Twenty-third Annual
VISUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, DC
November 26- 28, 2007

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
(This program is subject to change up to November 19, 2007.)

To read about previous conferences, click here.

See the SVA paper program or film festival program.
 

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This Conference emphasizes interaction and discussion among those who are presenting their research and an actively participating audience. Anyone interested in anthropological inquiry concerning visual signification, interpretation, and communication is welcome to attend. For more information, contact Thomas D. Blakely (tdb5@psu.edu, tdBlakely@aol.com) or Joanna Cohan Scherer (schererj@si.edu).

Monday, November 26
7:00 pm Informal no-host dinner: Conference presenters, SVA Officers, Board Members, and any interested Conference participants are welcome. Place: "to-be-announced" . Meet near the Marriott hotel reservation desk.

Tuesday, November 27

9:00 - 6:00

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction, Thomas D. Blakely (Penn State) and Joanna Cohan Scherer (Smithsonian), Visual Research Conference Co-Chairs

9:15  Tereza Porybna (Charles Univ., Prague) "Film and Imagination: Representations of the Inuit Culture in Visual Media"

10:20  Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins) "Cinematic Landscape as Visual Artifact: On the Production of the Foreign in South Indian Cinema"

10:30  informal discussions

10:40  Mark Westmoreland (Texas - Austin) "Lebanese Documentary in the Intersection of Art and (Auto)ethnography"

11:30  lunch break

1:00pm  Kathryn Harriman (Univ. of Aberdeen, Scotland) "Telling Crafty Ethnography"

1:50 informal discussions

2:00  Wes Jones, Ryan Layden, Chris Morissette, and Jonathan Marion (Cal State, San Marcos) "'The Essence of the Slide': Seeing Surfing as Activity Based Visual Signs and Norms"

3:00 informal discussions

3:15 Jenny Chio (Cal - Berkeley) "Know Yourself: Making the Visual Work in Tourism Research"

4:15 Katarzyna Grabska (Inst. of Development Studies, Univ. of Sussex) " Visualizing Speaking: Messages Across Borders and the Researcher"

6:00pm  no-host dinner

Wednesday, November 28

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction, Thomas D. Blakely and Joanna Cohan Scherer, Visual Research Conference Co-Chairs

9:10 a.m. Anne Zeller (Waterloo) "Object Use, 'Tool Use', and 'Tool Making' among Three Species of Macaque Monkeys"

10:00 informal discussions

10:10 Jess Ambiee (South Florida) "'We Need Doctors, Stat!': Analyzing Physician Volunteerism through Applied Visual Anthropology"

11:00 informal discussions

11:10 Masami Takahashi (Northeastern Illinois) "Last Kamikaze: Testimonials from WWII Suicide Pilots"

1:45 Concluding remarks: Thomas D. Blakely and Joanna Cohan Scherer, Visual Research Conference Co-Chairs