Midland Conference in Critical Thought - Call for presentation proposals

The Call for Presentation Proposals is now open for the 3rd annual Midlands Conference in Critical Thought (MCCT), which will be hosted and supported by the University of Warwick on May 21st and May 22nd 2026.

The MCCT is an annual interdisciplinary conference that provides a forum for emergent critical scholarship, broadly construed. The conference is free for all to attend and follows a non-hierarchical model that seeks to foster opportunities for intellectual critical exchanges where all are treated equally regardless of affiliation or seniority. There are no plenaries, and the conference is envisaged as a space for those who share intellectual approaches and interests but who may find themselves at the margins of their academic department or discipline.

NAFAE steering group members Maggie Ayliffe, Laura Onions and Andrew Bracey are co-organising a conference stream - 'Studio-ing as Critical, Creative and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy’  https://mcct.margins.org.uk/#5-studio-ing, and invite NAFAE colleagues to put things forward for this.
Other streams at the conference include arts and health, crime and media, post Anthropocene scenes,  art in age of technology, reimagining the body, etc.

More can be found at the link about the conferences, how to apply and on specifics of each streams here: https://mcct.margins.org.uk/