Call for Papers: Digital Design & Beyond: Rethinking Critical Digital Fashion TrajectoriesFor Fashion Highlight Issue 8 (2026)https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/fh/announcement/view/90 Guest Editors: Daria Casciani and Natalia Kataila Deadline for submission of proposals: May 31, 2026 Over the past decade, and with heightened urgency in the post-Covid period, fashion has undergone a profound digital realignment. No longer confined to discrete tools or isolated innovations, digitalisation has become a structuring condition of contemporary fashion practice. From 3D modeling suites and configurators to generative AI for modeling and product development, digital twins of avatars and garments for production and archival purposes, virtual showrooms, digital fashion for…

Call for Papers: The Body and Embodiment in the Arts and Arts-Based ResearchA Transdisciplinary ConferenceJune 20, 2026: At the Association of Jungian Analysts’ Centre in London and OnlineJune 21, 2026: Online onlyhttps://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/25/body-and-embodiment/ Deadline for submissions: April 26, 2026 “The body is our general medium for having a world.”– Maurice Merleau-Ponty The London Arts-Based Research Centre (LABRC) invites proposals for its forthcoming conference, Embodied Aesthetics: The Body and Embodiment in the Arts and Arts-Based Research. This transdisciplinary event will explore the role of the body – as subject, medium, and site of inquiry – in artistic practice, performance, and arts-based research.…

Call for Contributions: Information on studies for a meta-analysis of deepfake vs. authentic video effectsPosted February 21, 2026 by Bumju Jung on the International Communication Association (ICA) Public Channelhttps://link.icahdq.org/discussion/call-for-studies-for-a-meta-analysis-deepfakevs-authentic-video-effects Hello ICA colleagues, My name is Bumju Jung (@ U of Southern California). Dr. Lynn Miller and I are conducting a meta-analysis examining how deepfake, compared to authentic videos, shape credibility-related evaluations (e.g., perceived credibility, accuracy, authenticity, believability). First – Are we missing your study?If you have a study that matches the criteria below (published, in press, working paper, or unpublished), I would be grateful if you could contact me.…

Call for Papers: 2026 Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations ConferenceTheme: The collective in the seemingly individual: Highlighting the world in human-technology relationsSeptember 21-23, 2026TU DelftThe Hague, the Netherlandshttps://www.aanmelder.nl/phtr26 Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 20, 2026 We are happy to invite you to the 4th international Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations (PHTR) conference, to be held in person at TU Delft’s Campus Spui in The Hague (the Netherlands), on September 21-23, 2026. This edition’s theme aims to highlight the collective dimension of seemingly individual human-technology relations. We invite submissions in different formats: individual paper presentations, design and multimedia contributions, panels, and interactive…

Call for Abstracts: artifices: technology, thought, art6th interdisciplinary Ereignis conferenceGdynia, Poland and onlineAugust 8-9, 2026https://www.ereignis.no/events/conference/2026http://commlist.org/archive/all/2026-all/msg00312.html Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2026 Our contemporary world is increasingly enamored by artificiality, yet the Artificial Intelligence moniker of the latest dot-com bubble triggers profound anxieties. The idea that we can create an artificial intelligence by way of machinic technology is by no means novel in the history of culture. In the Iliad, for example, Homer speaks of Hephaestus‘ “handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids”, characteristic by their intelligence, speech and strength. To Aristotle, technê was a craft grounded in knowledge, and…

Call for Papers: The End: Finality and Renewal in CultureThe 16th Annual Lotman Days ConferenceJune 10-12, 2026Tallinn UniversityTallinn, Estoniahttps://www.tlu.ee/en/lotman-days-conference2026 Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 28, 2026 (extended) “The end” is one of the most powerful and unsettling notions in culture. Human beings are endlessly fascinated by endings, whether of life, text, or civilisations, because they entail both the threat of general destruction and the possibility of rebirth where something completely new emerges in the place of the old. For the semiotician and cultural theorist Juri Lotman, this striving is inherent to human nature, arising from the desire to comprehend…

Call for Papers: Besides the Screen Ningbo 2026: Audiences, Subjects & AgentsJune 4-6, 2026University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)Ningbo, Zhejiang, Chinahttps://besidesthescreen.com/ Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026 In 2026, the Besides the Screen conference returns to the city of Ningbo to explore the ways audiences, subjects and agents are distributed and negotiated across borders – whether institutional, spatial, linguistic or technological. This year’s conference begins from the premise that the concept of the passive media audience has always been a myth. Nowadays, it would be difficult to find a situation where viewers are not doing anything, even if it is just…

Call for Papers: “Performing Conflict. Theatre, Art, and Performative Media Forms in Wars and Protests”For the Artivism (Media Activism, Network as Art) section of an issue of the journal Connessioni remote (Remote Connections)https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/connessioniremote/announcement/view/1007 Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 10, 2026Deadline for submission of full papers: May 10, 2026 Contemporary wars, conflicts, and political protests exist in a condition that is increasingly inseparable from their representations. Current media and artistic ecosystems do not merely influence how these phenomena circulate but actively shape the very ways in which struggle is enacted. Performance is no longer simply a “medium” through which violence,…

Call for Papers: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP)August 26-27, 2026Hosted by Inria Rennes, Francehttps://sap.acm.org/2026/ Deadline for abstract submission: April 21, 2026Deadline for paper submission: April 28, 2026 The ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) provides an intimate forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research and computer science disciplines. This includes such disciplines as cognitive psychology, perceptual psychology, psychophysics, behavior-analysis, and neuroscience on the perceptual side and computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, virtual reality and human-computer interfaces on the visual computing side. The interdisciplinary focus of this conference acknowledges that the various scientific…

Call for Papers: International Communication Conference on “Global Communication and Global Governance”May 29-31, 2026Xiamen UniversityXiamen, Fujian Province, Chinahttps://telegra.ph/CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS-Xiamen-University-Announces-an-International-Communication-Conference-on-Global-Communication-and-Global-Go-02-03 Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2026 Xiamen University is pleased to announce an international communication conference on “Global Communication and Global Governance,” organized in collaboration with members of the National Communication Association (NCA) and leaders from the Communication University of China (CUC). The conference will be held at Xiamen University, China, from May 29 to 31, 2026. Under this overarching theme, we invite research presentations that engage broadly with the communication discipline, particularly within the following three thematic tracks: Theme 1: Digital…

Call for Papers: Strangeness and Oddity: Embracing the Extraordinary in Arts-Based ResearchA Transdisciplinary ConferenceMarch 10-11, 2026Onlinehttps://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/08/strangeness-and-oddity-2026/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2026 “Blessed are the weird people – poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters and troubadours – for they teach us to see the world through different eyes” – Jacob Nordby What happens when we look beyond the ordinary? Can the strange and the peculiar hold the key to deeper truths about our world and ourselves? In what ways does the “bizarre” serve as a mirror for societal norms, fears, and desires? Throughout history, the extraordinary has often been…

Call for Papers: Cross-sensory Futures: Rewiring Perception in HCIA Workshop at ACM CHI 2026, The Association of Computing Machinery conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsBarcelona, SpainWorkshop: April 13, 2026, https://xsensoryfutures.ousmet.com/CHI 2026: April 13-17, 2026, https://chi2026.acm.org/ Deadline for submission of statement of interest or position paper: February 16, 2026 MOTIVATION Sensory HCI is at a crossroads. Human–Computer Interaction has long explored how technology can engage more sensory modalities than just vision and sound. In recent years, a growing body of work has gone further, intentionally leveraging how stimulation in one sensory modality can alter perception, cognition, or experience in another;…