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The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) holds its AMIA Spring 2021 conference, running April 14-16, featuring a host of archiving and digitization presentations.

The conference kicks off with the a “Web Archiving for All!” two-day workshop beginning April 12 and conference sessions beginning on April 14.

A “Spring Conference Student Mixer” will be held April 13, offering networking opportunities with current students, prospective students, and recent grads, to discuss the conference, classes, employment and more. During the entire week, attendees will be able to tour the virtual archives of the Asian Film Archive, Vanderbilt Television News Archive and American Genre Film Archive.

The keynote speaker of the event will be Manuelito Wheeler, director of the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona. The Navajo Nation Museum has partnered with major studios including Lucasfilm Ltd. (Navajo Star Wars), Walt Disney Pictures and Deluxe Studios (Finding Nemo) to dub films into the Navajo language.

His keynote kicks off a “Borders and Borderlands” stream of programming, which will examine how moving image archiving can operate across borders and can become collaborative spaces.

Other highlights on the program include:

• “Let’s Get Uncomfy Together: A Conversation About Diversity, Internationalization and Enacting Meaningful Change at AMIA Today and Beyond,” featuring speakers from the Library of Congress, New York University, and UCLA Film & Television Archive.

• “Digital Repositories in Mexico,” featuring speakers from Mexico haz Memoria and Mem≤rica.

• “Visions 2031: The State of the Archive.”

• “Synanon on Film: Unraveling the Outtakes of a California Community,” featuring speakers from the University of California, Los Angeles.

• “Taking Stock of Amateur Film: Advancing Preservation Through Online Resources,” featuring speakers from UCLA, the University of Calgary, and Michigan State University Libraries.

• “Describing the Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters Audiovisual Collection,” featuring speakers from the Academy Film Archive, UCLA Graduate Program in Library & Information Science and UCLA Film & Television Archive.

• “Public Access is Different: Digitizing The Video Access Project Collection,” featuring speakers from the Oregon Historical Society.

• “Finding Films & Filmmakers With Public Library Sources,” featuring speakers from the Chicago Public Library.

• “The Cinematic Spectacle of Pancho Villa’s Posthumous Career,” featuring speakers from Hays State University.

• “Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Up Digitization Projects During the Pandemic,” featuring speakers from the University of Maryland.

• “You Should Probably Submit that to The Moving Image,” featuring speakers from NCSU, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Myriad Consulting and Southern Connecticut State University.

MESA members can receive 20 percent off admission by registering here with the code SP21-MESA