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Jennifer Vaughn

IASA
Editor
Sunday, September 30
 

09:00 GMT

Executive Board (closed meeting) Institute of African StudiesToby Seay • Tommy Sjoberg
 
Monday, October 1
 

08:30 GMT

Official Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speech Main Hall / AuditoriumToby Seay

09:15 GMT

Keynote Main Hall / AuditoriumEsi Sutherland-Addy

10:00 GMT

Refreshments Foyer

10:30 GMT

General Assembly 1 Main Hall / AuditoriumToby Seay

12:30 GMT

Lunch break TBA

13:30 GMT

The model of application-oriented audiovisual content aggregation and product service Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomMaximus Magwaza • Wang Yi

14:30 GMT

Overview of the initial version of IASA-TC 06 video preservation guideline Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomDietrich Schüller • Carl Fleischhauer • Jennifer Vaughn

15:30 GMT

Documentation of traditional music and dances in Ghana: documentation and archiving of the Dagbon Audiovisual Collection at RMC Main Hall / AuditoriumJudith Opoku-Boateng • Marc Leman • Dominik Phyfferoen • Koenraad Stroekens

16:00 GMT

Connecting users and communities through repatriation of cultural materials Main Hall / AuditoriumJudith Opoku-Boateng • Isaac Machafa

16:30 GMT

Reconnecting Ghanaians with Robert Sutherland Rattray (1881-1983) wax cylinder recordings Main Hall / AuditoriumJudith Opoku-Boateng • Janet Topp Fargion

19:00 GMT

Opening Reception TBA
 
Tuesday, October 2
 

09:00 GMT

The historical importance of old African popular music recordings Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomLynn Johnson • John Collins

09:30 GMT

Panel: Audiovisual documentation and preservation of ceremonial celebrations and oral narratives: the Ghanaian experience Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomLynn Johnson • Fidelia Serwaa Ametewee • Moses Nii Dortey • Okle, Selina Emma • Edward Nanbigne • Judith Opoku-Boateng

11:00 GMT

Tutorial 3: The composition of digital audio and video files Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomJennifer Vaughn

13:30 GMT

Activist farmers on film: preserving the recordings of the National Farmers Organisation Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomNeil Garner • Rosie Rowe

16:30 GMT

Challenges of appreciating and preserving sound and audiovisual resources at a university centre: a case of Arewa House Nigeria Main Hall / AuditoriumTommy Sjoberg • Abubakar Sule
 
Wednesday, October 3
 

09:00 GMT

The Great Migration: year one, lessons learned in public digitization Main Hall / AuditoriumLindsay Mattock • AJ Lawrence Unlocking shared histories: Mau Mau and the connection of communities Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomRainer Lotz • Susan Kibaara • Mary Njoroge • Olivia Windham Stewart

09:30 GMT

Structural signatures: Using source-specific format structures to identify the provenance of digital video files Main Hall / AuditoriumLindsay Mattock • Jennifer Vaughn

10:00 GMT

Artists find creativity in the Audio Archives Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomRainer Lotz • Toby Seay

10:30 GMT

Refreshments Foyer

11:00 GMT

Accessibility and meta-archiving across cultures: projecting a new database for Berlin sound archives Main Hall / AuditoriumGila Flam • Frauke Fitzner

11:30 GMT

Shaping the future of audiovisual archiving Main Hall / AuditoriumGila Flam • Johan Oomen • Richard Ranft Steps toward digital archiving at Radio Vénégré in the Central Plateau Region of Burkina Faso Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomTerrence Darko Danso • Mary Ellen Kitchens • Jean-Baptiste Sawadogo

12:00 GMT

The archives as a public medium: reimagining description, access, and audiences for NPR's All Things Considered, 1971–1983 Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomTerrence Darko Danso • Nicolette Khan

12:30 GMT

Lunch break TBA

13:30 GMT

Professional visits TBA
 
Thursday, October 4
 

09:00 GMT

Innovation to enable accessibility to the African National Congress Archives Main Hall / AuditoriumJanet Topp Fargion • David Larsen

09:30 GMT

Recorded sound in Czech Lands Main Hall / AuditoriumJanet Topp Fargion • Filip Šír

10:00 GMT

The Private Papers of Nana J.K. Mbimadong, 1922-2013 Room 1: Prof Ebenezer Oduro Owusu Seminar RoomAaron Bittel • Dr. Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu

10:30 GMT

Refreshments Foyer

11:00 GMT

Roundtable conversation about the new IASA Ambassador Program Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomJennifer Vaughn • Filip Šír

11:30 GMT

Thinking sonically in public radio: uncovering affect in the acoustic archive Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomJennifer Vaughn • Laura Garbes Using digital media in culture and biodiversity heritage conservation in Ghana Main Hall / AuditoriumToby Seay • William Narteh Gblerkpor

12:00 GMT

Music archival policies and barriers in Zimbabwe in the age of global information exchange Main Hall / AuditoriumToby Seay • Wonder Maguraushe

12:30 GMT

Lunch break TBA

13:30 GMT

[CANCELED] Conservation, digitization, and sound diffusion of the Henrietta Yurchenco Audio Library of the CDI Main Hall / AuditoriumPeter Laurence • Octavio Murillo • Aurora Valderrama

15:00 GMT

Refreshments Foyer

16:15 GMT

Closing session Main Hall / AuditoriumToby Seay

16:30 GMT

Officers of Committees and Sections meeting Main Hall / AuditoriumToby Seay

19:00 GMT

IASA Closing Banquet TBA
 
Friday, October 5
 

09:00 GMT

Executive Board meeting (closed) TBA
 

My Chair Sessions

Thursday, October 4
 

11:00 GMT

Roundtable conversation about the new IASA Ambassador Program Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomJennifer Vaughn • Filip Šír

11:30 GMT

Thinking sonically in public radio: uncovering affect in the acoustic archive Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomJennifer Vaughn • Laura Garbes

12:00 GMT

The Audio Archive in a Box project Room 2: Prof Ernest Aryeetey Seminar RoomJennifer Vaughn