Visual Studies Platform at CEU

Submissions for the 2027 Current Anthropology Visual Anthropology Competition are Now Open

Current Anthropology

Jun 15, 2026

Please submit 1-3 images (entries may draw on a range of media, including but not limited to photographs, 3D scans, diagrams, technical drawings, graphic ethnography, etc.) along with a 250-400 word descriptive and/or analytical caption for the body of work as a whole. The submission should include both the visual component and a caption that points to the unifying theme, theoretical interest, and aesthetic approach of the body of media files. This caption should be 250-400 words in length, excluding references and endnotes. Information on acceptable figure formats can be found on the CA manuscript preparation page. Visual competition entries should conform to the highest standards for research ethics and practice.

The deadline for 2027 contest submissions is September 15, 2026.

Submissions for the 2027 Current Anthropology Visual Anthropology Competition are now open The deadline for 2027 contest submissions is September 15, 2026.

Call for Visual Artists - might be an interesting opportunity for you! (English below.)
https://www.ceu.edu/news/2025-10/ceu-35th-anniversary-public-art-commission-call-artist-proposals

CEU 35 – Nyilvános művészeti pályázat alkotóknak

A CEU nyilvános művészeti pályázatot hirdet 35. évfordulója alkalmából. Olyan merész és inspiráló köztéri műalkotás megvalósítására keresünk alkotókat, amely a közösség, a reziliencia és a kritikai gondolkodás eszméit jeleníti meg, és a CEU történetéhez, valamint jövőképéhez kapcsolódik.

📍 A kiválasztott műalkotás a bécsi Quellenstrasse campus homlokzatán vagy az épület előtt kap helyet, és az évfordulós rendezvények kiemelt eleme lesz.

👉 Részletek és pályázati felhívás: https://www.ceu.edu/news/2025-10/ceu-35th-anniversary-public-art-commission-call-artist-proposals

CEU 35 – Public Art Commission: Call for Artist Proposals

To mark its 35th anniversary, CEU invites visual artists to propose a bold and inspiring public artwork that captures the university’s spirit of resilience, dialogue, and transformation and celebrating both CEU’s past and future.

📍 The selected artwork will be installed on the façade or in front of the CEU Quellenstrasse campus in Vienna, and will be a central element of the anniversary celebrations.

👉 Full call and details: https://www.ceu.edu/news/2025-10/ceu-35th-anniversary-public-art-commission-call-artist-proposals

Professor Khadija Zinnenburg Carroll's and Repatriates Project activities 'Eternos Retornos' during the WienWoche Sept 13, 2025.

Interesting Film Festival this weekend; organized at University of Vienna. Check it out!

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ANTHROFUTURE Film Festival
13-14 June, 2025
Hörsaal A, NIG

The ANTHROFUTURE Film Festival explores the potential of filmmaking as a research method to investigate experiences of time and temporality, especially people’s orientations towards the future and their practices of future-making in the present. How can people’s relations with the time and the future be investigated? How can they be represented in cinematographic form? The festival showcases attempts to carve out new lives in virtual and material worlds, addressing hopes and dreams as well as protests, violence, and attempts to reconstruct memories. It includes films made by anthropologists, artists, and documentary filmmakers.

Day 1, Friday 13 June
13:00 – 15:30 Decolonization and the Moving Image
Otjozondjupa (Waterberg) by Forensic Architecture
Dahomey by Mati Diop
16:00 – 19:00 Youth, Activism & Education
A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia

Day 2, Saturday 14 June
10:00-12:45 Memory and Mobility
Cool Memories of Remote Gods by Mochu
Horror in the Andes by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
It Was Tomorrow by Alexandra D’Onofrio
13:45-16:30 Imaginaries and Speculation
Affiorare by Rosella Schillaci
Moskitos by Susana Ojeda
Painted Diagram of a Future Voyage (Who Believes the Lens?) by Mochu
A Terrible Beauty by Iram Ghufran
17:00-19:30 Representing Virtual Worlds
Knit’s Island by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’Helgoualc’h (France, 2023), 95 min.

Information about the films: https://www.anthrofuture.com/film-festival

You find the poster and flyer attached.

All films are screened in the original language with English subtitles.

No registration is required.

The ANTHROFUTURE Film Festival is part of the research project The Anthropology of the Future: An Art World Perspective led by Manuela Ciotti, based at the University of Vienna and funded by the European Research Council.
We look forward to seeing you in Lecture Hall A!

The curatorial team,
Sanderien Verstappen, Marie-Christine Hartig, and Manuela Ciotti