University of Derby
April 24^th to April 25^th, 2025

Call for Presentations – deadline January 7^th 2025

The Call for Presentation Proposals is now open for the 2^nd annual Midlands Conference in Critical Thought (MCCT), which will be hosted and supported by the University of Derby on April 24^th and April 25^th 2025.

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. The MCCT is an offshoot of the London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) and shares its approach and ethos.

There is no pre-determined theme for the MCCT. The intellectual content and thematic foci of the conference has been determined by the streams outlined in this document. Please look through the streams to see where your presentation submission will best fit, we welcome presentation proposals via a 500 word abstract – PLEASE SUBMIT VIA A WORD DOCUMENT to midlandscritical@gmail.com. Past programmes of the LCCT, MCCT and examples of stream outlines can be found on the website: http://londoncritical.org.

The accepted presentations will configure the panels that constitute the streams outlined in this document. For more information about the ethos and structure of the conference please visit http://londoncritical.org, and if you have any questions please email us at midlandscritical@gmail.com. The deadline for presentation submissions is Wednesday January 7^th2025. Abstracts to be submitted via word and should not exceed 500 words and should be sent to: midlandscritical@gmail.com

Full details of the streams and stream conveners is available here: