THE SOCIAL is the International Association for Visual Culture biennial conference that will take place at Boston University. IAVC2016@Boston invites papers, presentations, interventions, collaborations, and events from researchers, artists, academics, curators, and activists on post- democracy, post-society, anger, violence, future visions, crisis, zombie democracies, social media, neo-slavery, post-capitalism, post-data, social evolution, revolution, actionism, post-state, interventionism, cannibalizing corporativism, post- colonialism, economic vampirism, neo-serfs, globalized thievery, art activism, red art, insurrectional art and social exploitation.
Confirmed keynotes for the conference are: Confirmed keynotes: Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam) http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/2016/03/mieke-bal/ , Vincent Brown (Harvard University), Vera Ingrid Grant (Harvard University), and Nicholas Mirzeoff (NYU) http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/2016/03/nicholas-mirzoeff-the-social/ .
The call for papers is available here http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/2016/03/the-social/
3 Travel Fellowships of $1500 here http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/2016/03/clarck-institute-travel-fellowship/
The Graduate Symposium information is here http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/2016/03/graduate-forum-the-social/
Facebook event page here https://www.facebook.com/events/1624421197797477/
The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2016.