2025 SGA Annual Conference - Macon, GA Middle Georgia State University, Hatcher Center

In Person Conference: October 1-3, 2025

Virtual Conference: TBD

*More Information To Come Soon!

For more information about the 2025 Annual Meeting, contact a member of the planning team:

• Brittany Newberry, (program@soga.org)
  2025 Program Committee Chair
• Ashley Shull, (localarrangements@soga.org)
  2025 Local Arrangements Committee Chair

Previous Meetings

Programs for previous annual meetings are available in PDF format.

• 2024: Leading Georgia Forward Together
• 2023: Evolving Technologies: Using Digital Spaces Effectively
• 2022: Sustaining Archives: Practical Solutions for the Future
• 2021: Archives Endure: Resilience, Innovation, and Adaptation in Archival Work
• 2020: Building Partnerships and Dismantling Barriers (view recorded sessions on YouTube)
• 2019: Strong Roots, Stronger Branches: SGA at 50
• 2018: Practical Pathways: Applied Tools and Creative Approaches
  
• 2017: Documenting the Present: Archival Conscience and Proactive Archives
• 2016: Defining Archives: Ingenuity, Innovation and New Perspectives (joint meeting with SFA)
• 2015: Archives as Community: Building Bridges and Sustaining Relationships
• 2014: Plans and Strategies for the Future of Archives
• 2013: Prepared in Mind and Resources: Collaboration, Relevance, and the Re-Imagined Archives (joint meeting with SCAA and SNCA)
• 2012: Brave New World: Next Steps in the Archives Profession
• 2011: Real World Solutions: Policies, Procedures and Technology for Archives
  
• 2010: Archives in Transition: Current Issues and Future Trends
• 2009: What's Prologue is Past: SGA Faces the Future at Forty
• 2008: Archives in Focus: Describing, Sharing, and Caring for Photographic Collections
• 2007: Access, Outreach, and Description: Improving Archival Avenues to Collections
• 2006: Discovering, Sharing, and Preserving Our Stories
• 2005: Archives in Binary: Electronic Records, Digital Surrogates, and Business as Usual
• 2004: The Changing Face of Archives: Coping with Changes in Society
• 2003: Architecture of Archives: Tools of the Trade
  
• 2002: Politics and the Archives
• 2001: Newness and Renewal: New Users, New Material, and New Practitioners
• 2000: Meeting the Challenges of the New Millennium
• 1999: SGA: Thirty Years of Documenting Southern History and Culture
• 1998: Taking Archives to the People: Reference, Outreach and Public Programs

Got Photographs? The SGA Archives is still looking for photographs of past events and people to add to our archives. If you have photographs you would be willing to donate, please contact the SGA Archivist. Digital images, either born-digital or scanned from photographs, are welcome.