Eye Filmmuseum, University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will present the 7^th Eye International Conference on ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices’ on 29 – 31 May 2022.

The 2022 edition will focus on the imbalance or current misrepresentation of global audiovisual heritage holdings, looking in particular at the alarming scarcity of audiovisual heritage from the Global South in the digital space. The conference offers a space to consider the impact of geographical location, the availability of resources, technical and digital gaps, and different audiovisual traditions.

The Eye International Conference 2022 will take place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 29 May to 31 May 2022. Please note that the official opening of the Eye International Conference will take place on 28 May 2022 at 7:00 PM (Amsterdam, GMT+2) before the screening of Vrouwen van Suriname (Oema foe Sranan, 1978).

Participants are also invited to two annual side events:

• Meet the Archive, a public program highlighting recent projects with the Eye Collection, on Saturday, 28 May 2022.
• Open House at the Eye Collection Centre, a program of guided tours, presentations, demonstrations, and screenings, on 1 June 2022.

This year, Eye Filmmuseum is offering a hybrid conference format to accommodate everyone. Please note that all presenters must register for the conference. There is a different registration fee for on-site and virtual participants. Unfortunately, it is not possible to return purchased tickets.

Sanchai Chotirosseranee (Deputy Director of Thai Film Archive and Secretary-General of SEAPAVAA) and Sasikorn Likhitwong (Thai Film Archive) will present on Day 3 of the Eye International Conference on 31^st May 2022 with the topic, “Infinity War on Film Archive”.

For more information on the 7^th Eye International Conference 2022, visit the Eye Filmmuseum website.

Deadline for Submission: 31 May 2022

The National Archives of Singapore (NAS) will be hosting the Southeast Asia Regional Branch of International Council on Archives (SARBICA) 2022 Virtual International Symposium on 15 – 17 November 2022, including a virtual workshop on 15 November 2022.

The theme for this year’s symposium is “Preservation & Sustainability: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?”. The symposium will focus on two important areas – preservation and sustainability, discuss perspectives on how they may co-exist, and explore opportunities for action to benefit the work of memory institutions like the archives.

NAS invites submission of proposals from interested parties on any of the following topics of interest below. Other thematically-related topics not listed here, are also welcome for consideration.

• Traditional archiving practices versus modern preservation efforts and their impact on the environment.
• Environmental impact of digital preservation.
• Understanding climate change and sustainability.
• Impact of climate change and disasters on archival collections and facilities and the archives’ response.
• Sustainability in conservation.
• Sustainable preservation methods.
• Sustainable archival services including access, programming, and outreach.
• Environmental standards for archival and conservation facilities.
• Best green practices for memory institutions (archives, libraries, museums, etc).
• Assessment framework for archival preservation vis-à-vis environmental protection.
• Formal education and training for green archivists.
• Green skills for the archival profession.
• Archival advocacy for sustainable preservation.
• Collaborations with allied professions in sustainable preservation.

TIMELINE AT A GLANCE:

• Deadline for submission of proposals: 31 May 2022
• Notification of accepted proposals: 29 July 2022
• Deadline for confirmation to present at the Virtual Symposium: 16 August 2022
• Submission of presentation materials: 6 October 2022
• Presentation at Symposium: 16 and 17 November 2022

DETAILS TO NOTE:

1. Submit proposal in English via e-mail as an MS Word file by 31 May 2022 to: Irene_LL_LIM@nlb.gov.sg
2. The proposal should include:

• • Title of proposal
  • Abstract, maximum of 250 words
  • Name and institution of proponent(s)
  • Bio, maximum of 250 words per proponent

3. The Organisers will review all submitted proposals and will notify the proponents via email, on the review outcomes by 29 July 2022.
4. Accepted proponents must confirm if they are able to present at the Symposium by 16 August 2022. Presentation materials must be submitted to the Organisers by 6 October 2022.
5. The Organisers shall waive the registration fee of the Symposium for the confirmed Presenters.
6. Please email your enquiries (if any) to: NLB_Sarbica_2022@nlb.gov.sg.

For more information on the 2022 Virtual SARBICA International Symposium, kindly visit their website at https://sarbicasymposium2022.nas.gov.sg/

The Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) represents the interests of nine (9) worldwide professional archive organizations with interests in audiovisual materials including films, broadcast television and radio, and audio recordings of all kinds.

SEAPAVAA is a member of CCAAA.

CCAAA is looking for a Programme Coordinator to support CCAAA agenda priorities. The Coordinator will work with the CCAAA Chair and the Secretary General to support key projects undertaken by the CCAAA membership throughout the year and may be asked to represent CCAAA when needed.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Provide support infrastructure in managing CCAAA activities and leadership changes.
• Support communications and relationships between CCAAA and external bodies and partners.

Responsibilities may include the following tasks:

• Coordinate with the Chair and CCAAA member associations to raise the profile of CCAAA and its projects as directed.
• Oversee and organize the timeline for World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, including the creation of the poster, the Statement on behalf of CCAAA, promotion of the event with UNESCO and/or other partners and coordination with the CCAAA web manager.
• Provide support to the CCAAA web manager to ensure the website best promotes CCAAA and its member associations’ initiatives and resources as directed.
• Support the Secretary General to coordinate with UNESCO initiatives as directed.
• Assist member associations and key stakeholders with coordination and prioritization of joint training initiatives.
• Any other support as determined by the Council.

Minimum Requirements (Essential)

• Demonstrable experience working in an audiovisual archival institution, or equivalent environment, or in a relevant professional or trade association.
• A good standard of written and spoken English.
• Ability to communicate clearly, enthusiastically, and persuasively, both with fellow professionals and with people from external agencies.
• Some understanding of the internal professional political landscape and of relevant external business drivers and constraints.

Additional Requirements (Desirable)

• A confident public speaking style.
• Sensitivity in working with colleagues from different cultural backgrounds.
• A good standard of written and spoken French, Spanish, or German.
• In-depth experience of at least one activity in the audiovisual archiving professional field.
• Access to an institutional travel budget would be desirable but not essential.
• A working familiarity with a relevant professional body.

Term

• One-year renewable term.
• Ten (10) days / Eighty (80) hours per year (approx.), in addition to attendance at the annual Spring meeting and any supplemental online meetings.
• Location: Remote Working

Compensation

• 4,500.00 € per year, paid in quarterly payments. Should the Coordinator be required to travel on behalf of CCAAA, approved travel costs will be reimbursed.

Should you be interested to apply, kindly send your CV and cover letter to lacken@ccaaa.org. The deadline for applications is on 25^th April 2022.

CCAAA accepts all worldwide applications; interviews will be held in May 2022 via Zoom with the anticipated start date in June 2022, to be confirmed.

For more information regarding CCAAA, kindly visit their website through this link.

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The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is pleased to host its 56^th Annual Conference and Pre-Conference Workshop virtually in Hubilo.

ARSC Conference Sessions will be held on 19 – 21 May 2022, generally beginning at 11:00 AM and ending at 9:00 PM EDT. Start and end times vary; please consult the ARSC Conference Program for details.

ARSC’s Pre-Conference Workshop, titled “So You’ve Got Some Cassettes / So You’ve Got Some Wires” and “So You Wanna Play Some Cassettes / So You Wanna Play Some Wires: Reformatting and Preservation” will be presented in two sessions on 17 and 18 May 2022.

Workshop Session I (17 May 2022, 12:00 NN – 5:00 PM EDT) will focus on best practices for assessment of wires and cassettes. Workshop Session II (18 May, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT) will introduce techniques for preserving and reformatting these formats.

Separate registration is required and covers both workshop sessions. Please complete registration for the workshops no later than 10 May 2022. Registrants may opt to receive a sample of cassettes by mail for an additional fee. Consult the ARSC Conference Program for details.

The virtual conference will include live presentations in the Hubilo conference platform and recorded presentations made available for on-demand viewing in ARSC’s Aviary Site. Video recordings of conference sessions and workshops will remain available on Hubilo to registrants for 30 days following the conference. Thereafter, they will be available to ARSC members only.

You may register for the ARSC conference sessions and workshop using this link.

Archives of the Future: Open, Sustainable and Equitable

Deadline of Submission: 31^st March 2022

The IASA Annual Conference 2022 will be held both face to face and online, from 26^th to 29^th September 2022. This year, we would like to have a conference to share thoughts about sound and audiovisual archives in the 21^st century. How do we imagine the archives in the future? Which will be the main characteristics that they need to have to continue preserving the heritage?

We invite presentations that explore three main concepts: openness, sustainability, and equality. We would like to hear the ideas, projects, and professional experiences from our community to imagine and build archives for the future. Let us think together about the future of archives by participating in the IASA Conference 2022.

The conference will be held in México City at the Fonoteca Nacional and the Institute for Research in Librarianship and Information (IIBI) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). We are glad to meet you face-to-face or online.

For those presenting online, we intend to provide a virtual platform that gives presenters a choice of either live-streamed videos or pre-recorded videos. Live and pre-recorded presentations will be made available online according to the published schedule.

In line with the theme for 2022, attendees will be able to participate in significant portions of the conference remotely, since we will provide online access to those who are not able to attend in person. We are hopeful that the pandemic will subside sufficiently to allow a safe in-person conference, though changes to the conference format might be unavoidable if the epidemiological situation does not improve. Any changes will be announced here.

Proposals for conference presentations on the following topics are invited:

• Open versus restricted access
• Metadata and curatorial access process
• AI and open access
• Sustainable archives
• Equitable and ethical archives
• Digital preservation and the digital life cycle
• Migration and digitization
• Research and dissemination
• Digital content management
• Community and indigenous archives

If interested, kindly submit your proposal by completing the form through this link: https://2022.iasa-web.org/call-for-presentations. Deadline of submission of proposals on 31^st March 2022.

The University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies (UPSLIS) will hold the 42^nd Gabriel A. Bernardo Memorial Lecture on 18 March 2022, 19.00 – 21.00 PHT or 11.00 – 13.00 UTC.

The speaker for this lecture is Dr Andrew Flinn, Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History, University College London. He will give a lecture entitled: Digging Where We Stand: Community and (Counter-) Archives, Oral History and the “Inevitably Political Craft” of Archiving. The lecture will explore themes in community archives, voice and representation, and social justice archives.

You may register for this event through this link: https://bit.ly/3MQgLKJ

For more information on this event, kindly check UPSLIS’ Facebook page.

2 – 31 May 2022 and 19 – 21 July 2022

 

Happy holiday greetings from the SEAPAVAA Executive Council (EC)!

It has been a fervent hope of everyone that we would be able to meet in person in 2022. However, with the continued development of the pandemic situation, bringing with it evolving travel restrictions and differing quarantine protocols, the EC concluded that it is prudent and realistic for SEAPAVAA’s 26^th Conference to be held virtually from 19 – 21 July 2022.

The 2022 SEAPAVAA Conference was scheduled to be held in the Pacific. As such, the virtual Conference will have a special focus on issues and challenges faced by Pacific members. Specific details relating to the virtual conference will be shared in early 2022.

SEAPAVAA’s 26^th General Assembly (GA) will be held electronically from 2 – 31 May 2022. You will be receiving details on the e-GA in due course.

We also invite you to check out SEAPAVAA’s YouTube Channel where you can access recordings of the virtual 25^th Conference sessions.  Recordings of future conferences will be uploaded on the SEAPAVAA YouTube Channel for greater accessibility.

We hope to see SEAPAVAA members and colleagues at next year’s virtual Conference and look forward to your participation in the e-GA.

 

Take care and stay safe.

SEAPAVAA Executive Council (2020 – 2023)

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The University of the Philippines Diliman School of Library and Information Studies (UPSLIS) is proud to announce its new graduate program, the Master in Archives and Records Management (MARM), commencing Academic Year 2022 – 2023. The first of its kind in Southeast Asia, the MARM is a 34-unit, 2-year graduate program that provides students with the knowledge and skills required to work in and develop archives, special collections, record centres, and other memory and collecting institutions.

This program addresses the need for formal education on archives and recordkeeping in the region necessary to support and document critical organizational decisions and activities that will help ensure efficiency, transparency, and accountability in both public and private sectors, and to help preserve and promote our cultural heritage, collective memory, and identity. The program addresses these needs by providing students with strong theoretical and practical foundations and experience on the effective, efficient, and ethical management of records and archival materials.

The practical and theoretical engagements to be provided by the program will prepare the students and future archives and records professionals to be historically and culturally conscious and reflective, while further enriching their experience with information for civic engagement and participatory governance. Thus, the MARM program balances the pragmatic and business aspects of records management, and the historical and cultural dimensions of archives.

• The MARM program will be offered starting the 1^st Semester of Academic Year 2022 – 2023. Applications for this first intake would open sometime around March/April 2022.

• Individuals with an undergraduate degree in any major with a minimum weighted average grade of 2.0 or its equivalent may apply to the program.

• Applications will be done through an application form or portal. Applicants will need to provide the following: (i) 2 Letters of Recommendation, (ii) Statement of Purpose, (iii) Results of General Aptitude Test and Diagnostic Test from UP’s Office of Counseling and Guidance, and (iv) Transcript of Records. Applicants will also be asked to take an entrance exam and interview administered by UPSLIS.

• Foreign students have the same set of documentary requirements as local students, with the addition of an English proficiency exam. Foreign students also need to secure a Study Permit and other visa requirements.

• Students are required to complete 30 units of coursework (10 courses), a terminal report, a conference paper or journal article, and a comprehensive exam.

For more information on the course outline and other requirements for the UPSLIS’ MARM program, kindly check UPSLIS’ Facebook or website.

For inquiries, you may contact the Graduate Program Coordinator at gpc.slis.updiliman@up.edu.ph

Deadline of Submission: 16 January 2022

From 29 – 31 May 2022, EYE Filmmuseum, University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will present the 7^th Eye International Conference on “Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices”.

The annual EYE International Conference is an opportunity for scholars, archivists, curators, researchers, filmmakers, students, artists, and film enthusiasts from across the world to gather and explore contemporary professional and academic issues affecting audiovisual heritage today.

The 2022 edition will focus on the imbalance or current misrepresentation of global audiovisual heritage holdings, looking in particular at the alarming scarcity of audiovisual heritage from the Global South in the digital space. We will provide speakers and participants a platform to encourage knowledge exchange between scholars and archivists from different parts of the world, and different archival traditions. The conference offers a space to consider the impact of geographical location, the availability of resources, technical and digital gaps, and different audiovisual traditions. We will discuss archival challenges and think together about new models for collaboration.

The goal of the conference is to broaden the knowledge and connections within the global archival community, leading to new insights on the status of film heritage, and archiving in different parts of the world.

We encourage proposals from participants, archives, and regions that are underrepresented in conferences related to audiovisual heritage, discussing topics that highlight concrete, urgent, practical concerns, and threats to collections.

• You may submit your proposal through this link: https://bit.ly/3lqejhI.

• Submit a description (400 words) for the reviewers with information about the topic and why the session is important to be included in the program. It should also identify AV materials by title, format, and duration.

• Submit an abstract (150 words) that will appear in the conference program and online if your presentation is accepted.

• Submit a short bio (50 words) for each speaker.

For more information on the proposal topics, questions, and presentation formats of the EYE International Conference 2022, kindly check their website.

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The National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI) will host the Southeast Asia Regional Branch of International Council on Archives (SARBICA) International Seminar on 23 – 25 November 2021.

The theme for this year is “Safeguarding the Archives: Memory, Pandemic, and Technology”. The objective of the event is to discuss the effort in safeguarding the archives by the archival organizations and communities from three different perspectives: the role of archives as documentary heritage, the response to the pandemic, and the utilization of technology by digital transformation on archives.

The SARBICA International Seminar will be a 3-day seminar to be held via Zoom webinar:

(1) Webinar Day 1: Archives, Memory and World Documentary Heritage (23 November 2021, 8:30 – 12:30)

Webinar Day 1 will discuss the relationship between archives, documentary heritage, and culture, which are fundamental in nominating the archives in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World (MOW) international register.

Speakers	Topics
Keynote Speech
Misako Ito, Adviser and Chief Communication and Information at UNESCO Bangkok	The Genesis and Recent Development of Memory of the World Programme UNESCO
Panelists
Prof. Dr. Charles Jeurgens, Professor of Archival Studies at University of Amsterdam	Archives, Documentary Heritage, and Culture
Prof. Anthony Reid, National Australian University	Shared History and Documentary Heritage in Southeast Asia
Secretary General, ASEAN	ASEAN Archives as World Documentary Heritage
Mukhlis PaEni, Indonesian National MOW Committee	Southeast Asian Archives as Memory of the World
Moderator	Multi Siswati / Eli Ruliawati, ANRI

(2) Webinar Day 2: Archives and Pandemic Response (24 November 2021, 13:00 – 16:00)

Webinar Day 2 will discuss how the archival institutions document and preserve the information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, and the roles and responses of these archival institutions for the preservation and management of their audiovisual archives during the pandemic situation.

SEAPAVAA’s President, Karen Chan, will be presenting at this webinar at 14:05 – 15:05 (Indonesia Time, GMT+7) with the topic, “Preservation and Access on Audiovisual Archives in the midst of Pandemic”.

Speakers	Topics
Keynote Speech
Ridwan Kamil, Governor of West Java	Pandemic Archives in the Knowledge Society: Towards the Establishment of Pandemic COVID-19 Archives Study Center
Panelists
Wang Shaozhong, Deputy Director General of National Archives Administration of China	Documenting Pandemic Response in China
Victorino M. Manalo, Executive Director of National Archives of the Philippines	ASEAN Pandemic Response Archives Initiative
Karen Chan, President of SEAPAVAA	Preservation and Access on Audiovisual Archives in the midst of Pandemic
Deputy for Archival Capacity Development, ANRI	Documenting a Variety of Government Activities in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Indonesia
Moderators	Desi Pratiwi ANRI

(3) Webinar Day 3: Digital Transformation for Records and Archives Management (25 November 2021, 13:00 – 16:15)

Webinar Day 3 will discuss the digital transformation in the records and archives fields that have been carried out through various methods, one of which is through artificial intelligence.

Speakers	Topics
Keynote Speech
Dr. Anthea Seles, Secretary General of ICA	Artificial Intelligence and Archives
Panelists
Yudhi Giri Sucayo, M.Kom, Ph. D., Universitas Indonesia	E-Government in Indonesia: Transformation for the Digital Age
Justin Simpson, Managing Director of Artefactural Systems	ICA Atom as Open Source Software Application and Archivematica as Free and Open Source Digital Preservation System
Digital Records Innovation Division, National Archives of Korea	Technology on Record and Archives Management in Republic of Korea
National Archives of Australia	Digitization and Preservation of the National Archives’ at-Risk Collection
Moderator	M. Imam Mulyantoro / M. Rustam, ANRI

To register at the 2021 SARBICA International Seminar, kindly click this link: https://linktr.ee/SARBICA2021

If you have any questions or concerns, kindly contact the SARBICA team at sarbica2021@gmail.com.

For more information on the 2021 SARBICA International Seminar, please see the attached Terms of Reference.

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