[For more about CSPE, visit its website, and in particular the About page. –Matthew] Call for Participation: The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE)20th Anniversary ConferenceJune 4-6, 2025Glasgow, Scotlandhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-the-study-of-perceptual-experience-20th-anniversary-conference-tickets-1284212828139r Dear all, The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE) has now been in existence for twenty years! We are going to hold a celebratory 20th Anniversary Conference on 4 – 6th June 2025 in Glasgow. We would love for you to join us. We will have a range of philosophy talks on all things sensory that have been core to the work at the CSPE, such as perception, illusion, hallucination,…

Call for Proposals: AI Politics: A New Interdisciplinary Book SeriesTo be published by: Intellect and University of Chicago Presshttps://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/ai-politics-series-cfp-2025.pdf Edited by Andrew Hoskins (University of Edinburgh) and Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London) Deadline for submissions: [not included in cfp] We invite proposals for a new interdisciplinary book series, AI Politics, which will interrogate and shape debate on the social, political, and epistemological transformations wrought by artificial intelligence. This series provides a critical platform for researchers engaging with the emergent realities of AI — not speculative futures, but the immediate and ongoing contests over knowledge, data, information, power, identity,…

Call for Abstracts: 2nd European Congress on Disinformation and Fact-CheckingOctober 29 & 30, 2025Madrid, Spain and onlinehttps://www.disinformation.es/call-for-papers Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2025 Following the success of the inaugural event in November 2023, the 2nd European Congress on Disinformation and Fact-Checking is back and will take place on 29 – 30 October 2025 to convene experts, scholars, journalists, policymakers, and practitioners to address the evolving challenges of disinformation in Europe and beyond. Building upon the foundation laid by the first congress, which emphasized the multifaceted impact of disinformation and the importance of international collaboration, this year’s event aims to further…

Call for Papers: From Adolescence and Adulthood: Uncovering Youths’ digital practices in a continuously changing worldMedia International Australia Journal Special Issuehttps://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/CfP%20From%20Adolescence%20and%20Adulthood_Q2%202026-1744054262703.pdf Editing team: Bruce Mutsvairo, Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Tanja Bosch Deadline for full draft submissions: July 31, 2025 Research on the appropriation of digital platforms and their impact has grown rapidly over the last two decades. Although research on digital platforms has expanded, there remains a gap in understanding how young adults specifically navigate, appropriate, and experience digital technologies. In recent research, only a few of these studies have taken a special interest in the use of digital technology…

Call for Papers: 1st workshop on BEAR: Benefits of pErsonalization and behAvioral adaptation in assistive RobotsAt the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2025)Eindhoven, The Netherlands [and online] BEAR Workshop:August 28 (tentative)https://bear-workshop.github.io/website/ RO-MAN 2025:August 25-29, 2025https://www.ro-man2025.org/ Deadline for submissions: May 30, 2025 We are delighted to invite you to submit your papers to the 1st workshop on BEAR: Benefits of pErsonalization and behAvioral adaptation in assistive Robots), which will be held at the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2025), in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in August 2025.…

Call for Papers: Concept Art and Character Design: Critical and Creative PerspectivesJuly 18, 2025University for the Creative Arts (UCA)Farnham, Englandhttps://cacd2025.edublogs.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts and bio statements: May 30, 2025 The School of Games & Creative Technology at UCA, Farnham, is delighted to be hosting a one-day conference on Friday 18 July 2025, exploring the role of concept art and character design in the culture industries. Concept art is gaining increasing cultural, creative and academic recognition. This once-invisible aspect of development and production is acquiring increasing presence across many branches of the entertainment industry, including animation, videogames, comics and…