Call for Papers Fiction, Narrative and Art Beyond Literature Barcelona Workshop 12 Universitat de Barcelona 29–30 April 2020 https://easychair.org/cfp/bw12 Submission deadline: 31 December 2019 The Barcelona Workshop has been the signature event of the LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy for over 20 years. It is a small-format conference, with no parallel sessions, that aims to provide ample space for discussion and informal interaction among participants. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Susan Feagin (Temple) Andrew Kania (Trinity) Kathleen Stock (Sussex) THE THEME Literature has so far played a central role in the philosophical debates concerning fiction, narrative and the cognitive relevance of art.…

Call for Abstracts Self-coaching tools for conducting responsible research and innovation (RRI) with social robots Workshop at the International Conference of Social Robotics (ICSR 2019) Madrid, Spain November 26th-29th, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/sc-rri Submission deadline: October 13th, 2019 We would like to invite you to submit your abstract proposal at the workshop on “self-coaching tools for conducting responsible research and innovation (RRI) with social robots” that we organize as part of the International Conference of Social Robotics in Madrid, Spain (ICSR 2019). OVERVIEW Responsible innovation Innovating is about creating and transforming the future of society. However, to ensure a desirable future for…

CALL FOR PAPERS The Hungarian Philosophical Review. The Journal of the Philosophical Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Hungarian Philosophical Review, the leading peer-reviewed philosophy journal of Hungary, regularly publishes English-language thematic issues that are open access. The upcoming such issue will be published in winter 2019/2020. The Journal welcomes submissions on the following topic: Artificial Intelligence Volume 63, Issue 4 (2019) (open access issue) Guest editors: Zsuzsanna Balogh, Judit Szalai, Zsofia Zvolenszky (Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest) Deadline for submission: October 1, 2019 Description: Systems employing artificial intelligence–AI systems–play an increasingly important role in many…

Call for Participation Urban Play Design Camp 3-4 October 2019 Amsterdam, the Netherlands Join us at the Urban Play Design Camp (3-4 October, 9.30-17.30, at Garage Notweg, Notweg 38, 1068 LL Amsterdam), a 2-days practical workshop to discover the techniques for creating games for cities. Students, practitioners, community organizers, activists, artists, researchers are all welcome. The Urban Play Design Camp provides participants with a hands-on practical introduction to the process of inventing, prototyping and testing playful activities in public spaces. Why working on games and cities? While smartphones promise to connect us with far-away people, we risk losing contact with…

Call for Papers The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) 2020 Conference June 17-20, 2020 Prince Conference Center, Calvin University Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA http://scsmi-online.org/conference Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2019 The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) invites proposals for presentations at its annual conference to be held June 17-20, 2020 at Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. SCSMI is an interdisciplinary organization made up of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, historical, psychological, neuroscientific, and evolutionary approaches to the analysis of film and other moving image media. Proposals should facilitate the society’s…

Call for Chapters: Humans Meet AI Abstracts due by September 30, 2019 Dear colleagues, Following our successful international conference in June 2019 at Örebro University, Prof Alessandro Saffiotti and myself will be the editors of the following book. We wish to extend the chapters to authors that did not participate in the symposium. You are welcome to send your abstract before the end of September 2019. Full papers (7000 words) are expected by the end of 2019 and content will be peer-reviewed. The publisher is very likely to be Springer (Anticipation Science Series). Please contact us for more details. Best…