Call for Papers Web3D 2022 – The 27th International Conference on 3D Web Technology November 2-4, 2022 In a hybrid format (in-person and online) Telecom SudParis, in Evry-Courcouronnes, Paris, France https://web3d.siggraph.org/cfp/ Submission deadline: July 30, 2022 (extended) Search engines trends show that the world, at large, discovered the concept of metaverse in October 2021. Since then, more and more people and organizations use the term as a buzzword, connecting it with various types of innovative products and services. Still, what is commonly agreed in many of these communications is the reference to 3D representation of content and to the online…

CALL FOR PAPERS: 7th “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference December 8-9, 2022 Gdańsk, Poland In person/ Online https://www.inmindsupport.com/nostalgia-conference Organizer: InMind Support Scientific Committee: Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Deadlines for abstracts and bios: onsite presenters – by 18 September 2022 online presenters – by 30 September 2022 The 7th edition of the “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference will take place on December 8, 2022,  in-person at Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel in Gdańsk (Poland) and on December 9, 2022, online (via Zoom…

Call for Papers: Playing While the World Burns: Games in a Time of Crisis Thematic issue of the open access journal Arts & Cultural Studies Review (Przegląd Kulturoznawczy) https://www.culturalstudiesreview.eu/calls-for-papers/playing-while-the-world-burns-games-in-a-time-of-crisis/ Submissions are open until September 25, 2022 The world is in peril, and yet we are still playing. In  the midst of the climate emergency and environmental disasters of the Anthropocene; in the third year of a global pandemic; as wars rage in Ukraine, Yemen, Tigray and elsewhere; as nationalistic and far-right discourses move closer to the political mainstream sphere; as authoritarianism rears its head, freedom of speech is curtailed, and…

CALL FOR PAPERS Post-phenomenology and the ethics of Artificial Intelligence Themed issue of the journal Scenari Edited by L. Possati, L. Taddio, and F. Ferro https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/scenari/call-for-papers-2-22-2 Deadlines: For submitting proposals (title and abstract): July 25, 2022 For submitting the papers: September 30, 2022 As advances in AI occur at a rapid pace, there is a growing need for us to explore and understand what impact these will have on society. Policymakers, opinion leaders, researchers, and the general public have many questions. Can we distinguish between actions and behavior of an AI system? Who or what is responsible for the behavior…

[This isn’t a typical call for papers here, but there’s a clear connection to presence (and “digital technologies” are mentioned in one of the topic examples). –Matthew] Call for Book Chapters Sensory Rhetorics: (Re)Making Sense in Perilous Times Steph Ceraso and Jon Stone, Eds. Proposals and bios due by September 1, 2022 Book chapters due in February 2023 This collection aims to explore sensory rhetorics as a generative, capacious area of scholarly inquiry. There is a growing corpus of transdisciplinary scholarship on the senses, affect, and bodily ways of knowing/being (Massumi, Cvetkovich, Panagia, Ott). Sensory studies has also become an…

Call for Submissions Workshop on Prototyping Cross-Reality Systems To be held in conjunction with the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2022) October 17th or 21st, 2022 (Monday or Friday) Hybrid Workshop: https://crossreality.hcigroup.de ISMAR 2022: https://ismar2022.org Submissions deadline: July 21, 2022 (Thursday) (EXTENDED) We invite researchers, practitioners, and designers to participate in the first workshop on prototyping cross-reality systems. Cross-reality (CR) systems offer different levels of virtuality to their users, enabling them to either transition along the reality-virtuality continuum or collaborate with each other across different manifestations. Many Augmented (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) systems are…