeting Room 204

Committee Meeting, In Person

3:00pm EEST

Professional visit 1: Lithuanian Central State Archive

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EEST

Lithuanian Central State Archive

Limited Capacity seats available

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...
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Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
Lithuanian Central State Archive

Professional Visit

3:00pm EEST

Professional visit 2: Lithuanian National Television and Radio

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EEST

Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT)

Limited Capacity seats available

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.

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) S. Konarskio g. 49, 03123 Vilnius, Lithuania

Professional Visit

3:00pm EEST

Professional visit 3: Kinoteka Hall in Ozo Street

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EEST

The Kinoteka Hall

Limited Capacity seats available

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...
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Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
The Kinoteka Hall Ozo g. 4, Vilnius, Vilnius City Municipality, Lithuania

Professional Visit

8:30am EEST

Morning Tea

Thursday October 22, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Thursday October 22, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Morning Tea

9:30am EEST

General Assembly

Thursday October 22, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EEST

Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Thursday October 22, 2026 9:30am - 11:00am EEST
Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

11:00am EEST

Preservation of Archives and Library Materials During Civil Wars in Africa: Case of Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Netshakhuma Nkholedzeni Sidney

Senior Lecturer Information Studies, University of Zululand

Dr Netshakhuma Nkholedzeni Sdiney completed PhD Information Studies at the University of South Africa specialising in Archives and Records Management. He is currently a Senior Lecturer Information Studies. He published extensively in Information, archives and records management... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

11:00am EEST

Wartime Recordings of Voskovec and Werich: Optical Digitisation of Damaged Lacquer Discs Using the INA-Saphir System: Technical Resilience and Preservation Refresh Strategies

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Geoff Tyson

Sound Engineer, National Museum, Czech Republic

Geoff Tyson is an audio engineer at the National Museum in Prague. Since 2020, he has specialized in the restoration, preservation, and digitization of old historical sound carriers from the 19th and 20th century.

Filip Šír

Head of Digitization Department, National Museum, Czech Republic

Filip Šír is a specialist in the preservation of historical audio heritage in the Czech Republic. Since 2012, he has focused on national coordination, digitization, and long-term conservation of sound documents. He works at the National Museum as head of digitization department... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

11:00am EEST

A Community of Communities: Collaborative Preservation of LGBTQ+ Archives in the Balkans

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Shay Hix

Founding Member, CAW Collective

Jelena Vasiljevic

Executive Director, Arkadija Archive / Rainbow Ignite

Executive Director of Arkadija Archive and Rainbow Ignite.Experienced Program Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the civic & social organization industry. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Capacity Development, Organizational Development, Event Management, Volunteer... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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11:00am EEST

Context Lost, Trust Broken: Safeguarding Provenance in an Age of Audiovisual Misuse

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST

Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Viktorija Gardoviča

Archive expert, Latvian National Archives Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual documents

Archive expert at the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents, where she works in the Access and Inquiry Department, specializing in database monitoring, metadata creation, and maintaining classification systems. Victorija holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in library... Read More →

Natālija Lāce

Archive expert, Latvian National Archives Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual documents

Expert at the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents, specializing in the description of audiovisual collections. Natālija has played an important role in developing strategies for integrating AI tools into archival processes. Her responsibilities include compiling archive... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm EEST
Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82331938215
Zoom password 815104

11:30am EEST

SEAing History: Digitizing Audiovisual Materials in the Southeast Asian Archive

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Julia Huỳnh

Curator for the Southeast Asian Archive, University of California Irvine

Julia Huỳnh is a Vietnamese Canadian artist and the Curator for the Southeast Asian Archive at the University of California, Irvine. She is also the Research Librarian for Asian American Studies and provides instruction, research support, and cultivates collections and community... Read More →

Melissa Torres

Digitization Coordinator, University of California Irvine

Melissa Torres is the Digitization Coordinator at UC Irvine’s Special Collections and Archives, where she oversees, coordinates, and manages digitization projects. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and her Master... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

12:00pm EEST

A Necessary Challenge: Critical Audio Edition of Hitler’s Speeches 1933-1945

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Simon Frei

Audio Engineer, Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv / German Broadcasting Archive

Since 2024, Simon Frei has been responsible for the digitisation, digital processing, and restoration of audio recordings in the research project "Critial Edition of Hitler's Speeches 1933-1945". With 20 years of professional experience as a sound engineer specialising in the production... Read More →

Dr. Götz Lachwitz

Research Specialist / Project Manager, Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv / German Broadcasting Archive

Dr. Götz Lachwitz has been a research specialist at the German Broadcasting Archive (DRA) in Potsdam-Babelsberg since August 2020. Following an apprenticeship as an audio engineer, he went on to study Media Studies in Bonn. He then worked as an academic assistant at the University... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

12:00pm EEST

How To Deal With The Perfect Storm: A Crisis Management Strategy

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Pedro Félix

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

12:00pm EEST

Strategies of Concealment and Newly Gained Visibility: Lesbian Coding in Dutch Cinema

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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.Drawing on film-related...
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Speakers

Lou Burkart

Archival Curator, Eye Filmmuseum

Lou Burkart is working as archival curator at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, focusing on documentaries, female directors and queer film culture. They are also Secretary General of CCAAA, the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archival Associations. Previously they worked as restoration... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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12:30pm EEST

Lunch

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Thursday October 22, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Lunch

1:30pm EEST

Preserving Memory Under Threat: LGBTQ+ Oral Histories in Post-HB 261 Utah

Thursday October 22, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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. Since this closure, Special Collections at the...
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Speakers

Duston Mazzella

Multimedia Archivist, University of Utah

Multimedia archivist at the University of Utah specializing in audiovisual preservation, digital asset management, and inclusive archival practices. My work spans audio quality control, copyright navigation, and expanding access to Indigenous and LGBTQ collections, including projects... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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1:30pm EEST

The Calm After the Storm: Disaster Recovery as a Catalyst for Growth

Thursday October 22, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Linda Smith

Archivist, Clara and Krikor Zohrab Information Center

Linda is a recent graduate of the New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (NYU MIAP) graduate program. While there, she interned at the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation, ENTRE Film Center & Regional Archive, and the American Folk Art Museum. Her thesis covered... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

1:30pm EEST

Beyond Checksums: Conformance Checking as a Core Component of Authentic Digital Preservation

Thursday October 22, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Marion Jaks

Long term preservation, Österreichische Mediathek

Marion Jaks is a digital archivist at the Österreichische Mediathek (Austrian Mediathek) in Vienna, Austria. She holds a degree in History and completed professional library training at the Austrian National Library. Her work at the Mediathek spans both analogue and digital collections... Read More →

Jérôme Martinez

CEO, Affiliation MediaArea

Lead developer of #MediaInfo and technical consultant to a variety of projects within the fields of broadcast video, audiovisual archiving, and web video.

Thursday October 22, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

2:00pm EEST

Sound as Sanctuary: Cooperative Record Labels as Decentralized Archives for Queer Diasporic Memory

Thursday October 22, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Sara Teresa Skolnick

Ph.D. Student, The University of Texas at Austin

Sara Teresa Skolnick is an Ecuadorian-Lithuanian DJ, death doula, and cultural activist. Skolnick's practice is grounded in ancestral veneration, bone-deep listening, and presence with seen and unseen worlds.Skolnick holds a B.A. in Political Science from Boston University, a M.A... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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2:00pm EEST

Decentering Archival Authority: Informal Networks, Post-Custodial Practice, and the IASA Ambassador Framework

Thursday October 22, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Audra V. Adomenas

President, Lithuanian Archives Project

Patrick J Midtlyng

President; Head of Recorded Sound Processing Unit Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division, IASA; Library of Congress

Patrick Midtlyng is the Head of the Recorded Sound Section at the Library of Congress’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, VA. He is responsible for the management and direction of the Recorded Sound Section and oversees all aspects of the National Collection... Read More →

Judith Opoku-Boateng

Director, J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana

Judith Opoku-Boateng is University Archivist at the University of Ghana, where she leads the development and coordination of the University’s archival systems. With over two decades of experience in audiovisual heritage preservation, she has led major initiatives in audiovisual... Read More →

Perla Olivia Rodriguez Reséndiz

Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Investigadora del Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de la Información de la UNAM.
Cuenta con estancias de formación en la Radiotelevisión Italiana (RAI) y la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, España. Desde hace quince años es docente de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ha diseñado y producido series radiofónicas, televisivas y multimedia con fin... Read More →

Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

Senior Research Associate, Institute of Musicology SASA

Thursday October 22, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Long Presentation, Hybrid

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

2:30pm EEST

Challenges of Discography in the 21st Century

Thursday October 22, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Since 1936, a significant number of discographies have been compiled, which can serve assecondary sources for further discographic research. But how do we know that the data in adiscography are reliable? What are the criteria for the reliability of discographies? This topichas been a concern for some discographers since the 1970s. Tim Brooks’ 1996 proposal toapply the reference system of...
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Speakers

Ferenc János Szabó

Senior research fellow, Institute for Musicology, Budapest

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

Thursday October 22, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

3:00pm EEST

Afternoon Tea

Thursday October 22, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST

Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Thursday October 22, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EEST
Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Afternoon Tea

3:30pm EEST

How to Preserve and Work with Minority Archives in Nordland, Norway

Thursday October 22, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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.In his talk, Ketil Jensen, who leads the regional archive institution in...
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Speakers

Ketil Jensen

CEO, Arkiv i Nordland & The Norwegian association of archives

Ketil Jensen is the head of Arkiv i Nordland, where he oversees the institution’s daily operations and its work with preserving, managing, and making accessible archival material in the Nordland region. He is also known for his involvement in cultural heritage projects, including... Read More →

Kjetil Landrog

Secretary General, The Norwegian Archive Association (Arkivforbundet)

Kjetil Landrog is the Secretary General of The Norwegian Archive Association (Arkivforbundet), a role he has held since 2017. He brings extensive experience from politics, public administration, and strategic communication, including elected positions at both local and regional levels... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

global Y

3:30pm EEST

Technological Resilience and Preservation Refresh Measures in Handling Obsolete Audio-Visual Collections "Silent Archives": The Case of Unisa Library Archives

Thursday October 22, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Lufuno Kgamedi

Archivist, University of South Africa - Library

Ms. Lufuno Kgamedi, an Archivist with sixteen years of experience, began her career in 2009 at the National Archives of South Africa, where she developed her expertise and passion for preserving archival records. In 2013, she joined the University of South Africa (Unisa) Library (Archives... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

3:30pm EEST

Towards Shared Stewardship and Support: Strategies for Collaboration and Training from the Library of Congress, WITNESS, the CAW Collective, and the University of Michigan

Thursday October 22, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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.Representatives from the American Folklife Center will discuss the Community Collections Grant...
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Speakers

Jesse Johnston

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Information

Jesse Johnston is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, where he teaches courses in digital collections management and related preservation topics. He also serves as Secretary of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a non-profit... Read More →

Paul Kelly

Lead Digital Archivist, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Paul Kelly is Lead Digital Archivist at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, where he leads the public collecting and digital access team and directs AFC's born-digital strategy. He holds a Master of Science in Data Science from George Washington University and... Read More →

Marie Lascu

Founding Member, Audiovisual Archivist, Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) Collective

Virginia Millington

Program Specialist, Library of Congress

Virginia Millington is Program Specialist at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Previously, she served as Director, Recording and Archive, and Managing Director, Program Operations, at StoryCorps, in addition to positions at the Folger Shakespeare Library and... Read More →

Yvonne Ng

Senior Program Manager, WITNESS

Thursday October 22, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

4:00pm EEST

Hearing Udi Voices: The New Online Edition of the Austrian Phonogrammarchiv as Infrastructure for Vulnerable Sonic Memory

Thursday October 22, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST

Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

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...
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Speakers

Conny Gruber

Academy Scientist, Phonogrammarchiv (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Conny Gruber is an ethnomusicologist at the Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, responsible for publications and editions. They earned their doctorate at the University of Vienna on the interdependency of gender within dance spaces in southwest Madagascar. Gruber’s... Read More →

Alexander Kavtaradze

Invited Lecturer, Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Alexander Kavtaradze, based in Tbilisi (Georgia), holds a DPhil/PhD in Cultural Studies on the topic, “On the edge of time, space and memory: The Udis of Georgia and Azerbaijan”. His research focuses on the Udis and their historic homeland, Caucasian Albania. He serves as an invited... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

Long Presentation, In Person

4:00pm EEST

Radio Haiti Archive: Toward a Community Politics of Repatriation

Thursday October 22, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST

Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

Sony Prosper

PhD Student, University of Michigan

Sony Prosper is a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan School of Information in the United States of America. His research has concerned archival return and repatriation, how members and volunteers of community and grassroots archives conceptualize records, and how their conceptualizations... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EEST
Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81977024051
Zoom password 867213

4:30pm EEST

Safeguarding the Audiovisual Heritage: Resilience, Identity, and Risk Management Approach to Preservation in Eastern and Southern African Audiovisual Archives

Thursday October 22, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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...
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Speakers

BN Ncala - ‘Nthabiseng’

Lecturer at the University of South Africa in the Department of Information Science, in Gauteng, South Africa, University of South Africa, College of Human Sciences

Dr Ncala known as Nthabiseng, is a lecturer in Information Science at the Universityof South Africa (Unisa) since 2015. She holds a PhD in Information Science. Herresearch focused on the preservation management of audiovisual records atESARBICA. She earned her master’s in information... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86939636277
Zoom password 289030

7:00pm EEST

Conference Dinner