Call for Abstracts Screen Studies in the Age of Extended Reality & Synthetic Media An international conference as part of the Irish Research Council Laureate Award project “From Cinematic Realism to Extended Reality: Reformulating Screen Studies at the Precipice of Hyper-reality” (2022-2026) June 4-5, 2024 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wRg-s4bwWFVdPN4hQRRDdpjRpac3TedM/view Keynote speaker: Professor Jenna Ng, Head of Creative Technologies and Professor of Digital Media and Culture and the University of York Deadline for abstracts: February 20, 2024 The world is increasingly grappling with an existential crisis of what constitutes the real. Contemporary “post-truth” societies are mired by so-called fake news…

[Note: See the INTERACT! website for information on many other upcoming presence-related talks. –Matthew] Call for Participation INTERACT! ZOOM LECTURE “On attitudes towards AI” Christian Montag (Ulm University) January 11, 2024, 4pm CET via Zoom We would like to announce our first Zoom lecture in 2024 in the context of our project INTERACT! – New forms of social interaction with intelligent systems at Ruhr-University Bochum: Thursday, January 11th., 16:00 (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien) Christian Montag (Ulm University) “On attitudes towards AI” Abstract: Since the rise of generative AI people around the globe discuss how AI will impact societies. In…

Call for Abstracts Philosophy of Avatars: Avatars that represent humans: Moral, legal, and social considerations March 2, 2024 University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, Scotland [and online] https://philevents.org/event/show/117733 Submission deadline: January 19, 2024 DESCRIPTION Increasingly, avatars represent humans in ways that differ importantly from the familiar avatar/gamer relation. For example, ‘continuing bonds’ representations of deceased people and Hollywood replicas present as being the represented person, in a way that a gaming avatar does not. This workshop explores questions arising from avatar/human representation: around the nature and limits of avatar representation, avatar ownership, responsibility for avatar’s actions and the potential impact of increased…

Call for Papers Symposium: SHIFTING NATURES March 14-15, 2024 ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry https://www.ici-berlin.org/call-for-papers-symposium-shifting-natures/ Deadline to send an abstract: January 28,2024 The very concept of nature has been the subject of thorough critique for quite a while. From a Western deconstructive perspective, nature is a signifier standing for naive immediacy or reactionary normativity. Poststructuralist and queer paradigms have shifted from an idea of nature as a being and of the natural as a given to a conception of them as effects of discursive, performative practices. These critiques marked a turning point in the centuries-long debate on the concept…

Call for Papers Special issue of Safety Research: The Use of Extended Reality Technologies in Safety Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/safety-science/about/call-for-papers Guest editors: Dr. Daniel Paes, Massey University Dr. Zhenan Feng, Massey University A/Prof. Nan Li, Tsinghua University A/Prof. Ruggiero Lovreglio, Massey University Submission deadline: February 28, 2024 Many contemporary human activities carry inherent risks to people’s safety, and there is growing recognition of the need to improve safety records and reduce injury and fatality rates across various sectors worldwide. As a result, industry practitioners and academics are exploring the use of Extended Reality technology solutions to enhance safety. As technology advances and…

Call for Papers In the Thick of Images: Law, History and the Visual Confernce June 10 & 11, 2024 University of Lucerne, Switzerland https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-law/institutes-academies-research-centres/institute-for-interdisciplinary-legal-studies-lucernaiuris/events/in-the-thick-of-images-law-history-and-the-visual/#tab=c156596 Submission deadline: January 19, 2024 “Suppose that whatever we’ve done, felt, and thought has always happened in the thick of images.” (Anand Pandian, Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation) The ‘visual turn’ has long been turning in critical and cultural studies of law (see Douzinas & Nead 1999). In the past twenty-five years, a growing body of scholarship has evolved that emphasises law’s “constitutive imbrication” (Crawley 2020) with an array of visual forms, and elaborates on…