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…

Call for Participation: The Other AI: Automated IntimaciesMay 13, 2025 at 13:00 to 22:00V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the NetherlandsAnd onlinehttps://v2.nl/events/the-other-ai-automated-intimacies You’re invited to the first one-day symposium of a research strand from the Queer Analysis Research Group, taking place at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The event combines queer and trans theory with psychoanalytic perspectives in relation to the automation of intimate relations and the exteriorisation of desire. Can automation—and its failures—bring something new, or invite new interpretations of old habits and…

Call for Papers: AIS25: AI & Society: Shaping a Responsible FutureA Local Meetup of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025) CommunityJune 28-29, 2025Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist UniversityZhuhai, Chinahttps://socialresponsible.net/ Deadline for submissions: May 25, 2025 We invite you to contribute to AI & Society: Shaping a Responsible Future, a local meetup of the FAccT community centered around the critical societal impacts of Artificial Intelligence. This event aims to foster discussion, share insights, and present cutting-edge research on the ethical, social, and technical challenges and opportunities presented by AI technologies. We welcome submissions from researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and…

Call for Abstracts: Avatar Aesthetics WorkshopAt Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) 2025June 30, 2025Valetta, Maltahttps://digra.org/digra-2025-workshop-information/ DiGRA 2025:June 30 – July 4, 2025https://digraconference2025.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 10, 2025 (extended) The DIGRA workshop on Avatar Aesthetics invites submissions on the characteristic properties of avatar-based videogames as an art form, and on the aesthetic aspects of self-embodiment in videogames. Avatarial aesthetics relate to a broader tradition of bodily spectacles and amusements while also sharing similarities with experiences created by VR, installation art and performance art. Furthermore, avatar aesthetics intersects with the aesthetics of architecture, of space and travel, and with…