Draft – Final version confirmed after registration deadline: 4 August
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4th September 2025 – DAY 1
09:30 – 10:30 Pre-Conference Woman’s Network Groups’ Meeting as pre-conference agenda
Location: Various – Network groups’ Meeting as pre-conference agenda
09:30 – 11:00 Registration
Location: Entrance Foyer
10:30 – 11:00 Teas and Coffees
Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)
11:00 – 11:20 Session 1: Welcome and opening session
Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre
Professor Sue Rigby, Principal, Edinburgh Napier University
Professor Einar Thorsen, Chair of MeCCSA
Dr Diane Maclean, Dean of the School of Ars and Creative Industries, ENU
Lighting of Lamp
11:20 – 12:15 Session 2: Keynote 1
Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre
Dr Gholam Khiabany: Title TBA
Reader in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London
Chair: Prof G D Jayalakshmi, Director, Centre for Creative Practice, SACI, ENU (?)
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch
Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)
13:00 – 14:30 Session 3: Presentations x 4
Location: Various
14:40 – 15:40 Session 4: REF Plenary
Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre
Greg Walker, Chair Main REF Panel D
Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at University of Edinburgh
Chair: Prof Anne Schwan, Director, Centre for Arts, Media and Culture, SACI, ENU (?)
10:30 – 11:00 Teas and Coffees
Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)
16:10 – 17:40 Session 5: Presentations x 4
Location: Various
17:45 – 18:45 Reception Drinks with Exhibition Opening
20:30 for 21:00 Pub Quiz: Voodoo Rooms
5th September 2025 – DAY 2
09:30 – 11:00 Session 6: Presentations x 4
Location: Various
11:00 – 11:30 Teas and Coffees
Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)
1130 – 12:30 Session 7: Keynote 2
Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)
13:30 – 15:00 Session 8: Presentations x 4
Location: Various
15:00 – 15:30 Teas and Coffees
Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)
15:30 – 17:00 Session 9: AGM and Awards
Location: Various
17:00 – 18:00 Session 10: Roundtables/ Screenings/ Practice based research x 4/6/8 rooms
Location: Various
18:00 – 19:00 Drinks Reception
19:00 – 20:30 Dinner
20:30 Bar open
21:00 – 22:00 Ceilidh
6th September 2025 – DAY 3
09:30 – 11:00 Session 11: Presentations x 4
Location: Various
11:00 – 11:30 Teas and Coffees
Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)
1130 – 12:30 Session 12: Keynote 3
Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre
12:40 – 13:00 Closing Session
Location: Various
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)