Call for Papers I3E 2020 – The 19th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society “Responsible design, implementation and use of information and communications technology” 6 – 8 April 2020 Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa http://i3e2020.org Submission deadline: 30 October 2019 The age of digital transformation opens up exciting new avenues for design. Yet, with the ubiquitous connectedness of a digitally transformed world, come unintended, unpredictable and often adverse consequences for individuals, societies and organisations – in developed and developing contexts.  Security, privacy, trustworthiness, exploitation and well-being are some of the pressing concerns resulting from new digital realities. There…

Call for Submissions Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) 5th Biennial Conference: Futures August 26-30, 2020 University College London, UK https://achs2020london.com/ Deadline for submissions: 15th October 2019 The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) will be held at University College London in the Summer of 2020. The conference’s theme – Futures – aims to engage seriously and critically with the often stated aims of heritage to address the concerns of future generations, whilst also asking participants to think expansively and creatively about the future of critical heritage studies as an emergent field of focus across…

Call for Papers Fiction, Narrative and Art Beyond Literature Barcelona Workshop 12 Universitat de Barcelona 29–30 April 2020 https://easychair.org/cfp/bw12 Submission deadline: 31 December 2019 The Barcelona Workshop has been the signature event of the LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy for over 20 years. It is a small-format conference, with no parallel sessions, that aims to provide ample space for discussion and informal interaction among participants. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Susan Feagin (Temple) Andrew Kania (Trinity) Kathleen Stock (Sussex) THE THEME Literature has so far played a central role in the philosophical debates concerning fiction, narrative and the cognitive relevance of art.…

Call for Abstracts Self-coaching tools for conducting responsible research and innovation (RRI) with social robots Workshop at the International Conference of Social Robotics (ICSR 2019) Madrid, Spain November 26th-29th, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/sc-rri Submission deadline: October 13th, 2019 We would like to invite you to submit your abstract proposal at the workshop on “self-coaching tools for conducting responsible research and innovation (RRI) with social robots” that we organize as part of the International Conference of Social Robotics in Madrid, Spain (ICSR 2019). OVERVIEW Responsible innovation Innovating is about creating and transforming the future of society. However, to ensure a desirable future for…

CALL FOR PAPERS The Hungarian Philosophical Review. The Journal of the Philosophical Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Hungarian Philosophical Review, the leading peer-reviewed philosophy journal of Hungary, regularly publishes English-language thematic issues that are open access. The upcoming such issue will be published in winter 2019/2020. The Journal welcomes submissions on the following topic: Artificial Intelligence Volume 63, Issue 4 (2019) (open access issue) Guest editors: Zsuzsanna Balogh, Judit Szalai, Zsofia Zvolenszky (Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest) Deadline for submission: October 1, 2019 Description: Systems employing artificial intelligence–AI systems–play an increasingly important role in many…

Call for Participation Urban Play Design Camp 3-4 October 2019 Amsterdam, the Netherlands Join us at the Urban Play Design Camp (3-4 October, 9.30-17.30, at Garage Notweg, Notweg 38, 1068 LL Amsterdam), a 2-days practical workshop to discover the techniques for creating games for cities. Students, practitioners, community organizers, activists, artists, researchers are all welcome. The Urban Play Design Camp provides participants with a hands-on practical introduction to the process of inventing, prototyping and testing playful activities in public spaces. Why working on games and cities? While smartphones promise to connect us with far-away people, we risk losing contact with…