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Supporting the study of animation since 1987 Our Purpose The Society for Animation Studies brings together theory and practice within its diverse membership. Theory/Practice Join Today! Become part of this active and supportive community and join the SAS today!

Welcome to the Society for Animation Studies!

The Society for Animation Studies (SAS) is an international organization dedicated to the study of animation history and theory. It was founded by Dr. Harvey Deneroff in 1987. Each year, SAS holds an annual conference at locations throughout the world, where members present their recent research. For more information, contact SAS Co-Presidents Dr. Cristina Formenti and Dr. Mihaela Mihailova at pr*******@**************es.org.

The 37th Annual Conference will take place June 22-26 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA (USA). More information, including the CFP, will be available in the future.

SAS also publishes two peer reviewed publications: Animation Studies, the society’s own Open Access  journal, and the Open Access blog Animation Studies 2.0. The most recent articles from these two publications, alongside the SAS’s Twitter feed, are featured below.

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Animation Studies Journal

  • 16 June 2024
    “The Emotions that Get Stuck in Your Throat”: Expressivity in Speech, Script, and Sound in Japanese Animation
  • 16 June 2024
    Yefim Gamburg’s Passion of Spies: Parody in Soviet Animation
  • 16 June 2024
    Expanded Memories: Artistic Experiments into Hybrid Analogue-Digital Animation
  • 11 December 2023
    Animating in British Communities During the Lockdown
  • 5 December 2023
    Re-inventing Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre for Immersive Animation: A Practice-oriented Case Study
  • 4 December 2023
    Hogan’s Alley in the Enchanted Forest: R. F. Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and Walt Disney’s Dopey
  • 1 December 2023
    Toward a New Media Ecology: Aesthetic Experiments in Post-Socialist Chinese Animated Documentaries
  • 20 June 2023
    Hand of Artist, Voice of Griot: A Poetics of African Animation in the Films of Jean-Michel Kibushi
  • 20 June 2023
    Towards a Materialist Theory of Animated Documentary
  • 13 December 2022
    Adventure Time’s World-Building: Analyzing Its Opening Title Sequence and the Mobile Map

Animation Studies 2.0

  • 9 April 2026
    Frogs as Counterclaim in The Death of Gandji (La Mort du Gandji) (1965)
  • 7 April 2026
    Rethinking TingaTingaTales in Kenyan Animation History
  • 2 April 2026
    Negotiating Africanness in Contemporary African Animation
  • 26 March 2026
    Animated Environments and Uneven Futures: African Futurism, Class and the City in Iwájú (2024)
  • 24 March 2026
    The African Animation Studio as a Learning Institution
  • 19 March 2026
    Female Memory, Landscape and Liminal Mediation in Nayola
  • 16 March 2026
    Coyote v. Spectator: Ruptured grace in animated humour
  • 9 March 2026
    Punch the Clock: Looney Tunes and Labor
  • 27 February 2026
    Book Review: Drawn to Nature (2025) by Colin Williamson
  • 24 February 2026
    The (In)Appropriate Aesthetic of BoJack Horseman (2014)
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