Call for Abstracts: artifices: technology, thought, art6th interdisciplinary Ereignis conferenceGdynia, Poland and onlineAugust 8-9, 2026https://www.ereignis.no/events/conference/2026http://commlist.org/archive/all/2026-all/msg00312.html Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2026 Our contemporary world is increasingly enamored by artificiality, yet the Artificial Intelligence moniker of the latest dot-com bubble triggers profound anxieties. The idea that we can create an artificial intelligence by way of machinic technology is by no means novel in the history of culture. In the Iliad, for example, Homer speaks of Hephaestus‘ “handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids”, characteristic by their intelligence, speech and strength. To Aristotle, technê was a craft grounded in knowledge, and…

Call for Papers: The End: Finality and Renewal in CultureThe 16th Annual Lotman Days ConferenceJune 10-12, 2026Tallinn UniversityTallinn, Estoniahttps://www.tlu.ee/en/lotman-days-conference2026 Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 28, 2026 (extended) “The end” is one of the most powerful and unsettling notions in culture. Human beings are endlessly fascinated by endings, whether of life, text, or civilisations, because they entail both the threat of general destruction and the possibility of rebirth where something completely new emerges in the place of the old. For the semiotician and cultural theorist Juri Lotman, this striving is inherent to human nature, arising from the desire to comprehend…

Call for Papers: Besides the Screen Ningbo 2026: Audiences, Subjects & AgentsJune 4-6, 2026University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)Ningbo, Zhejiang, Chinahttps://besidesthescreen.com/ Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026 In 2026, the Besides the Screen conference returns to the city of Ningbo to explore the ways audiences, subjects and agents are distributed and negotiated across borders – whether institutional, spatial, linguistic or technological. This year’s conference begins from the premise that the concept of the passive media audience has always been a myth. Nowadays, it would be difficult to find a situation where viewers are not doing anything, even if it is just…

Call for Papers: “Performing Conflict. Theatre, Art, and Performative Media Forms in Wars and Protests”For the Artivism (Media Activism, Network as Art) section of an issue of the journal Connessioni remote (Remote Connections)https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/connessioniremote/announcement/view/1007 Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 10, 2026Deadline for submission of full papers: May 10, 2026 Contemporary wars, conflicts, and political protests exist in a condition that is increasingly inseparable from their representations. Current media and artistic ecosystems do not merely influence how these phenomena circulate but actively shape the very ways in which struggle is enacted. Performance is no longer simply a “medium” through which violence,…

Call for Papers: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP)August 26-27, 2026Hosted by Inria Rennes, Francehttps://sap.acm.org/2026/ Deadline for abstract submission: April 21, 2026Deadline for paper submission: April 28, 2026 The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) provides an intimate forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research and computer science disciplines. This includes such disciplines as cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, psychophysics, behavior-analysis, and neuroscience on the perceptual side and computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, virtual reality and human-computer interfaces on the visual computing side. The interdisciplinary focus of this conference acknowledges that the various scientific…

Call for Papers: International Communication Conference on “Global Communication and Global Governance”May 29-31, 2026Xiamen UniversityXiamen, Fujian Province, Chinahttps://telegra.ph/CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS-Xiamen-University-Announces-an-International-Communication-Conference-on-Global-Communication-and-Global-Go-02-03 Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026 Xiamen University is pleased to announce an international communication conference on “Global Communication and Global Governance,” organized in collaboration with members of the National Communication Association (NCA) and leaders from the Communication University of China (CUC). The conference will be held at Xiamen University, China, from May 29 to 31, 2026. Under this overarching theme, we invite research presentations that engage broadly with the communication discipline, particularly within the following three thematic tracks: Theme 1: Digital…