VRA 2025: Call for Poster Proposals

The annual conference of the Visual Resources Association (VRA) is happening October 7–9 in Portland, Oregon. This in-person conference will begin with a virtual pre-conference the week before (on October 1 and 3), allowing more opportunities for engagement. A poster session presents a topic using visual aids in conjunction with direct interaction with conference attendees. Posters can depict workplace initiatives, research in progress, and other topics of contemporary interest.

The VRA Conference Planning Committee welcomes applications for both in-person and virtual poster presenters.

Application deadline: Monday, July 7, 11:59 p.m. PDT

Apply here: https://forms.gle/PWp6ztcnpgHzfz2n8

In-Person Posters (Print or Digital Formats)

For the in-person poster session, accepted applicants may choose to print their own poster or to display a digital poster of up to 3 slides. During the Community Happy Hour event on Wednesday, October 8, presenters will have the chance to discuss their posters with other conference attendees.

Poster presenters are responsible for printing their materials and mounting them in the display area at the conference ahead of the scheduled viewing time. If using presentation slides, presenters will need to bring their own laptops. Easels and tables will be provided.

Virtual Posters (PDF)

For those unable to travel to Portland, consider submitting a digital poster for the virtual pre-conference! PDF posters of up to three pages will be shared with pre-conference attendees about a week before the event, allowing them to peruse colleagues’ projects on their own time. The pre-conference will include a Virtual Social Hour event on Zoom on October 3, where poster presenters will have the opportunity to discuss their work (on video or via chat) and answer any questions.

Suggested poster topics include:

• Community outreach

• Copyright/intellectual property

• Digital asset management, digital curation, digital preservation, etc.

• Digitization (workflows, digital capture and imaging technologies)

• Digital scholarship and digital humanities

• Diversity, equity, inclusion, cultural competencies, social justice

• Project management (communication, grant writing, prioritization, leadership, etc.)

• Linked data

• Materials/Objects collections

• Metadata/Cataloging ethics (decolonizing vocabularies, radical cataloging)

• Technologies (GIS and mapping, 3D imaging, etc.)

• Tools: open source, evolution, future trends

• Workplace cultures and professional transitions (academic departments, libraries, cultural heritage institutions, archives, corporate, etc.)

This is not an exhaustive list! All ideas are welcome and will be carefully reviewed.

Please contact initiatives@vraweb.org with any questions. We look forward to seeing your work!