Call for Applications

Two-day international workshop on ‘The Social, Moral and Political Impact of Virtual Technology
22nd-23rd January 2021
Online

Submission deadline: 31st October 2020

This is a Call for Applications for a two-day international workshop on ‘The Social, Moral and Political Impact of Virtual Technology’, to be held fully online the 22nd-23rd January 2021, roughly 10:00-18:00 each day Chilean time.

In the third and final workshop on virtuality, this one will concentrate on some of the concrete social, moral and political impacts of virtual technology, now and going forward. With the high rise and influence of recent virtual technologies (such as social media and online gaming, as well as new virtual, augmented and mixed reality (VR, AR and MR respectively) technologies), understanding their various societal and other influences and effects is becoming increasingly pressing. With this in mind, abstracts (300-500 words) are welcome which seek to address any concrete social, ethical or political impact of a type (or types) of virtual technology.… read more. “Call: “The Social, Moral and Political Impact of Virtual Technology” online workshop”

Call for Participants

Trust in home: Rethinking interface design in the Internet of Things (THRIDI*) design workshop
19-20 November, 2020
Online
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/Trust-in-home-rethinking-interface-design-in-the-Internet-of-Things

Call closes: October 15
Participant selection: November 1

We would like to invite colleagues from all career stages (including PhD students) and all relevant fields (IoT, security, HCI, design, sociology, law, etc) for a two-day online design workshop “Trust in home: rethinking interface design in the Internet of Things (THRIDI)” on 19-20 November. The idea is to identify some of the gaps in design and regulation of UI for IoT technologies by co-designing the solutions for a range of hypothetical use cases in groups, which would hopefully lead to future research collaborations with colleagues from different disciplinary backgrounds.

IoT systems in smart homes present several privacy challenges. While GDPR creates a general duty for data controllers to implement privacy by default and privacy by design, this obligation requires taking into account the state-of-the-art.… read more. “Call: Trust in home: Rethinking interface design in the Internet of Things (THRIDI*) design workshop”

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Methodologies of Sonic Thinking (between Artistic Research and Phenomenology)
November 23 – 25, 2020
Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

Keynote speaker: Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
Main organizer: Martin Nitsche (CAS Institute of Philosophy, Prague, CZ)

Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 8, 2020

Human reasoning (incl. philosophy, language, arts, politics, leisure, etc.) is predominantly built on visual experience. Sonic thinking (a term that is gaining attention thanks to the volume edited in 2017 by our keynote speaker, Bernd Herzogenrath) challenges the primacy of visual and claims that human thinking should be transformed according to aural experience. Sonic research investigates our experience of sounds, music, rhythms, resonances, noises, and other sonic phenomena in order to describe configurations of human sense, which offer an alternative conception of human understanding to those maintained visually.

The conference aims to reflect upon sonic thinking as a specific way of research.… read more. “Call: Methodologies of Sonic Thinking (between Artistic Research and Phenomenology)”

Call for Papers

Towards development of mediatization research IV
Mediatization of everyday life: Media and love – transformation of emotions and relationships
Workshop with Mark Deuze, Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam
16 November 2020
Online
https://acadeuro.wroclaw.pl/event/towards-development-of-mediatization-research-iv/

Submission of proposed topic and 5 sentence description: September 15, 2020

All researchers of mediatization are cordially invited to submit their proposals for the closed workshop Towards development of mediatization research IV organized by the Institute of Social Communication and Media Science, Maria Skłodowska-Curie University in Lublin, Poland and Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Hub.

The workshop will take place online on 16 November 2020 and it will be led by Professor Mark Deuze of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

The title of this year’s edition is: Mediatization of everyday life: Media and love – transformation of emotions and relationships.… read more. “Call: “Mediatization of everyday life: Media and love – transformation of emotions and relationships” free online workshop”

[Note that presence-evoking technologies can be used to both encourage and discourage the ‘inhuman’ impulses explored in this conference. –Matthew]

Call for Contributions

The Art of Being Inhuman
A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Friday 16th April 2021 – Saturday 17th April 2021
Vienna, Austria
https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/series/interdisciplinary-perspectives/social-values/being-inhuman/conferences/

Submission deadline: Friday 2nd October 2020

The global novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has transformed the world as we know it, seemingly overnight. Every passing day bears witness to the best and the worst of humankind as we grapple with not only the health crisis, but also its reverberating impacts on every facet of society. We have seen countless examples of kindness, bravery and sacrifice among those who have done their part to assist their communities in stopping the spread of Covid-19. At the same time, displays of selfishness, greed and hateful behaviour of individuals and groups have punctuated the story of the world’s battle with Covid-19 with reminders of how truly awful people can be to one another.… read more. “Call: The Art of Being Inhuman: A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference”