Call for Participants: Games Against Death: Games, Mortality, and the Politics of DyingA Workshop at DiGRA 2026, the 17th annual conference of the Digital Games Research AssociationJune 14, 2026, 10am-1pmMaynooth, Ireland and onlineWorkshop: https://bcmcr.org/research/cfp-games-against-death-workshop/DiGRA 2026: https://www.digraconference2026.com/ Deadline for submission of abstracts and expressions of interest: April 27, 2026 This workshop, taking place at the DiGRA 2026 conference, proposes “Games Against Death” as a conceptual and organising motif. Drawing on Douglas Davies’ notion of “words against death” (2017) – cultural practices through which societies negotiate, resist, ritualise, and give meaning to mortality – we argue that games function as powerful interactive…

Call for Submissions: After Virtual Reality: Extending Immersive Narrative SymposiumOctober 19-21, 2026University of BergenBergen, Norwayhttps://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-centres/center-for-digital-narrative/featured/cfp-after-virtual-reality-extending-immersive-narrative-symposium Deadline for submissions: May 17, 2026 After Virtual Reality: Extending Immersive Narrative is a three-day symposium for a small cohort of participants, convened by the Extending Digital Narrative (XDN) research project the Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence at the University of Bergen. An affiliated exhibition will take place during the gathering at the Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF). 19 October – Exhibition Opening & Artist Panel 20-21 October – Academic Symposium The After Virtual Reality symposium will take place…

[NOTE: See the section in this Call regarding Open Access Funding for information about possible author publication fees. For more general information about these fees, see AJE Scholar’s “Understanding Submission and Publication Fees” and Wikipedia’s entry on Article Processing Charges. –Matthew] Call for Papers: Responsible AI in Healthcare Collection: Bridging Technical Innovation and Multi-Stakeholder NeedsFor Discover Artificial Intelligence (Springer Nature)https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ind2603&L=BCS-HCI&O=D&P=10854https://link.springer.com/collections/ccieiafgad Deadline for submissions: October 5, 2026 We are pleased to share a call for our topical collection on “Responsible AI in Healthcare: Bridging Technical Innovation and Multi-Stakeholder Needs” in Discover Artificial Intelligence (Springer Nature, SJR 2024: 0.876, H-Index: 15, Q1…

[NOTE: The URL at the end of this post doesn’t seem to be active as of April 17, 2026; it may become accessible from this page: https://www.consultacinema.org/category/call-for-papers/ –Matthew] Call for Papers: Listening to the City. The Cinematic Metropolis and the Soundscape of ModernityFor the journal: Imago. Studi di cinema e media, no. 34, 2026http://commlist.org/archive/all/2026-all/msg00577.html Editors: Lorenzo Marmo and Arianna Vergari Deadline for submission of abstract proposals: May 4, 2026 At the conclusion of his essay Modernity: The Troubled Trope (2011), Thomas Elsaesser underscores the necessity of a paradigm shift in the study of urban modernity, emphasizing the significance of the…

Call for Papers: Bodies in Digital TransitionA Student Research Conference presented by DiSCo (Digital Studies Collective) Network and Funded by the AHRC CHASE ConsortiumSeptember 8-9, 2026Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College Londonhttps://digitalstudiescollective.org/bodies-in-digital-transition Key Speakers: Dr Alfie Bown, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Culture and Technology, King’s College London Professor Ali Hossaini (Creative Practice Workshop leader), Professor in Digital Media and Culture, SOAS University of London / Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Engineering, King’s College London Deadline for abstracts: June 26, 2026 Machines glow, pulse, perform and think through metal, light, code, and living matter. The second Bodies in Digital Transition…

Call for Papers: Postgraduate Philosophy ConferenceStyles of Perception. From Historical Perspectives to the Digital AgeJune 30 – July 1, 2026University of YorkYork, Englandhttps://sites.google.com/view/stylesofperception/home Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1, 2026 What does the way you perceive the world say about yourself? While one might be tempted to treat perception as a passive reception of external stimuli, contemporary approaches conceive it as a form of activity. In other words, when we open our eyes, the way the world unfolds in front of us is not a mere matter of physiology or receptors. The activity of perception is an activity of…

Call for Papers: Workshop on Health, Wellbeing and Human-AI Interaction (HAII)At the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAII 2026)July 6-10, 2026Brussels, BelgiumWorkshop: https://hhai-conference.org/2026/elementor-6795/Conference: https://hhai-conference.org/2026/ Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2026 We invite paper contributions to an in-person workshop on the Health, Wellbeing and Human-AI Interaction (HAII) as part of the Hybrid-Human AI (HHAI2026) Conference in 6-10 July 2026 in Brussels. Artificial Intelligence is rapidly translating into health and care and has increasing relevance to individual wellbeing. It brings potentially transformative benefits together with new challenges. Example applications range from AI-assisted diagnosis and treatment support to wellness chatbots and…

Workshop on Human Expertise and Agency in AI-Supported WorkAt CHIWork 2026, the 5th Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for WorkJune 22, 2026Linz, Austria [remote participation is possible – see CFP in AI-SGES]Workshop website: https://agency-and-skill.github.io/Conference website: https://chiwork.org/26/ Deadline for submissions: May 4, 2026 A half-day, in-person workshop on June 22, 2026 in Linz, Austria, co-located with CHIWORK’26, the 5th Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work. As algorithms suggest diagnoses, draft legal arguments, grade assignments, or review code, professions are not only supported, they are reshaped: Skills are redistributed, judgments recalibrated, and responsibility renegotiated. While short-term performance improvements are frequently documented, much less…

Call for Contributions: XR-Research SymposiumJune 17, 2026Rose Bruford CollegeSidcup, Southeast Londonhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ART-TECHNOLOGY;f0beb81a.2604 Deadline for submission of proposals: May 4, 2026 Rose Bruford College is hosting a symposium to bring together academics, artists and technologists using XR technologies for research in theatre and performance. The use of XR (augmented/mixed/virtual reality) tools and techniques is now well-established in many fields of artistic practice and academic enquiry, from their use to make various kinds of digital performance to VR reconstructions of historic theatres. Through this one-day symposium, we want to bring together academics and practitioners to share, discuss and explore how XR can be…

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Teaching the Game, Second EditionPlay Story Presshttps://playstorypress.org/2026/04/07/call-for-proposal-teaching-the-game-second-edition/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1, 2026 (chapters due June 15, 2026) We are pleased to share this call for book chapter proposals for the second edition of Teaching the Game, to be published open access by Play Story Press. Abstracts are due May 1, 2026 . Authors will be notified by May 15, 2026. Accepted chapters will be due by June 15, 2026. Full details are below, but please feel free to contact us with questions or to submit your proposal at rferdig@gmail.com.…

Call for Papers: International Academic Conference: The Hybrid Subject: Navigating Human-AI CommunicationJune 28-30, 2026Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS)Shenzhen, Chinahttp://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2026-April/195805.html Deadline for submission of full papers OR extended abstracts: April 30, 2026 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Against the rapid integration of artificial intelligence into social, organizational, and interpersonal communication, human-AI interaction has evolved from instrumental operation to hybrid subjectivity: AI systems participate as conversational partners, decision collaborators, and co-creators, reshaping identities, norms, power dynamics, and communicative practices. This conference convenes international scholars in communication, media studies, organizational behavior, digital sociology, human-computer interaction, and AI ethics to interrogate the hybrid subject in theory,…

[NOTE: See especially the section toward the end regarding the Fictional Identities In Digital Space panel. –Matthew] Call for Papers: Conference – ‘The Role of Journalism in Endangered Democracy’June 5-6, 2026Communication and Media Department, University of SplitSplit, Croatiahttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2026-all/msg00527.html Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 25, 2026 RATIONALE: During the 2016 US presidential campaign the publication of inaccurate and, in particular of intentionally inaccurate information, through social media and fake websites became a salient reality of the digitized information world (Palczewski, 2017; Parkinson, 2016; Silverman & Singer-Vine, 2016). It further polarized American society and confused voting citizens. The proliferation of the…