The Call for Presentation Proposals is now open for the 3rd annual Midlands Conference in Critical Thought (MCCT), which will be hosted and supported by the University of Warwick on May 21st and May 22nd 2026.

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. 

There is no pre-determined theme for the MCCT. The intellectual content and thematic foci of the conference have been determined by the proposed streams. This year’s conference has 15 streams providing a range of topics. 

Stream 11, Work and career in the Neoliberal Edu-factory: Systemic Pressures and Inequities, will be of interest to COCAG members. Please visit https://mcct.margins.org.uk/#11-work for more detail.  The MCCT welcome presentation proposals via a 500 word abstract – PLEASE SUBMIT VIA A WORD DOCUMENT to midlandscritical@gmail.com. The deadline is 21st January 2026.