NOVEMBER 18th

 9:30-9:45 Introductions and Welcome

9:45-10:30 Brian Young (UCLA)
Project Title: Multispecies Ethnography, Art, and Virtual Reality inBhutanese Highland Ecosystems.

 10:40-11:25 Ashley May (Brown University)
Project Title: Signifyin’ Blackhood in Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Golden Bandit”: Or, Notes for the Revolution that is here.

 11:30-11:40 Break

 11:40-12:25 Aiko Dzikowski (UCLA)
Project Title: Japanese American Princess

 12:30-1:15 William Lempert (Bowdoin College)
Project Title: Timelines: Honoring Vision in Posthumous Documentary Film Editing.

 1:15-2:30 Lunch

 2:30-3:15 Dafina Gashi (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Project Title: Beauty Practices and the Pursuit of Belonging Among Young Women in Post-Independence Kosovo.

 3:20-4:05 Lydia Donohue (University of Manchester)
Project Title: Tactile Fieldnotes

 4:10-4:55 Andrew Cambron and Georgina Ramsay (University of Delaware)
Project Title: Driven: Refugee Resettlement and the American Dream

NOVEMBER 19th

 9:30-9:40 Introductions

 9:45-10:25 Max Bowens (Harvard)
Project Title: Male Fantasies: Bodycams and White Terror in the American Midwest.

 10:30-11:15 Suraiya Luecke (UCLA)
Project Title: Collaborative Underwater Elicitation: Bridging Environment and Experience in Blue Spaces.

11:20-11:30 Break

 11:30-12:15 Jacoub Reyes (Brown University)
Project Title: Eco: Al-Andalus Amalgam

 12:20 Conclusion

VRC program organizers: Jerome Crowder, Liz Cartwright, Gaurav Datta, Steve Moog, David Syring, Kate Hennessy, Stephanie Takaragawa

Social Media Intern: Sienna Ruiz

VRC 2024 ACCEPTED PRESENTATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS

9:30-9:45 Introductions and Welcome

First Day Presentations-TUESDAY

9:45-10:25 Alesandra Tatic(University of Barcelona) Project Title : Invisible Roots: The Journey of Our Food

10:30-11:10 Sienna Ruiz,  Suraiya Luecke (UCLA). Project Title Abstracting the Body: Using compounding artistic practices to explore embodied experiences

11:10-11:25 BREAK

11:25-12:05 Ryan Christopher Jones (Harvard) and Daisy Hunter-Haydon (Harvard) Project Title : ‘It’s just too many people’: Excess and Density in news photography of ‘the migrant crisis’

12:10-12:50 Installation Talks 1 & 2 (20 MINUTES each)

1. Magda Mankel (Independent) Project Title : Interstitial Witness

2. Miles Jordan (Louisiana State University)  Project Title : 504-907: A Daily Visual Comparison of America's Climate Extremes of New Orleans, LA and Fairbanks, AK

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:10-2:50 Installation Talk 3 & 4 (20 MINUTES each)

3. Chunyan Zhan (University of Southern California) Project Title : Tales of the Home of Dragon

4. Andreas Kleanthous (University of Amsterdam) Project Title : Black Boxes Shining Light: A possible story of Artificial Intelligence

3:00-3:40 Riddhi Pandey(Department of Anthropology and Sociology) Project Title : Visual Imprints of Policing

3:45-4:25 Ina Alice Danila (Bucharest National University of Arts) Project Title : Mobility in the Family Album: The case of Romanian-born Americans

SECOND DAY PRESENTATIONS-WEDNESDAY

9:30-9:40 Introductions

9:45-10:25  Anshul Roy  (Syracuse University) Project Title : RAGE AGAINST THE ARCHIVE: Institutional Critique through New Media Art

10:30-11:10 Ankita Reddy  (University of Pennsylvania) Project Title : Imag(in)ing Bodies: Computer Vision, AI, and Visual Evidence-Making in U.S. Medicine

11:10-11:25 BREAK

11:25-12:05 Nell Haynes  (Saint Mary's College) Project Title : Valuing Art in the Era of AI

12:10-12:50 Discussion

1:00 It’s a Wrap!

Tuesday Nov. 14th

9:30–9:45 Introduction and Welcome

9:45–10:25 Rosemary Georgeson (Coast-Salish / Sahtu Dene), Jessica Hallenbeck(Queen's U), and Kate Hennessy (Simon Fraser U) - The Water We Call Home:Indigenous women’s connections to fish, water, and family around the Salish Sea

10:30-11:10 Camilo Leon-Quijano (Aix-Marseille U (IDEAS/ANFAA). La Cité

11:10-11:25 BREAK

11:25-12:05 Brandon Perdomo (Columbia U) - /testimonyofthebody 

12:10-12:50 Installation Talks 1

1) Chantal Meng (Goldsmiths, U of London & NSSR) – Shadow Typology

2) Sienna Ruiz (Washington U. St. Louis, UCLA), Dionisia Ruiz (Independent), and 

Jean Hunleth (Washington U. St. Louis) – Visualizing Public Anthropology: 

Zines and Extended Possibilities for Visual Methods

1–2:30 LUNCH

2:30-2:50 Installation Talks 2

1) Elin Linder (Stockholm U) – Sensuous Exploration of Local Arts Making Olive Oilfrom Millennial Trees 

2) Emily Ragus (U of Amsterdam) and Jess Coldrey (Independent) – Injury and HealingWithin Space: Representation of Flooding Impacts and South Africa

3-3:40 Maria Fernanda Carrillo (Universidad Autonoma de Mexico UNAM) - 

Reparation documentary as a process: archives and collaborative documentary 

at Bojaya, Colombia

3:45-4:25 Jennifer Su (U of Toronto) - “Paid per view”: YouTube monetization asdigital piecework in Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora

4:30-5:30 Installation viewing time and mixing

Wed. Nov. 15th

9:30-9:40 Introductions

9:45-10:25 VRC Discussion Forum - Visual Research Conference Futures

10:30-11:10 Reese Muntean (Simon Fraser U) - Photographic Explorations of theMultimodal

11:10-Noon BREAK and installation viewing

12-12:40 Anuja Mukherjee (CUNY Graduate Center) - Ghosts of the Future's Past :Documenting Photo Studios in Kolkata

12:45-1:25 Vineet Gairola (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad) - Worship inTransition: An Encounter with the Rājrājeshwarī Devī of the Garhwal Himalaya

Conclusion

Tues. Nov. 8th

9:30-9:40 Introductions

9:45-10:25 VRC Discussion Forum - Visual Research Conference Futures

10:30-11:10 Reese Muntean (Simon Fraser U) - Photographic Explorations of theMultimodal

11:10-Noon BREAK and installation viewing

12-12:40 Anuja Mukherjee (CUNY Graduate Center) - Ghosts of the Future's Past :Documenting Photo Studios in Kolkata

12:45-1:25 Vineet Gairola (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad) - Worship inTransition: An Encounter with the Rājrājeshwarī Devī of the Garhwal Himalaya

Conclusion

Wed. Nov. 9th

9–9:15 Introduction

9:15–9:55 Taylor R. Genovese (Arizona State University) Wandering Through the Land of Sunflowers and Steel: A Visual and Sonic Exploration of Ukraine on the Eve of War

10–10:40 Ash Marinaccio (CUNY Graduate) Rehearsing the Revolution: Process, Politics, and Identity Formation in Nonfiction Theatre–Making in Areas of War and Conflict

10:45–11:15 BREAK

11:15–12:15 Installation presentations

12:15–12:55 Bremen Donovan (University of Virginia) Ambiguity and Entwined Temporalities in Big Mouth

1–2 OPEN DISCUSSION

The 2021 Visual Research Conference took place online November 11-13, 2021 the week before the American Anthropological Association meeting. Interactive presentations are scheduled Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  As many of our participants are from the EU, presentations will be from 10am-1 pm Pacific Time. No registration needed!

Schedule

Thursday
Nov 11

1. Camilo Leon-Quijano
   “The Fume of Sighs: The Performativity of a Photographic Ethnography of Loss and Grief”

2. Vanessa Winjngaarden
   “Behind the scenes of Maasai Speak Back: Reflexive dialogues, questions and (dis)agreements in co-creation”

3. Amir Lehman
   “Between Secrecy and Recognition: The Semiotics of Ecstasy Brands”

Friday
Nov 12

1. Lucy Hunt
   “Drawing (across) borders: Reflections on the use of creative visual communication in ethnographic research with/for young refugees”

2. Raphaelle Bessette
   “The feelings of breast and torso surgery: audiovisual explorations”

3. Cathy Greenhalgh
   “Collage as a Visual Anthropology Research Method: ‘Covid Collage Chronicles”

Saturday
Nov 13

1. Alexandra Tomkins
   “Visual Anthropology, Deaf Epistemologies and Creative Play: Co-creating Inclusive Pedagogical Practices with Deaf Children in Uganda”

2. Manca Filak
   “Being a parent, being a protagonist: Everydayness and intimacy in visual ethnography”

3. Gaurav Datta
   “Portraits of Care in a Hospice”