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AMIA 2025

7:30am EST

Registration Desk Grand Ballroom Foyer Kiosk

9:00am EST

Film Restoration Essentials for Small Archives and Non-Profits Grand Ballroom Salon VIIIFabio Paul Bedoya Huerta

1:00pm EST

Tour: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture Offsite Automating and ‘Not-omating’ Access Copies: Using FFMPEG Grand Ballroom Salon VIIRussell Zych • Jackie Forsyte

6:00pm EST

AMIA 2025 Opening Night Cocktails Grand Ballroom Foyer

7:30am EST

Registration Desk Grand Ballroom Foyer Kiosk

8:45am EST

Coffee & Tea Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00am EST

AMIA 2025 Welcome & Keynote Grand Ballroom Salon VMike Mashon Keynote Speaker: Robert Newlen Grand Ballroom Salon VRobert Newlen

11:00am EST

Locals Only: Preserving and Sharing the History of Surf Films Dover A/CVeronica Luke • Laura Jean Treat Liebhaber • Justin Misch Mapping the Magnetic Media Landscape: Report from the National Survey Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVKelli Shay Hix • Moriah Ulinskas Classroom to Archive and Back: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIOliver Gaycken • Caitlin McGrath • Mark Coulbourne • Stephanie Sapienza Preserving The Fabric of Film: Safeguarding an Iconic Costume Collection Grand Ballroom Salon VAndrea Kalas • Anna Lynn Martino • Charlotte Thai

11:30am EST

Enabling Description of Under-Described Archival Video Collections through AI Dover A/CKevin L. Glick Looking Forward at the Virtual Film Bench Grant Project Grand Ballroom Salon II/IV

12:00pm EST

Meeting: CAW Working Group Grand Ballroom Salon I Meeting: Education Committee Grand Ballroom Salon XJen O'Leary Hashida Meeting: News, Documentary, and Television Committee Grand Ballroom Salon IXAlexis Scargill Resume Review Table Grand FoyerJen O'Leary Hashida • Felicity Flesher

12:30pm EST

Screening the Showcase: The Moving Image Legacy of Johnson Publishing Company Dover A/CBleakley McDowell • David Sohl VDB's Screen Your Own Adventure! Fifty Years of Video Art Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVElise Schierbeek • Kristin MacDonough Tour: Welcome to the Walters Tour + Art MakingTour Offsite

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Meeting: Education Committee | Student Meeting Grand Ballroom Salon XFelicity Flesher Meeting: LGBT Committee Grand Ballroom Salon IKristen Muenz Meeting: PBCore Advisory Subcommittee Grand Ballroom Salon IXRebecca Fraimow

2:00pm EST

Roundtable: Cloud Storage for Archives: What Goes Up May Come Down Grand Ballroom Salon XNicole Martin Beyond Video: Preserving the George Udel Collection Dover A/CFin Hatfield • Austin Miller • George Figgs Teaching Media Archives Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIHugo Ljungbäck • Christian Balistreri • Travis L. Wagner • Nathan Holmes • Aparna Subramanian • Brian Meacham Trust in Archives Initiative: Archives in the Age of AI Grand Ballroom Salon VCharlie Eckert • Rachel Antell • Philip Sulentic • Fabio Paul Bedoya Huerta • Brian Real • Kevina Tidwell What a Difference a Day Makes: Evolution of CAW Collective Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVMoriah Ulinskas • Marie Lascu • Kelli Shay Hix • Sandra Yates

3:00pm EST

Coffee & Tea Break Grand Ballroom Salon Salon Foyer

3:15pm EST

Cinematographic Traces: Archival Challenges at the Museum of Image and Sound of Campinas (MIS-Campinas) Dover A/CFernanda Parrado Diasporic Archive and Archival Diasporas. Negotiating Collective Identity through the Polish Highlanders Archive Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIAgata Zborowska Roundtable: Trust in Archives Grand Ballroom Salon IXRachel Antell • Stephanie Jenkins • Jennifer Petrucelli Ray Dolby, Ampex, and Collection Components as Infrastructure Grand Ballroom Salon VRebecca Gordon Writing the Record: AMIA Authors in Focus Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVKaren Gracy • Aparna Subramanian • Melissa Dollman • Michael Marlatt* • Devin Orgeron

3:30pm EST

WCVB TV Boston: Echoes from 50 Years Ago Dover A/CKarin Carlson-Snider

3:45pm EST

Synthetic DNA for Archival Data Storage: Fact or Fiction? Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIBill Banyai NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program: 20 years and Onwards! Dover A/CJuana Suarez

4:00pm EST

Metadata is Money: Unlocking Streaming Value Through Enhanced Tagging Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIPhil Spiegel

4:30pm EST

Beyond LUTs: Machine Learning for Chroma Reconstruction in Film Restoration Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIFabio Paul Bedoya Huerta Media Player Solutions and Challenges: Four Organizations Reveal All Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVCrystal Sanchez • Bleakley McDowell • Dave Rice • Genevieve Havemeyer-King • Megan Cromwell The New Digital Archivists: Building the Field Through Apprenticeship Dover A/CMartha Diaz • Wendy Levy • Jeffrey Obike • Amber Smalls AMIA Pathways Fellowship: Meet the 2025 Fellows Grand Ballroom Salon VAdelle Montes • Caitlin Sheil • Teague Schneiter • CK Ming • Wilde Davis • Kaz Mendoza Rodriguez • Connie Li

5:00pm EST

35mm Sound Quality From 16mm Films Using “Camera Original” Elements Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIINicholas Bergh

6:00pm EST

Tour MARMIA Offsite Buses to Archival Screening Night Side Entrance

7:15pm EST

Archival Screening Night Parkway TheatreBrittan Dunham • Jeremy Spracklen

9:00pm EST

Buses Return to Hotel Parkway Theatre

7:30am EST

Registration Desk Grand Ballroom Foyer Kiosk

8:15am EST

Keynote Speaker: Alex Ross Perry Grand Ballroom Salon VAlex Ross Perry

9:00am EST

Coffee & Tea Break Pavilion The Pavilion Grand Ballroom Salon VI

9:30am EST

FM RF Archival Methods for Video Preservation: A Case Study Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIMichael Metzger Roundtable: Disaster Planning in Archives: Case Studies Grand Ballroom Salon IXJuana Suarez • Linda Smith Designed for Learning: Archiving, Preserving, and Accessing Rare Educational Television Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVOwen Gottlieb • Mark Quigley • Ina Archer • Margaret Compton From Degralescence to Collective Action: Community-Driven Responses to the Magnetic Media Crisis Dover A/CBrianna Toth • Libby Hopfauf • Annalise Nicholson • Joshua Yocum • Emily Nabasny Still Got Nitrate? Adventures Building a Nitrate Vault Grand Ballroom Salon VDoug Sylvester • Tim Knapp

10:00am EST

Making WAVs by Asserting Actions: FADGI AV Explores C2PA Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIKate Murray • Morgan Morel • Dan Hockstein

11:00am EST

Multiple Versioning Considerations in the Archives: Recuperating a Soviet-Ukrainian Documentary Catalog Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVNicholas Avedisian-Cohen • Anna Sidun Roundtable: Programming from our Collections in Response to These Times Grand Ballroom Salon IXAndrew Graham • Skylar Kelly It’s All On Tape: Case Studies in LTO Technology Dover A/CRebecca Fraimow • Kristin MacDonough • Linda Tadic • Raananah Sarid-Segal Legal Brief: AI, Fair Use, and the Copyright Office Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIPatricia Aufderheide • Jenni Matz • Brandon Butler • Katherine Klosek • Nicolas Garcia • Robert Kasunic Navigating the End of Perchloroethylene and Methylene Chloride Grand Ballroom Salon VThomas Aschenbach • Alison Reppert Gerber • Todd Mitchell

11:30am EST

Help! Finding Resources and Building Community for Film Collections Care Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVJenna Simpson

12:00pm EST

Meeting: College & University Archives Interest Group Grand Ballroom Salon IXLaura Jean Treat Liebhaber Meeting: Nitrate Committee Grand Ballroom Salon IRachel Del Gaudio • Oscar Becher Meeting: Small Gauge & Amateur Film Committee Grand Ballroom Salon XLouisa Trott Resume Review Table PavilionJen O'Leary Hashida • Felicity Flesher Poster Session I Pavilion Poster: Case of Mistaken Identity: Navigating Pseudo-names in Archival Research PavilionEdda Manriquez Poster: Designing for Discovery: An Open Source Exhibits Platform PavilionBeth Mawhinney Poster: Next Steps for "Preserving Community Memory in the Balkans" PavilionSiobhan Hagan • Kelli Shay Hix • Marie Lascu • Biljana Milenkovic Poster: Project Management for Moving Image Digitization in an Academic Setting PavilionPamela A. McClanahan • Alexandra Trim • Ethan Lewis

12:30pm EST

Lunchtime Screening: Operation Luggage: The Making of Lady Baltimore Dover A/CKate Dollenmayer

1:00pm EST

Meeting: Copyright Committee Grand Ballroom Salon IXJenni Matz • Patricia Aufderheide Meeting: Preservation Committee Grand Ballroom Salon XLance Watsky

2:00pm EST

Searching for Scarlett: Providing Access to Nitrate Screen Tests Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVTaylor E Burch Where Have All the Archives Gone? The State of Local TV News in NYC Grand Ballroom Salon VStephanie Jenkins • Jennifer Petrucelli • Becca Bender Roundtable: AMIA Online Education: Taking it to the Next Level Grand Ballroom Salon IKelli Shay Hix Can the Sunburst Cure All? Lessons from the Smithsonian’s Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative, 2022-2025 Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIBrianna Toth • Walter Forsberg • Kira Sobers • Kayla Henry-Griffin • Felicia Boretzky Sustaining Audiovisual Preservation Programs and How to Move Forward Dover A/CTre Berney • Alison Reppert Gerber • Hannah Frost • Benjamin Turkus • Bryce Roe • Eric Dawson

2:30pm EST

California Revealed: Navigating Loss, Resilience, and What Comes Next Grand Ballroom Salon VGuadalupe Martinez • Christopher Winters Discovering Lost Films in Fin de Siècle Flipbooks Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVKathy Rose O'Regan

3:00pm EST

Coffee & Tea Break Pavilion

3:15pm EST

From Clippings to Cinema: A Hybrid Restoration Case Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIXihao Xing Roundtable: Sharing and Connecting Resources Grand Ballroom Salon XRebecca Gordon • Libby Hopfauf Archiving Radical Media in this Political Moment Dover A/CJT Takagi • Draye (Andreas) Wilson Reel to Real: Archiving the Monday/Wednesday/Friday Video Club Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVKelly Haydon • Ana Marie • Brian Dunbar Restoring the Original Music Masters for The Wiz Grand Ballroom Salon VJen O'Leary Hashida • Chase Schulte

3:45pm EST

“Too Fragile to Scan?” – Collaborative Innovations Addressing the Physical Challenges of Film Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIMichael Schneider

4:30pm EST

Authenticity in the Generative AI Era: How Archivists Are Coping Grand Ballroom Salon VPatricia Aufderheide • Williams Cole • Gabriel Ponniah • Murphy Chen The Autistic Lived Experience: Community Curation and Memory Workers Fellowship Dover A/CTeague Schneiter • Sasha Fleischman • Chinyere E Oteh Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Workflows for New and Existing Donor Agreements Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVAdrianne Lundy • May Hong HaDuong • Mark Quigley To Denoise or Not to Denoise: Navigating Digitized Film Grain Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIJeff McCarty • Charlotte Barker

5:00pm EST

Do Commercial AI Models Understand Film Restoration?: An Investigation Into Models and Datasets Grand Ballroom Salon VTimothy Yim-Stueve • Fabio Paul Bedoya Huerta The 2025 Salary & Demographic Survey: A Preliminary Look at the Numbers Dover A/CBrian Real

5:30pm EST

The Center for Home Movies Pavilion Grab a drink in the Pavilion! Pavilion

7:00pm EST

Restoration Screening: The Wiz Parkway TheatreJen O'Leary Hashida

7:30pm EST

AMIA Trivia: Battle for Brains and Glory Raven Room

7:30am EST

Registration Desk Grand Ballroom Foyer Kiosk

8:00am EST

Screening: Incident Dover A/C

8:40am EST

AMIA 2025 Closing Keynote: Bill Morrison Dover A/C

9:00am EST

Coffee & Tea Break Pavilion The Pavilion Grand Ballroom Salon VI

9:45am EST

Advancing Digital Preservation Education in the U.S.: Results from DPOE-N Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIJuana Suarez • Kirk Mudle Moi-même and the Lee Breuer Collection: Filmmaking Across Generations Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVAndrea McCarty • Mojo Lorwin Pathways: Auntie Penny’s Tapes: Home Movies, Memory, and Building a DIY Archive Grand Ballroom Salon VRai Terry Pathways: Fault Lines Mirrors: a Divine Love Story of a Pakistani~American~Muslim Grand Ballroom Salon VMaryam Mustafa Pathways: Made in Michigan: Digitizing and Preserving the WKAR Early Television Films Collection Grand Ballroom Salon VLeila Sherbini Altars, Archives, and A/V Futures: Plática on Latinx/é Media Preservation Dover A/CMarisa Hicks • C. Diáz • Victoria Fajardo • Guadalupe Martinez • Monica Sosa Pathways in Action: Alumni Updates Part I Grand Ballroom Salon VLeila Sherbini • Rai Terry • Maryam Mustafa • Teague Schneiter • Mike Mashon

10:00am EST

Preserving Local Broadcast History: Digitizing and Managing the WMAR-TV News Collection (1948-1993) Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIFatemeh Rezaei

10:15am EST

"Lum Ed'ards Talkin'": Highlights from the Chet Lauck Collection Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVAmanda McQueen

11:00am EST

Pathways: Know History, Know Self - Using Archival News Footage to Reconnect Queer and Diasporic Community with Our “Hidden Histories” Grand Ballroom Salon VFrances Cava-Humphrey Pathways: The Video Zine: Archiving Underground Voices Through Found Footage Grand Ballroom Salon VMercer Zervopoulos Pathways: Translating Archival Practice to an Exhibition Audience: 20 Years of The South Side Home Movie Project Grand Ballroom Salon VCamille Townson The Wildlife Conservation Society's Archive of Wildlife Films Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIILeopold Krist Pathways in Action: Alumni Updates Part II Grand Ballroom Salon VMercer Zervopoulos • Camille Townson • Frances Cava-Humphrey • Teague Schneiter Roundtable: Persistence & Vision Grand Ballroom Salon IXC. Diáz • Regina Longo • Amy Heller • Nancy Friedland • Dan Streible • Jonathan Marlow Be Kind, Rewind: VHS Culture, Community, and the Archive Dover A/CSara Chapman • Skip Elsheimer • Becca Zeiger • Eric Hatch • Gregg Turkington* Presenting the Good Practice for TV Archives Management Grid Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVAlexis Scargill • Mia Cooper Ferm • Molly Tighe • Lance Watsky

11:30am EST

Submerged Action: Underwater Filming Technologies of the Silent Era, as Represented in the Collection of San Francisco Film Preserve Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIKathy Rose O'Regan

11:45am EST

DIY Digital Preservation Tips for Independent Producers, Part 1: The Problems Grand Ballroom Salon VLinda Tadic

12:00pm EST

Meeting: Conference Committee Grand Ballroom Salon XLindy Leong • Louisa Trott Meeting: Magnetic Media Crisis Committee Grand Ballroom Salon IBrianna Toth Oral History Committee Meeting Grand Ballroom Salon IXJenni Matz Poster Session II Pavilion Poster: A Working Guide to Diaspora Film Festivals in Toronto PavilionLisa Shin Poster: From Betamax to Born-Digital: Engaging Students with Media Artifacts PavilionSarah Berry Poster: Mass Media Migration in Action: Inspection Workflows for Large Film Collections PavilionTuesday Sweeney Poster: Privacy-First Archiving: Implementing Secure Decentralized Storage to Protect Mobile Media Pavilion

12:30pm EST

Lunchtime Screening: Flickers from CAVE: Experimental Art and Butoh Dance Archival Screening by LEIMAY Dover A/CBenja Thompson • Ximena Garnica

1:00pm EST

Meeting: Disaster Planning & Response Interest Group Grand Ballroom Salon IX Tour: John Waters Fells Point Walking Tour Offsite

1:30pm EST

Raffle Drawing Grand Ballroom Foyer

2:00pm EST

Sex Garage: Montreal Queer Archival Solidarity Through Activist Videotapes Dover A/CKim Kölle Valentine Beyond the Archive: Sustaining Archival Stewardship Through Public Engagement Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIC. Diáz • Ari Negovschi Regalado • Monica Sosa • Victoria Perez • Justin Green Remixing the Past: Creative Re-use of Archival Moving Image Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVJanine Winfree • Aparna Subramanian • Ben Compton • Timothy Yim-Stueve

2:30pm EST

Unlocking Legacy Database Systems for Entertainment Archives Dover A/CAlexandra Beddall • Randal Luckow

3:00pm EST

Coffee & Tea Break Grand Ballroom Foyer

3:15pm EST

From Novices to Specialists: Building an In-house AV Workstation Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIICamila Zimmerman • Bree'ya Brown • Justin Lemons Second Chance Raffle Drawing Grand Ballroom Foyer Unexpected Treasures From The Archives: Clips and Stories Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVMitch Peyser • Elizabeth Hansen • Mary K. Huelsbeck • Sarah V. Hartzell Vrecord: The Community Speaks Dover A/CMorgan Morel • Dave Rice • Libby Hopfauf • Benjamin Turkus • Bleakley McDowell

3:45pm EST

Transcribing a Broken Record: Benchmarking STT for Historical Audio Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIArthur Cho

4:30pm EST

Magnascope: Preserving the Ephemeral Presentation of Old Ironsides (1926) Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIIGraham Marshall "One More River to Cross" - Land, Power and Community in Southwest Georgia in the late 1960's Grand Ballroom Salon II/IVGuha Shankar We Need to Talk: Critical Interventions for the Profession Dover A/CC. Diáz • Siobhan Hagan • Marie Lascu • Andy Uhrich • Monica Sosa

5:00pm EST

Migration of 550,000 hours of Videotapes for National Library Norway Grand Ballroom Salon VII/VIIITom Lorenz

5:30pm EST

AMIA 2025 Closing Night Waterview Ballroom

8:00pm EST

Charm City Cine-melee Alchemy of ArtsBob Wagner • Tim Wisniewski • Khristian Weeks • Peter Redgrave • Liz Meredith

10:00am EST

Community Archiving Workshop OffsitePamela Vadakan • Grace Lile • Crystal Rangel • Kaitlyn Palone • Justin Lemons • Emily Pojman