Visual Cultures

The programme for our ECC pre-conference “Harmful Visuals” is now online – it will take place on 7 September 2026 in Vienna, in collaboration with the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. You can now register to participate.

Visual media increasingly shape how harm is produced, circulated, and contested across intimate and public domains. This preconference invites critical engagement with harmful visual practices, cultures, and infrastructures in times of social and technological change. We welcome contributions examining visual ethics, regulation, pedagogies, and witnessing across diverse visual and multimodal formats. Find the Call for…

This year, we are organizing a one-day-online conference – find out more and join us to see through complexity!

Bring a Challenge to our show & tell in visual research and teaching! This event will be an informal exchange of ideas, in which you share with others a challenge you are currently facing in your visual work, using an example (e.g. a picture/ video/ snippet/ case). No abstract required; you can share your challenge/idea…

We welcome Suay Özkula as new Vice-Chair and Grace Omondi as our YECREA representative! Learn more about them here.

We are looking forward to seeing many section members very soon at the ECC conference in Ljubljana, yay! Here are some recommendations and helpful hints for you to plan and prepare your conference journey: 2. Informal Section Meet-Up Wednesday 25. September, 18.30h at Lajbah Please join us for a chat, to catch-up and hangout at…

Very proud to announce that the beautiful JDSR Special Issue double-feature “Methods in Visual Politics and Protest” edited by our awesome section members Suay Oz, Tom Divon, Hadas Schlussel and Danka Ninkovic Slavnic has just been published! The special issue was developed based on our section’s online preconference in 2022, and we are very thankful to our colleagues for their hard…

We are happy to share the preliminary Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body programme – register now and join us in Lisbon!