Here you can find an overview of visual anthropology programs, labs, summer schools, ethnographic film festivals, and collectives worldwide. This map will keep growing with your contributions. Help us populate the map and keep it up to date. Please contribute using this submission form.
Teaching Programmes
| Name | Institution | City | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eye & Mind Visual Anthropology MSc-Track | Aarhus University | Aarhus | Denmark | Link to Programme |
| Visual Anthropology | San Francisco State University | San Francisco | USA | Link to Programme |
| Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology | University of Heidelberg | Heidelberg | Germany | Link to Programme |
| Master Program in Visual Anthropology | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | Lima | Peru | Link to Programme |
| MA in Visual Anthropology | UiT The Arctic University of Norway | Tromsø | Norway | Link to Programme |
| Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices | University of Münster | Münster | Germany | Link to Programme |
| MA Program Visual and Media Anthropology | University of Applied Sciences for Communication, Media and Management (HMKW) | Berlin | Germany | Link to Programme |
| MA in Visual Anthropology | Goldsmiths, University of London | London | UK | Link to Programme |
| MA in Visual Anthropology | Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California | Los Angeles | USA | Link to Programme |
| Master of Research in Visual Anthropology | FLACSO | Quito | Ecuadaor | Link to Programme |
| MA in Visual Anthropology | The Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Manchester University | Manchester | UK | Link to Programme |
| Visual Anthropology | University of Maroua | Maroua | Cameroon | Link to Programme |
| MA in Audiovisual Ethnography | Tallin University | Tallin | Estonia | Link to Programme |
| Visual Anthropology | LMU Munich | Munich | Germany | Link to Programme |
| Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture (VisANTH) | National Institute for Experimental Arts University of New South Wales | Sydney | Australia | Link to Lab |
| Visual Anthropology and Materiality | University of Victoria | Victoria BC | Canada | Link to Programme |
| Museum & Visual Anthropology | University of British Columbia | Vancouver BC | Canada | Link to Programme |
| Msc Visual Ethnography | University of Leiden | Leiden | The Netherlands | Link to Programme |
| Culture and Media | New York University | New York | USA | Link to Programme |
| Master in Visual Anthropology | University of Amsterdam | Amsterdam | The Netherlands | Link to Programme |
| Media Anthropology | University of Bern | Bern | Switzerland | Link to Programme |
| Athens Summer School in Ethnographic Filmmaking | Athens Ethnographic Film Festival and the University of Amsterdam | Athens | Greece | Link to Summer School |
| Visual Studies Platform | Central European University | Vienna | Austria | Link to Programme |
| Media Anthropology and Visual Anthropology | University of Bremen, Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research | Bremen | Germany | Link to Programme |
| MSc Visual and Arts-based Methods by Research | Middlesex University | London | UK | Link to Programme |
Labs
| Name | Institution | City | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collaborative & Experimental Ethnography Lab (CE2 Lab) | University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus | Kelowna BC | Canada | Link to Lab |
| LISA | University of São Paulo | São Paulo | Brazil | Link to Lab |
| Center for Ethnography | University of California Irvine | Irvine | USA | Link to Lab |
| Center for Experimental Ethnography | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | USA | Link to Lab |
| Sensory Ethnography Lab | Harvard Institution | Cambridge | USA | Link to Lab |
| Ethnographic Film Unit | University of British Columbia | Vancouver | Canada | Link to Lab |
| Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab | University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology | Vienna | Austria | Link to Lab |
| Visual Anthropology Lab | Cornell University | Ithaca | USA | Link to Lab |
Film Festivals
| Name | City | Country | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Festival of Ethnological Film | Belgrade | Serbia | Link to Festival |
| freiburger film forum | Freiburg | Germany | Link to Festival |
| Jean Rouch Film Festival | Paris | France | Link to Festival |
| Ethnocineca - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna | Vienna | Austria | Link to Festival |
| Régard Bleu | Zürich | Switzerland | Link to Festival |
| International Festival of Ethnographic Film – Sofia (IFEFs) | Sofia | Bulgaria | Link to Festival |
| Anthropofest - International Festival with Social Anthropological Themes | Prague | Czech Republic | Link to Festival |
| Sardinia international Ethnograhic Film Festival - SIEFF | Sardinia | Italy | Link to Festival |
| World Film Festival | Tartu | Estonia | Link to Festival |
| Viscult – Festival of Visual Culture | Joensuu | Finland | Link to Festival |
| Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec - FIFEQ | Quebec | Canada | Link to Festival |
| GIEFF - German (Göttingen) International Ethnographic Film Festival | Göttingen | Germany | Link to Festival |
| Moscow International Visual Anthropology Festival – ‘Mediating Camera’ | Moscow | Russia | Link to Festival |
| RAI FILM FESTIVAL | UK | Link to Festival | |
| Ethnofest (Athens Ethnographic Film Festival) | Athens | Greece | Link to Festival |
| Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) Film & Media Festival | USA | Link to Festival | |
| Cineblend - Cultural Diversity Through Cinema | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Link to Festival |
| Nordic Anthropological Film Association International Ethnographic Film Festival | Europe | Link to Festival | |
| Astra Film Fest | Sibiu | Romania | Link to Festival |
| Days of Ethnographic Film | Ljubljana | Slovenia | Link to Festival |
| Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival | Taiwan | Link to Festival | |
| Margaret Mead Film Festival | New York | USA | Link to Festival |
| Eyes and Lenses | Warsaw | Poland | Link to Festival |
| Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival | Pärnu | Estonia | Link to Festival |
Collectives
| Name | Region/Country | Website |
|---|---|---|
| CAMRA (Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts) | USA | Link to Collective |
| Curatorium (critical, creative & collective attunements) | Australasia | Link to Collective |
| Visual Scholarship Initiative | USA | Link to Collective |
| Ethnocine (Feminist Ethnographic Film Collective) | USA | Link to Collective |