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Theme: Identity and Belonging
MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association) 2025 is an inter-disciplinary conference on the theme of 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.
Keynotes from theoretical and practice-based perspectives, scholarly papers, themed panels, roundtables, posters, film screenings, installations and other practice-based or artistic research contributions will provide a variety of perspectives on key current concerns in this area.
In addition to the conference there will be a conference dinner on 5th September 2025 costing £49. There will be a post-conference walking tour on 6th September which will cost an additional £30. However, this will be paid directly to the Tour company. If you would like to attend, please tick here and we will pass your name and details to the company. Please wait to hear back from them. Please note that we will be sharing your basic contact details with the tour company to enable them to contact you.
Key Dates:
Conference Dates: 4th to 6th September 2025
Early Bird Deadline: 4th July 2025
Standard Rate Deadline: 4th August 2025
Registration:
To confirm your participation in MeCCSA 2025, please register by the registration deadline. Register early to take advantage of Early Bird Registration rates.
Registration Benefits:
Inclusion of your presentation in the Conference Programme
A print-quality PDF of the Conference Programme
Admission to all sessions, including the Plenary and Keynote Speakers
Ability to watch films as practice-based research
Access to installations
Inclusion of your paper in the online Conference Proceedings
Possibility of acceptance for Special Edition in two journals – one focused on theory and one on practice
Refreshments and lunch during tea, coffee and lunch breaks
Admission to the Reception drinks and side events like the pub quiz and ceilidh
Invitation to Conference Dinner on additional payment
Invitation to Post-conference Edinburgh Walking Tour on additional payment
Registration Rates
| Delegate Status | Early Bird till 4 July | Standard till 4 August |
| MeCCSA member Waged (3 days) | £290 | £360 |
| MeCCSA non-member (3 days) | £320 | £420 |
| MeCCSA Unwaged/Student (3 days) | £210 | £240 |
| MeCCSA member Waged (1 day) | £120 | £150 |
| MeCCSA non-member (1 day) | £150 | £175 |
| MeCCSA Unwaged/Student (1 day) | £70 | £80 |
| Additional Optional Offering |
| Conference Dinner | £49 | £49 |
| Post-conference Edinburgh Walking Tour on 6th September (if sufficient number of people sign up) | £30 | £30 |
