SVA Call for Papers, Posters, Sessions, Films, Videos and Multimedia

The Society for Visual Anthropology invites submissions for the American Anthropological Association’s 105th Annual Meeting (”Critical Intersections/Dangerous Issues”) to be held in San Jose, CA, Nov 15-19, 2006. The deadline for submissions of any format is March 31st. Submissions for the AAA Conference must also be sent via electronic submission forms located at the AAA website: www.aaanet.org There will be two distinct areas at the AAA website for entering submission information: one for films, videos and multimedia and one for individually volunteered and organized papers and posters. Please indicate that you wish SVA to review your submission if you are submitting to the AAA conference.

The SVA encourages proposals for AAA organized sessions in a variety of formats. Individually volunteered posters and papers are also welcome. Coordinators of volunteered, organized sessions are encouraged to consider a single session of 1.75 hours or a double session of 3.75 hours. Panel discussions, author critique forums, or a combination of presenters and discussants are forms that may encourage greater audience interaction, an outcome that is highly valued by many meeting participants, according to AAA survey results. Organized poster sessions and individually volunteered posters and papers are also welcome. Poster presenters have the advantage of a two hour block of time to talk one on one with interested attendees. The annual meeting area of the AAA website includes a set of guidelines for creating posters and a list of benefits for presenting in that format. Many visual anthropology projects lend themselves well to a poster format.

For further information about the Society for Visual Anthropology, please visit the SVA website, http://www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/ .

(IDC) is a new, timed filmmaking competition developed by KDHX, Saint Louis Community Media, in cooperation with the International Documentary Association (IDA) and the creators of the 48 Hour Film Project and the National Film Challenge.

The Premise Filmmaking teams have just over five days to make a short documentary (4-8 mins). All creativity - research, writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack - must occur beginning Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 7 p.m. and ending Monday, March 27, 2006. On Wednesday, to make things interesting, each team is emailed a genre for its film, be it Character Study, 1st Person, Experimental, etc. In addition, all filmmakers will be given a broad theme (such as “Peace”) that must be addressed at some point in their film. To ensure the films were made within the required time frame, each team must prove the date the film was made by adding a time element to the film or credits (such as the main subject holding a newspaper.) Then the film must be sent to IDC Headquarters with a postmark no later than Monday. The top films (determined by a panel of judges) will screen in association with SilverDocs at The AFI Silver Theatre where the Grand Prize Winner will be announced. After the premiere, their will be additional theatrical screenings in major cities, possible television exposure and eventually the top films will be available for viewing and voting on documentarychallenge.org to determine the Audience Award Winner.

Every documentary film completed within the IDC rules, and within the competition period, will be eligible for prizes and judging.

For more information, e-mail the Producer of the International Documentary Challenge at info@documentarychallenge.org.

The Columbia University Historic Preservation Lecture Series - “inQuiry:HP” presents:

“Qudad – Reinventing A Tradition”
a film by Caterina Borelli
58 min., 2004

This film…records the reinvention of qudad but also documents the sheer delight and satisfaction of the master craftsmen and tradesmen who proudly describe each significant aspect of the individual contribution to this building restoration process… — Kevin M. Paulus, MESA Bulletin 38/2, 2004

Monday, February 20, 7PM at Columbia University, East Gallery, Buell Hall. Enter the Columbia Campus at 116 street and Broadway. Buell Hall is behind Low Memorial Library and between St. Paul’s Chapel and Kent.