Annual Meetings^

The Annual Meeting is the cornerstone get-together of the Document Academy. At its annual meetings, participants present new results, works in progress, reviews and experimental pieces. Presentations have ranged from traditional academic slide-based presentations to hands-on workshops to storytelling sessions. The Document Academy presents an engaging and liberating venue for research and discussion.

Since 2003, the Document Academy has been meeting annually. The first five meetings were held at the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, the annual meeting has found a new venue nearly every year, allowing for wider participation. Our meetings have taken place across Europe, North America and Australia, and we welcome opportunities to convene in new places.

Each year, the Document Academy annual meeting brings together 40–50 participants from around the world. Sessions are always plenary, or arranged in sequence, so that everyone has the chance to participate in everyone else's session.

Below you will find information, proceedings and more from past annual meetings. We are working to offer a more complete archive of past meetings, to include programs, papers, photos, etc. If you have anything we're missing, please let us know.

2024^

• Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• Theme: Documents from the Future
• September 19–21, 2024
• Webpage

2023^

• Dicen-IDF Lab, Paris, France
• Hosted by colleagues at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM), Gustave Eiffel University, and Paris Nanterre University
• September 7–8, 2023
• Chair: Prof. Manuel Zacklad
• Webpage
• Program (PDF)

2022^

• The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Theme: Document Disease
• August 12–13, 2022
• Webpage
• Program

2021^

• Hosted by Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, and to be held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic
• Theme: Emergence: Documents in Crisis
• August 17–18, 2021
• Program
• Book of Abstracts
• Webpage

2020^

• Hosted by University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, and held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic
• Theme: Documentary Monstrosities
• August 6, 2020
• Program and Abstracts
• Webpage

2019^

• University of Toulon, Toulon, France
• Theme: Of Documents and Data
• June 12–14, 2019
• Webpage
• Program
• Report on the meeting published in the journal Education for Information, written by Arthur Perret

2018^

• University of Torino, Turin, Italy
• Theme: The Documedia Revolution
• October 4–6, 2018
• Webpage
• Program

2017^

• University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
• Theme: Documentation: Informatics, Information Science, Library Science, and Museum Studies​
• September 29–30, 2017
• Webpage
• Proceedings
• Program

2016^

• University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, U.S.A.
• Theme: Patrick Wilson's call for “…a reorientation toward the functional” and “the need to bring information to the point of use”
• September 30–October 1, 2016
• Proceedings
• Program

2015^

• University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Theme: Documents Unbounded
• July 20–22, 2015
• Facebook page
• Proceedings
• Program

2014^

• Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, U.S.A.
• Theme: Documents without Borders
• August 7–9, 2014
• Facebook page
• Proceedings
• Program

2013^

• University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
• June 19–22, 2013
• Program
• Reading as dialogical document work, a paper by Anna Hampson Lundh and Mats Dolatkhah based on the presentation given at this meeting
• Children reading talking books, a poster by Anna Hampson Lundh and Jenny Nilsson at this meeting

2012^

• University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
• August 15–17, 2012
• An information meta-state approach to documentation, a paper by Kane X. Faucher based on the presentation given at this meeting

2011^

• Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
• September 30–October 2, 2011
• Program

2010^

• University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, U.S.A.
• March 20–21, 2010

2009^

• University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
• March 28–29, 2009
• Program

2008^

• University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
• March 28–29, 2008
• Proceedings in special issue of Archival Science
• Call for Papers on Internet Archive

2007^

• One-day mini-DOCAM, not counted in annual meeting numbering
• University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
• October 11, 2007, 1–5 p.m.
• Program on Air-L Listserv

2006^

• University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
• October 13–15, 2006
• Program

2005^

• University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
• October 7–9, 2005
• Program PDF
• Program on Internet Archive

2004^

• University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
• October 22–24, 2004
• Program PDF
• Program on Internet Archive

2003^

• University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
• August 13–15, 2003
• Program on Internet Archive