The ICA's 9th Conference is taking place in less than a month! Have you taken a look at the Programme and determined which sessions you would like to attend? 

This year's conference, which is taking place in Rome, Italy from 21-23 September will feature 17 lightning talks and 54 posters. 

Lightning Talks 

All of the lightning talks will be presented on the first day of the conference, Wednesday 21 September, from 13:30 - 15:00 in the Aula Jacopone da Todi room. Lightning talks are a 5 minute session to present a single project, demonstrate a technology or pitch an idea. This session is intended to either solicit comment from peers or to advertise the release of a new project, dataset, or tool. 

The 17 lightning talks are as follows: 

• Appraisal Electronic Records as a Process That Aims to Create Cultural Heritage in National Archives in Poland, Dr. Justyna Adamus-Kowalska 
• Salvaguardia e Piano di Emergenza Per il Patrimonio delle Biblioteche. Un'esperienza di Lavoro, Dr.ssa Bruna Blasco 
• The 1937 exhibition on Piedmontese Baroque: From Papers To Digital, Maria Francesca Bocasso 
• A Citizens Archive Platform to fight the Digital Dark Ages? Dr. Wolfram Dornik, Dr. Joachim Kemper, Tamara Kefer, Björk Kosir 
• More Women's Archives in a Traditional Archival Institution: Towards a New Policy, Prof. Celso Castro 
• Development of Archive Boxes Using 3D Printing Technology for Paper Conservation, Jessyca Janiffer Diniz de Almeida, Dr. Heloisa Meireles Gesteira 
• Ancestors' Records Network: A Uniform Database (ARNaUD), Dr. Sara Rivoira, Dr. Giovanni Jarre 
• Parallel Archive - Trust and decentralization, Jozsef Gabor Bone 
• Professors In Databases Of University Archives, Dr. Dennis Hormuth, Tanja Wolf 
• Contribution du Design et des Technologies Numériques pour la Recherche sur le Patrimoine Scientifique, Pr Anne-Lyse Renon 
• The Digital Archives Of The Pilecki Institute With A Story About The Experience Of Poland And Poles During The Second World War, Karol Kalinowski, Krzysztof Wiśniewski 
• ScartUP: Enhancing the Memory, Prof. Annalisa Rossi 
• Disrupting Academic Archival Practice: Examination of Finding Aids, Anne Quirk, Lisa Lawlis 
• Strenghtening the Connections between the Citizens and the Hellenic Parliament, Dr. Iouliani Theodosi 
• Archives Du Passé Et Savoir Scientifique d'Aujourd'hui: Instaurer Un Dialogue, Dr. Taous Kherkhour 
• From Archives Management to Knowledge Extraction: Tools and Impact Evaluation, Dr.ssa Assunta Caruso, Dr. Martin Critelli, Dr. Armando Bartucci, Prof.ssa Anna Rovella, Dr.ssa Francesca Maria Caterina Mess 
• Solution(s) for Bridging the Distance Gap Between Information and Users, Rona Razon

Posters

The ICA Roma 2022 Programme Committee is delighted with the large number of interesting posters we will have at the conference in September. 54 posters have been submitted as part of the programme. Posters are intended to be the presentation of research, a project, an idea or other type of work in the form of a paper poster that conference participants may view in a dedicated space at the conference venue. On Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22, from 15:00-15:45, the presenters of the posters will be available to provide explanations and answer questions in relation to their project.

The posters will be an unusually important feature of ICA Roma 2022 and much important work will be introduced as a poster, therefore we will be celebrating the whole poster category with a new initiative: the ICA Poster Awards. 

The ICA Posters award committee will visit each poster and speak to the presenter about it during the two planned posters sessions.  

Three of the most outstanding posters will be recognized with a small award on Friday 23 September during the ICA Posters award ceremony between 15:10 and 15:40. 

View the full list of posters at the bottom of the programme: https://www.ica.org/en/ica-roma-2022-preliminary-programme  

Registration  

Registration is currently ongoing, with discounted rates for ICA members, students, retirees and those from low-resourced countries. You can find all the categories and fees here.