IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

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10:00am EEST

Executive Board Meeting (Closed) Meeting Room 204

8:30am EEST

Morning Tea Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

9:30am EEST

Depolarising How We Talk About AI Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaRasa Bocyte • Ploipailin Flynn • Nadia Piet How Can I Help? Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaClara Sánchez-Dehesa Protecting the Real and Identifying the Fake: Human Rights Centered Approaches to Disclosing Provenance and Detecting Generative AI Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallYvonne Ng

10:00am EEST

Community Archiving Workshop Meno AvilysShay Hix • Marie Lascu • Moriah Ulinskas

12:30pm EEST

Lunch Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

1:30pm EEST

Azimuth Adjustments: Will We Do All Our Collections Again? Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaJean-Christophe Kummer • Prof.in Dr. Nadja Wallaszkovits Getting on the same page: shaping AI organisational policy together Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallRasa Bocyte • Johan Oomen Performing the Archive: An Experiment in Collective Memory in the Face of Technological, Geopolitical and Climate Crisis Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaAlex Waterman

2:30pm EEST

MediaShield: Preserving the Authenticity of Community Radio Archives in the Age of AI-Generated Audio Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaNûjîn Kartal • sami meddeb • Carlos Nascimento

3:00pm EEST

Afternoon Tea Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

3:30pm EEST

Permanent Records, Permanent Access, Permanent Readability: Cerabyte The New Storage Technology Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaMartin Kunze

4:30pm EEST

Piql Technology as a safeguard for memory, Identity and authenticity of audio visual archives Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaVictor Kabata

6:00pm EEST

Opening Ceremony The Merchants’ Club

8:30am EEST

Morning Tea Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

9:30am EEST

Dr Giedrė Milerytė-Japertienė Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great Hall

11:00am EEST

Discovering "L’Assedio Dei Sogni, The Siege of Dreams” Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaDuncan John Shelwell Listening Across the Iron Curtain: Western Popular Music in Soviet Latvia, 1970–1985 Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallZane Grosa Archives as a Witness: A Case of National Social Security Fund-Uganda Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaWinny Nekesa Akullo • Shaban Bwayo Safeguarding Baltic Voices: Collaborative Approaches to Video Testimony Preservation Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallLiisi Esse • Evita Feldentāle • Hannah Frost • Lelde Neimane • Liisi Ploom • Marko Poolamets

11:30am EEST

From Loss to Resilience: Safeguarding Bangladesh’s Audiovisual Heritage in Times of Crisis Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaSmita Barua Il mondo dei vinti: Voices from the Past Calling for a Future Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallDiego Mometti

12:00pm EEST

Relistening for Aural Justice: The Case of Alternative Community Radio in Ukraine Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaIeva Gudaitytė Sound Archives and Colonial Memory: Preserving Malagasy Musical Heritage (1900–1960) Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallJocelyn SOLONJATOVO Uncovering, Recontextualising and Publishing Recordings of Female Fiddlers in Sweden Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallJohn-Francis Goodacre Voices That Won’t Be Erased: Archiving Nairobi’s Gen Z Maandamano Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaSUSAN KIBAARA

12:30pm EEST

Lunch Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

1:30pm EEST

Archival Resilience in Practice: The Archivo de la Palabra at the Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Puertorriqueña Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallMelanie Vargas-Cintrón Archived Sounds of World War I Prisoners from Serbia: Rethinking Comparative Musicology Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaDr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević Digital Preservation and Conservation of the Audiovisual Collections in Archives in South Africa In Times Peace and War Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaSamuel Maredi Mojapelo "Closing the Circle” Bringing the Diasporic Experience Back to the Homeland Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallAudra V. Adomenas • Ashley Dequilla • Moriah Ulinskas • Agata Zborowska

2:00pm EEST

Radio/Archive: Exploring Literary Radio Archives as Sites of Memory and Cultural Identity Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaSean Luyk Restoring Image and Sound, Rebuilding Stories: Polish Pre-War movies from FINA archives. Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallGrzegorz Krynicki • Jakub Stadnik

2:30pm EEST

Future-Proofing AV Archives in Europe during Uncertain Times Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaCarolyn Birdsall

3:00pm EEST

Afternoon Tea Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

3:30pm EEST

Collecting Conflict: An Australian Perspective Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaSarah Kershaw Not Afraid of Lossless Compression Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallDave Rice Objects of Governance: Indigenous Community Archives, State Intervention, and the Struggle for Autonomy Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaRobert Lazarus

4:00pm EEST

IASA Ambassadors Committee Meeting Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaAmbassadors Committee Celluloid Diplomacy: USIA Films, Propaganda, and the Making of Cold War Latin America Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallJuana Suárez

4:30pm EEST

Towards the Transmedia Archive: A Methodological Approach to Preserving Interactive Audiovisual Works in Colombia Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaHenry Caicedo Caicedo

8:30am EEST

Morning Tea Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

9:30am EEST

Building on the SADC Early Warning System for the Protection of Documentary Cultural Heritage in Africa’s Peace and War Contexts Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaSHADRECK BAYANE IASA Research Archive Section Meeting Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallDr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević Silences in the Archive: Stories of Transborder Resistance in Mendoza, Argentina During the Last Civil-Military Dictatorship Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaMariana Páez • Andrew Skinner

10:00am EEST

Safeguarding Audiovisual Memory in Fragile Contexts: Challenges and Strategies from Burkina Faso Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaPARE Aboubacar Franck Hermann

10:30am EEST

A Case for Mandatory Deposit: Archiving the Mammoth Indian Film Industry Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaGayathri Rajkumar Between Material Decay and Political Erasure: Preserving a 16mm Newsreel of the Plaza de Mayo Bombing (Argentina, 1955) Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaLaura Gómez Gauna • Mayumi Romina Higa Trust in Archives Initiative: A Community Response to Digital Authenticity in the Age of AI Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallLaura Rooney

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 Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaGustavo Navarro AI-CODE, Debunk, and the Evidentiary Future of Audiovisual Archives Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallRandi Cecchine • Laura Šėrytė QC for Reformatted Audio Projects Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaMarcos Sueiro Bal

11:30am EEST

Ukrainian Non-State Film Collections in Wartime: Liminal Archivism and Decolonial Reframing Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaOleksandr Teliuk

12:00pm EEST

Community Archives: Refugee Narratives and Political Prisoners’ Histories Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaHolly Lennon • Noelia Romero Post-Disaster Catalogue: Photographic Plates of the National Museum in the Reconstruction of Audiovisual Memory Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaAna Luiza Castro do Amaral • Jorge Dias da Silva Junior Safeguarding Indigenous Sound: Archival Integrity, Resilience, and Authenticity in Australia’s National Audiovisual Memory Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallCraig Field

12:30pm EEST

Lunch Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

1:00pm EEST

Digital Witnesses: Safeguarding Audiovisual Memory and Authenticity in the Age of AI and Conflict Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaChidera Miracle Igwe Digitize and Discard: Preserving Audiovisual Memory Beyond the Carrier Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaMichael Gates Preparedness in Practice: Risk Management for Audiovisual Archives in Oman Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaIbtisam Said Alshuhoumi Visual and Audio Documents of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Their Preventive Conservation and Contribution to the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaNiki Adamidou

2:00pm EEST

IASA Editorial Board (Closed) Meeting Room 204 IASA DEI Committee Meeting Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaRandi Cecchine • Ketevan Davitashvili • Helen Grogan IASA Technical Committee Meeting Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania Training and Education Committee Meeting Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallNadia Lai

3:00pm EEST

CCAAA Meeting (Closed) Meeting Room 204 Professional visit 1: Lithuanian Central State Archive Lithuanian Central State Archive

Professional visit 2: Lithuanian National Television and Radio Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT)

Professional visit 3: Kinoteka Hall in Ozo Street The Kinoteka Hall

8:30am EEST

Morning Tea Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

9:30am EEST

General Assembly 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 Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaNetshakhuma Nkholedzeni Sidney Wartime Recordings of Voskovec and Werich: Optical Digitisation of Damaged Lacquer Discs Using the INA-Saphir System: Technical Resilience and Preservation Refresh Strategies Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaGeoff Tyson • Filip Šír A Community of Communities: Collaborative Preservation of LGBTQ+ Archives in the Balkans Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallShay Hix • Jelena Vasiljevic Context Lost, Trust Broken: Safeguarding Provenance in an Age of Audiovisual Misuse Conference hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallViktorija Gardoviča • Natālija Lāce

11:30am EEST

SEAing History: Digitizing Audiovisual Materials in the Southeast Asian Archive Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaJulia Huỳnh • Melissa Torres

12:00pm EEST

A Necessary Challenge: Critical Audio Edition of Hitler’s Speeches 1933-1945 Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaSimon Frei • Dr. Götz Lachwitz How To Deal With The Perfect Storm: A Crisis Management Strategy Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaPedro Félix Strategies of Concealment and Newly Gained Visibility: Lesbian Coding in Dutch Cinema Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallLou Burkart

12:30pm EEST

Lunch Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

1:30pm EEST

Preserving Memory Under Threat: LGBTQ+ Oral Histories in Post-HB 261 Utah Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallDuston Mazzella The Calm After the Storm: Disaster Recovery as a Catalyst for Growth Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaLinda Smith Beyond Checksums: Conformance Checking as a Core Component of Authentic Digital Preservation Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaMarion Jaks • Jérôme Martinez

2:00pm EEST

Sound as Sanctuary: Cooperative Record Labels as Decentralized Archives for Queer Diasporic Memory Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallSara Teresa Skolnick Decentering Archival Authority: Informal Networks, Post-Custodial Practice, and the IASA Ambassador Framework Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaAudra V. Adomenas • Patrick J Midtlyng • Judith Opoku-Boateng • Perla Olivia Rodriguez Reséndiz • Dr. Marija Dumnić Vilotijević

2:30pm EEST

Challenges of Discography in the 21st Century Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaFerenc János Szabó

3:00pm EEST

Afternoon Tea Atrium 5th floor: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

3:30pm EEST

How to Preserve and Work with Minority Archives in Nordland, Norway Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallKetil Jensen • Kjetil Landrog Technological Resilience and Preservation Refresh Measures in Handling Obsolete Audio-Visual Collections "Silent Archives": The Case of Unisa Library Archives Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaLufuno Kgamedi Towards Shared Stewardship and Support: Strategies for Collaboration and Training from the Library of Congress, WITNESS, the CAW Collective, and the University of Michigan Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaJesse Johnston • Paul Kelly • Marie Lascu • Virginia Millington • Yvonne Ng

4:00pm EEST

Hearing Udi Voices: The New Online Edition of the Austrian Phonogrammarchiv as Infrastructure for Vulnerable Sonic Memory Events hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: Great HallConny Gruber • Alexander Kavtaradze Radio Haiti Archive: Toward a Community Politics of Repatriation Education hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaSony Prosper

4:30pm EEST

Safeguarding the Audiovisual Heritage: Resilience, Identity, and Risk Management Approach to Preservation in Eastern and Southern African Audiovisual Archives Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of LithuaniaBN Ncala - ‘Nthabiseng’

7:00pm EEST

Conference Dinner Belmontas, Charle's de Vims hall

10:00am EEST

Executive Board Meeting (Closed) Meeting Room 204

IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

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