[Commlist] MeCCSA 2025 Conference, 4-6th September 2025, Edinburgh Napier University - Call for Proposals

Here is gentle reminder for the call for proposals to MeCCSA 2025.

*MeCCSA 2025 Conference, 4-6th September 2025, Edinburgh Napier University*

**

*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.

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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 Building
Extremism and Populism
Citizenship and Belonging
Fake News and Disinformation

Migration and Cultural Memory

Heritage and Identity

Technology and Digital Identity

AI and Ethics of Identity

*_SUBMISSION GUIDELINES_*

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*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 
<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 
<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 
<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 /at/ napier.ac.uk) <mailto:(meccsa2025 /at/ napier.ac.uk)>_


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