EVENTS
VRSC Annual Conference Aims:
- To bring together an interdisciplinary community of students, researchers, scholars, artists, and practitioners conducting visual research that aims to reveal, recognize, and re-center the voices, perspectives, and experiences of traditionally marginalized groups.
- To promote critical-activist work as a means of public engagement, to work toward social justice, and to foster a trans-disciplinary forum for social change, enabling marginalized voices, perspectives, and views to come center stage.
- To engage with and promote visual storytelling of local communities, museums, galleries, schools, artists, and practitioners that will have significant potential for creating a translational impact on social change.
Annual Conferences
2021 Visual Research for Social Change Conference Day 1
2021 Visual Research for Social Change Conference Day 2
Visual Research for Social Change
Ethical Issues in Visual Research
The Visual Research Center and the Media and Social Change Lab (MASCLab) are calling for abstracts to be submitted for their annual Visual Research for Social Change Conference taking place on April 23, 2020.
Visual Research for Social Change
Visual Storytelling for Social Justice & Social Change - April 23, 2019
The Visual Research Center and the Media & Social Change Lab present the Visual Research for Social Change Conference. The theme for the 2019 graduate student conference was Visual Storytelling for Social Justice & Social Change. This conference examined the importance of voices and dialogue around social justice and social change. It shed light on discussions and research centered around marginalized groups, social inequalities, and education through multiple mediums of visual media, art, and education.
Visual Research for Social Change
Graduate Student Conference - April 18, 2018
The Visual Research Center and the Media & Social Change Lab present the Visual Research for Social Change Conference. This conference is the first of many collaborations that showcased innovative research from students, artists and practioners across various discplines nad instiutions. The conference took place April 18th in the Smith Learning Theater at Teachers College, Columbia University.
VRC Monthly Gatherings
This event is a friendly, welcoming, and supportive social space in which faculty and students come together to share innovative visual-driven research with a commitment to social justice and social change. Our Happy Hour is organized in collaboration with MASCLab and Center on History and Education.
Brown Bag Lunch at Walls-Ortiz Gallery
Visual Research for Social Change Happy Hour (September 25, 2019)
Visual Research for Social Change Happy Hour (October 25, 2019)
Visual Research for Social Change Happy Hour (December 4, 2019)
Visual Research for Social Change Happy Lunch Around the World