TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL VISUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
November 29 - 30, 2005

PROGRAM
Submission forms for the 2006 Visual Research Conference will be available on the web in January. To read about previous conferences, click here.

The 2005 conference was a combined presentation of SVA and GAVA, the graduate association of visual anthropologists.

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Monday, November 28
7:00 pm Informal dinner: Conference presenters, SVA Officers, Board Members, and any interested Conference participants are welcome. Place: "to-be-announced" (perhaps a nearby Ethiopian or Malaysian restaurant). Meet near the hotel reservation desk.

Tuesday, November 29
9:00 am Welcome and Introduction, Thomas D. Blakely, Visual Research Conference Chair

9:20 Judy Piner, "Ethnographic Method or Just Plain Fun -- Using Digital Storytelling in Anthropological Research"

10:10 informal discussion

10:20 Cynthia Korpan, "Performing Cultural Identity: Dramatic Productions of Okanagan Legends"

11:10 informal discussion

11:20 Daniel J. Walsh, "The Palestine Poster: The Graphic Vocabulary of Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism. 1900-Present.

12.10 -1:45 Lunch at a nearby restaurant

1:45 Teresa Moyer, "Finding Perspective in the Photographs of Archeology in the Images of Louise Lawler"

2:35 Sara Elizabeth Perry, "Prehistoric Re-visions: New Ways of Picturing Archaeological Representations of the First Colonisations of New Territories"

3:30 Nina K. Muller-Schwarze, Introduction to photo exhibition and 'poster': "Diablos Rojos: The Buses of Panama"

3.35 Informal discussion

3:45 Jonathan S. Marion, "Presenting the Visual: Considerations from the World of Competitive Ballroom Dancing"

4:35 Jerome Crowder, "Short Time, Big Story -- 24 Hours of Exploring Life in Puno"

5:25 Summary and Announcements: Thomas D. Blakely

6:00 Adjournment for dinner

Wednesday, November 30
9:00 am Introduction and welcome: Thomas D. Blakely, Conference Chair

9:05 Rupert Cox, "Guns, God and Golden Screens -- Investigating Past and Present Images of the Namban 'Foreign Barbarian' Phenomenon in Japan"

9:55 Rolf Husmann, "Fascist or Fantastic? Leni Riefenstahl and the Visual Representation of the Nuba"

10:45 Informal discussion

10:50 Elizabeth Cartwright, "The Wizard of FCP*: Deconstructing the Visual Image via Non-linear Digital Editing Systems"

11:40 Kristen Congdon and Natalie Underberg, "Folkvine.org: Florida's Arts and Culture on the Web"

12:30 Informal discussion

12:40 David Plath and Ron Toby, "Cosmic Disc, the Kumano Mandala on DVD"

1:30 Concluding remarks: Thomas D. Blakely