Visual Cultures

It’s on! All you have to know about the visual culture section at this year’s ECREA conference in Brno: WEDNESDAYInformal hang out on Wednesday to continue our conversations from the preconference in Vienna and just to catch up and have a good time:Wednesday 9 September 2026, from 5.30 onwardsPivnice Na Solnici, Solniční 145/8, 602 00…

Check out the final updates in the programme – see you on Monday!

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…