Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC57 Visual Sociology

Program Coordinators: Luc PAUWELS (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Carolina CAMBRE (Concordia University, Canada)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Visual Methods in the Context of Digital Infrastructures and Practices
Session Organizers: Luc PAUWELS and Marina CIAMPI

11:00-12:45

Vandalism As Social Protest: Reconfigurations of Space and Subjectivity
Session Organizer: Carolina CAMBRE

13:00-14:45

For a Visual Culture of (and from) the Sky
Session Organizer: Paolo FAVERO

15:00-16:45

Visual Studies: A Social Scientific Perspective
Session Organizer: Asko LEHMUSKALLIO

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

New Methdological Approaches in the Study of Religion
Session Organizer: Olga OLIVAS HERNANDEZ

Visualizing Silenced Cultures of Colonialism: Reflections from Italy and Beyond
Session Organizers: Annalisa FRISINA, Marina CIAMPI and Paolo FAVERO

11:00-12:45

Photographic Cultures and Visual Research Practices in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Session Organizer: Luc PAUWELS

The Digital Turn in the Arts: Ethnographic Methods and Artistic Practices
Session Organizers: Dafne MUNTANYOLA-SAURA and Fernán DEL VAL

13:00-14:45

Artistic Practices and Creative Formats for Executing and Presenting Visual (Action) Research.
Session Organizer: Luc PAUWELS

19:00-20:30

RC57 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Visual Elicitation and Abduction: A Way to Support Diversity of Interpretation
Session Organizer: Mathias BLANC

11:00-12:45

Pathways of Collaborative Visual Research
Session Organizers: Piotr GOLDSTEIN and Magdalena NOWICKA

13:00-14:45

Anthropocene Imaginaries. Visualizing the Anthropocene in Digital Media
Session Organizers: Anne SONNENMOSER, Paul DISTLER and Thore ZIELKE
Chair: Michael Rudolf MUELLER

15:00-16:45

Visual Sociology and the Making of Borders, Identities and Communities in the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Ingrid BAMBERG

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

On Drawing, Painting and Graphic Visualization As Research Methods
Session Organizers: Tito MARCI, John GRADY and Paolo FAVERO

11:00-12:45

On Drawing, Painting and Graphic Visualization As Research Methods, Part II
Session Organizers: John GRADY and Tito MARCI

13:00-14:45

Cinematic Narratives As Sociological Inquiry: The Role of Fiction and Non-Fiction Filmmaking in Visual Sociology
Session Organizer: Iakovos PANAGOPOULOS

15:00-16:45

Cinematic Narratives As Sociological Inquiry: The Role of Fiction and Non-Fiction Filmmaking in Visual Sociology, Part II
Session Organizer: Iakovos PANAGOPOULOS

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

The Visuality of Humanitarian Crises in the Age of Social Media
Session Organizers: Alice MASSARI and Carolina CAMBRE

11:00-12:45

Reframing Documentation, Representation, Visibility, and Legibility: Documentary Film and Marginalized Embodiment
Session Organizer: Magdalena HUTTER

13:00-14:45

Mapping Visual Research about Collaborative and Democratic Forms of Teaching and Learning
Session Organizers: Analia MEO, Sarah WILSON and Ana Ines HERAS

Visual Art and the Mediation of Climate Change Issues Beyond Populism: The Aesthetic Calculation of Global-Local Publics
Session Organizers: Anna SCHOBER, Martina TRITTHART and Florian GUCHER
Chair: Anna SCHOBER

15:00-16:45

Visualizing Youth Solidarity Actions: Visual Sociology and Young People's Altruism in Times of Uncertainty
Session Organizers: Marina CIAMPI, Silvia CATALDI and William CALVO-QUIROS