IASA 2019 – 50th Annual Conference
The 50th Annual Conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) will be held from Monday 30th September – Thursday 3rd October 2019 at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, in Hilversum, Netherlands.
The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) was established in 1969 in Amsterdam to function as a medium for international co-operation between archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents.
IASA has members from 70 countries representing a broad palette of audiovisual archives and personal interests which are distinguished by their focus on particular subjects and areas, eg archives for all sorts of musical recordings, historic, literary, folkloric and ethnological sound documents, theatre productions and oral history interviews, bio-acoustics, environmental and medical sounds, linguistic and dialect recordings, as well as recordings for forensic purposes.