[Commlist] CFP: Irish Screen Studies Seminar 2026: Place and the Screen

*Call for Papers: Place and the Screen*

The Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University is delighted to 
be hosting the 2026 Irish Screen Studies Seminar in *Maynooth* from 
*21-23 May 2026*. We invite proposals on any subject from scholars and 
research-based practitioners working in Ireland on screen-based media or 
working outside Ireland on Irish screen media, but we would like to 
encourage scholars to think about the relationships between place and 
screen in particular.

Abstracts should be no more than 150 words in length, with an additional 
50-word academic biography. You may also arrange and propose your own 
panel, and presentations on creative practice are very welcome.

Please submit abstracts by*12 noon on Friday, 12 December 2025*tothis 
form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZRa45kFxfMdObGluP4as-hiC-f95R_XD2y-9FE6ojRM/edit>. 
Inquiries to Denis Condon (atdenis.j.condon /at/ mu.ie).

Topics addressed by proposals may include but are by no means limited to 
the following:

·Place(s) represented on screen – in films, television programmes, 
digital art, games, etc.

·The place of the person (user, player, viewer, spectator, audience) in 
front of the screen

·The place(s) of the screen, whether it is static (the cinema/gallery 
wall, the TV in the corner of the living room) or mobile (phones, games 
console)

·The virtual screen in VR/AR

·Distraction, second-screening and place in the use of TV, film, games 
or visual art

·Virtual travel

Presenters will be invited to develop their papers into articles for a 
future issue of the/Irish Screen Studies Journal/.

                                                                       
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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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