Call for Papers: “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”Special Issue of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS)https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/announcement/view/8 Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 17, 2025 In January 1966, mathematician and programmer Joseph Weizenbaum (1923–2008) published an article titled “ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine” in Communications of the ACM (Weizenbaum, 1966). Only a few years after he had been appointed an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this article made Weizenbaum internationally renowned as a pioneer…

Call for Abstracts: The Well-Read GameSpecial issue of the journal Well Playedhttps://playstorypress.org/2025/06/16/well-played-journal-cfp-well-read-games/ Curators:Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber, authors of the new MIT Press book The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully Deadline for submission of abstracts: September 1, 2025Deadline for final submissions for essays: January 15, 2026 In Tracy Fullerton’s and Matthew Farber’s new book, The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully, part of The MIT Press’ Playful Thinking series, they propose a new framework of interpretive play. This framework is a theory of player response, exploring the ephemeral and emotional responses that occur when people are in a state of play.…

Call for Papers: 2025 International Workshop on LLM and Agentic AI for Personalized Learning (LAAPL 2025)November 30, 2025The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong, Chinahttps://aidhwp.github.io/laapl2025 In conjunction with the Joint Conference ofThe 24th International Conference on Web-Based LearningandThe 10th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education(ICWL-SETE 2025)November 30 to December 3, 2025 Deadline for submission of papers: September 21, 2025 INTRODUCTION LAAPL 2025 workshop focuses on the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems in revolutionizing personalized learning. It aims to delve into how these advanced AI technologies can be leveraged to create adaptive, interactive, and highly personalized…

Call for Abstracts: International Conference:Ethical and Social Perspectives on New Military TechnologiesRoyal Military Academy, Brussels, BelgiumFebruary 26-27, 2026https://philevents.org/event/show/137321 Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2025 (extended) The aim of this 2-day international conference is to examine ethical and social perspectives on the impact of technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous systems on the military, warfare, and the Just War tradition. There will be a strong focus on applied military ethics, but researchers from any relevant fields are encouraged to apply. The conference will take place 26–27 February 2026, in person, at the Royal Military Academy (Brussels), the military university…

Call for Papers: LONELINESS: 7th International Interdisciplinary ConferenceSeptember 25-26, 2025Online via Zoomhttps://www.inmindsupport.com/loneliness-conference Deadline for submission of proposals: September 7, 2025 Organizer: InMind Support Scientific Committee:Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, PolandMarzia Dessi – The European Graduate School [EGS] Saas Fee, SwitzerlandProfessor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: What makes us happy and content in our life? Some people may point to fabulous fame, fortune, or money. Some may say that the key to happiness are interpersonal relationships. But what if someone is alone? Is loneliness really disastrous?…

Call for Papers: The ethics of generative artificial intelligence and related topics in communication practiceA special issue of the journal Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethicshttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2025-all/msg01198.html Deadline for expressions of interest: October 15, 2025Deadline for submission of full papers: March 2026 Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, welcomes papers on the ethics of generative artificial intelligence and related topics in communication practice. How do we sort the competing claims and concerns made for AI tools, including problems of bias, accuracy and hallucination, concerns over how it changes professional work or even displaces it, questions of transparency,…