Call for Papers

4th Global Posthuman Symposium: “POSTHUMAN AGENCY”
NYU
April 30-May 2, 2020
New York City, US
https://nyposthuman2020.weebly.com/cfp.html

Deadline for abstracts and bios: December 31, 2019

We are delighted to announce the 4th Posthuman Global Symposium, to be held at New York University, New York, USA. This Symposium is dedicated to exploring the importance of posthuman agency in the interrelated significations of human and non-human realms. We intend to spark a deep and multilayered analysis of posthuman agency both as praxis and as a moral stance on the current global issues, as exemplified by its advocacy of environmentalism, cyborg rights, animal personhood, sustainable advanced technologies and ethical economies. We wish to examine posthuman agency from a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to: philosophy, natural and social sciences, law, religion, technology, mindfulness, and the arts.

Areas of interest include: human ways of living in the anthropocene; artificial intelligence, robots and ethical technology; the ethics of human enhancement and biotechnologies; genetic privacy; technological addiction; environmental sustainability; power, equity and the global dynamics of human interactions with the nonhuman world; drones, space, big data and co-existence; spirituality, religions and mindfulness in the posthuman age; and related topics.… read more. “Call: 4th Global Posthuman Symposium: “Posthuman Agency””

CALL FOR PAPERS

SAT 2019
International Workshop on Socio-Affective Technologies: An Interdisciplinary Approach
https://socioaffectivetechnologies.wordpress.com/

In Conjunction with SMC 2019
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Bari (Italy), October 6-9, 2019
http://smc2019.org/

Submission deadline: July 21

PURPOSE

Within Human- Machine systems and interaction, the present workshop aims at featuring state of the scientific research on socio-affective technologies by integrating both the computational and psychological approach in the understanding, recognizing and shaping affective processes in real and new social environment (social media, virtual realty) even in educational contexts.

The two main focuses of the workshop will be on linguistic, visual and multimodal aspects of the mediated communication. The interdisciplinary approach of the workshop that will include psychologists, computer scientists, computational linguistics, will contribute to emphasize ways to strengthen interdisciplinary connections between the computational and human sciences of socio-affective dynamics.

TOPICS

• Social computing
• Social media analysis
• Sentiment Analysis
• Social media dynamics (i.e.

[Apologies for the late notice (I just saw this); if you’re interested consider contacting the organizers about a late submission. –Matthew]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

THE PICTURESQUE: Visual Pleasure and Intermediality in-between Contemporary Cinema, Art and Digital Culture

International film and media studies conference organized by the Sapientia University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), within the framework of the research project supported by the UEFISCDI
25-26 October, 2019
http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/the-picturesque-visual-pleasure-and-intermediality

Deadline for proposals: July 15, 2019

Continuing our series of conferences dedicated to rethinking intermediality in contemporary cinema and visual culture, we propose to initiate a discussion around aspects of intermediality that may unfold from the perspective of the picturesque.

The much-debated notion inherited from the art theories of the late 18th century originally denoted both an aesthetic quality (something pleasing to the eye situated between the serenely beautiful and the awe-inspiring sublime) and a particular visual impression (something that looks like a picture in nature).… read more. “Call: THE PICTURESQUE: Visual Pleasure and Intermediality in-between Contemporary Cinema, Art and Digital Culture Conference”

DISSELF II: Self-Perception in Human and Artificial Agents
Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Porto
23 October 2019
disself2019.wordpress.com/

Abstract submissions deadline: 15th of August 2019

Keynote Speakers:

• Makila AUVRAY – Institut des Système Intelligents et Robotique, Paris.
• Anna CIAUNICA – MLAG-Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto.
• António MARQUES (TBC) – Politécnico do Porto, Escola Superior de Saúde.
• Verónica ORVALHO – Department of Computer Science, University of Porto.
• Manos TSAKIRIS – Royal Holloway, University of London.
• David HARIS SMITH – McMaster University, Canada.

The capacity to integrate self-related information across multiple sensory channels is fundamental to building cohesive representations of our self, body and world. Self-perception scaffolds both our subjective experience of being present, in the here and now, and our successful navigation in a complex physical and social environment.

Recent years have seen a substantial increase in research aiming at implementing complex forms of mental states such as self-consciousness in artificial agents such as robots and machines.… read more. “Call: DISSELF II: Self-Perception in Human and Artificial Agents Workshop”

Call for Papers

ACM IUI 2020: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2020 Conference
Cagliari, Italy
March 17-20, 2020
http://iui.acm.org/2020/
Contact: program2020@iui.acm.org

Upcoming deadlines:
Abstract: Oct 1, 2019 (compulsory)
Paper submission: Oct 8, 2019

ACM IUI 2020 is the 25th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces.

ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning.

WHY YOU SHOULD SUBMIT TO ACM IUI

While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two.… read more. “Call: ACM IUI 2020: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2020 Conference”