MeCCSA2025: MeCCSA Annual Conference 2025 Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh, UK, September 4-6, 2025 |
| Conference website | https://www.meccsa.org.uk/events/conference/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=meccsa2025 |
MeCCSA 2025 Conference
Dates: 4-6th September 2025
Location: Edinburgh Napier University
Theme: Identity and Belonging
Call for Papers
We welcome submissions to the MeCCSA Annual Conference that are aligned with any area covered by MeCCSA and its sections or networks, or this year’s broad conference theme.
As with all MeCCSA conferences, we encourage submissions of abstracts for scholarly papers, themed panels, posters, film screenings, performances, installations, and other practice-based or artistic research contributions.
Submission deadline: 21st February 2025
Conference dates: 4-6th September 2025 (Please note the conference is Thursday to Saturday this year.)
Theme: Identity and Belonging
Media and culture play a crucial role in shaping identity, especially in contemporary contexts marked by economic struggles, conflict, and migration. The significance of identity is heightened as individuals navigate their sense of self in new and evolving cultural and social environments. This raises questions about how identities can be preserved or adapted, and the responsibilities of academics and researchers in addressing identities at risk.
Questions of identity have been at the heart of MeCCSA disciplines and debates for a long time. How identities are mediated and how they mediate themselves is often at the core of our work. MeCCSA sections and networks in many ways reflect this across gender, race and ethnicity, disability, social movements, etc. Our 2025 conference seeks to further this questioning, whilst also considering the issue of belonging. Whether we belong to research communities that embody media, communications or cultural studies, and whether we belong to groups that prioritise areas such as climate change, policy or conflict, this conference provides an opportunity to reflect on the character of our diverse disciplines and where we find spaces of belonging.
We envisage the conference to be a mix of scholarly papers, themed panels, posters, film screenings, performance, installations, and other practice-based or artistic research contributions, and we welcome submissions across the full range of interests represented by MeCCSA.
We welcome interdisciplinary/trans-disciplinary approaches and artistic practice research that allow for a multi-faceted approach to identity and belonging.
Possible topics connected with the theme of identity and belonging can include, but are not limited to:
Climate Change and Global Crises
Policy
Activism and Resistance
(Anti-)Racism and Identity Politics
Culture Wars and Social Conflict
Resilience and Community BuildingExtremism and PopulismCitizenship and BelongingFake News and Disinformation
Migration and Cultural Memory
Heritage and Identity
Technology and Digital Identity
AI and Ethics of Identity
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submitting an Individual Presentation
Submitting your proposal for an individual presentation. Please submit abstracts for individual papers (max 250 words) with presentation title, up to 5 key words, your name, affiliation, and email address via this EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=meccsa2025.
Submitting a proposal for a panel, roundtable, screening, installation, performance, practice-based session, or workshop.
We actively support the presentation of practice-as-research and have a flexible approach to practice-based papers and presentations. This includes opportunities to present papers, screenings, etc, in the same session or as part of a separate strand. Please submit via the EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=meccsa2025.
Submitting a Panel Proposal
Panel proposals should include a short description and rationale (200 words) together with abstracts for each of the 3-4 papers comprising the panel (150-200 words each including details of the contributor/s), and the name and contact details of the panel proposer with up to 5 key words. The panel proposer should integrate the separate abstracts to comprise a single proposal which should then be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=meccsa2025.
We particularly welcome submissions from early career and postgraduate researchers.
For any queries, please contact the organising committee: meccsa2025@napier.ac.uk