Newsletter #2 (2025)
TIME TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP
SSAAANZ Annual Membership runs from 1st July to 30th June of the following year regardless of when a member joins. Therefore, it is time to renew your membership.
Membership price for 12 months:
$60 (AUD) for continuing salaried academics or industry personnel.
$20 (AUD) for precariously employed academics, industry personnel, ECRs and students.
Why join?
Members have access to:
International network of Screen Studies studies scholars;
In-person and online conferences with discounted registration;
Funding to write a sponsored research paper that fosters discussion of the state of the field;
Our Mentorship Program, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Hubs.
For more information or to sign up, visit our website.
NEW HUB IN SYDNEY & First Event
We are excited to announce the establishment of a new SSAAANZ Hub in Sydney. The first event will be a social get-together…
Please join us for mid-year social drinks to celebrate the newly formed Greater Sydney SSAAANZ Hub at the Arthouse Hotel in Sydney CBD on Thursday 24 July.
All welcome! Members, non-members, emerging and established scholars!
Location: Arthouse Hotel, 275 Pitt St, Sydney
Date: 24 July 2025
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
RSVP: Please email Tara Lomax or Chris Comerford to express interest (no obligations – we just want an idea of expected numbers).
SSAAANZ Online Conference 2025
Starting this year, SSAAANZ will host an Online Conference during the “off” years of our regular in-person conference. We are excited to invite you to contribute to this event, which seeks to engage with the theme of ‘Emerging and Dispersed Scholarship.’ We invite both senior and junior colleagues in screen studies, including HDR students, creative practitioners and producers, and those who would consider themselves to be ECRs.
You can find the full CFP on our website.
Date and Location: Wednesday 12-Thursday 13 November via Zoom. There is potential for small in-person gatherings of scholars in close proximity to each other which will be advertised closer to time; if you are interested in establishing a gathering, please contact the conference working group.
Contact: ssaaanzonline2025@gmail.com
Save the Date: Next R&D Hub Event
Date: Friday 12 September
Time: 11:30am AEST / 1:30pm NZST / 11am ACST / 9:30am AWST
Runtime: 1 hour
Theme: Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media - online book launch and panel discussion
Please join us for the online launch of early career trans media researcher Dr Paige Macintosh's first monograph, Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media. The event will include a panel, moderated by Dr Missy Molloy.
RSVP: All are welcome. To register your interest, please email the R&D Hub Organiser: Andrew Couzens. You will be sent a calendar invite and Zoom link.
Call for Papers:
NON-TOXIC: ALTERNATIVE MASCULINITIES IN GAMING, ESPORTS & STREAMINGOne Day Symposium
4 September 2025, The University of Adelaide
We invite proposals for short presentations that explore contemporary thinking about new articulations of masculinity that move beyond—or explicitly contest—the hegemonic geek masculinities that have dominated research and discourse on online gaming. Co-authored presentations, post-graduate scholars, and works-in-progress are welcome. We particularly encourage submissions from scholars with historically and systemically marginalized backgrounds. Full CFP available here.
Something you want to promote or share with the SSAAANZ Community? Email ssaaanz@gmail.com