VVBAD

Monday, August 30
Peace Palace, The Hague

10.00 Conference Opening:

Johan Vannieuwenhuyse (Belgium, President VVBAD) - 'VVBAD without Borders'

Filip d'Havé (Belgium) - 'A New Decree on Archives in Flanders'

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10.45 Plenary session: Antonio González Quintana (Spain)

'El papel de archivos y archiveros en la defensa de los Derechos Humanos'

12.00 Parallel sessions

* Archival Solidarity

1a. Mariona Corominas Noguera (Spain) - ‘Archiveros sin Fronteras Internacional: una apuesta por la defensa de los archivos y los derechos humanos'

1b. Catherine Kennedy (South Africa) - 'Embedding archive in activism: considering the work of the Documentation Affinity Group'

* Human Rights and Archives

2a. Muhammad Lutful Haq (Bangladesh) - ‘Right to Information Act and Record Management System in Bangladesh'

2b. James Lowry (United Kingdom) - 'Some Effects of Record-Keeping on Poverty and the Enjoyment of Human Rights in Africa'

* Formation of the Nation State and National Identity
3a. Bart Severi (Belgium) - ‘Creating Archival Legislation in a Federal State: The Case of Flanders'

3b. Roelof Hol (The Netherlands) - 'Sharing Archives: Nation State and National Identity in a Global World. The Mutual Cultural Heritage Program of the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands'

14.15 Parallel sessions

* Archival Solidarity
1c. Jean-Marc Comment (Switzerland) - ‘Albania, Guatemala, Russia: three archival solidarity projects'

1d. Sarah Demb and Patricia Sleeman (United Kingdom) - ‘A Dream Yet Unfulfilled? Professional Solidarity and Personal Ideals'

* Human Rights and Archives
2c. Patricia Huenuqueo Canales (Chile) - ‘Archivos Públicos y Represión en Chile: Las Incapacidades de la Memoria'

2d. Tine Berg Floater (Norway) - 'Documenting forced labour in Norway during World War II'

* Cross-Border Archives
4a. Mario H. Ramírez (United States of America) - ‘Witness to Brutality: Documenting Torture and Truth in Post-Civil War El Salvador'
4b. Karsten Kuehnel (Germany) - ‘The Archives of the International Tracing Service: A New Institution in the Archival World'

16.00 Plenary session: Trudy Huskamp Peterson (United States of America)

'To Have and to Have Not'

Tuesday, August 31
Peace Palace, The Hague

10.00 Opening
Fred van Kan (The Netherlands, President KVAN) - 'KVAN without Borders'

Ian Wilson (Canada, President ICA) and Martin Berendse (The Netherlands, future President ICA) - 'The ICA in Action'

10.45 Plenary session: Gabriela Salazar (Mexico)

'El papel de los Archivos para el Cumplimiento de las Obligaciones Internacionales de los Estados en materia de Derechos Humanos: Un Acercamiento al Tema y una Vista Breve al Caso en México'

12.00 Parallel sessions

* Archival Solidarity
1e. Nancy Marrelli (Canada) - 'The Archival Solidarity Project of the ICA'
1f. Sharif Uddin Ahmed (Bangladesh) - 'The Bangladesh Archives and Records Management Society'

* Human Rights and Archives
2e. Youssef El Bouhairi (Morocco) - ‘Archives and Transitional Justice in Morocco'

2f. Livia Iacovino (Australia) - ‘Silent witnesses: Implementation of international human rights as warrants for archival agenda for Indigenous Australians'

* Formation of the Nation State and National Identity
3c. F. Borja Aguinagalde Olaizola (Spain) - ‘Oralidad, memoria historica y archivos tradicionales. El reto de un nuevo paradigma histórico en la reconfiguración de los Archivos Históricos Nacionales'

3d. Djoko Utomo (Indonesia) - ‘Arsip as Cultural Heritage and National Identity'

14.15 Parallel sessions

* Human Rights and Archives/Formation of the Nation State and National Identity

2g. Michelle Caswell (United States of America) - ‘Classifying Khmer Rouge Genocide: Archival Description, Ethnic Identity and Accountability'

3e. Emmanuel Gerard (Belgium) - 'Clarifying the Past. The use of archives by the Belgian Parliamentary Committee investigating the assassination of Lumumba'

* Cross-Border Archives

4c. Huub Sanders (The Netherlands) - ‘Internationalism, social movements and archives'

4d. Donna Kynaston (Switzerland) - ‘Making decisions about managing the records of international organizations'

16.00 Plenary session: Nathan Mnjama (Botswana)

'Archives and national identity: the African case'

16.45 Closing Plenary session: Eric Ketelaar (The Netherlands)