ICHORA was established to promote the study of the history of record-keeping. This will be the first ICHORA to be hosted in a liberated country of the Global South : The conference follows previous ICHORAs in Toronto (2003), Amsterdam (2005; 2015), Boston (2007), Perth (2008), London (2010), Austin (2012), Melbourne (2017), and hosted online by the University of Michigan (2020), and by TNA / FARMER (UK) (2022).