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The IASA 2018 Conference Organising Committee is pleased to announce that our closing keynote speaker will be Kara Van Malssen, Senior Consultant at AVP. Kara has been visiting Ghana since 2008 to support the local audiovisual archive community and has been working with the J.H. Kwabena Nketia Archives at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, helping develop and grow their digitization and digital preservation programme.

The IASA 2018 Conference Organising Committee is pleased to announce that our opening keynote speaker will be Professor Esi Sutherland-Addy of the Institute of African Studies. Her research interests in written and oral literature, gender, performing arts as well as education and cultural policy will provide a valuable perspective to our conference delegates.

http://2018.iasa-web.org/keynote-speaker

Professor Sutherland-Addy will address the IASA conference on Monday, October 1st, 09:15 - 10:00

The Public Service Medal (PSM) in recognition of “outstanding service by employees of the Australian Government,” was conferred upon IASA member, colleague, and past President Kevin Bradley on May 3^rd 2018 by the Governor-General of Australia, the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove in Canberra.

UNESCO is inviting nominations for the 7^th edition of the UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize.

The Prize was created to commemorate the inscription of the Buljo jikji simche yojeol – the oldest known book of moveable metal print in the world – on the Memory of the World International Register. As such, it has become an important symbol of the Memory of the World Programme’s efforts to support the preservation and accessibility of documentary heritage as a common heritage of humanity.