Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 28/Oct/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | 1.02. Nations memory Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Sharon Alexander-Gooding, ICA FIDA |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | ICA New Professionals Session Location: Room 111 Session Chair: Nicola Laurent, The University of Melbourne Session Chair: Laura Luca, University College London (UCL) |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | 4.04. Rewriting the Rules: What Happens When Archives Go Intelligent? Location: Room 112 Session Chair: Yaminel Bernal Astorga, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Unidad Morelia, UNAM |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | 3.02. Archives, Memory Laws, and Historical Justice Location: Room 133-134 Session Chair: Marco Antonio Enríquez Ochoa, Asociación Latinoamericana de Archivos ALA |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | Colab 4.3. AI tools for archives Location: Room 131-132 Session Chair: Gabriela Andaur Gómez, ICA |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | Colab 2.1. Archiving war and displacement Location: Room 129-130 Session Chair: Jens Boel, ICA/SAHR |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | 5.06. Future Tools and Workflows Location: Room 128 Session Chair: Maria Papanikolaou, NATO |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | 1.07. New archival ways for communities Location: Room 127 Session Chair: Pimphot Seelakate, Chulalongkorn University |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | 5.01. AI in Archival Education Location: Room 212 Session Chair: Ruth Vallejo, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | Panel 2.3. Archives during conflict Location: Room 211 Session Chair: Carlos Serrano Vásquez, ICA |
| 10:20am - 10:50am | Break |
| 10:20am - 10:50am | Poster Session 1 |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | 2.01. Transitional justice Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Montserrat Canela Garayoa, Consultant |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | 4.01. Reimagining Records in the Age of AI Location: Room 111 Session Chair: Bruno Ricard, Service interministériel des archives de France |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | 5.04. Archival Collaborations Location: Room 112 Session Chair: Rodrigo Sandoval, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | 1.08. Preserving identities Location: Room 133-134 Session Chair: David Sutton, University of Reading |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | ICA Lightning Talks Session Location: Room 131-132 Session Chair: Nicola Laurent, The University of Melbourne |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | Colab 3.1.Transnational Stewardship and Digital Access to Political and Justice Archives Location: Room 129-130 Session Chair: Hinerangi Himiona, Aotearoa/New Zealand |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | 2.05. Protecting identities Location: Room 128 Session Chair: Katia Isabelli Melo, Universidade de Brasília |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | 1.04. Archives and new uses Location: Room 127 Session Chair: Almudena Gutiérrez García-Muñoz, Associació de Professionals de l'Arxivística i Gestió de Documents de Catalunya |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | 4.06. Making Memory Visible: Accessibility, Strategy, and Archival Responsibility Location: Room 212 Session Chair: John Sheridan, The National Archives |
| 10:50am - 12:10pm | Panels 5.1. Archival Education Location: Room 211 Session Chair: Joan Pérez-Ventayol, ESAGED - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Session Chair: Karen Jamison TRIVETTE, Alma Mater Europaea University-SLOVENIA |
| 12:10pm - 12:30pm | Break |
| 12:30pm - 1:15pm | Opening Ceremony Location: Auditorium |
| 1:15pm - 2:00pm | Keynote Speaker - Mercè Crosas: AI-Ready Archives: Understanding the past with the tools of the future Location: Auditorium |
| 2:00pm - 2:45pm | LUNCH |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | 3.01. Data Protection and the Right to Access Information Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Maximiliaan Scriwanek, CARBICA / National Archives Curacao |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | ICA-FPA session - Sustainable and successful professional associations Location: Room 111 Session Chair: Cedric Champagne, Université du Québec à Montréal |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | 1.05. The role of archives in shaping collective memory and democracy Location: Room 112 Session Chair: Michaël Bloche, Directeur des Archives nationales de Monaco |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | 5.02. AI in Archival Practice Location: Room 133-134 Session Chair: Aliya Mustafina, Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | Colab 1.01. Gender, minorities and Queer related archives Location: Room 131-132 Session Chair: Fina Solà Gasset, Consorci de les Drassanes Reials i Museu Marítim de Barcelona |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | Colab 4.1. Redefining Archives: Innovation, Integrity, and Access in a Digital World Location: Room 129-130 Session Chair: Claude Roberto, Portail international archivistique francophone (PIAF) |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | 1.10. Ensuring preservation Location: Room 128 Session Chair: Janny Sjåholm, ArkiVest |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | 5.12. New tools, new roles, new users Location: Room 127 Session Chair: Norma Fenoglio |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | 2.02. Documenting armed conflicts Location: Room 212 Session Chair: Ramon Alberch i Fugueras, Asociación Latinoamericana de Archivos |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | Panels 1.1. Challenges for archivists Location: Room 211 Session Chair: Irene Brugués Massot, ACUB Àmbit Cultural de Benedictines Session Chair: Kelly Spring, East Carolina University |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | Sponsor Workshop - The cost of archives versus the greater cost of loss: an archival project with a holistic approach and success stories Location: Room 123 EUN |
| 4:15pm - 4:45pm | Break / ICA General Assembly Registration |
| 4:15pm - 4:45pm | Poster session 2 |
| 4:45pm - 5:00pm | ICA General Assembly Registrations |
| 5:00pm - 8:00pm | ICA General Assembly |
| Date: Wednesday, 29/Oct/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 4.12. Preserving Born-Digital Futures: Standards, Access, and Environmental Responsibility Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Hapiza binti Osman, SARBICA AND NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF MALAYSIA |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 5.09. National and Institutional Innovations Location: Room 111 Session Chair: Cedric Champagne, Université du Québec à Montréal |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 1.01. Memory of endangered communities Location: Room 112 Session Chair: Elisa García Prieto, Subdirección General de los Archivos Estatales |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Panels 5.3. Recordkeeping and Digital Humanities Location: Room 133-134 Session Chair: Barbara Reed, Monash University Session Chair: Rodrigo Sandoval, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Colab 4.7. Tools for archival accessibility Location: Room 131-132 Session Chair: Francisco Fernández Cuesta, Ayuntamiento de Madrid |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Colab 5.1. Contemporary perspectives in archival work Location: Room 129-130 Session Chair: Alan Capellades Riera, Generalitat de Catalunya |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 1.13. Archives, Communities, and Identities Location: Room 128 Session Chair: Gustavo A. Castaner Marquardt |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 4.07. Digital Transformation and Access in Archives and Records Management Location: Room 127 Session Chair: Jonathan De Guzman Isip, University of the Philippines |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 3.03. Advocacy, Professional Networks, and Rights-Based Archiving Location: Room 212 Session Chair: Deborah Jenkins, Urban Legacy Partnership |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Panels 2.1. Archiving in Palestine Location: Room 211 Session Chair: Ghada Dimashk, American University of Beirut Session Chair: Jamila J Ghaddar, University of Amsterdam |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Sponsor Workshop - Exploring Traditional Culture of Sarawak, Malaysia Location: Room 123 |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | Break |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | Poster session 3 |
| 11:00am - 11:45am | Keynote Speaker - Alan Cobley:Decoloniality, Reparations, Digitisation and AI: the new paradigms and new technologies shaping Caribbean Archives in the twenty-first century Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 |
| 11:45am - 12:00pm | Break |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | 5.05. Future of Archival Education Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Esther Olembe, Archives Nationales du Cameroun |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | 4.09. Collaborative Futures: Rethinking Archival Practice in the Digital Age Location: Room 111 Session Chair: Jean-Paul Nenga |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | 2.03. Archives and Refugees Location: Room 112 Session Chair: Henri ZUBER, Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | 4.02. Resilient Archives: Integrating AI, Access, and Accountability in the Digital Age Location: Room 133-134 Session Chair: Ryan Courchene, Library and Archives Canada |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Colab 5.2. Archival Training Location: Room 131-132 Session Chair: David Iglésias, Ajuntament de Girona |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lightning Talks Session 1 Location: Room 129-130 Session Chair: Heather Dean, University of Victoria Libraries Lightning Talks session 1 |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | 1.11. Engaging communities Location: Room 128 Session Chair: Giovanni Michetti, Sapienza University of Rome |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | 3.05. Digital Records Management and Security of Rights Location: Room 127 Session Chair: Sarah Negumbo, National Archives of Namibia |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | ICA-FAN session: Looking Ahead to 2050: Key Issues for National Archives Location: Room 212 |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Panels 2.2. Collecting archives Location: Room 211 Session Chair: Kostas Arvanitis, University of Manchester Session Chair: Núria Jornet Benito, Universitat de Barcelona |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | LUNCH / ICA/FAN Lunch |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | 1.06. Local, Global, and Indigenous Perspectives in Archives Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Normand Charbonneau, Deputy Librarian and Archivist of Canada (retired) |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | 4.08. Transforming Information Landscapes: Archives, Data, and Digital Innovation Location: Room 111 Session Chair: Lai-Tee Phang, National Archives of Singapore |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Panels 5.5. Global Perspectives on Archival Futures Location: Room 112 Session Chair: Kelly Spring, East Carolina University Session Chair: Avril Belfon, Formerly of the National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | 4.03. Reconstructing Memory: Artificial Intelligence, Archival Practice, and Digital Ethics Location: Room 133-134 Session Chair: Yujue Wang, Wuhan University |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Colab 5.3. Archives Risk Location: Room 131-132 Session Chair: Sandra Ponce, Arxiu Municipal de Barcelona |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Colab 4.2. Archiving the Future: Skills, Access, and Innovation Location: Room 129-130 Session Chair: Jordi Serra Serra, jordiserra18@outlook.es |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | 4.17. Building Trustworthy and Resilient Digital Repositories Location: Room 128 Session Chair: Javier Requejo Zalama, Gobierno de España. Ministerio de Cultura. Subdirección General de los Archivos Estatales |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | 5.10. Transforming Archival Practices for Inclusive and Digital Futures Location: Room 127 Session Chair: Makutla Mojapelo, University Of South Africa |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | ICA-FAN Session: National Archives Transformation Initiatives Location: Room 212 |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Panels 5.2. Future of Archival Description Location: Room 211 Session Chair: Elisa García Prieto, Subdirección General de los Archivos Estatales |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm | Sponsor Workshop - Smart and Secure Archiving: Practical Solutions from methodology to technology Location: Room 123 OPEN TEXT |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Break |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Poster session 4 |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | 4.14. Intelligent Archives: From AI Tools to Theoretical Models for Enhanced Access Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Sonia Black, UWI |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | 2.04. Protecting archives during disasters Location: Room 111 Session Chair: Ana María López Cuadrado, Ministerio de Cultura (Gobierno de España) |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | 5.07. Strategic visions for archives Location: Room 112 Session Chair: Adama Aly Pam, UNESCO |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | 3.04. Archival Practices for Justice and Vulnerable Communities Location: Room 133-134 Session Chair: António Sousa, ICA-SAR |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | Colab 5.4. Strenghtening the profession and building collaborations Location: Room 131-132 Session Chair: Moisés Rockembach, University of Coimbra |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | Colab 1.02. Community and citizen archives Location: Room 129-130 Session Chair: Anna Esteve Florensa, Associació de Professionals de l’Arxivística i la Gestió de Documents de Catalunya |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | 4.05. Archives as Public Knowledge Hubs: Access, Participation, and Purpose in a Digital Era Location: Room 128 Session Chair: Mpho Ngoepe, University of South Africa |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | 3.07. To reconstitute and make accessible the collective memory after repression: civil war and decolonization Location: Room 127 Session Chair: Lluís-Esteve Casellas Serra, Ajuntament de Girona |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | ICA-FIDA session Location: Room 212 ICA's Fund for the International Development of Archives: Experiences and Prospects |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | Panels 4.1. Preserving Trust: AI, Standards, and the Future of Digital Records Location: Room 211 Session Chair: Onías Vargas Mendoza, ODILO TID S.L. Session Chair: Paul Anthony Mullon, COR Concepts Information Management Consulting |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | Sponsor Workshop - AI and RiC For Working Archivists: Imagining systems that empower and inform using emerging technologies Location: Room 123 ARTEFACTUAL |
| 8:00pm - 11:30pm | Gala Dinner Museo Marítimo de Barcelona |
| Date: Thursday, 30/Oct/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 4.11. Governance by Design: Rethinking Electronic Records in Public Institutions Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Cristina Díaz Martínez, Subdirección General de los Archivos Estatales |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 1.03. The profession's active role in the battle of access Location: Room 111 Session Chair: Joan Boadas i Raset |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 3.06. Transparency and records management Location: Room 112 Session Chair: Bernat Muntés, Diputació Barcelona |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 4.10. Structuring Access: Designing Digital Archives for Transparency, Context, and Reuse Location: Room 133-134 Session Chair: Montserrat Canela Garayoa, Consultant |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Colab 4.5. Modernising Archives Responsibly: From AI Ethics to Open-Source Solutions Location: Room 131-132 Session Chair: Vera Núñez Martínez, Freelance |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Colab 4.4. Innovating Archival Access and Governance: AI, Standards, and Policy Frameworks Location: Room 129-130 Session Chair: Francisco José Valentín Ruiz, Ministerio de Cultura (España) - Subdirección General de los Archivos Estatales |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 1.09. Managing Memories and emerging technologies Location: Room 128 Session Chair: Kirsten Thorpe, University of Technology Sydney |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Panels 5.6. Expanding Archival Horizons Location: Room 127 Session Chair: David Iglésias, Ajuntament de Girona Session Chair: Emma Mary Florence Morse, ARTIS |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | 1.12. Archives preserving identities Location: Room 212 Session Chair: Jordi Padilla-Delgado, ICA-SAGDAA-WG |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Panels 5.4. Archives strategies for the future Location: Room 211 Session Chair: Nampombe Saurombe, University of South Africa Session Chair: Lluís-Esteve Casellas Serra, Ajuntament de Girona |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | AI Godot: pipeline, challenges and expectations of automated Gothic document transcription Location: Room 123 Barcelona Supercomputer Center |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am - 11:45am | Keynote Speaker - Trudy Huskamp Peterson: Hope as a Discipline: Archives and Human Rights Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | ICA Fellows Ceremony Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 |
| 12:15pm - 12:30pm | Break |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | 5.08. Emergency and Disaster Planning / Professional development to face archival challenges Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Meg Phillips |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | 4.13. Archival Access at Scale: Linking Heritage, Technology, and the Public Location: Room 111 Session Chair: Jaume Enric Zamora Escala, DIPUTACIÓ DE BARCELONA |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | 2.06. Archives and migration Location: Room 112 Session Chair: Javier Requejo Zalama, Gobierno de España. Ministerio de Cultura. Subdirección General de los Archivos Estatales |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | 5.11. Archival science and the future archivist Location: Room 133-134 Session Chair: Maria Jose VANNI, Asociacion Latinoamericana de Archivos (ALA) |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lightning Talks Session 2 Location: Room 131-132 Session Chair: Jessica Squires, Library and Archives Canada Lightning Talks Session 2 |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Colab 4.6. Expanding Access and Collaboration in Archives Through Digital Tools and Policy Support Location: Room 129-130 Session Chair: Marianne Deraze, ICA |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | 4.15. Harnessing Technology for Archival Access and Preservation Location: Room 128 Session Chair: David Brian Fricker, National Library and Archives UAE |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | 4.16. Access, Rights, and Collaboration in the Archival Landscape Location: Room 127 Session Chair: TSHEPHO MOSWEU, UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | 5.03. Sustainable Development and Green Archives Location: Room 212 Session Chair: Cécile Fabris, Archives nationales |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Panels 4.2. AI archives and accessibility Location: Room 211 Session Chair: Agata Bloch, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences Session Chair: Alicia Fornes, Computer Vision Center - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona |
| 2:00pm - 2:15pm | Emmett Leahy Award ceremony Location: Room 112 |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | LUNCH |
| 3:00pm - 4:15pm | Keynote Panel - Archival Futures: Archives and Archivists for the next Quarter Century Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Meg Phillips |
| 4:15pm - 5:30pm | Closing Ceremony Location: Main Room - 113 to 117 Session Chair: Dr Hamad Abdulla Al Mutairi, National Library and Archives UAE |