When / Where: November 7th to December 4th, 2010, Du Mois Gallery, New Orleans
Deadline for proposals: 20 Sept 2010
Contact: Craig Campbell (craig.campbell@mail.utexas.edu), www.ethnographicterminalia.org

Ethnographic Terminalia (2010) is scheduled to coincide with the 109th Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association (AAA) in New Orleans. It will take place at a number of sites around
New Orleans with the flagship exhibition at the DuMois Gallery, in the emerging Freret Street Arts
& Cultural District. We seek proposals from artists/ethnographers/artist-ethnographers for
inclusion of their work in this year’s exhibit.

The works exhibited in Ethnographic Terminalia emerge through a desire to produce art as a process or
product of research. As we demonstrated in the Ethnographic Terminalia 2009 exhibition, the
juxtaposition of works that bear nothing more in common than loose disciplinary or discursive
histories—languages of observation and description—produces what might be analogously seen as a
contemporary cabinet of curiosities. The works exist and generate their own logical structures as
autonomous units but they are also part of a larger collection, accruing and developing meaning
through proximity to other works. In this case the curatorial task of locating the various works in
the gallery is critical.

Call for Participation
We seek proposals for both solo and collaborative works that can be installed with a relatively small
footprint. Works can be in any medium: site-specific installation, painting, photography,
printmaking, sculpture, video art, film (short or long), etc. We may be able to accommodate
performance-based works this year in a separate gallery. We will consider proposals for works that
are either silent or that have an audio component contained by headphones. To date, Ethnographic
Terminalia 2010 will feature the works of Susan Hiller, Robert Willm, and Fiamma Montezemulo,
along with works by several local artists that will be featured in their own room at the DuMois
Gallery. With greater support from the American Anthropological Association, opening-night
sponsorship from Stella Artois, and more advance time to promote the event, Ethnographic Terminalia
2010 will be another unique opportunity to exhibit your work. (more…)

The AAA Annual Meeting online submission deadline is April 1, 2010 (5 p.m. EST)!!

Please make sure that everyone in your session (panelists, discussants, chairs, organizers, poster-makers, etc) is registered and has submitted her/his paper/poser title and abstract before this deadline!  This deadline is firm for all types of proposals now: paper/poster sessions, special events (including inno-vents), and workshops.

http://aaanet.org/meetings/Call-for-Papers.cfm

And please remember, if you would like your session to be reviewed by SVA, make sure to select us as the reviewing section.

Thanks,
Jenny Chio and Stephanie Takaragawa
2010 SVA Program Co-Chairs

This roundtable discussion is being organized by the SVA Ethics Committee to continue, deepen, and expand the critical reflections and dialogues on visual ethics. Highlighting this year’s theme of “Circulation”—including “what is at stake in these processes, and for whom; and what their consequences might be”—this session is intended to explore the ethical considerations implicated and involved in the intersections of images and circulation. Key issues raised in previous sessions (the 2007 AAA special event discussions and the 2008 and 2009 roundtables on visual ethics) that can be elaborated on, developed, or added to include: (a) negotiating representational authority; (b) the decontextualization/circulation of images (and the problem of lack of control); (c) presumed vs. actual outcomes of image display; (d) relations with and responsibilities toward research subjects/communities; (e) balancing privacy vs. publicity (depending on subjects’ wishes); (f) the importance of communication with and consent of subjects/communities at every stage of the research process; and (g) the collection and dissemination of visual materials within the context of globally expanding media savvy and presence.

The SVA Ethics Committee thus welcomes any proposals that can serve as focal cases for collaborative discussions of real-world ethical considerations and dilemmas faced by anthropologists (and others) working with, thinking about, and engaged in the circulation of visual data.

Those interested in participating should contact Jonathan S. Marion (jsmarion@gmail.com) as soon as possible, and by March 28th at the latest.

SVA members and others engaged in visual research projects are invited to submit proposals for the annual Visual Research Conference until March 27.  Directions for how to submit proposals and additional information about the conference can be found on the SVA website.  The March 27 deadline is a week extension that still provides time for the Visual Research Conference committee to review proposals before the AAA program deadline of April 1st.

2010 American Anthropological Association Meeting/ Society for Visual Anthropology

*”Perception, Production and Circulation: Sensory Ethnography through Media”*

Session Abstract:
This panel is organized by graduate students at Harvard University’s Sensory
Ethnography Lab in conjunction with the launch of a new academic journal of
sensory ethnography. Selected projects/papers will have the opportunity to
be published in the first edition of the Journal of Sensory Ethnography
(working title).

Through this panel we aim to recognize and problematize the relationship
between theoretical abstraction and material concreteness, to reimagine the
relationship between sensing, knowing, and thinking, and to reexamine the
implications of this for ethnographic media. “Sensory ethnography” holds
promises of engaged scholarship that explores the evocative and
representative, the affective and effective, the feeling and the meaning of
salient features of everyday life. (more…)

This panel for the 2010 AAA seeks to explore the ways in which contemporary aesthetic practices are interpreted and valued - where value is broadly construed. Labels such as contemporary, modern, fine, gallery, investment, high, blue chip, insider and so forth for art are all problematic in one way or another - we seek to investigate the various cultural dynamics that give rise to these categories.  We are particularly interested in aesthetic policies, practices and goods that might be used in the service of economic projects; the “value” and valuation of fine arts; and the ways in which aesthetics might underpin various facets of political economy.

Please send inquiries and abstracts to Susan Falls at sfalls@scad.edu

The Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia invites applications for up to 15 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows, to begin 1 July 2010. These positions enable innovative and collaborative teaching between Fellows and outstanding UBC professors.  The program will help to launch the careers of new scholars showing early promise as excellent university teachers and researchers. Each Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow will have opportunities to interact with UBC colleagues on teaching and research, as well as to be part of a cohort of early-career scholars sharing methods and exchanging ideas for excellent teaching.

One of the new Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow positions has been allocated to the UBC Department of Anthropology, which has strengths in a broad range of areas in anthropological archaeology; sociocultural anthropology (including medical and linguistic anthropology); and museum and visual anthropology (see http://www.anth.ubc.ca ). We invite applications from outstanding candidates in the areas of museum and/or visual anthropology. Depending on their area of specialization, the successful candidate will have access to the collections and research facilities of the new Centre for Cultural Research at the Museum of Anthropology (http://www.moa.ubc.ca ) and/or the Ethnographic Film Unit within the Department of Anthropology ( http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca/ ). (more…)

The deadline for consideration as a SVA invited session is coming up! Invited paper/poster session proposals must be submitted by email to the SVA Program Chairs by March 1, 2010.

2010 SVA Program Chairs:
Jenny Chio (Jenny.Chio@uts.edu.au)
Stephanie Takaragawa (takaraga@chapman.edu)

The benefits of invited status include: 1) guaranteed acceptance into the program (no waiting until August!); 2) priority consideration for the more “desirable” time slots during the meeting; and 3) promotion within the program as an invited session. (more…)

We are seeking papers for an interdisciplinary panel on “Aesthetic Representations of Political Violence” to be presented at the 2010 meetings of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans, Nov. 17-21, 2010.

Representations of political violence are often created and resurrected in various aesthetic forms to further particular social, political or economic across times and place. For example, theatrical performances or artistic creations romanticizing past violence can be used to normalize certain types of violent displays within the viewing community. The aesthetic forms that these representations take are often essential to creating an emotionally compelling narrative to galvanize the audience to adopt a particular perspective relating to local, national, or global issues. These representations also allow viewers a space to negotiate alternative interpretations of the depicted violence and its current relevance.

Please submit an abstract by March 10, 2010, to Jennifer Schlegel (jschlege@kutztown.edu) or Kim Shively (shively@kutztown.edu). (more…)

New Orleans, November 17-21, 2010

Dear Society for Visual Anthropology members,

As your program chairs for the 2010 Annual Meeting, we’d like to
remind you of the following upcoming deadlines and encourage everyone
to submit!  We are here to answer questions and provide advice on the
process, as necessary, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch
(Jenny.Chio@uts.edu.au and takaraga@chapman.edu). (more…)