CALL FOR PAPERS

A Manifesto for Cyborgs thirty-years on: Gender, Technology and Feminist-Technoscience in the twenty-first century

Journal of Media and Communication
An interdisciplinary journal for early career researchers and graduate students

Abstracts due: Friday 27^th of February, 2015

Volume Editor: Thao Phan

In her iconic essay A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s, Donna Haraway introduced the metaphor of the cyborg as an “ironic political myth” to critique the so far troubling narratives of the West. Published in the Socialist Review in 1985, it brings together a broad spectrum of literacies-from socialist-feminism, to cybernetics and biopolitics-to proffer a cutting criticism of Enlightenment humanism, gender essentialism, and military technoscience. Her provocations created a useful framework to destabilise rigid boundaries and make fluid the borderlines between human and animal, organism and machine, natural and artificial, semiotic and material.… read more. “Call: “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” thirty-years on: Gender, Technology and Feminist-Technoscience in the twenty-first century”

Immersive Learning Research Network Conference
iLRN 2015
July 13 – July 14
Prague, Czech Republic
http://immerisvelrn.org

Full Papers submissions: 1st March 2015
Author Notification: 15th April 2015
Poster submissions: 15th April 2015
Workshops Proposals: 15th April 2015
Workshop/Poster Notification: 30th April 2015
Main Conference and Special Sessions: 13th – 14th July 2015

OVERVIEW

The Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) is happy to announce its first International Conference in Prague on July 13th and 14th, 2015. The international conference will be organised by Graz University of Technology and University of Essex under the umbrella of the Immersive Learning Research Network Conference as a special event of the International Conference on Intelligent Environments

All the information about iLRN Prague 2015 and the paper submission process can be found online at www.immersivelrn.org/ilrn2015prague

THEME

Continuing the previous success in workshops and conferences on immersive environments for learning and training purposes, this international conference series spans the topic range from innovative research, technologies and tools to successful services and products of immersive environments to foster learning, training and other activities in motivational and engaging ways.… read more. “Call: Immersive Learning Research Network Conference – iLRN 2015”

CALL FOR PAPERS

ESSEM@AAMAS 2015
2nd International Workshop on
Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media:
opportunities and challenges for emotion-aware multiagent systems
Workshop website: http://di.unito.it/essem15

Co-located with AAMAS 2015 (http://www.aamas2015.com)
Workshop date: May 4 or 5, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

NEWS! Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED to February 20, 2015

Extended versions of the best papers presented at the workshop will
be published in a follow-on Issue of Springer’s Cognitive Computation journal
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RATIONALE

Emotions play a key role in the interactions that occur in a multi-agent system. Relevant perspectives include, on the one hand, research on architectures and cognitive models, which is concerned with the integration of emotional states into agents and the role of emotions in agent communication; on the other hand, research on techniques for sentiment analysis and opinion mining, devoted to automatic processing of affective information conveyed by spontaneous, multi-faceted user responses about shared contents.… read more. “Call: Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM@AAMAS 2015)”

Call for Papers:

The Crag International Confluence 2015
‘Creation of Reality’: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Comprehensive Understanding
Thursday 3 December – Saturday 5 December 2015
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, U.K.

http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/crag/2015/02/09/crag-international-confluence-2015-call-papers/

Since the second half of the 20th century, ‘creation of reality’ is a compound that has gained exponential momentum in books and other publications (fiction and non-fiction).

The general increase in the human belief that reality is, or can be to differing extents, created by us, is apparent in social processes of empowerment or disempowerment. ‘Creation of reality’ is also a growing scheme within the humanities, in the diverse corrugations of social constructivism. It is also vivid in the science-fictional idea of terraforming or planetary engineering, or in New Age beliefs of supra-agency. Contemporary philosophers of mind touch the ‘creation of reality’ theme through discussions on cognitive enhancement, virtual reality, or contemplative reprogramming, and they explore our cognitive capacities to shape our surroundings beyond our organismic apparatus.… read more. “Call: ‘Creation of Reality’: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Comprehensive Understanding”

Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges Proposals
at the
ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015)
Seattle, WA, USA

http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfc

Proposal submissions due: February 21st, 2015
Notifications: March 1st, 2015
Conference: November 9-13, 2015

The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes. In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, and computational linguistics for example, the availability of datasets and common tasks have led to great progress. We invite the ICMI community to collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our domain for the next 5 years. Multimodal Grand Challenges are driven by ideas that are bold, innovative, and inclusive.… read more. “Call: Multimodal Grand Challenges Proposals at ICMI 2015”