The Visual Research Conference will take place in Washington, DC this year, November 27-29 at the beginning of the American Anthropological Association meeting. An informal no-host dinner takes place on Monday night and interactive presentations take place all day Tuesday and until 3pm on Wednesday. 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 (photo, film, web, polymedia, intermedia, multimodal media). Forty minute time slots allow for substantive presentations that include viewing of visual material as well as ample give-and-take with an actively participating audience. Further discussion takes place during poster presentations. Many informal discussion periods between the interactive formal presentations, plus conversations at lunch and dinner, create multiple situations 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 of approximately 250-500 words can be submitted through 11:59pm, Hawai’i Time, March 26, 2017 by clicking on the Visual Research Conference submission form link HERE.
PLEASE NOTE: this Visual Research Conference submission deadline on March 26 is EARLIER than the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting submission deadline on April 14, so that the Visual Research Conference organizing committee has time to carefully review the submissions and invite the 2017 presenters.
For more information on the format of this lively event and how to submit a presentation contact Dr. Tom Blakely (tdblakely@aol.com), Dr. Andrea Heckman (andreaheckman@earthlink.net), or Dr. Jerome Crowder (jecrowde@utmb.edu).
You are receiving this email announcement because you have attended, or have participated in, the Visual Research Conference over the past three years.