Society for Animation Studies 36th Annual Conference (7-10 July 2025, UAL, UK)

36th SAS CONFERENCE CFP The 36th Society for Animation Studies Conference will be hosted by the Screen School, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UAL) from July 7-10, 2025. The event will be in-person only. For this year’s conference, we invite paper and panel proposals that respond to the theme of “Sustaining Animation”. The title aims to explore and celeb...

CALL FOR AWARDS SUBMISSIONS

The Society for Animation Studies is now accepting entries for the 2024 McLaren/Lambart essay award & for the delayed 2023 McLaren/Lambart book award - which now foresees two categories, best monograph and best edited collection - as well as for a new practice-as-research award! The deadline for submissions is 10th JANUARY 2024 (11.59pm GMT) 2023 MCLAREN/LAMBART BOOK AWARD: MONOGRAPH...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Society for Animation Studies is now accepting submissions for the Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media! Entries must be previously unpublished academic papers – completed in 2021 – that contribute to the field of animation studies, broadly defined. The winning paper will be published in Animation Studies, the Society for Animation Studies’ peer-reviewe...

Society for Animation Studies 33rd Annual Conference (26 June-3 July 2022, Teesside University)

The theme of the Society for Animation Studies 33rd Annual Conference is 'Animation unlocked' and will celebrate all aspects of the animated. The pandemic has required us to stop and consider, as well as innovate and isolate, as we start to reanimate our everyday lives and Teesside University hopes to gather together animation scholars and practitioners from around the world in celebration of all...