Call for Abstracts: Knowing Place Through Film and Audiovisual Media (academic conference)February 9-11, 2026The Arctic University of NorwayAlta, Norwayhttps://folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3087-knowing-place-through-film-and-audiovisual-media Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2025 Places, cultures, and ways of knowing the world create one another. This academic conference concerns the ways in which films, series, and other audiovisual media and arts serve not only to represent place and home but also to imagine it, understand it, and produce it for the future. All cultural productions are created out from particular positions, perspectives, and geographical bases. This is true for everything from blockbuster movies that aim for global audiences, to…

Call for Papers: Planetary Screens ConferenceEnvironmental Crisis, Interconnected Lifeworlds, & Sustainability in Film & Screen MediaSeptember 4-5, 2025Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Irelandhttps://planetaryscreensconference.wordpress.com/ Keynote Speaker: Dr Tiago de Luca (University of Warwick)Film Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 2, 2025 In today’s global environment, ecological destruction, biodiversity loss and climate change, as the consequence of accelerated industrialisation are no longer speculation (Beck 2008). Whether understood through the frameworks of the Anthropocene or the Capitalocene, these are now planetary threats, affecting not only a particular geographical region, but the whole world, endangering both human…

Call for Papers: AI in CommunicationA Special Issue of Review of Communicationhttps://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/ai-in-communication/ Special Issue Editor:Jihyun Kim, University of Central Florida, jihyun.kim@ucf.edu Deadline for manuscript submissions: May 31, 2025 The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we interact, collaborate, and communicate. From AI as a tool, AI-mediated communication, and AI serving as a conversational partner, these advancements have reshaped communication landscapes across various levels and multiple contexts. This themed issue of Review of Communication seeks to explore the multifaceted roles, uses, and implications of AI in communication. We invite studies that examine AI as a tool, mediator, or…

Call for Participation: Uppsala-Vienna AI Colloquium — Julian Hauser: “AI am I: Personal Assistants and the Self”May 30, 2025Online via Zoomhttps://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2505&L=PHILOS-L&P=R44718 The Uppsala Vienna AI Colloquium is a series of online colloquium-style talks focused on philosophical issues surrounding AI technology. Each talk will address a specific issue of relevance to AI systems (e.g., intelligence, agency, responsibility, etc.) and will be delivered by an expert with a research background on the topic. The intended audience of the talks are philosophically informed individuals with an interest in the philosophy of artificial intelligence. More details about the Uppsala Vienna AI Colloquium are available at: https://uv-colloquium.com/…

Call for Chapters: “Gotta Study ‘Em All: 30 Years of Pokémon”To be tentatively published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2026Full CFP (PDF): https://piotrsiuda.com/wp-content/uploads/CFP_Pokemon.pdf Editors: Samuli Laato, Elina Koskinen, Piotr Siuda Deadline for submission of initial proposals (Extended Abstracts): June 30, 2025 [NOTE: This volume proposal is to be submitted for review to Bloomsbury as the editors received initial positive feedback from the commissioning editors. Subject to their final decision, this book will go ahead as tentatively scheduled below.] Today, the Pokémon franchise is considered the world’s most valuable media franchise of all time (Statista, 2021; The editors of TIME, 2024).…

Call for Papers: The Role of Technology in Relational CommunicationA Special Issue of Review of Communicationhttps://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/technology-relational-communication/ Deadline for submissions: September 28, 2025 Special Issue Editor:Michelle T. Violanti, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Review of Communication is dedicated to advancing the field of communication by examining research areas that are still emerging to advance our knowledge about a communication phenomenon. The rise in telehealth, often advocated by insurance companies, has impacted provider-patient relationships at levels not seen previously. Similarly, workplaces have found ways to use technology to build and maintain relationships for their remote workers. Individuals working in isolating jobs, such as…