Time

DAY 1 - Monday, 9 June 2025

9 am – 4 pm

ACA Office and Registration

RB 2211

10 am – 12 pm

Archivaria Board Meeting

RB 2224

ACA Board Meeting

Senate Room, 608 Pigiarvik

Morning

Pre-conference

Workshop #1

3 hours – (9 am to 12 pm)

RB 2228

Indigenous and Accountable AI for the Archival Professional

Richard Arias-Hernandez, Alexander Ross, Kaila Fewster

Pre-conference

Workshop #2

3 hours – (9 am to 12 pm)

Library, main entrance

Put on Your Printing Cap

Carleton University Library Book Arts Lab - MacOdrum Library with Print Master: Larry Thompson

Pre-conference

Workshop #3

2 hours – (9 am -11am)

RB 2220

AI Tools for Audio Archives

Peter Sullivan, Eng Sengsavang, Trevor Wilkes, Corinne Rogers

Lunch: 12:00 -1:00 pm

1 pm – 2 pm

Indigenous Matters Committee

RB 2228

University and Colleges Special Interest Section (U.C.A.S.I.S.) RB 2224

Technology and Archives Special Interest Section (T.A.S.I.S.) RB 2220

1 pm - 2 pm

Access and Privacy Special Interest Section

Senate Room, 608 Pigiarvik

2 pm – 3 pm

Special Interest Section for Indigenous Archives (S.I.S.I.A.)

RB 2228

Sound and Moving Images Special Interest Section (S.M.I.S.I.S.)

RB 2224

TAATU Un-Conference

RB 2220

2 pm - 3 pm

Student Chapter (placeholder)

Senate Room, 608 Pigiarvik

3 pm – 4 pm

Personal Archives Special Interest Section

RB 2228

Emerging Professionals and Students Special Interest Section

RB 2224

 TAATU Un-Conference

(Continuing)

RB 2220

3 pm - 4 pm

Student Chapter (placeholder)

Senate Room, 608 Pigiarvik

5 pm – 6:30 pm

Welcome Reception, Hosted by Library and Archives Canada

395 Wellington Street

Includes update on Ādisōke

Time

DAY 2 - Tuesday, 10 June 2025

7:30 – 8:00 am

Chairs Meeting & AV Briefing

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

ACA Office Hours

RB 2211

8:30 – 9:15 am

Opening Indigenous Ceremony and Land Acknowledgement

Welcome & Speakers

Singhal Family Theatre RB 2200

9:15 – 10:15 am

Opening Panel Plenary

Panel with 5 individuals - (History of ACA)

Singhal Family Theatre RB 2200

10:15 – 10:30 am

Refreshment Break

Richcraft Atrium

Sponsored by the Saskatchewan Council of Archives and Archivists

10:30 – 12:00 pm

Concurrent Session A

A1. People: Community Archives

RB 2220

Speaker: Lily Liu; Grace Park

Description: Within the Gaps: Intra Community Voices in Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian Records

Speaker: Stefanie Martin, Cindy Custodio

Description: A Life in Boxes: Filipino Migrant Memories & Informal Archives

Speaker: Jennifer Douglas, Rohini Singh, Iori Khuhro, Lauren Wong, Axelle Demus

Description: Coming into FOCAS: A New Initiative to Support Community Archives Work

Sponsored by UBC iSchool

A2. Process: Data & Description

RB 2224

Speaker: Aaron Hope, Pavel Zhelnov

Description: Graph-Based Archival Description: The Archives of Ontario's experience with Records in Contexts and Linked Open Data

Speaker: Carina McDowell, Julienne Pascoe, Leah Sander

Description: Data modelling for Archives: transforming descriptive practices at LAC

Speaker: Yit Chin Chuan

Description: Learning Points of a Proof-of-Concept migration from ISAD-G to RiC at the National Archives of Singapore

Sponsored by Artefactual

A3. Power: Governance Ecosystems

RB 2228

Speaker: Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey

Description: Re-framing Archives and Moving Towards Decolonial Archival Futures

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Sinclair, Carla Cochrane, and Joanna Thich

Description: Acknowledging the past to prepare for the future: First Nations COVID-19 evaluation and archival project in Manitoba.

(one paper withdrew)

12:00  – 1:00 pm

Lunch Break

Richcraft Atrium

1:00 – 2:30 pm

Concurrent Session B

B1. Process: Updates

RB 2220

Do not move - for speaker schedule conflict

Speakers: Tracey Krause, Erin Greeno

Description: Re-Envisioning the National Finding Aid Network, ARCHIVESCANADA.ca

Speakers: Leanne Trimble

Description: Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership (CCDDP): Helping researchers dig into the data in archival and historical published Canadian census materials

Speakers: Percy Miller

Description: CCDH: Where Have We Been? Where are We Going?

Sponsored by Artefactual

B2.Roundtable

RB 2224

Session Chair: Jennifer Douglas

Participants: Vanessa AnakwudwabisayQuay Cook, Greg Bak, Camille Callison, Krystal Payne, Kirsten Wright

Description: Healing-Centred Archiving - People-Centred Archiving of the Records of Colonialism

B3. People: Profession, Change & Practice

RB 2228

Speaker: Sidney Netshakhuma

Description: "Having new eyes" the changing face of the archives profession in South Africa

Speaker: Bridget Whittle

Description: What to do with a problem like Bertrand Russell? How changes in archival practice and values are reflected in one archive 

Speaker: Robert McLelland, Andréa Tarnawsky

Description: Like, Share, and Spy: Evaluating Archives Embrace of Data Extractive Technologies

2:30 – 2:45 pm

Refreshment Break

Richcraft Atrium

2:45 – 4:00 pm

Concurrent Session C

C1. Process: Access & Discovery

RB 2220

Do not move

Speaker: Kelli Babcock

Description: CTRL+F: User Behavior in Archives Discovery Systems

Speaker: Luciana Duranti

Description: The More It Changes... From Paleography and Diplomatics to Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing

Speaker: Markus Stauffiger

Description: Three Years Of Applied AI in Archives from Switzerland to Canada

Sponsored by the University of Toronto iSchool

C2. Process: Case Studies

RB 2224

Speaker: Alex Comber

Description: No.2 Construction Battalion - a Canada Memory of the World 2024 nomination

Speaker: Lucas Damer

Description: Community research and paleography: a case study in online collaboration

Speaker: Dagny Dubois, Travis Rider

Description: A Case Study: Hosting Indigenous Community Relations

Sponsored by Ancestry

C3.People: Reflection for the Future

RB 2228

Speaker: Francesca Rousselle

Description: Archivist as Curator and Educator: A Case-Study from the John. M Kelly Library Special Collections

Speaker: Annaëlle Winand

Description: Rethinking Archival Science in Quebec: Elements of Reflection

Speaker: Michael Marlatt

Description: From Edmonton to Ottawa and Beyond: Disability Participation at the Annual ACA Conference

4:00 – 5:15 pm

Poster Session and Exhibitors

12 posters

Richcraft Atrium

Various starts

Trivia Night at Ollie's Pub

Nideyinàn, Carleton U.

Come to eat and join a team starting at 6pm. Trivia starts at 7pm. Prizes!

Cost: $5 per person (attendees also responsible for their own drinks and meals)

Black Ottawa Walking Tour

Various Locations, Meeting place to be updated.

7:00-8:00pm

Cost: $20 per person + tax

We Recommend:

●       Italian Week Ottawa

●       Pub Italia

●       Book a resto from the Flash Your Badge discount program!

Time

DAY 3 - Wednesday, 11 June 2025

7:30 – 8:00 am

Chairs Meeting & AV Briefing

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

ACA Office Hours

RB 2211

8:15 am

Announcements

8:30 – 9:45 am

Opening Plenary with Introductions

Singhal Family Theatre RB 2200

9:45 – 10:00 am

Refreshment Break

Richcraft Atrium

10:00 – 12:00 pm

Concurrent Session D

Extended Session

D1.  People: Knowledge

RB 2220

(3 papers with multiple speakers @ 40 mins)

Session Moderator: Trudi Wright

Speakers: Tom Belton, Curtis Frederick, Sarah Glassford, Ciaran Purdome

Description: Inventing Archives in Higher Education: UCASIS explores the evolution of archives in higher education (40 mins)

Speakers: Shea Iles, David Jones, Lelland Reed, Laura Reid 

 Description: Activating Archives through Co-investigation: University of Calgary Archival Residency Project Year One (40 mins)

Speakers: Gordon Burr, María Eugenia Osorio Oliveros, Sara Hanako Breitkreutz and Mariana Mejía Ahrens

Description: Engaging Communities by disseminating archival knowledge: Archival Literacy Education role for archivists (40 mins) 

Sponsored by Ancestry

D2. Process: Art / Performance 

RB 2224

(3 parts - 2@30min, 1@1 hour multiple speakers)

Speakers: Hadley Howes

Description: Archiving the 

unthinkable: the archivist of the abolitionist archive is a poet (30 mins)

Speaker: Nicholas Avedisian-Cohen

Description: Godard's Recovered History of Cinema: A Case Study in Preservation, Access, and AI-based Restoration (30 mins)

Speakers: Amy Bowring, Emma Roblin, Robert VanderBerg, Jada Watson, Micaela Evans

Description:Archiving the Ephemeral: How Artist-Focused Institutions are Preserving Performance, Art, and Time-Based Media (1 hour)

D3. People: Community 

RB 2228

(4 papers)

Speaker: Grace Isibor, Gracen Brilmyer

Description:  Centering Disabled Archival Experiences: Designing for the Present and the future

Speakers: Andréa Tarnawsky

Description:poetry / archives / archival poetics

Speaker: Salima Lafrenie and Sam Shields

Description: Archives for Everyone: committing to diverse storytelling

Speaker: June Chow

Description: Community Approaches to Access and Repair: Chinese Immigration records in Canada's national archives

12:00 – 2:00 pm

Awards Luncheon

Presentation of awards and certificates.

Richcraft Atrium and RB 2224

Sponsored by Ancestry

2:15 – 3:45 pm

Concurrent Session E

E1. Process: Heritage & Cultural Stewardship

RB 2220

Speaker: Anna Krentz

Description: The Charlotte County Archives at Fifty: view from a small institution

Speaker: Jennifer Weymark

Description: Archiving Cultural Memory: When Historical Fact Challenges Community Memory

Speaker: Genevieve Weber

Description: Connecting the dots: archives as part of the heritage landscape

Sponsored by Ancestry

E2.Roundtable

RB 2224

Participants: Elder Philomene Sanderson; Wayne Garnons-Williams; Marilyn Osecap; Kathryn Lagrandeur; Greg Bak

Description: Creating A Healing Archive for Sixties Scoop Survivors

E3. Process: Archiving Complex Records

RB 2228

Speaker: Tracey P. Lauriault, Anna-Lena Theus

Description: A forever home for Large and Complex Data Systems? On the preservation of Data, Atlases, and Digital Twins

Speaker: Anna Dysert, Anna Haywood, Tellina Liu

Description: Revising Architectural Archives: Working Backwards to Move Forward

Speaker: Luke Frolick

Description: Preserving Identity and Culture in a Digital World: Why Online Gaming Communities Should be Archived

Sponsored by Artefactual

3:45 - 4:00 pm

Refreshment Break

Richcraft Atrium

4:00 – 5:30 pm

Concurrent Session F

F1.Process: Envisioning Appraisal & Record Keeping

RB 2220

Speaker: Ian Wilson, Simon Patrick Rogers, Jo McCutcheon, Julia Thompson

Description: The Past, Present and Future of Monetary Appraisal

Speaker: Amanda Tomé

Description: Applying Archival Appraisal Methodologies for Data Retention

Speaker: Kelly Ferguson, Rachel Klassen

Description: High-risk, high-value: ministerial records and the digital transition

F2. People: Representation & Archives

RB 2224

Speaker: Gillian Dunks

Description: "And Death Shall Have No Dominion": Feminist Witnessing in Time - Processing the Lucy Russell Fonds

Speaker: Alexej Graf

Description: Transgender Representation in Archival Description

Speaker: Daniel Richer

Description: The Words of Oblivion: rethinking the normative and legislative framework surrounding the acquisition of BAnQ's private archives through the lens of social and epistemic justice

F3. People: Student Session

RB 2228

Carolyn Smith: What Response? A Systematic Review of Truth, Reconciliation, and Progress in Canadian Archives  (Dalhousie University)

Emily Ing: Submerged, Beheaded, Survived -  An Archival Perspective of the Destruction and Relocation of Controversial Monuments (University of Toronto)

Brenna Roblin: Children are the Future: A Comparison of Outreach Strategies for the Preservation of Children's Archives (McGill University)

Sponsored by Artefactual

Various starts

TBD

House of Targ

1077 Bank Street

Pinball and perogies!

6:30-????

Costs: Attendees responsible for arcade play costs, food and cover at the venue if staying past 8pm.

We Recommend:

●     MacLaren’s on Elgin

●     Paddle boat or kayak rental on Dow’s Lake

●     Mayfair Theatre - catch a movie at one of Ottawa’s oldest independent theatres

Time

DAY 4 - Thursday, 12 June 2025

7:30 – 8:00 am

Chairs Meeting & AV Briefing

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

ACA Office Hours

RB 2211

8:30 am

Announcements

8:45 – 10:00 am

Plenary with Introductions

Singhal Family Theatre RB 2200

10:00 – 10:15 am

Refreshment Break

Richcraft Atrium

10:15 – 12:15 pm

Concurrent Session G

Extended Session

G1. Power: Archival Responses to Colonial History

RB 2220

(2 parts: 1 with 2 speakers @ 45 mins, 1 with multiple speakers @ 1 hr 15 mins)

Session Chair: Greg Bak

Speaker: Michaela Doucette & Sarah Papple 

Description: Crafting for the Future: Reimagining Archives and Indigenizing the Archival Record (45 mins)

Speaker: Dr. Greg Bak, Raymond Frogner,  Kristan Belanger, Dr. Mariam Karim, Dr. Jamila Ghaddar 

Description: Epistemic violence and the cognitive dispossession of Indigenous peoples: defying the colonial process from Turtle Island to West Asia (1 hr 15 mins)

G2. People: Trauma in Archives

RB 2224

(2 parts: 1 - multiple speakers @ 1.5 hrs, 1 @ 30 mins)

Speaker: R.L. Gabrielle Nishiguchi

Description: A Personal and Professional Journey: Reparative Description at Library and Archives Canada - Emotion, Healing and Portents of Danger (30 mins)

Speakers: Brett Lougheed, Aynslie Hinds, Arden Holden, Wendy Duff, Cheryl Regehr, Kristina Lillico

 Description: At What Cost? The Emotional Impact of the Changing Role of the Archivist (1.5 hrs)

Sponsored by the University of Toronto iSchool

G3. Power: Reflection

RB 2228

(3 parts: 2 papers @ 30 mins, with 1/multiple speakers @ 60 mins)

Speaker: Sarah Welland

Description: Contending with the 'contentious other': What an example of Covid-19 mandate protest occupation in Wellington New Zealand can teach archivists (30 mins)

Speaker: Alexandra Wieland

Description: "It will be worthwhile": archival power and processes in the Kohaly collection (30 mins)

Speaker: Amanda Oliver, Alexandra Mills, Natalia Diaz Elgueta (60 mins)

Description: Disrupting Power and Privilege in Archival Acquisition

12:30 – 1:30 pm

Lunch Break

Pre-order a boxed lunch and join us for Film Bytes!

608 Pigiarvik (Senate Room)

Presented by Sound/Moving Images Special Interest Section

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Concurrent Session H

H1. Process: Reflection of Past and Future

RB 2220

Speaker:  Brian Clarke, Laura Hernandez

Description: Building Government Archives through Digital Ages

Speaker: Vesna Curlic, Karen Priestman 

Description: Towards a Best Practice for Public Interest Disclosure in Canadian Archives

Speaker: Fiorella Foscarini, Thomas Fox, Adam Williamson

Description: The Invisibility of Translation in Archival Research

H2. Process: Reflection & Total Archives

RB 2224

Speaker: Andrew Wiebe

Description: Astrolabes and other Structural Cosmologies in the Archives: An Indigenous Critique of Archival Structures and Values

Speaker: Maria Paraschos

Description: To Know Thyself: Exploring Symbolic Annihilation in Total Archives Through the Lens of Multiculturalism

Speaker: Eva Janssen

Description: Whither Student Records? Canadian University Archives Since the Symons Report

H3. Roundtable

RB 2228

Chairs: Julie Roy and Robin Mullins

Participants: TBA

Description:

Envisioning the Archives of the Future: A dialogue with the next generation

3:15 – 3:30 pm

Refreshment Break

Richcraft Atrium

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Closing Plenary

Singhal Family Theatre RB 2200

4:30 pm

Closing Indigenous Ceremony

Singhal Family Theatre RB 2200

6:30 pm

Cocktail Reception

Mill Street Brew Pub

7:00 pm – 12:00 am

Dinner Dance & Silent Auction

Mill Street Brew Pub

Cost:

More information to come!