Submission form for Call for Contributions

Join us in Nipaluna - Hobart, Tasmania for the 2027 ASA Conference Archival Futures.

The ASA 2027 Conference will take place 1-4 March 2027 at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Hobart, Tasmania. We encourage contributions from archivists, recordkeepers, students, researchers, academics, artists, and community members. 

The submission deadline is Sunday, 19 July 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.

The theme of the conference is Archival Futures: Sharing experience across community, engagement, and technology. The conference aims to bring together diverse perspectives on what Archival Futures means, what is the concept for the future, and consider how the roles of community, engagement, and technology shape its direction.

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Call for Contributions

We encourage submissions from all who engage with archives: students, new professionals, experienced archivists and recordkeepers, information professionals, academics, researchers, artists, and community members.

It is a space to explore the challenges and opportunities posed by technologies, consider what ideal engagement practices could look like, and acknowledge the communities who support the archives. How do we view archives and archivists in the future? How will communities engage and collaborate with archives in the future? What technological innovations and changes are driving the way archives work and preserve information?

We invite you to share your experiences of and ideas for Archival Futures. This could be through community, engagement, or technology - a combination of these - or other avenues that might not typically be thought of as part of the archivist's role.

Topics could include, but are not limited to:

  • Digital accessibility
  • Privacy, cultural, ethical, and social considerations
  • Audiences
  • Indigenous self-determination
  • Community outreach and access
  • Archival education
  • Using technology to improve engagement
  • Impact of digital transformation on archival concepts
  • Artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning.

Conference audience

Your audience will mainly be archivists, records and information professionals from small, medium, and large organisations in government, private, and community sector organisations. It will also include students, academics, educators, and researchers. As a face-to-face conference your audience will be in person with most attendees coming from Australia.

Proposal types

People will present in-person. Slides can be used for all presentation types. Workshops have been pre-planned and will not be included in the Call for Contributions.

Lightning Talks (10 minutes)

  • can include project show and tells
  • are strictly limited to 10 minutes per talk including time for one question (all speakers combined)
  • short, less formal presentations to share information about in-progress or completed projects provide opportunities to share project status.

Individual papers (30 minutes)

  • comprised of one or more speakers
  • presentations should last 25 minutes to allow 5 minutes for questions
  • papers will be grouped to form 90 minute sessions around a common theme.

Interactive presentations (30-60 minutes)

  • comprised of one or more speakers
  • an interactive presentation designed to engage the audience in active discussion.

Panels (90 minutes)

  • comprise three to five speakers who together present on a topic for 90 minutes
  • panels have options in how they use the time available, potentially giving each panellist a set time to speak and allowing time for questions during or at the end of the panel session.

Presentation formats include:

✅ Papers
✅ Lightning talks
✅ Panels
✅ Interactive sessions

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