Call for Abstracts:

Disney and the Multi-Media-Verse: Disney’s Engagement with Multimedia, Space and Culture
The Disney, Culture and Society Research Network’s Third Annual Conference
June 23-27, 2025
ONLINE
CfP translations: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/100W8HiC3amHfEtT6qyPt4WOWEOFXw0pc

Deadline for submissions: February 16, 2025 (extended)

Submit your abstract here: https://forms.gle/yzXWcB9cTBCQmgbz5

The Walt Disney Company uses multiple online and offline spaces to sell and showcase their products to audiences and consumers. From cable networks, streaming and games, to licensed merchandise and theme parks, music, film and art – Disney fans can engage with the global multimedia conglomerate in a range of ways. But what do these spaces and options mean for audiences and wider society? And what does that mean for the past, present and future of the company? What is Disney Culture, and what is its relationship with people all over the world?

This year’s annual Disney, Culture and Society Research Network conference asks for papers exploring how Disney has shaped their brand for themselves and audiences alike across the multimedia spaces they inhabit. How have Disney sold products, reached consumers and developed ‘Disney Culture’ in all its entities?

If you are researching elements of the Walt Disney Company in its wide range of capacities, we want to hear from you. We invite abstract submissions from all disciplines on a diverse range of Disney Studies topics as represented by our Network, including but not limited to:

• Lucasfilm
• Marvel
• National Geographic
• Pixar
• Walt Disney Studios
• Adaptation
• Animation
• Art
• Audiences
• Corporate & Industry
• Disney+
• Environment & Animals
• Fairy Tales
• Fandom
• Fashion
• Food
• Games
• History
• Imagineering
• Live Action
• Marketing & Merchandising
• Music
• Pedagogy
• Politics
• Princesses
• Reboots
• Representation & Identity
• Streaming & Technology
• Television
• Theatre
• Theme Parks & Tourism
• Villains

We are aware of the current state of the world when it comes to travelling for conferences: the financial precarity of scholars, the environmental harm, and the difficulties of procuring visas for international travel. We want to make this conference as accessible to as many different Disney scholars as possible, so this will be an online conference.

TIMELINE

Abstract Deadline: 16 February 2025
Acceptances Communicated & Registration Open: 14 March 2025
Presenter Registration Closes: 16 May 2025
Attendee Registration Closes: 19 June 2025
Conference: 23-27 June 2025