2023 Visual Research Conference call for submissions
The Visual Research Conference will take place on November 13-14, 2023 in Toronto, Canada at the American Anthropological Association meeting. An informal no-host meet and greet dinner will take place Monday night. Interactive in-person presentations will be scheduled Tuesday and Wednesday, with the possibility of online presentations in this arena. We also welcome a limited number of physical installations in the conference space as extensions of conference presentations. This schedule provides flexibility in attendance and time between presentations to attend to work, view installations, and to meet informally with other participants.
The Visual Research Conference provides an opportunity for professionals and students to dialogue about visually engaged works-in-progress. There are no specific themes to follow, though we are most interested in new ideas and projects under development in the study of visual signification, visual communication, and visual forms of representation, and/or utilizing visual media including but not limited to photography, film, video, and web-based polymedia, intermedia, multimodal media. Forty-minute time slots allow for substantive presentations that include viewing of media as well as ample give-and-take with an actively participating audience. Further discussion takes place after presentations for networking and exchange of ideas.
Members and non-members of the American Anthropological Association and Society for Visual Anthropology are welcome and there is no charge to attend. This is a productive way to meet and interact with others who do anthropological and anthropologically-related visual research.
Abstracts should be approximately 250 words. For proposals that include an installation, you may describe the installation and its space and technical requirements for a total abstract of 500 words, as well as an additional page of images or links to the work. Please submit to the form here: https://www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/visual-research-conference. Submissions accepted through 11:59pm, Hawai’i Time, May 1, 2023.
