preservation

The 2025 FIAT/IFTA World Conference, hosted by Cinecittà Luce, will be held in Rome, Italy, from October 28 to 31, 2025.

This prestigious gathering will bring together experts and professionals to explore the evolving landscape of media preservation, acquisition, and archiving, addressing the challenges and innovations shaping the future of audiovisual heritage.

Theme: A Loss of Pace: Preserving Climate Narratives, Cultural Identity, and Marginalized Voices through Audiovisual Media

The IRMS conference theme is: "The Peaky Path to Progress: Innovate, Govern, and Sustain through Data, Information, and Records Management."

The conference focuses on tackling the challenges of records management, information governance, and data stewardship, emphasizing compliance, quality governance, and positive environmental and societal impact.

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual Conference will be held May 14-17, 2024 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa Downtown.

The program will include individual presentations, posters, and panel discussions with sound recording scholars, collectors, preservationists, and creators engaged in a broad range of topics that cross geographic, cultural, and collection boundaries. There will also be a silent auction and social events offered each evening.