Nineteenth Annual Visual Research Conference
 

Chicago, Hilton and Towers, November 18-19 2003

The Visual Research Conference took place on the Tuesday and Wednesday preceding the AAA meetings. There were ten excellent presentations, listed below. Conversations continued at lunch and dinner, and then at other SVA events and throughout the AAA meetings. Thomas D. Blakely (Pennsylvania State University) chaired and organized the Conference, assisted this year by SVA Board Members Rolf Husmann (Gottingen) and Marcelo Fiorini (Hofstra University). The Visual Research Conference is a wonderful way to meet and interact with others in the field. Members and non-members are welcome and there is no charge to attend. To see this year's Photo Gallery, click here.

This year's presenters were:

Lucas Britton Bessire (New York University)
Asking Ayahai?: Alternative Histories, Power Relations, and Representing the Sacred and the Repugnant Cultural Other

Sharon Dean (Cleveland Museum of Natural History)
Vision, Social Change, and the American West: The Photographs of Andrew A. Forbes (1862-1921)

Zachary Fink (University of Colorado and Harvard University), Marcelo Fiorini (Hofstra University)
Dead Birds Remastered: A First Look at a Forthcoming Double DVD Commemorating the Film's 40th Anniversary Retrospective

Cynthia A. Gray-Mash (University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair)
Documentary Process and Product as a Tool for Academic Inquiry and Change

Andrea M. Heckman (University of New Mexico)
Woven Stories: Visual Communication Through Andean Textiles and Rituals

Erik de Maaker (Leiden University)
Beyond Mnemonics? Interpreting Explorative Video Registrations of Garo Mortuary Rituals

Lucille Sherlick (University of Buffalo)
In Search of Peace: Israeli Women's Voices

Jean Dennison (University of Florida)
Displaced Identity: A Contemporary "Indian" Artist and the Construct of Native American Legitimacy

David Plath (University of Illinois) and Ron Toby (University of Illinois)
17th Century Japanese Paintings and Drawings: 'Preaching Material' in Premodern Folk Buddhism and Its Potentials for Visual Ethnography

Marcelo Fiorini (Hofstra University)
Mimesis in Cultural Contact, or What is Being Mediated in the Ethnographic (Film) Encounter
 

To see the photo gallery from the conference, click here.