[Commlist] CFP Preconference ICA: Decolonizing the Visual: Community, Memory, and Resistance

CFP Preconference ICA: Decolonizing the Visual: Community, Memory, and 
Resistance


https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/conference/2026/ica26-pc-visual-updated.pdf 
<https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/conference/2026/ica26-pc-visual-updated.pdf>

This preconf brings together scholars, artists, activists, and community 
practitioners working with videos, images, sounds, platforms, archives, 
and visual storytelling in contexts shaped by colonial histories, 
conflict, displacement, and structural inequality. At its core, our 
preconf centers on the urgent question: who gets to be seen, remembered, 
and believed in today’s distrusted visual worlds?

We welcome work that engages a broad range of issues, including visual 
activism, testimony, community archiving, platformed witnessing, memory 
and erasure, algorithmic visibility, and decolonial audiovisual methods. 
We wish to create a space for thinking together about how communities 
use visual practices to reclaim history, tell their own stories, and 
challenge dominant ways of seeing and believing.

Please note that the submission details in the full CFP are *outdated*. 
The current submission guidelines are as follows:

*Formats*
-> Research Presentations - Extended abstracts of up to 1,000 words 
(excluding references); submissions should clearly articulate the 
research focus; follow a coherent structure of your choice; explicitly 
state the contribution of the work; include author(s) names, 
affiliation, and academic status.

-> Interactive Roundtable on Decolonizing Visual Communication Methods 
and Practices - Short proposals of up to 500 words (excluding 
references) outlining a central theme or provocation; submissions should 
clearly articulate key questions, tensions, or challenges related to 
decolonizing visual communication; emphasize dialogue, collective 
reflection, and methodological experimentation rather than completed 
research; indicate the intended format and level of audience 
participation; and include the facilitator's affiliation and academic or 
professional status.

*Submission details*
*Deadline*: March 15, 2026
*Notification of acceptance*: April 1, 2026
*Submit* *to*: (ashley.stewart /at/ uniport.edu.ng) 
<mailto:(ashley.stewart /at/ uniport.edu.ng)> + (tom.divon /at/ mail.huji.ac.il) 
<mailto:(tom.divon /at/ mail.huji.ac.il)>


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