IVSA News

We invite practitioners, artists and scholars from around the world to contribute to the 2027 IVSA Conference, A Dance of Perception: The Symbiosis of Image and Sound. Submissions should explore how image and sound intertwine to shape meaning, emotion, identity, memory and our understanding of social life, drawing on diverse disciplinary, methodological and cultural perspectives. Proposals are welcomed for papers, workshops, posters, exhibition installations and films, with participation from practice-led and early career researchers particularly encouraged. Read the full Call for Submissions for details of the conference themes, submission formats, requirements and key dates.

2026 marks the IVSA’s 40th anniversary! To celebrate, we would like to support and promote an international series of activities and workshops devoted to Visual Studies and Visual Sociology, to be run throughout 2026.

We are writing with the unexpected and disappointing news that due to logistical circumstances outside of their control, the local conference team for IVSA Sicily 2026 is sadly unable to deliver our conference next June as planned.