Call for Participation: “Chatbots: Help Some/Harm Others. Might Destroy Humanity”A free online lecture by Allen J. Frances (Duke University School of Medicine, USA)November 25, 2025 at 17:00 CET (8:00 PST)https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=index&L=PHILOS-L&O=D&P=112304712 The registration for the second lecture of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series – see: https://ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/iapis_en – (Season 7) is open. We will be hosting Allen Frances (Duke University School of Medicine, USA) with a talk titled: “Chatbots: Help Some/Harm Others. Might Destroy Humanity.” REGISTRATION: Please feel welcome to register using this link:https://forms.gle/xhrRgQ6vfQRgQhcR7 ABSTRACT: Chatbots are the most consequential invention in human history. They have a wonderful potential to…

Call for Papers and Contributions: Tech Abuse ConferenceMay 19-21, 2026Londonhttps://www.genderandtech.net/conference Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 31, 2025 Dear All, I’m reaching out to share the Call for Papers and Contributions for our upcoming Tech Abuse Conference, taking place 19-21 May 2026 in London:https://www.genderandtech.net/conference. Together with my team at the UCL Gender and Tech Research Lab, we’re working to convene a diverse, global community committed to understanding and addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence and abuse. This includes not only academics, but also practitioners, survivors and survivor-led organisations, policymakers, technologists, legal experts, educators, journalists, NGOs, law enforcement, industry professionals, activists, and many…

Call for Papers: Online Conference: Media Technologies and Future StorytellingDecember 16, 2025http://commlist.org/archive/calls/2025-all/msg00936.html Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 14, 2025 We are pleased to announce an online one day conference exploring the evolution of storytelling in the wake of advancements in media technologies. This event will investigate how emerging technologies are reshaping the way we tell, preserve, and reimagine our stories. We live in a world where stories are not just read and watched but physically felt through technologies like (VR/AR/XR). As technologies like VR, AR, and XR make the user’s body an integral part of the narrative, we must…

Call for Papers: Amplification & Everyday Life ConferenceJune 4-5, 2026University of HuddersfieldHuddersfield, West Yorkshire, UKhttps://makeitlouder.co.uk/2025/10/23/call-for-papers-amplification-and-everyday-life/ Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2025 We are delighted to invite proposals for a two-day conference dedicated to Amplification and Everyday Life, taking place June 4-5, 2026, at the University of Huddersfield, UK. The Amplification Project, a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project housed within the Music and Music Technology division of the University of Huddersfield, invites proposals on the theme of “Amplification and Everyday Life.” As the first large-scale research project dedicated to the study of amplification, we hope this conference will help to identify and…

Call for Syllabi: The Human-Machine Communication (HMC) Syllabi Projecthttps://andrealguzman.net/hmcsyllabusproject Communication and media research is expanding to include artificial intelligence and robotics, and this broadening of the study of communication also has extended to the classroom. Scholars who are integrating AI and/or Social Robotics into their courses are invited to participate in the Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project by Andrea L. Guzman, Northern Illinois University, and Jason Archer, Michigan Technological University. The purpose of the project is two-fold: First, we aim to study how scholars are conceptualizing artificial intelligence, social robotics, and/or related technologies and incorporating them as subjects of study and…

Call for Papers: The sleep of digital reason? Dreaming of a creative machine in the age of AISpecial issue of Caleidoscopio – Revista de Comunicação e Cultura, the journal of the Communication Sciences Department of ECATI, Lusófona University (Vol. 1 No. 2)https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/caleidoscopio/announcement/view/245 Issue editors: José Gomes Pinto (Lusófona University) and Alexander Gerner (Lusófona University) Deadline for submissions: January 5, 2026 When Francisco Goya etched “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos” (1799), he warned that reason’s slumber is far from being ordered and predictable. But what is the folly and ignorance today that dreams about algorithmic rationalities and creative machines?…