ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

June 28 - July 2, 2026

Galway, Ireland

Deadline: February 3, 2026

The Multimodal Communication Research (MCR) Working Group invites the submission of abstracts for its 2026 conference, to be held from 28 June to 2 July 2026 in Galway, Ireland, hosted by the University of Galway. The deadline for submission is 3 February 2026 at 23:59 UTC.

Moving beyond assumptions that text is the only format in which media and communication research takes place, MCR welcomes projects in any modality other than a traditional research paper (e.g., ethnographic or documentary film, audiovisual essay, podcast, photo essay, exhibition, installation, performance, data visualization, game, animation, etc.). We feature peer-reviewed, multimodal research projects that rely upon arts-based methodologies to consider a range of epistemological, theoretical, ethical, and socio-cultural questions central to media and communication research.

link: https://iamcr.org/galway2026/cfp-mcr

June 3, 2026

Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline (EXTENDED): February 6, 2026

2026 ICA half-day hybrid Preconference

Dear colleagues,

Following requests from potential contributors, the deadline for paper proposals for the 2026 ICA half-day hybrid Preconference, “Researching Media Production in the Global South”, has been extended to 06 February 2026.

Date: Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Time: 12:00-17:00

Venue: University of Cape Town, Centre for Film and Media Studies & online

This preconference will explore the particularities of researching media production in non-Western contexts. Building on the success of the inaugural online conference held in May 2024, this second iteration seeks to bring together scholars examining how cultural, political, and industrial conditions shape media production practices across the Global South. We welcome theoretically informed empirical studies that expand and challenge dominant, Western-centric perspectives on media industries and contribute to the development of de-Westernised and decolonised approaches to production research.

Thematic areas of focus may include:

• How local (political, economic and cultural) contexts shape or constrain media production practices
  
• The appropriation of new digital technologies (including AI and associated tools); the role of platforms in shaping/influencing production practices
  
• The impact of shifting industrial contexts (including decentralisation) and changing media ecologies on production
  
• Methodological approaches
  
• Context- or site-specific challenges and emerging solutions for media production research; the particularities of labour markets and working conditions
  
• Cross-cultural and collaborative media production
  
• The impact of foreign media investment on local production practices
  
• The effects of resource constraints on journalism and other forms of media production
  

Please submit your abstract for a 10-minute presentation (max. 300 words) along with a short biography (approx. 100 words) via this form: Submission Form (form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdi3dIxHgq69bNr-TdeDVpVrS__2M2nTSJXZBq5IheWncxS9g/viewform?usp=publish-editor) by 06 February 2026, indicating whether you wish to participate in person or online.

We aim to provide decisions by the end of February.

If you have any questions, please contact us at: mediaproduction.globalsouth@leeds.ac.uk

Presentation at the preconference is conditional on submission of an extended abstract by 15 April 2026. Acceptance to the main ICA conference is not required.

For the full call for papers and registration instructions, please visit: ICA26 Preconference Details

This preconference is sponsored by the Global Communication and Social Change Division of ICA, supported by the Universities of Cape Town, Glasgow, and Leeds, and organised by Anna Zoellner (University of Leeds), Chris Paterson (University of Leeds), Hayes Mabweazara (University of Glasgow), and Tanja Bosch (University of Cape Town).

Deadline: March 15, 2026

We invite abstracts for the forthcoming Handbook of Independent Journalism, deadline March 15th.

Independent journalism is considered an important pillar of democratic societies, enabling citizens to make informed decisions, creating trust in quality information, and the role of journalists as watchdogs of society. Independence is often considered a pre-requisite for good quality news and watchdog journalism and has been described as free from control or influence. Despite being an omni-present normative standard, independent journalism often appears in academic works as a buzzword, implicit assumption or underlying belief system. This handbook brings together work which examines the conditions, functions, perceptions, delimitations and challenges surrounding independent journalism as a concept, practice, standard, organizational form and discourse. Through this work we want to emphasize independent journalism as a field of study and highlight existing and emerging scholarship.

This handbook brings together scholarly work on independent journalism at a time when its survival is threatened globally and its future uncertain. Various international agencies and national advocacy groups, including the UN, EU, and OSCE and Journalistic Unions, have called for independent journalism to be supported. At this time, substantial and systematic scholarly work is needed to accompany these calls, with concrete insights into the value of and threats to independent journalism for societies around the world. We call for submissions of chapter proposals (250 -350 words) including, but not limited to the following areas:

• Independent journalism as field of study
  
• Theories and concepts in the study of independent journalism
  
• Practices and strategies of independent journalism
  
• Independent journalists, work conditions, typologies, training
  
• Challenges, delimitations, attacks
  
• Independent journalism and discourses
  
• Drivers and support systems of independent journalism
  
• Different approaches to studying independent journalism
  
• International perspectives on independent journalism
  

Deadline Abstracts: March 15th 2026 (250-350 words) Please submit abstracts to this form.

Deadline Chapter submission: November 2026 (5000 words)

Editors:

Sarah Anne Ganter (Simon Fraser University)

Musawenkosi Ndlovu (University of Cape Town)

Sisanda Nkoala (University of the Western Cape)

Beth Pearson (City St George’s University of London)

Zonemoda

Deadline: March 15, 2026

Mediatization is commonly understood as a meta-process (Krotz, 2007) through which media logics permeate social institutions and cultural practices, producing long-term transformations at micro-, meso-, and macro-social levels (Hepp, 2012). Operating alongside other meta-processes such as globalization and commercialization, mediatization assumes differentiated forms across socio-cultural contexts. In the field of sport (Frandsen, 2020; Tirino, 2025), it has significantly reshaped organizational structures, cultural meanings, and value systems, redefining the relationship between media, sport institutions, and audiences.

These dynamics have intensified through successive waves of “digital mediatization” (Couldry & Hepp, 2016), associated with mobile connectivity, social media platforms, immersive environments, and generative artificial intelligence. Contemporary elite sport has thus consolidated its role as a highly mediatized, commercialized (Horne, 2006), and globalized (Giulianotti & Numerato, 2018) cultural industry, exemplified by events and circuits such as the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, the NBA, Formula 1, and the ATP Tour. Within the so-called “media/sports complex” (Jhally, 1984), the convergence of interests among sports organizations, media industries, and multinational corporations generates new forms of participation, visibility, and consumption, extending beyond sport-specific merchandise to the broader circulation of sports symbols across multiple product sectors.

Within this framework, the relationship between fashion and sport represents a particularly significant area of investigation. Historically rooted in class-based distinctions and embodied in garments associated with specific sporting practices (e.g. tennis, golf, sailing), sport has long functioned as a vehicle for the production and dissemination of styles, lifestyles, and values, co-constructed by media representations. Recent transformations are characterized by the progressive erosion of traditional boundaries between sport and fashion, as sportswear increasingly permeates everyday wardrobe and even formal dress codes — a process institutionalized in cultural settings such as the Fashion V Sport exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2009). At the same time, sport has partially reconfigured itself, acquiring renewed authority in technical, aesthetic, and symbolic terms, particularly evident during sports mega-events (Williams, 2025).

Further convergence has emerged through processes of hybridization and innovation. Collaborations between fashion designers and sportswear brands (e.g. Jil Sander and Puma) operate as experimental sites in which media visibility, design practices, and industrial strategies intersect, fostering innovation in materials, production technologies, and sustainability-oriented solutions (Bielefeldt Bruun & Langkjær, 2016). In this context, athletes and designers act as key mediators, mobilizing symbolic capital and professional identities within highly mediatized environments.

Social media platforms play a central role in these processes, enabling more direct, interactive, and partially disintermediated circulation of fashion- and sport-related value (Hou, 2025). They contribute to new forms of identification between brands, sports institutions, celebrities, and audiences (Loureiro et al., 2023), while the recurrence of mediatized representations supports the circulation of shared meanings and values within a framework combining personalization and commercialization (Driessens, 2013).

This special issue of Zone Moda Journal invites interdisciplinary contributions about the cultural, symbolic, and socio-economic dynamics emerging from the mediatization of the sport–fashion nexus.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• technical sportswear and fashion trends;
  
• sports celebrities as fashion influencers, testimonials and trendsetters;
  
• media narratives of sports-fashion connections;
  
• sports fandom, social media, and fashion practices;
  
• sport–fashion relations in digital and immersive environments;
  
• digital fashion, e-sports, and video games;
  
• sports mega-events and fashion;
  
• fashion and forms of cultural resistance within the commodified media/sport complex.

Submissions

Abstracts of no more than 600 words, excluding bibliographical references (word*.docx format), written either in Italian or English, are required to illustrate the objectives of the paper, the research question(s) and the methodology adopted. They must be sent, together with a short biographical note, to: sicastellano@unisa.it; zmj@unibo.it (with object: Abstract submission for ZMJ – Mediatization of the Sport-Fashion Nexus).

Authors will be notified of proposal acceptance by April 17, 2026.

Abstract acceptance does not guarantee publication of the article, which will be submitted to a double-blind peer-review process. Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it is unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Key Deadlines:

Abstract submission: March 15, 2026.

Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 17, 2026 (notice of acceptance might include comments and requests for explanations).

Full-length paper (6000/7000 words) submission: June 19, 2026.

Comments of the reviewers will be conveyed together with the editor’s decision (approval with no changes, approval with major/minor changes and/or rejection): July 20, 2026.

Authors shall send the reviewed article to the editorial staff by August 24, 2026.

ZMJ Vol. 16 N.2 is scheduled to be published by December 2026.

May 6-8, 2026

Aalborg University, Denmark

The Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Aalborg Universitet

Welcome to Re-imagining organizational socialization: The work of communication

Description:

The field of organizational socialization originates in the social sciences and is concerned with ways in which employees become integrated into organizations to meet corporate goals. This is, therefore, also often constructed as a management-centric endeavour, paying little heed to employee needs and well-being. However, changes in work, organizing, economics and politics in and around the post-modern organization requires new ways of thinking and talking about employees and organizations that address the uncertainties and unpredictability (such as job insecurity, precarity and anxiety) that follow from these changes.

The PhD-course takes a humanities perspective to this discussion, focusing on key concepts such as discourse, communication, identity, affect, power and relationality to understand organizational socialization and practices in the postmodern organization. This entails seeing the organization as a construct emerging through the joint communicative, material and embodied efforts of the people that populate it and hence, acknowledging the special condition of the employee. The PhD-course invites students to join the conversation on these concepts as well as relevant theories and methodologies to consider for their PhD-studies.

Guided by faculty with deep experience in relevant disciplines, the aim will be for students to leave this course with a more robust understanding of the field of organizational socialization set against current developments. Furthermore, students will be encouraged to use the insights from the course in the pursuit of their unique and diverse research interests.

Students must do course readings before the course to become acquainted with the scope of research. In addition, they must read fellow students’ papers to prepare them to engage in conversation about the themes of the course and potential applications.

For additional information, updates, and registration, please refer to AAU PhD Moodle via the link HERE.

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research (special issue)

Deadline: March 2, 2026

The journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for abstracts for the special issue on Gender and Imperialisms: Intersectional Research of Oppressions and Resistances.

Editors: Leandro Wallace, Tereza Krobová, and Magali Segovia

This special issue has as its main objective to engage with research being carried across the axis of Imperialisms and Genders from an intersectional and transdisciplinary perspective, paying special attention to the workings of race, class, sex, sexuality, national identities, ableism, among others. At the same time, the call aims to reflect how both key constructions interact across several historical, social, political and cultural backgrounds emerging from and about different contexts.

We understand both Imperialism (Gramsci, 1975; Dussel, 1994; Quijano, 2008; Grosfoguel, 2008) and Gender (Lugones, 2008, Tlostanova, 2008; 2011; Espinoza-Miñoso, 2014; Curiel Pichardo, 2015; O’Sullivan, 2021; Markowitz, 2024) as complex formulation of structures and relations that are closely tied to the circumstance in which they develop but have a regional and global reach at the same time. We propose to think about both Gender and Imperialism as a non-universal, multidimensional and intersectional forces that are not limited to its “traditional” understandings. For example, we aim to emphasize that the concept of Imperialism goes beyond its western perspective and needs to be extended by the context of the Soviet and post-Soviet forces described as colonialist (Lieven 1995; Yusupova, 2022)

To be able to reach complex understanding of the diverse exchanges between all the analytical elements mentioned above, calls for the transdisciplinary practice that we seek to portray in this special issue. This call pursues highlighting the latest research being done in these spaces by researchers who work in these connections between Imperialisms and Genders.

This special issue has as its main aim to showcase the work being developed criticizing the attempts to impose the universal, hegemonic, hierarchical and binary western understanding of gender and its alliance with Imperialist perspectives and actions, as well as the multiple efforts to resist to them. We are interested in contributions that dwell on (but are not limited to) the complex interactions between:

• Theoretical and practical understandings of Gender and Imperialism
  
• Relationships between Gender and Imperialism (in all their forms)
  
• Non-western Imperialism and Gender
  
• Post-colonial, decolonial and anti-colonial approaches to imperialism and its gender(ed) framework
  
• Imperialism in far-right gendered discourses
  
• Imperialist digital practices
  
• Imperialist gendered media practices
  
• Imperialist and anti-imperialist aspects on human health
  
• Environmental projections of Imperialist and anti-Imperialist actions
  
• Environmental justice
  
• Gender aspects in Environmental engagement
  
• Gender and Imperialism as intersectional force: Influence and impacts of race, class, knowledge production, sexuality
  
• Languages and languages revitalizations
  
• Gender aspects of migration and forced migration
  
• Anticolonial practices and Resistances
  

We welcome papers, book reviews and reports. Articles should be in English and between 6,000 and 10,000 words, including footnotes and references. Abstract should be submitted in English and be no longer than 300 words, the title of the article, three keywords, and brief bio about the author. Book reviews (of books not older than 3 years) should be no longer than 1,500 words.

Abstracts should be submitted by 2 March 2026 via email to the special issue editors (wallace.leandro13@gmail.com, tereza.krobova@fsv.cuni.cz, magalibsegovia@gmail.com) and the journal genderteam@soc.cas.cz.

Please include in the heading of the email “Special Issue: Gender and Imperialisms” followed by the reason for contacting (enquiry, abstract submission or paper submission) and the title of paper.

Schedule:

• Deadline for abstracts: 2nd of March 2026.
  
• Decision on abstracts: 6th of April 2026.
  
• Deadline for full paper: 5th of October 2026.
  
• Publication: 2027 (issue no. 1)
  

Marína Urbániková, Klára Smejkal, Iveta Jansová, Lenka Waschková Císařová 

Incorporating perspectives of various key stakeholders, this book critically explores the state and future of public service media (PSM), and maps areas of consensus upon which a renewed social contract for PSM could be built.

Broadening the debate beyond normative frameworks and drawing on perspectives other than elite and expert opinions, this book represents a vital contribution to the discussion over PSM’s present and future. The study uses the Czech Republic as a case study, a representative Central and Eastern European (CEE) country that, following the fall of its Communist regime, successfully transformed its former state-run media propaganda system into PSM. Employing a mixed-methods research design, it provides empirically-based insights from three groups, namely: the general public, PSM’s audience and source of funding; politicians and members of PSM supervisory bodies; and PSM journalists and managers. This book synthesises the perspectives of these three groups, focusing on the common ground in their expectations and evaluations, and exploring where the societal consensus lies in terms of the public service PSM should provide and the public value it should bring. The analysis pays particular attention to the unique position of PSM in smaller countries and within the CEE region.

Reimagining Public Service Media is recommended reading for advanced students and researchers in fields including Media Ownership, Media Regulation, and Media and Politics.

Purchase it HERE.

September 14-17, 2026

School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

Deadline (EXTENDED): January 30, 2026

Organised by Cardiff University’s Centre for the Creative Economy, the Media Cymru Innovation Conference and Showcase will spotlight research and innovation in the media and creative industries, with a focus on making them greener, fairer, globally connected, and economically sustainable. 

Participants can look forward to an engaging and interdisciplinary programme featuring invited speakers from across academia, industry, and policy, including national and international experts in media and creative industries. A full list of keynote and featured contributors will be announced in due course. 

We invite all researchers and professionals to submit their academic work that explores approaches to and analysis of media and creative industries innovation in ways that can inform future practice and policy. We welcome a broad range of topics. 

Conference Themes and Topics 

Submissions should align with (at least one of) our four themes: Green, Fair, Global, and Growth. These themes reflect Media Cymru’s four strategic pillars, which serve as tracks for submissions:

• Green - Environmental Sustainability: Research on the media’s role in tackling the climate crisis. Topics include the role of media content in responding to the climate crisis, sustainable film/TV production, green broadcasting technologies and practices, energy-efficient infrastructure for creative studios, and case studies on carbon reduction in media and the wider creative industries. 
  
• Fair - Inclusive & Equitable Creative Industries: Research promoting a fair, equitable and diverse media sector. Topics include diversity and inclusion in media content and production, representation and accessibility in film, television and gaming, community media initiatives, minority language media production and consumption, and research that focuses on how to create greater equity in the creative industries. 
  
• Global - International Collaboration & Reach: Research on expanding the global impact and connections of small creative industries companies or regional ecosystems. Topics include international co-productions and partnerships, cross-cultural innovation in media, export of creative content, global audiences and markets, creative tourism, and comparisons of creative economy policies across regions. Work that highlights place-based innovation in the global creative landscape is especially welcome. 
  
• Growth - Creative Economy Development: Research driving economic growth and productivity through media R&D and innovation. Topics include creative entrepreneurship and startups, media business models and monetisation, creative hubs and regional cluster development, skill development and talent pipelines (linking education with industry), impacts of emerging technologies (AI, XR, gaming) on the creative economy, and evaluations of creative industry support programs or policy interventions. 
  

These topics are not exhaustive. We welcome proposals that explore media workforce development, particularly in-work training, upskilling, and professional development models that support fair work across the media and creative industries. The committee also welcomes submissions with a focus on R&D methodologies and practice-based research closely aligned with industry needs and engagement. If you are unsure whether your topic fits, please contact the organisers at mcconf@cardiff.ac.uk  . 

We invite postgraduate and early career researchers to submit papers for a special session on the future of Creative Industries research. We welcome work that explores collaboration with industry, assesses partnership impact, or presents case studies bridging academia and practice. 

Submission Guidelines and Publication 

Submission Format: Authors are invited to submit abstracts of up to 500 words (excluding references) by Friday 30 January 2026. 

Submissions should outline the research and contribution to the field or to creative industry development and policy. Submissions should also indicate the relevant conference theme or themes (Green, Fair, Global, Growth, Postgraduate Researcher session). All submissions will be subject to a peer review process. 

How to Submit: Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format via the Frontiers in Communication submission portal. Frontiers | Media Cymru Innovation Conference and Showcase 2026: Call for Papers https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontiersin.org%2Fresearch-topics%2F74172%2Fmedia-cymru-innovation-conference-and-showcase-2026-call-for-papers&data=05%7C02%7CRabyJ%40cardiff.ac.uk%7C20f577865a5d4d54d71f08de53784cc2%7Cbdb74b3095684856bdbf06759778fcbc%7C1%7C0%7C639039973360280815%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vBZVKdWo332NqydtaW5VY9AgzUKdrCGalAeDwUSUpwM%3D&reserved=0

All abstract submissions for the conference will be managed through the Frontiers in Communication Research Topic platform and should be submitted via this page. Please note that Frontiers refers to abstracts as ‘manuscript summaries.’ To submit your abstract, please click ‘Submit’ > ‘Submit your manuscript summary’ and follow the on-screen instructions. Any reference to manuscripts, manuscript submission, and publication fees on this page or within the submission portal should be ignored.

Conference Proceedings and Publication Opportunities 

Special Issue Opportunity: Selected authors will be invited to submit a full-length version of their research for publication consideration in a peer-reviewed special issue of Frontiers in Communication, within the journal’s Media, Creative and Cultural Industries section. Invitations for full paper submissions will be issued following the conference and will be subject to a separate peer review process.  

Attendance 

Location: Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK (in-person) 

Conference and Showcase Activities: Following the conference, a two-day showcase will highlight the innovations and impact of the Media Cymru programme. Attendees will be invited to explore the latest in sustainable and inclusive media innovation, from immersive storytelling to green production models. The showcase offers valuable opportunities to connect with industry professionals, discover new collaborations, and engage with bold ideas shaping the future of media.

About Media Cymru: Media Cymru is working towards sustainable and inclusive economic growth in the Welsh media sector. Backed by £49 million in funding, including £22 million from UKRI’s Strength in Places Fund and significant investment from government and industry, Media Cymru is a collaborative initiative led by 22 partner organisations. Find out more about Media Cymru.

Bursary support: A limited number of registration fee waivers will be available for eligible presenters.  

Important Dates

• 30 January 2026 – Submission deadline 
  
• 14–17 September 2026 – Conference and Showcase take place  
  

All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Early submissions are appreciated.

Contact and Organisers 

The conference is organised by Media Cymru and the Centre for the Creative Economy at Cardiff University.  

Contact: mcconf@cardiff.ac.uk 

January 21 - July, 2026

Online (5:00 PM, CET)

Through this series of seminars, we explore the concept of borders from multiple perspectives, including communicative, linguistic, geographical, historical, and political borders.

The seminar series is sponsored by the Faculty of Communication and by the Master’s Programme in Media and Cultural Studies at Üsküdar University. The meetings take place online on Zoom every Wednesday at 5:00 pm (CET).

We also have a website where all updates and information about the seminar series can be found: https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/programme

We hope this initiative may be of interest to you and that it could be included in the weekly digest. Below, please find the programme of the seminar series:

January 21, 2026

Sophie Ling-chia Wei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Typology Meets the Yijing: Jesuit Figurists' Intralingual Translation and the Sinification of Jesus

January 28, 2026

Jasmine Bria (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

Borderlands and Cultural Identities in Arthurian Narratives

February 4, 2026

Naoko Kato (Corpus Christi College at the University of British Columbia/Independent Scholar)

Double Abandonment: Transpacific Borders of Erasure and Resistance (1942–1965)

February 11, 2026

Dario Capelli (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)

Echoes of the Struggles Against the Beguines in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve

February 18, 2026

Peppino Ortoleva (University of Turin)

Surreal Frontiers: Decolonisation, Borders, and Never-Ending Wars

February 25, 2026

Anik Nandi (Woxsen University)

Transnational Migration and Language Policies in Northern Ireland, UK: Family Dynamics towards Heritage Language Maintenance

March 4, 2026

Muhammet Enes Akdağ (Üsküdar University)

Transnational Film Networks and Moviegoing Culture in the Jerusalem Mutasarrifate (1874–1917)

March 11, 2026

Karen Pinto (University of Colorado Boulder)

Through the Eye of the Cartographer: The KMMS Islamicate Vision of the Bilad al-Rum Byzantine Frontier with Syria

March 18, 2026

Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute/Independent Scholar)

Formal and Informal Borders: How Much Did They Matter in the Mathematical Sciences in Premodern Islamicate Societies?

March 25, 2026

Eleonora Matarrese  (University of Bari)

Edible Wild Plants: Widespread and Futuristic Knowledge in the Middle Ages (with practical workshop)

April 1, 2026

Pierpaolo De Giosa (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris), Luigi Andriani (University of Hamburg)

More-than-human Encounters under the Same Roof: Household Spirits and Rituals in Bari

April 8, 2026

Marusca Francini  (University of Pavia)

Beyond Poetry. The Style of the Norwegian 'Tristrams Saga'

April 15, 2026

Gesufrancesco Petrillo & Cristiano Bedin (Istanbul University)

Queer Encounters Across Borders: Adapting Perfect Strangers (2016) into Stranger in My Pocket (2018)

Academic Leave (20-26 April)

April 29, 2026

Elisa Ramazzina (University of Insubria)

Margins, Maps, and Monsters: Negotiating Borders in the “Wonders of the East”

May 6, 2026

Seda Öz (University of Delaware)

Entangled Germanies: Remaking Cinema at the Borders of Cultural Memory

May 13, 2026

Giorgio Ennas (University of Utrecht/Franklin University Switzerland)

Borders and Epidemics: Sanitary Transformation of State Borders in the Ottoman Empire between the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries

May 20, 2026

Nora Berend (University of Cambridge)

May 27, 2026

Valentina Surace (University of Messina) and Aisling Reid (Queen’s University Belfast)

Divided We Stand: Belfast’s ‘Peace’ Walls and the Logic of Security             

June 3, 2026

Elisa Cugliana (Cologne University)

«Altez Gaschraibach» and New Technologies: Documenting Cimbrian Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries

June 10, 2026

Luigi Andriani (University of Hamburg)

One Language Fits All? The Spectacular Case of Multilingual Italy

June 17, 2026

Betsey Price (York University)

The Mansions of the Visigoths: Self-Definition Through Boundaries

June 24, 2026

Nancy Bruseker (University of Toulouse)

Gender Jetset: The Carrousel Cabaret and Transfemininity on Tour, 1950-1969

July 1, 2026

Feride Zeynep Güder (Üsküdar University)

Borders of Memory: Queen Zenobia as a Connective Turn in the Digital Legacy of Antioch 

April 8-10, 2026

College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, Abu Dhabi University, UAE 

Deadline: January 30, 2026

Dear Scholars, Researchers, and Industry Experts,

The College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences (CAESS) at Abu Dhabi University invites scholars to submit research papers for its 2026 international conference, ’Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Reimagining Society: Arts, Education & Social Transformation.' This premier platform will foster interdisciplinary dialogue on post-pandemic and Fourth Industrial Revolution challenges.

Important Submission Deadlines:

• Abstract Submission: 30 January 2026
  
• Acceptance Notification: Within 2 weeks
  
• Full Paper Submission: 28 February 2026
  

Submission Guidelines

• Abstracts: 250–300 words (We have started receiving Abstracts - Deadline: 30 January 2026)
  
• Full Papers: 4,000–6,000 words (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
  
• Formats: APA 7th edition (General) / IEEE (Technical)
  
• Submit via: www.adu.ac.ae/mprs

Join us in exploring the Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Reimagining Society: Arts, Education & Social Transformation at Abu Dhabi University’s International Conference.

We look forward to your valuable contributions!

Accepted papers for the "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Reimagining Society: Arts, Education and Social Transformation" Conference will undergo a rigorous peer-review process; only selected papers will be published in Scopus-Indexed Journals and Books.

For inquiries and submissions visit our conference website: www.adu.ac.ae/mprs