Navigating the Digital Age in the Archival Universe

October 26: Looking Backward and Forward at the ARCE

Session I: The Early Years of ARCE and the AIIS IST: 19:30 – 21:00, US EST: 10:00 am – 11:30 am., PDT, USA 07:00 am- 08:30 am, Europe and South Africa 16:00- 17:30 pm, Australia.12 midnight to 01:30 am

Chair : Purnima Mehta, Director General, American Institute of Indian Studies
Paper: Daniel M.Neuman, UCLA PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Panel : Shubha Chaudhuri, Associate Director General AIIS ARCE, India. Umashankar, Former AV Technical Officer AIIS-ARCE, India; Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy, University of Calicut, India; Bonnie Wade Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley, USA

Break IST 21:00 – 21:20, US EST 11:30am – 11:50 a, PDT USA 8:30 – 8:50 am, Europe and South Africa 17:30- 17:50 pm, Australia 1:30 – 1:50 am ( 27th October)

Session 2: Key issues in audiovisual acquisitions and repatriations. IST 21:20 – 22:50 , US EST 11:50 am – 1:20PM ; US PDT 8:50 am – 10:20 am, Europe and South Africa 17:50- 18:20, Australia 1:50 am- 02:20 am.

Chair : Kamalini Dutt. Former Director Doordarshan archives, India
Paper: Anthony Seeger; Professor Emeritus, UCLA; Curator Emeritus Smithsonian Institution, USA
Panel : Amlan Dasgupta, Former Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, India; Valmont Layne, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Shubha Chaudhuri AIIS ARCE, India.

October 27: From Cylinders to Cellphones: Technology, Standards and Archives for All, in honor of UNESCO World Day of Audiovisual Heritage

Session 3: Changing technology, shifting standards, and key objectives when considering modern technologies. IST: 19:30 – 21:00, US EST: 10:00 am – 11:30 am., PDT, USA 07:00 am- 08:30 am, Europe and South Africa 16:00- 17:30 pm, Australia.12 midnight to 01:30 am ( October 28th)

Chair : Venkat Srinivasan -Archives, National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India)
Paper: Kevin Bradley, Former Assistant Director General, National Library of Australia, one time Curator of Oral History and Folklore and Director Sound and Audiovisual Preservation
Panel G. Sundar Roja Muthiaha Research Library, India; Andrew Martin DAMsmart Australia

Break IST 21:00 – 21:20, US EST 11:30am – 11:50 a, PDT USA 8:30 – 8:50 am, Europe and South Africa 17:30- 17:50 pm, Australia 1:30 – 1:50 am

Session 4: Mobilizing Multiple Resources for archiving: Institutions, training, crowdsourcing, royalties, and other ways to contribute to archival survival. IST 21:20 – 22:50 , US EST 11:50 am – 1:20PM ; US PDT 8:50 am – 10:20 am, Europe and South Africa 17:50- 18:20, Australia 1:50 am- 02:20 am. (October 27th)

Chair: Prafull Anubhai – Saptak Archives, Ahmedabad, India
Paper : Ilse Assmann; Apricity Consulting, South Africa.
Panel: Michel Merten, MEMNON, Belgium.; Alan Burdette, Indiana University, USA; Razia Saleh, Nelson Mandela Archive, South Africa

October 28: Community Archives, Collectors, and Research Archives

Session 5: Community Archives in an archival “Multiverse”
IST: 19:30 – 21:00, US EST: 10:00 am – 11:30 am., PDT, USA 07:00 am- 08:30 am, Europe and South Africa 16:00- 17:30 pm, Australia.12 midnight to 01:30 am (October 29th)

Chair: Shubha Chaudhuri AIIS -ARCE, India
Paper: Linda Barwick; Emeritus Professor, The University of Sydney , Austaralia
Panel Faisal Rahman, People and Nature Collectives, Keystone Foundation, India; Niamh Moore University of Edinburgh, UK; John Fenn. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, USA.

Break IST 21:00 – 21:20, US EST 11:30am – 11:50 a, PDT USA 8:30 – 8:50 am, Europe and South Africa 17:30- 17:50 pm, Australia 1:30 – 1:50 am

Session 6: Changing Access, Outreach, and formats: Archives in the age of YouTube.

IST 21:20 – 22:50 , US EST 11:50 am – 1:20PM ; US PDT 8:50 am – 10:20 am, Europe and South Africa 17:50- 18:20, Australia 1:50 am- 02:20 am. (October 27th)
Chair : Lawrence Liang , Ambedkar University, Delhi, India
Paper: Janet Topp Fargion. British Library, UK.
Panel : Lee Watkins, International Library of African Music, South Africa;; Srijan Deshpande, Manipal University, India; Irfan Zuberi, National Cultural Audio Visual Archives, India

To be immediately followed by a Celebratory Coda to end the event
IST 22:50-23:10 , US EST 1:20 -1:40 PM ; US PDT 10:20-10:40 am, Europe and South Africa 18:20- 18:40, Australia -02:20 – 02:40 am.

26^th October 2022. Looking Backward and Forward at the ARCE

 Session 1

 Purnima Mehta has been serving as the Director General of the American Institute of Indian Studies since 2005.  In addition to the Research Fellowship Programs, she oversees the administration of the prestigious research centers of the Institute, the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) and Center for Art & Archaeology.

Purnima has been instrumental in establishing and maintaining relationship of the Institute with the Government of India, State Governments, and various other related Government bodies. She also liaises with the US Embassy, Universities in India and over 90 American Universities and Colleges in the United States who are consortium members of the AIIS. Purnima Mehta has been distinguished by inclusion in the Economist’s list of Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life https://www.indiastudies.org/aiis-director-general-purnima-mehta-named-one-of-the-economists-50-diversity-figures-in-public-life/

Daniel M. Neuman received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois. He has taught at Dartmouth College, The University of Washington, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He served as the Director the School of Music at the University of Washington, then as Dean of the School of Arts and Architecture at UCLA and subsequently as Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost at UCLA. He is the author of The Life of Music in North India and Studying India’s Musicians: Four Decades of Selected Articles as well as co-author of Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan. He is now Professor emeritus at UCLA.

Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy has taught courses on musics of South and Southeast Asians and Asian-Americans, most recently on music of India’s regional cinemas. She is preparing a monograph for her ethnographic documentary, Music for a Goddess, based on Bake’s 1938 recordings of jogti musicians in Andhra Pradesh. She and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy co-directed Bake Restudy 1984, a documentary about repatriating Arnold Bake’s 1938 footage and audio recordings of sacred music in Tamilnadu, Karnataka, and Kerala, Currently she is assisting UCLA’s Digital Library Project to provide online access to the 1984 A-V materials, and continues to conduct Bake restudy research, most recently in collaboration with Mappila Muslims of Kerala.

Bonnie C. Wade (PhD ethnomusicology, UCLA) taught at Brown University, and the University of California, Berkeley where she was Chair of the Music Department, Dean of Undergraduate Services and Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science. She was Chair of the AIIS Ethnomusicology Committee and AIIS Trustee for UC Berkeley, Treasurer and President of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Vice President of the American Musicological Society , Directorium member of the International Musicological Society. She serves on the Ethnomusicology Series Editorial Board for the University of Chicago Press and was General Editor of the Global Music Series for Oxford University Press (1999-2019). Her several books include Music in India: The Classical Traditions (1979, Prentice Hall), Khyal: Creativity Within North India’s Classical Vocal Tradition , and Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India. She is Professor Emerita of Music, University of California, Berkeley.

Shubha Chaudhuri is Associate Director General (Academic) of the American Institute of Indian Studies, and has worked at the Archives and Research Center of Ethnomusicology since its inception, and been Director since 1985. In the field of audio visual archiving her major interests have been database applications, research archives and ethnomusicology, issues of Intellectual Property Rights and community archives. Her fieldwork has been in Western Rajasthan, Goa and Kutch. She has served as Vice President of the International Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archives, the Executive Board of the ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music), and as council member of the Society of Ethnomusicology. She is a member of the IASA Research Archives Section and the Training and Education Committee.

 Umashankar is a well known sound recordist and a pioneer in the field in India. He was one of the initial team of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute of Indian Studies and served as Technical Officer for many years. His current work is with ambisonic microphones and acoustic measuring of archeological sites. He retains his interest in archiving and remains involved with the ARCE providing training and consultation.

 Session 2 Key issues in audiovisual acquisitions and repatriations.

 Kamalini Dutt, is a reputed teacher and choreographer. She retired as Director, Central Archives Doordarshan, New Delhi. Kamalini pioneered the major digitisation initiative of Doordarshan content. Her most valuable contribution in the field of archiving is the digitization project under which all programmes are preserved, restored and disseminated.  Under her leadership, Doordarshan introduced Media Asset Management (MAM) solution for archiving – which was first of its kind in the country. As part of the dissemination programme, Kamalini Dutt was responsible for releasing more than 100 titles as DVDs and CDs of precious archival content.  Kamalini Dutt was felicitated with Doordarshan Awards for exemplary work in the years 2006 and 2007.

 Anthony Seeger is an anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and audiovisual archivist. He served as director of the Indiana University Archiver of Traditional Music, curator and director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and has served as the Chair of AIIS Ethnomusicology Committee. He has published on audiovisual archives, intellectual property, Brazilian Indian music and other subjects.  He co-edited with Shubha Chaudhuri of Archives for the Future:  Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century (2004) and “The Contributions of Reconfigured Audiovisual Archives to Sustaining Traditions” (2015). He is a former president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Council for Traditional Music. He is now Distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology Emeritus at UCLA and Director and Curator Emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings at the Smithsonian Institution

Valmont Layne is a Researcher at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape – with a focus on the development of research archives. He has also worked as a university arts administrator, sound archivist, and cultural advocate and played curatorial and leadership roles at the District Six Museum in Cape Town, the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival, and arts advocacy on the African continent. His current research interests include sound studies, and archives. In 2019 he completed his doctoral thesis titled: **Goema’s refrain: Sonic anticipation and the musicking Cape**, and is currently preparing a monograph based on this research.

Amlan DasGupta was Professor of English and Director of the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University. His research interests include North Indian classical music and digital humanities as well as European classical and early modern literature and thought.

Shubha Chaudhuri is Associate Director General (Academic) of the American Institute of Indian Studies, and has worked at the Archives and Research Center of Ethnomusicology since its inception, and been Director since 1985. In the field of audio visual archiving her major interests have been database applications, research archives and ethnomusicology, issues of Intellectual Property Rights and community archives. Her fieldwork has been in Western Rajasthan, Goa and Kutch. She has served as Vice President of the International Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archives, the Executive Board of the ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music), and as council member of the Society of Ethnomusicology. She is a member of the IASA Research Archives Section and the Training and Education Committee.

27^th October 2022 From Cylinders to Cellphones: Technology, Standards and Archives for All, in honor of UNESCO World Day of Audiovisual Heritage.

 Session 3

 Venkat Srinivasan heads the Archives at NCBS, a public collecting centre for the history of science in contemporary India. He is a member of the Encoded Archival Descriptions – Technical Sub-committee (Society of American Archivists), and Committee on the Archives of Science and Technology (CAST) of the ICA Section on Research Institutions (International Council on Archives). He is a founding member of Milli, a collective of individuals and communities committed to the nurturing of archives (https://milli.link/). He graduated with a Masters in Materials Science from Stanford University, a Masters in Journalism (science) from Columbia University, and a Bachelors in Engineering from the University of Delhi.

 Kevin Bradley PSM is a musician, luthier, and researcher interested in the folk and traditional musics that are and were heard in Australia.  He was formerly Assistant Director General of the National Library of Australia, and during his 38 year tenure had a number of roles there, including Curator of Oral History and Folklore and Director of Sound and Audiovisual Preservation.  He received the Public Service Medal for outstanding public service through the digital preservation of audio visual heritage material. He has been President of the International Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archives (IASA) and member of the Executive board, Vice Chair of the Technical Committee, editor and a contributor for the “TC04 Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects”, and Co Editor with Carl Fleischhauer of TC06 Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings.

Andrew Martin is the Preservation Operations Manager at DAMsmart, heading up all technical operations.He has over 24 years of experience in the broadcast and preservation industry. Before joining DAMsmart, Andrew was the Digital Media Specialist with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, where he researched and developed standards for encoding analogue material for preservation, the web, production and cinema. Andrew is the current Secretary of the IASA Technical Committee and has been a lead contributor to the development of International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives TC-06 ‘Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings’.

Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal; Satyajit Ray Foundation, Kolkata; and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Nadja Wallaszkovits studied musicology and audio engineering in Vienna and has been working as sound engineer for national and international recording companies at the Vienna Concert House. In 1998 she joined the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences where she managed the audio department as a specialist for audio restoration, rerecording and digital archiving for over 20 years. Currently she is Professor for Conservation of New Media and Digital Information at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. She is consultant for archival technology for archives worldwide, has given training courses and project support for numerous international institutions. Nadja Wallaszkovits is Audio Engineering Society (AES) Past President, member of AES Technical and Standards Committees, and IASA Certified Trainer (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives)

G. Sundar the Director of the Roja Muthiah Research Library where he has been working since its inception in 1994. He has worked on a number of preservation project grants – National Endowment for Humanities, Wellcome Institute for the History of Understanding Medicine, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation and Endangered Archives Programme. Sundar has trained several archivists from all over India. He has been a consultant to UNESCO; Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, Kolkata; Madan

Session 4

Prafull Anubhai, is an educationist besides being a Corporate Advisor. He was the Founder Chairman of the Board of Management, Ahmedabad. He is currently a member of the governing board of various research institutions and NGOs. Prafull Anubhai has deep interest in Indian Classical Music. He is actively associated with Saptak, an institution dedicated to the propagation of Indian classical music. Currently, he is the Honorary Director of Saptak Archives dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Indian Classical Music.

Ilse Assmann has worked in the field of broadcasting archives for many years, starting with SABC (South Africa Broadcasting Corporation) Media Libraries and then the SABC TV News Resources. She went on to head the Television Archives and Video Library at M-Net, Africa’s leading subscription Television Broadcaster. In 2021 Ilse founded Apricity Consulting which is dedicated to advising corporations, broadcasters, non-profit organisations and content owners on the effective management of their sound and audiovisual (AV) archives .It also assists with the preservation and care of collections to add business value and to preserve legacies and histories. Ilse is a SACIA Certified Broadcast and Communications Technology Professional. She has served on various local and international archive organisation committees and is a former President of IASA (International Association for Sound and Audiovisual Archives).

Alan Burdette has been the Director of the Indiana University Libraries Archives of Traditional Music since 2007 where he is responsible for day-to-day operations and long-term planning. He was part of the planning team for IU’s large scale media preservation effort (MDPI). He formerly served as the Executive Director of the Society for Ethnomusicology and as Director of the EVIA Digital Archive Project, and Associate Director of IU’s Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities. He holds a Ph.D. in Folklore and Ethnomusicology from Indiana University, where he currently also serves as an adjunct professor.

Razia Saleh is the Director of Archive and Research at the Nelson Mandela Foundation where she oversees the creation of an integrated and dynamic information resource on the life and times of Nelson Mandela.

She has served as the Archives Project Coordinator for the African National Congress (ANC) Archives overseeing the arrangement and description of the documentation generated during the period that the ANC was in exile, 1960-1990. From 1988 to 2000 she helped set up and worked for the NGO South African History Archive (SAHA), which was created to safeguard the records of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and its affiliates . Razia holds a master’s degree in archival studies from the University of London.

Michel Merten founded Memnon Archiving Services in 2004, to address the challenge of the preservation of and access to the audiovisual heritage. Memnon innovated the audiovisual digitization market by developing new methodologies to allow large-scale digitization at affordable cost. Michel grew the company into the leading global service provider in the field. Since the acquisition of the company by ES Broadcast group, Michel continues to support Memnon activities in its global business development activities and to represent the Company in professional organizations.

28^th October2022. Community Archives, Collectors, and Research Archives

Session 5

Shubha Chaudhuri is Associate Director General (Academic) of the American Institute of Indian Studies, and has worked at the Archives and Research Center of Ethnomusicology since its inception, and been Director since 1985. In the field of audio visual archiving her major interests have been database applications, research archives and ethnomusicology, issues of Intellectual Property Rights and community archives. Her fieldwork has been in Western Rajasthan, Goa and Kutch. She has served as Vice President of the International Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archives, the Executive Board of the ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music), and as council member of the Society of Ethnomusicology. She is a member of the IASA Research Archives Section and the Training and Education Committee.

Linda Barwick is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney’s Sydney Conservatorium of Music and co-founder of PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures. She is a musicologist specializing in the study of Australian First Nations musics, immigrant musics and the digital humanities (particularly archiving and repatriation of ethnographic field recordings as a site of interaction between researchers and cultural heritage communities). Her most recent publication, to appear in November 2002, is a volume of essays co-edited with Amanda Harris and Jakelin Troy,Music, Dance and the Archive (Sydney, Sydney University Press). She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

John Fenn is the Head of Research and Programs at the American Folklife Center, leading a team of staff involved in public programming, publications, research, and training in cultural documentation. He holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University (2004), and prior to taking his position at the Library of Congress he was an Associate Professor in the Arts and Administration Program at the University of Oregon. Throughout his career he has merged training in folklore and ethnomusicology with a commitment to documentation, public presentation, stewardship, and interpretation of cultural forms and expressions.

Faisal Rehman is a researcher and archivist at the People and Nature Collectives, Keystone Foundation, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. His interests are in public histories, agency in community representation, and the politics of knowledge flows, ownership & access. The People & Nature Collectives is working on setting up the Institutional Archives of Keystone Foundation which spans a period of three decades and has a rich content of Indigenous-Adivasi knowledge resources. We are also exploring the idea of facilitating community archives in collaboration with Indigenous-Adivasi communities that are ‘non-written-literature’ based social systems.

Niamh Moore is Senior Lecturer at the School of Political and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include ecofeminism, feminist theory, ethics and research practices, Feminist Research, sustainability, – women’s movements, archives, research methodology, oral history, community-based participatory research, queer theory, interdisciplinary research, transdisciplinary research, narrative research.

Session 6

Lawrence Liang is Dean, School of Law, Governance and Citizenship at Ambedkar University, Delhi. He is cofounder Alternate Law Forum,  a non profit collective that works on various aspects of law, legality and power. Lawremce Liang is also the cofounder of two open access video archives in India, Public Access Digital Media Archive (Pad.ma) and Indiancine.ma. He was also one of the founders of the Center for internet and society and a distinguished fellow at the centre. Liang has published extensively and taught in many of the leading law schools as well as departments of film studies and media studies in India and elsewhere.

Janet Topp Fargion is an ethnomusicologist with research interests in South Africa, the Swahili Coast and in audiovisual archiving. She joined the British Library in 1994 as Lead Curator of World and Traditional Music, where she has had responsibility for the collection, preservation and dissemination of recordings and related materials documenting musical traditions from all around the world. She has served on the boards of several professional bodies including the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). In June 2020, she moved to the broader role of Head of Sound & Vision at the British Library where she has overall responsibility for the Library’s sound and audiovisual collections across all disciplines.

Lee Watkins is the Director of the International Library of African Music (ILAM), at Rhodes University in South Africa. He has been managing several projects dealing with digital return, jazz music heritage, and rural cultural economies in the past ten years. His other interests include popular music studies, hip hop studies, first people’s music cultures, and refugeeism. He has published widely on topics such as hip hop and rap in South Africa, collaboration, and Filipino musicians in Hong Kong.

Srijan Deshpande is a researcher, educator, archivist, and performer of Hindustani Khayal Music, and is a disciple of Pt. Satyasheel Deshpande. Through his long association with Samvaad Foundation, Mumbai, Srijan has been exposed to an eclectic mix of perspectives and approaches towards making and studying music in the Hindustani tradition. Srijan has also been a curator at the Saptak Archives, Ahmedabad, and has established the Manipal-Samvaad Centre for Indian music at Manipal University in Karnataka, India. Srijan’s recent work in preserving and disseminating archival material includes the development of a sophisticated musicological catalog and podcast episodes on Gharana music, built upon insights drawn from archival material.

Irfan Zuberi is the Project Manager, National Cultural Audiovisual Archives at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. He has worked in the domain of performing arts and archiving with the Ravi Shankar Institute for Music and Performing Arts, Aga Khan Trust for Culture and NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music. He has published and presented papers at international conferences on subjects ranging from audiovisual archiving, to intellectual property rights in the domain of performing arts. Irfan is currently working on his doctoral thesis at the Department of Indology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany. Irfan Zuberi is Chair, National Archives Section and Member, Editorial Board of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
(IASA).