9.00   Registration and Welcome Coffee

10.00 Conference Opening:

Hildo van Engen (The Netherlands, President of the Organising Committee of Archives without Borders) - Word of welcome

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

Geert Bourgeois (Belgium, Flemish Minister for Administrative Affairs and Local and Provincial Government) - 'A New Decree on Archives in Flanders'

10.45 Plenary session: Antonio González Quintana (Spain)

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

11.30 Coffee break

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'
  
  
• Guided tour Peace Palace

13.15 Lunch

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’
  
  
• Guided tour Peace Palace

15.30 Tea break

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

'To Have and to Have Not'

16.45 Refreshments

20.00 Dinner (optional)

9.00   Registration and Welcome Coffee

10.00 Opening

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'

11.30 Coffee break

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’

13.15 Book presentation: Footsteps and Fingerprints. The legacy of a shared history

13.20 Lunch

14.15 Parallel sessions

• Film showing: Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today (The 2009 Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration), with an introduction by Ted Steemers (The Netherlands)
  This film is shown with the permission and under the aegis of the Nationaal Archief, The Hague
  
  
• 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’
  
  
• Guided tour Peace Palace

15.30 Tea break

16.00 Plenary session: Nathan Mnjama (Botswana)

'Archives and national identity: the African case'

16.45 Closing Plenary session: Eric Ketelaar (The Netherlands)

17.15 Refreshments


20.00 Dinner (optional)