This session invites paper submissions that explore the intersections of queer studies, film, media, and digital culture. In connection with this year’s conference theme, we particularly welcome papers that focus on palimpsestic media: how queer narratives have been remediated through new forms, how queer histories have been reimagined, rewritten, or overwritten in works of film, television, video games, and other forms of new media, broadly defined. Papers addressing other aspects of queer identities, communities, readings, and experiences are also encouraged.

Topics might include representations of queerness across film, television, video games, and social media; the role of queer writers and creators across media industries; and reception studies, queer fandoms, or queering fan studies. Other areas of interest include global and diasporic queer media, queer temporality onscreen, algorithmic culture and machine learning as they relate to identity, queer fandoms and remix cultures, participatory media practices, and queer approaches to genre, narrative, and aesthetics. We also invite papers that examine intersections of queerness with race, disability, class, and nationality in media, as well as queer engagements with emerging technologies such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and gaming.

We encourage submissions from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and hope to feature work that speaks to the full spectrum of LGBTQIA2S+ identities and experiences. In a cultural and political context in which queer narratives and communities are increasingly challenged, critical engagement with these media forms is more urgent than ever.

More information about the conference can be found at PAMLA's conference website:

https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/

Paper proposals can be submitted via PAMLA's online system:

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/