“Intended to Provoke: Social Action in Visual Culture[s]” is a conference organized by doctoral students at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., March 27, 2008. This Fifth Annual Visual Cultures Symposium is an interdisciplinary, multimedia inquiry into the use of art as a form of social action. Featured speakers are artists and academics from Mason and across the country. Topics include: “Counter Culture/Pro-Public: Artists on Art in the Community"; “Creative Visual Practice in Third-Party Nonviolent Intervention”; “Images of Anguish: Social Protest in Recent Ecuadorian Art”; “Seeing Birth: What Happens When Visual Taboos Are Challenged?”; and more. Events inlcude a juried student show, “Provocations: The Art of Social Action.” [LINK]