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Calls for submissions to, and/or particpation in, conferences, journals, edited books, research projects and other endeavors related to presence

Call: The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus (Hybrid conference)

Call for Proposals

The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus
Sponsored by London Arts-Based Research Centre
May 27-28, 2024
Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Online
https://labrc.co.uk/2024/02/11/storytelling/

Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 14, 2024

This conference aims to gather both creatives and scholars to discuss the diverse types, functions, and significance of storytelling.

“The power of stories lies in their ability to access the deep layers of the psyche, providing a mirror to our inner world.” – Marie-Louise Von Franz

As aptly stated by Jimmy Neil Smith, “We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.” What distinguishes humans is not merely our consciousness, but our innate capacity to craft narratives – myths being the earliest manifestations of this unique trait, as noted by Margaret Atwood, “built in the human plan.… read more. “Call: The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus (Hybrid conference)”

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Call: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-58)

[Note: For other HICSS tracks and minitracks related to presence see https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/ –Matthew]

Call for Papers

Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack
https://CommunicationHicss.wordpress.com/

HICSS – Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
January 7-10, 2025
Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, USA
http://hicss.hawaii.edu/

Submission deadline: June 15, 2024

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to submit your research to the HICSS Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack. This minitrack focuses on the study of communication taking place on digital and social media.

Communication is the making of meaning and culture among people, with growing interconnections with a world of human-machine interactions. In mediated form, communication can involve text, emoticons, audio, images, video, virtual or augmented reality, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on all forms of digital communication, including interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, as well as a wide variety of contexts for communication, such as news, politics, entertainment, education, social movements and activism, etc.… read more. “Call: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-58)”

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Call: The Limits of Fiction Workshop

Call for Abstracts

The Limits of Fiction
November 21-22, 2024
Paris, France
https://sites.google.com/view/limitsoffiction2024

Submission deadline: April 15, 2024

Two-day workshop on the 21st and 22nd of November at College de France (Paris) on the limits of fiction, organized by François Recanati and Merel Semeijn. We invite submissions of abstracts for presentations in philosophy, semantics and/or other fields that are related to the workshop theme.

WORKSHOP THEME

This workshop brings together researchers that explore the limits of the concept of ‘fiction’, or the limits of fiction itself. Topics of interest include:

  • What are limit cases of fiction?
  • What phenomena can we explain by reference to the ‘fictive stance’ and what phenomenon can we not explain in this way?
  • Investigations into non-standard/understudied fictions (e.g., metafiction, irony, video-games, virtual reality, fanfiction, etc.) and their theoretical ramifications for philosophy of fiction in general
  • The fiction/non-fiction border
  • The relation between fiction and concepts such as ‘illusion’, ‘deception’, ‘dreams’, etc.
read more. “Call: The Limits of Fiction Workshop”
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Call: Digital Technologies and Identity (Hybrid symposium)

Call for Abstracts

Digital Technologies and Identity
Tilburg School of Humanities & Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and online
July 4-5, 2024
https://philevents.org/event/show/120862

Submission deadline: April 30, 2024

Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and other digital technologies impact and transform our identities in various ways.

Algorithms perform a wide range of tasks for us, changing the nature of work and our identities as workers. They decide who gets a mortgage, who earns parole, and who is invited to a job interview, constraining our life choices. Algorithms on social media influence how we vote, what groups we align with, and how we express our identities to others. We anthropomorphize and form close relationships with digital technologies embedded in chatbots and robots. Meanwhile, generative AIs proficient at generating text, music, and images raise questions about our creative identities and authenticity of expression. As digital technologies are integrated into our brains and bodies, new forms of hybrid, cyborg identities emerge.… read more. “Call: Digital Technologies and Identity (Hybrid symposium)”

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Call: Perception in Games and Virtual Worlds Workshop II

Call for Papers

PERCEPTION IN GAMES AND VIRTUAL WORLDS Workshop II
May 10-11, 2024
Regenbogenfabrik, Lausitzer Str. 21a
Berlin, Germany
https://www.gamephilosophy.org/2024/03/cfp-perception-in-games-and-virtual-worlds-ii-10-11-may-2024/
https://sites.google.com/view/perceptioningames/

Submission deadline for abstracts: April 11, 2024

Both traditional games and games that take place in virtual environments rely on play states designed around their perceptual features. This is apparent by the fact that they prominently rely on phenomenal spatial structures, but also by a variety of perceptual roles that enter into elements like storytelling, sound, kinesthetic feedback and immersive design.

How should we understand the character of perception in games and virtual environments? While normal perception registers ordinary perceptual properties, players perceive objects and properties imposed by images, rules, symbols and ludic context. In the perception of virtual worlds, users are not perceiving ordinary objects, but rather images and symbols designed to instill imagination and to convey semantic contents.… read more. “Call: Perception in Games and Virtual Worlds Workshop II”

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Call: 3rd Workshop on Epistemology and AI

Call for Abstracts

3rd Workshop on Epistemology & AI
University of Luxembourg
June 13-14, 2024
https://philevents.org/event/show/119742

Submission deadline: April 15, 2024

Invited Speakers:

Organisers:

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this workshop is to explore how recent advances in AI technology intersect with epistemological topics and debates. Some possible topics include, but are by no means limited to, the following:

(i) How (if at all) is it possible to understand, explain and gain knowledge about Neural Networks given the complexity and opacity of their internal operations and training history?

(ii) How might AI technologies be used to supplement and improve our own human epistemic capacities?

(iii) When (if ever) is it rational to rely on AI technologies whose internal operations we do not fully understand when forming beliefs?… read more. “Call: 3rd Workshop on Epistemology and AI”

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Call: Experiential Learning in Communication Division at National Communication Association (NCA) 2024 Conference

[NOTE: See the NCA website for more presence-related calls. –Matthew]

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Proposals for Experiential Learning in Communication Division at National Communication Association (NCA) 2024 Conference
November 21-24, 2024
New Orleans, LA, USA
https://www.natcom.org/call-submissions

Submission deadline: March 27, 2024

Experiential Learning in Communication welcomes your submissions for our sessions in New Orleans, Louisiana. Experiential learning involves creating and facilitating direct, practical learning experiences for students and asking them to reflect on the learning process. This division focuses on the practice of experiential learning with the goal of understanding the process and impacts of the communication process in our world. Forms of experiential learning include:

  • Community-Based Learning
  • Internships and Practicum
  • Study Abroad
  • Service-Learning
  • Simulations (Immersive Technology, Narrative Experiences, etc.)

The division would like to especially encourage 1) research and essays related to the role, value, opportunities, challenges, and assessed outcomes of experiential learning, 2) research and essays that highlight the contribution of experiential learning to communication theory and practice, 3) SPARK interactive session contributions (a hallmark of the Experiential Learning Division) designed to share teaching and project ideas related to service-learning and other types of experiential pedagogy, 4) Play!… read more. “Call: Experiential Learning in Communication Division at National Communication Association (NCA) 2024 Conference”

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Call: LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use (Hybrid Workshop)

CALL FOR PAPERS

LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use (Hybrid Workshop)
Berlin (Weizenbaum Institute / TU Berlin) & online
August 29-30, 2024
https://www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/NEXT-EVENT

Submission deadline: April 15, 2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and other generative AI systems are the subject of widespread discussions. They are often used to produce output that ‘makes sense’ in the context of a prompt, such as completing or modifying a text, answering questions, or generating an image or video from a description. However, little is yet known about the possibilities and implications of human-sounding machines entering human communication. The seemingly human-like output of LLMs masks a fundamental difference: LLMs model statistical patterns in huge text corpora, patterns that humans are not normally aware of. Humans do perceive patterns at various levels, but when we produce ordinary language, we do not explicitly compute statistical frequency distributions.… read more. “Call: LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use (Hybrid Workshop)”

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Call: FTC 2024 – Future Technologies Conference 2024

Call for Papers

Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2024
November 14-15, 2024
London, United Kingdom
https://saiconference.com/FTC2024/CallforPapers

Submission deadline (round 1): March 15, 2024

The Future Technologies Conference presents the best of current systems research and practice, emphasizing innovation and quantified experience. FTC has emerged as a renowned world-wide gathering of academic researchers, Ph.D. and graduate students, top research think tanks and industry technology developers.

Join us for FTC 2024, the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting research breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Science, Computing, Ambient Intelligence and related fields. Click here for conference topics.

Previous conferences successfully brought together technology geniuses in one venue to present and share their unique research methodologies and outcomes providing solutions to various gruesome and complicated problems of modern day living. It also aided in an intra- and inter-field exchange of ideas.

Authors are kindly invited to submit their papers/ posters/ demo proposals as per the schedule below,

Round 1

  • Submission Due: 15 March 2024
  • Acceptance Notification: 01 April 2024
  • Registration Deadline: 15 April 2024
  • Camera Ready Submission: 01 May 2024
  • Conference Dates: 14-15 November 2024

Round 2

  • Submission Deadline: 01 April 2024
  • Acceptance Notification: 01 May 2024
  • Registration Deadline: 15 May 2024
  • Camera Ready Submission: 01 June 2024
  • Conference Dates: 14-15 November 2024

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES… read more. “Call: FTC 2024 – Future Technologies Conference 2024”

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Call: New Media at 2024 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Papers, Abstracts, and Panel Proposals in New Media

2024 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
October 4-6, 2024
DePaul University-Loop Campus
Chicago, IL
https://www.mpcaaca.org/2024-mpca-aca-annual-conference

Deadline for submission proposals: May 15, 2024
Registration deadline: September 15, 2024

The Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association is a regional branch of the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. MPCA/ACA usually holds its annual conference in a large Midwestern city in the United States. Anyone is welcome to join and submit proposals for consideration at the MPCA/ACA conference. View our Subject Areas page for more information about topics covered at our conferences.

FOR MPCA/MACA NEW MEDIA TOPIC AREA

Topics can include, but are not limited to, new media texts and technologies, production methods, communication, and trends in new media.

Please upload 250-word abstract proposals on any aspect of New Media to the New Media area, https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panelsread more. “Call: New Media at 2024 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference”

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