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Call-out for papers/presentations!

MCCT—Midlands Conference in Critical Thought, 2026

University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Conference dates: May 21st to May 22nd, 2026

Deadline: 21st January, 2026

Applications are to be submitted directly to the larger MCCT organisation, which will then forward the submission for our stream, "Artistic Practice in the Age of Technology: Fatigue, Failure, and Resistance," to our team at VCAS.

Email your abstract to midlandscritical@gmail.com

VCAS is organising a conference stream with the theme: "Artistic Practice in the Age of Technology: Fatigue, Failure, and Resistance."

We're looking forward to interesting papers/presentations that will challenge the theme and the format of conference presentations.

*Unfortunately, no funding is provided if selected.

**A limited number of submitted proposals will be able to be done via Zoom/video conferencing, so presentations can be done remotely.