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 to this form. Inquiries to Denis Condon at denis.j.condon@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 newly established Irish Screen Studies Journal.