> dear friends, fellows and acquaintances, please kindly forward  
> below call/upcoming event that may be of interest for many:

> Visual Activism and Social Justice

> ISA/TG05 Call for Session/Workshop Organizers
>
> Under the auspices of the International Sociological Association  
> Forum on Social Justice and Democratization, the Visual Sociology  
> Thematic Group (TG05) will hold its mid-term conference August 1-4,  
> 2012, in Buenos Aires, Argentina and will focus its session on  
> Visual Activism and Social
> Justice.
>
> In our sessions, we would like to both create the opportunity for a  
> sociological discussion of the meaning of Visual Activism and  
> Social Justice, and at the same time endeavour to democratize the  
> ways our knowledge and practices are produced and shared. Thus, we  
> welcome sessions that would focus on broad themes such as:
> visual sociology of/as activism; visualizing social justice; the  
> visualizable and the
> unvisualizable in political action; the history of the use of  
> images in activism, as well as sessions that focus more  
> specifically on such topics as the visual aspects of activism  
> related to sex, gender, sexualities, disability, ill-health, place,  
> migration, ethnicity, labor, colonialism, capitalism, and nationalism.
>
> In addition to regular academic sessions, we welcome ideas for  
> workshops that would serve as platforms for collaborations between  
> scholars, artists, and community activists. These workshops could  
> focus on themes such as: toolkits for visual activism; using visual  
> methods to promote social justice and raise awareness of social  
> injustices; the politics of aesthetics (and aesthetics of  
> politics); making power relations (in/)visible; ethics and data  
> collection and dissemination techniques in visual activism; and  
> visual techniques of/for collaboration.
>
>  Guidelines
>  If interested in organizing a session or a workshop for TG05 (or  
> co-organizing a session/workshop, either within TG05 or in  
> conjunction with another RC, WG or TG), TG05 members are invited to  
> submit a session or a workshop proposal to the Program Coordinator,  
> Regev Nathansohn ([log in to unmask]) by May 15, 2011.
>
> In this proposal, please include:
> - Session/Workshop title and a brief description of the focus of  
> the session/workshop.
> - Contact information for each (co-)organizer: name, institutional  
> affiliation (if
> any), postal address, e-mail, Skype, phone, fax.
>
> If the proposal is for a joint session/workshop with another RC,  
> WG, or TG please indicate this clearly. Agreement of both groups  
> will be required for inclusion as a joint session in the TG05  
> program, and a member of each participating unit will normally be  
> (co-)organizer of the session. The proposal will be submitted to  
> (and probably discussed in advance with) both Program Coordinators.
>
> Based on its size, TG05 has been allocated 10 sessions, including  
> our business meeting and any joint sessions in which we may wish to  
> participate. Once the overall structure of sessions and workshops  
> for the TG05 program has been determined by the TG05 Program  
> Committee, there will be a call for papers, issued centrally, by  
> July 15, 2011. Thus, normally the participants in a session should
> not be pre-determined by the session (co-)organizer. A session  
> chair does not have to be the same person as the session (co-) 
> organizer. For workshops, please indicate who, besides academics,  
> the prospective participants should be.
>
> NOTE: In accordance with ISA Forum regulations, a person may not  
> present in a session of which s/he is chair, and no one (except for  
> Program Coordinators and session (co)-organizers) may be in the  
> Forum program more than twice (e.g. as author, co-author,  
> discussant, plenary speaker, session (co-)chair, critic, roundtable  
> presenter, poster presenter). All participants must be registered  
> by the early registration deadline of April 10, 2012 in order for  
> their names to appear in the
> Program Book or in the Abstracts Book. Sessions may be organized in  
> English or in Spanish, but due to budget constraints we will  
> unfortunately be unable to provide simultaneous or sequential
> interpretation. The TG05 organizers may be able to assist with some  
> more informal measures to facilitate communication across language  
> lines (such as the provision of translated outlines).
>
> We eagerly await your session/workshop proposals – by May 15, 2011!
>
> The TG05 Program Committee for 2012 Forum:
> Regev Nathansohn (TG05 President and Program Coordinator), Arianna  
> Mencaroni, Christian von Wissel, EJ Milne, Gabry Vanderveen, Jerome  
> Krase, Maciej Frąckowiak, Maru Martinez, Ruth Bartlett, Valentina  
> Anzoise

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