[Commlist] 2025 Irish Screen Studies Seminar CFP: Cinema and Loneliness

  Seminar Theme: Cinema and Loneliness

The Department of Film & Screen Media at University College Cork is 
delighted to be hosting the next Irish Screen Studies Seminar, on the 
UCC campus in May, 2025.
Announcing the call for abstracts inspired by the theme of the seminar – 
or on tangentially related topics – for submission before Monday March 
3, 2025. Please email submissions or address queries to Barry Monahan at 
(b.monahan /at/ ucc.ie). Abstracts should be no more than 150 words in length, 
with an additional brief bio including your institutional affiliation 
(50 words max). You may also arrange and propose your own panel, and 
presentations on creative practice are welcomed.
Some terms to get your imagination stirred: Social atomism, Solitary 
spectatorship, Solipsism, Solidarity, Single Heroes and Heroines, and 
Solo filmmakers!

Ideas for consideration:
Solitary spectatorship and the age of the digital streaming platform;
Characters alone and/or lonely;
Identities of/and "me";
Isolated national cinemas;
Minor and peripheral cinemas;
Themes and stories of social isolation, alienation, and separation; The 
new-millennial anti-hero/heroine; Representations of minorities;
Being different: person, place, practice;
My iPhone art – iFilmmaking – from me, by me, for me;
Real solidarities – private and public – in virtual spaces.

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INFORMATION ABOUT IRISH SCREEN STUDIES
ISS (www.irishscreenstudies.com) was founded in 2003 by Kevin Rockett 
(Trinity College Dublin) and John Hill (Ulster University). Originally 
known as the “Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar”, the event was 
developed as a cross-border initiative to connect postgraduate and 
early-career researchers in screen studies throughout this island and 
beyond. For over twenty years, the seminar has been hosted by a variety 
of third-level institutions in Ireland, North and South, and has 
provided a research platform for emerging scholars who have gone on to 
play key international roles in screen scholarship, industry, and 
popular culture.
The Seminar event offers a unique platform for the presentation of new 
work – research, practice, and research through practice – by scholars 
and filmmakers from third-level institutions in Ireland, as well as from 
those working on Irish screen-related topics in other universities and 
colleges worldwide.
It is aimed at academic researchers and practitioners in film and screen 
cultures in the broadest sense, including: audio, film, television, 
digital media, transmedia, video games, screen performance, design and 
technologies, as well as related interdisciplinary activities. The ISS 
event promotes the exchange of ideas and offers postgraduate and early 
career researchers and practitioners an ideal opportunity to present 
evolving screen-related research and practice in a constructive and 
encouraging forum.

The Board of Irish Screen Studies aims to maintain an inclusive 
organisation open to all individuals. We are committed to preventing any 
form of discrimination on any basis, including national origin, race, 
ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, class, ability, age, 
contractual status, and migration or other legal status.

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