TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL VISUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
San Jose Convention Center
November 13-15, 2006

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 (Scherer.Joanna@NMNH.SI.edu).

Monday, November 13
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 14

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 Jonathan Marion (UC-San Diego) "Seeing Salsa: Viewing, Aesthetics, and Values"

10:30 informal discussions

10:45 Amelia Guimarin (UC-Irvine) "Illustrating Identity: Body Piercing and Photography"

11:45  lunch

1:15pm Nancy Marie Mithlo (Smith College) "Being Indian, Playing Indian: The Visual Legacies of Horace Poolaw and Yeffe Kimball"

2:15 Audrey Amidon (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum) "Representing the Far North: Donald MacMillan's Films of Inuit Peoples"

3:15  informal discussions

3:30  Jack R. Rollwagen (SUNY-Brockport) "The Modular Information Cluster (MIC) Approach to Anthropological Filmmaking: The Example of Menu-Driven DVD 'The Song of the Grasslands'"

4:30 Monica L. Espinosa Arango (Puerto Rico-Arecibo) "Between Framing and Recalling: A Glimpse of Indigenous Memories"

6:00 p.m. dinner

Wednesday, November 15

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. Peter Biella, et al. (San Diego State) "A DV and a Place to Screen: Participatory Social Action in Visual Anthropology"

10:30 Kate Hennessy (British Columbia) "Repatriation, Digital Media, and Community Collaboration: The Doig River First Nation 'Dane wajich' Website Project"

11:30 informal discussions

11:45 Natasa Garic (Northern Arizona) "Applied Visual Anthropology and Digital Storytelling with Hopi Indian Traditional Teaching"

12:45 Guido Carlo Pigliasco (Hawaii) "The Sawau Project" 

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