We are pleased to announce that a volume of selected contributions from the international conference on representations of academia in film and television will be published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2026 under the title Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across the Globe.
The conference, held at the University of Passau on March 20–21, 2025, was organized by Daniela Wawra and Lucia Krämer from the Department of English Studies. It brought together researchers from India, the United States, Europe, and China to discuss how academia is portrayed on screen.
Over two days, participants explored representations of universities, research, teaching staff, students, and university politics across the globe, highlighting both cultural differences and shared themes — and reflecting on how these depictions relate to real-life academic and institutional experiences.
You can read more about the conference and its insights in the Digital Research Magazine.