Call for Abstracts: International Conference
Which Smartness? Whose Intelligence?
Critical Perspectives on Digital Technology and Political Subjects
May 13-14, 2024
Centre of Philosophy,  University of Lisbon, Portugal
Event organized as part of the activities of Praxis-CFUL
https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/events/digital-technology-political-subjects/

Submission deadline for abstracts: December 1, 2023

Digital technology has profoundly transformed our societies, shaping the way we interact, govern, and understand ourselves as subjects and political agents. From social media to videogames and digital platforms, the digital has become much more than a means of communication and information transmission. Digital environments are now spaces for existence, work, play, and politics. In other words, the digital has merged with social and physical environments. The digitalization of environments, from homes, to cities, and even forests, reinforces the infrastructural blurring of the boundaries between physical and digital. The deeply material consequences of cyberwarfare, the digitalization of work and communication, the “Internet of Things” – all point to a general interpenetration of the digital and the physical to constitute a new hybrid milieu.… read more. “Call: Which Smartness? Whose Intelligence? Critical Perspectives on Digital Technology and Political Subjects conference”

Call for Papers

Agency and Intentions in AI (AIAI)
University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
May 15-17, 2024
https://ail-workshop.github.io/aiai-conference/index.html

Submission of abstracts deadline: February 11, 2024

ABOUT

“Agency and Intentions in Artificial Intelligence” (AIAI) builds on the success of our workshop series “Agency and Intentions in Language” (AIL), which brings together scholars in theoretical linguistics, philosophy, and psychology who are interested in questions related to agency, intentions, reasoning about actions, and causation. AIAI aims at extending this interdisciplinary theoretical discussion of fundamental principles underlying human-human interaction to human-machine interaction, broadly construed.

The talk of “artificial intelligence” is everywhere. From its use in medical diagnosis to relationship chatbots, AI technology is improving rapidly in the diverse tasks it can perform, offering genuine benefits to human social life along with novel risks. With so much at stake, it is surprising that we have so little basic theoretical understanding of AI systems as unique agents that encode, or can be interpreted as encoding, intentional actions in communication with humans.… read more. “Call: Agency and Intentions in AI (AIAI) 2024 conference”

Call for Papers

Meta: The 20th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar
Tampere, Finland
May 7-8, 2024
https://springseminar.org/2024-call-for-papers

Submission deadline for extended abstracts: February 2, 2024

To limit one’s sense of games to abstract sets of rules is to ignore the central importance of how they are played by specific people in specific contexts. André Philidor’s 1749 claim that ‘pawns are the soul of chess’ and the strategy this implied changed how the game of chess was played. In the late 1980’s Jan Boklöv and others transformed the game of ski jumping by introducing the V-style. In both cases the rules stayed the same, while the metagame shifted. Many popular games, like poker, are driven by the interplay of ‘meta’ elements, like bluffing, which are neither properly inside nor outside the game itself. There can be no game without metagame.… read more. “Call: Meta: The 20th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar”

Call for Abstracts

Critical AR/VR Research (CAVRN)
Post-Conference for the 2024 International Communications Association Conference
Sydney, Australia
June 25, 2024
CAVRN at ICA: https://cavrn.org/ica24-conf-cfp/
ICA 2024: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica24

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 24, 2024

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for an upcoming post-conference of the 2024 International Communications Association (ICA) Conference at the University of Sydney, on the 25th June 2024. The post-conference is hosted by the Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality Research Network (CAVRN), a scholarly network established in 2022 dedicated to connect academic researchers in the rapidly growing field of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies with attention to their social, political and economic contexts.

With the introduction of the ‘Metaverse’ into popular lexicon, there has been a significant surge in interest in VR and AR technologies in popular culture, art, media, and academia.… read more. “Call: Critical AR/VR Research (CAVRN) post-conference of International Communication Association (ICA) 2024”

Call for Abstracts

The 4th Politics of the Machines (POM) Conference
POM Aachen 2024
Lifelikeness & beyond
RWTH Aachen University
KäteHamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re)
April 22-26, 2024
https://www.pomconference.org/pom-aachen-2024/

Deadline for submission of abstract: December 4, 2023

SUMMARY:

With the overarching theme “Lifelikeness & Beyond” the Politics of the Machines conference organized by Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research at Aachen University seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields across the sciences, technology and the arts to develop imaginaries for possibilities that are still to be realized and new ideas of what the contingency of life is. The call also seeks to question what the limits between reality, fiction and imagination can be when we look for sources of action or new forms of collective action and of creating collectivities. What kind of imaginaries are needed to think of new forms of research and practice that effectively act as a counterbalance to the many crises of the present?… read more. “Call: 4th Politics of the Machines (POM) Conference: Lifelikeness and beyond”