Congress of Archivists 2024

Information letter

DEAR COLLEAGUES!

Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the support of the International Council of Archives (ICA), the UNESCO Regional Office in Almaty in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Akimat of the city of Almaty invites to take part in the II Congress of archivists of Kazakhstan with international participation on the topic «Heritage Institutions on the way to sustainable development of society».

Date: October 1-4, 2024.
Venue: Almaty.
Format: offline
Working languages: Kazakh, Russian and English
Key thesis: Modern archives, following the strategic principles of openness, accessibility, through the current priorities of digitalization, modernization, cybersecurity, can draw the attention of society to a variety of sources of invaluable knowledge and information, create the right search tools in a historical retrospective of the responses to global challenges in the main directions of sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The purpose of the Congress is a constructive dialogue of the professional community on topical issues of preservation of historical and cultural, documentary heritage, which will serve to generate innovative ideas for the development of archives and the reproduction of the best archival practices.

The Congress will be organized along the following lines:

Overcome the archival challenges in a changing climate.

Climate change and risks for archives;
Extreme weather events (earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, forest fires) and physical archives;
archive infrastructure (buildings, equipment, digital data storage systems) in the climate change environment;
environmental sustainability;
steady knowledge;
archives contribution to the SDG implementation.

Institutions of Heritage in International Dialogue and Law.

Preservation and access to cultural heritage;
Legal and ethical aspects of archiving and access to archives;
Archives as a source of legal information;
Organization and management of legal documentation;
Restorative justice;
Reparation and transitional justice;

Institutions of heritage and formation of historical memory of society.

The role of heritage institutions in shaping the historical memory of society;
Institutes of Heritage in the Digital Age;
Heritage institutions as part of a unified concept of documentation and informatics;
Mission for historical memory;
Archives and civic engagement.

Data management systems.

Artificial intelligence;
Big data management, security and cybersecurity;
Data centers and infrastructure;
Digital logistics, digital management and digital marketing;
Availability and reliability;
Web archive;
Media Archives.

Institutionalization and efficient management of archives.

Effective management;
Mission and Strategy;
Motivation;
Professional ethics and standards;
Quality management;
International cooperation in archives.

Professional education and development of archivists.

History of professional archival education;
System for training archivists and documentalists in a digital society;
Educational and methodological support;
Educational standards and quality of teaching;
Innovations in archival education;
Sociocultural diversity: inclusiveness and presentation.

Toolkit

Forms of Congress events: plenary and panel sessions, workshops, webinars, field trips to archives and universities, master classes of leading international and domestic experts, seminars and hackathons, documentary exhibitions.

The target audience of the Congress - employees of state, departmental and private archives, historians, cultural scientists, teachers and students of higher and postgraduate education, students of technical and professional educational institutions, employees of IT-sphere, all, who are interested in the problems of formation, preservation and use of information.

Applications for the Congress can be sent to: congress.of.archivists@gmail.com, by 1 June 2024.

Participant application

1.	Name, first name
2.	Position, organization
3.	Rank and degree
4.	Contact details (e-mail, telephone)
5.	If you would like to participate, make a presentation or hold a seminar, workshop, etc., please specify the theme and format of the presentation

Telephones for more information: +7 (727) 264 69 07 (int. 104,101,107), +7 (727)264 58 02, +7 (727)264 38 18, +7 (717) 274 04 45.

Partners

Akimat of the city of Almaty
International council of archives
UNESCO
Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Speakers

International organizations

Vlastimil Samek

Representative of the Department of Global Communications, UN, and Head of the UN Information Office in Kazakhstan

Jelassi Tawfik

Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, PhD

Muzafarov Rustam

Deputy Chairman of the National Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Intangible Cultural Heritage

Rita Tien Foo

President of the Forum of National Archivists of the International Council on Archives, Director of the National Archives of the Republic of Suriname

Fackson Banda

Chief of the Documentary Heritage Unit, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO, Professor

Moderators and speakers of the Congress

Abdrakhmanov Askar

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to UNESCO and other international organisations in Paris

Abusseitova Meruert

Director of the Republican Center for the Study of Historical Materials at the R.B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies, Corresponding member. NAS RK, Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences

Abazov Rafis

Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and Strategic Development, Director of the Institute of Green and Sustainable Development, Kazakh National Agrarian Research University, PhD

Yerkin Abil

Deputy of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Historical Sciences

Aktayeva Kulaysha

Director of the Museum of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Alexandru Argint

Head of the Digitization and e-Archive Department, National Archival Agency of the Republic of Moldova

Ali Rustam

Chairman of the Committee for Archives, Documentation, and Book Affairs of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Aliyev Anvarjon

Head of the Information Service, director's advisor on issues information policy of the “Uzarchive” Agency under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Alimgazinov Kairat

Head of the Center for Applied and Scientific Projects, Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Historical Sciences

Alpisbayeva Nurzipa

Associate Professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Anne-Marie Vulleimont

Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain

Ahmed Abdullah Ali Al-Jibran Al-Buainain

Secretary General of the National Archives of Qatar

Baturina Olga

Professor of the Department of History and Theory of Fine Arts, Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T. Zhurgenov, Candidate of Art Criticism

Bekisheva Gaukhar

Head of the Service for the Preservation, Accounting, and Digitization of Archival Documents, Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Bostynets Yelena

Head of the Zhitikarinsk regional state archive of Kostanay region

Brendan Duprey

Director of the Sustainable Kazakhstan Research institute, PhD

Vorontsova Yevgenia

Senior Researcher, State Literary Museum of Moscow, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Garkavets Alexander

Director of the «Desht-i-Kipchak» Eurasian Research Center, Doctor of Philological Sciences

Gintaras Dručkus

Director of the Kaunas Regional State Archive of the Republic of Lithuania

Ding Desheng

Deputy Director of the Department of Scientific Technology and Informatization, National Archives Administration of the People's Republic of China

Dmitry Panto

Senior Researcher of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland, PhD

Zhakypov Mirbolat Khabiuly

Chairman of the sectoral trade union of workers of state, banking institutions and public services “Kyzmet” public association

Zhanguttin Baurzhan

Head of the Digital History Laboratory at Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Doctor of Historical Sciences

Ioannis Kglavinas

Head of the Department of Development, Communication, and Educational Programs of the Main State Archives of Greece

Kabuldinov Ziyabek

General Director of the Ch. Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Roza Karibzhanova

Deputy Director of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Kozhobekova Aizharkyn

Director of the Civil Society Initiative of the Higher School of Development of the University of Central Asia, member of the Subcommittee of the Registry of the Memory of the World Program

Chris Naylor

Executive Director of the Research Services of the National Archives and Records Administration, USA

Kristina Stanišauskė

Head of the Documentation Department, Kaunas Regional State Archive, Lithuania

Kyung Pavel

Director of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Documentation and Archival Affairs, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Mazur Lyudmila

Professor of the Department of Documentation, Archival Studies, and History of Public Administration at Ural Federal University, Russian Federation, Doctor of Historical Sciences

Makatova Zhansaule

Senior Expert of the Educational and Methodological Center, Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor

Malikova Saule

Director of the North Kazakhstan State Archive, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Marek Dabrowski

Deputy Head of the Digital Archive Management and Development Department of the Institute of National Remembrance, Poland

Metsik Oleg

Foresight Methodologist, Expert in Organizational Development, Director of the RCBC «SIMKON» Firm

Mukazhanov Ular

General Director of the RSE «Gylym Ordasy» Kazakhstan

Mustafina Aliya

Director of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Muhammet Ahmet

Director of the Directorate of State Archives under the President of the Republic of Turkey

Nidal Ibrahim Muhammad Al-Ahmad

Director-General of the National Library of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Nurgalieva Gaziza

Director of the National Academic Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Nurzhanova Asem

Deputy director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Nurlanova Sagila

Director of the National Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Nurpeisova Bakhyt

Senior Lecturer at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Nurymbetova Gulshat

Is the Head of the Center for the Study of Materials on Political Repressions of the 20th Century at the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Political Sciences

Ospanova Bakytzhamal

Director of the National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Pfinder Aachim

Director of International Sales, Image Access, Inc

Romanova Yelena

Deputy Director of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Documentation and Archival Affairs, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Sagadiev Ulan

Director of the RSE «State Historical, Cultural and Literary Memorial Museum-Reserve of Abai «Zhidebai-Borili»

Sanjay Garg

Deputy Director of the National Archives of India, PhD

Satayeva Saule

Deputy Director of the Central State Archive of Cinema, Photo Documents, and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Seyedhadi Mousavi

Deputy for National Documents of the National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, PhD

Selyanina Yelena

Head of the Rudny City State Archive (a branch of the Kostanay Regional State Archive)

Stanislav Koller

Senior Archivist of the Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland, Doctor of Catholic Social Sciences

Suleimanova Zulfiya

Head of the Scientific and Methodological Work Department, National Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Syzdykova Yelena

Senior Researcher at the Center for Applied and Scientific Projects, Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Tatiana Sirbu

Researcher at the Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS), Laboratory for Prospective Anthropology (LAAP), Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Tashanova Saltanat

Head of the Department of State Policy and Legal Regulation, Committee on Archives, Documentation, and Book Affairs of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Tlepina Sholpan

Professor of the Department of International Law, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Doctor of Legal Sciences

Uğur Ünal

Rector of Gazi University, Professor

Uskembayeva Raisa

Member of the Board, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Kazakh National Research Technical University named after K. Satpayev, Doctor of Technical Sciences

Baasanjav Tsendsuren

Head of the Scientific and Methodological Department of the Main Archival Department of Mongolia

Chekel Pavel

Technical Director of VIAR «Your Archive» company

Chen Delong

Head of the Technology Regulation and Control Division, Department of Archival Document Preservation, Main Archival Administration of the People's Republic of China

Andrew Payne

Head of Education and Outreach, The National Archives, United Kingdom

Yulia Yumashyeva

Deputy General Director of LLC «DIMI-CENTER», Doctor of Historical Sciences

Yusupov Ulugbek

Director of the «Uzarchive» Agency under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan

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Location

The historical building of the President's Archive is located in the very center of the city at the intersection of Satpayev Street and Dostyk Avenue. Business center of Almaty.

Contacts

Email: office@archive.president.kz
Telephone: +7 (727) 264-69-07
Fax: +7 (727) 264-68-21

Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Dostyk ave., 87b)