Call for Papers Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual ConferenceTheme: “Reframing Togetherness”June 3-6, 2025George Brown College, Toronto, ONhttps://acc-cca.ca/index.php/conference/cca-2025-june-3-6-toronto/https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025 Deadline for submissions: December 2, 2024 The Canadian Communication Association invites submissions for its annual conference, to be held from June 3 to 6, 2025 as part of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS; https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2025), at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario. The conference will feature a keynote talk by Professor Sarah Sharma (https://sarahsharma.com/) from the University of Toronto. The theme for Congress 2025 is Reframing Togetherness. CFHSS writes: “As the first college to host Congress,…

Call for Papers Fifth annual International Conference on Games and Narrative (ICGaN 25)Theme: Adapt, Adopt, Adjust: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Adaptation, Storytelling and SimulationMarch 3-6, 2025Hosted by the Games Institute, University of WaterlooWaterloo, Ontario, Canada [Also online]https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/international-conference-games-and-narrative-2025 Deadline for submissions: November 20, 2024 Below are some details from the CfP, but please also check out the website as there is more discussion and description of the theme and types of submissions we are looking for there. THEME & TOPICS We are looking for interdisciplinary work understanding adapted and adaptive experiences, narratives, mechanics, and gameplay. Some example topics include: Narrative and design…

Call for Papers NEWPATH: New Paradigms in Communication Technologies and HumanityArtificial Intelligence: Technological, Social, and Cultural TiesMarch 6 and 7, 2025Onlinehttps://newpath.uskudar.edu.tr/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 20, 2024 We invite submissions for the 2025 online conference on “Artificial Intelligence: Technological, Social, and Cultural Ties,” which will be held in joint organization between the University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD-Portugal) and the Üsküdar University (Türkiye). In an era of unprecedented digital transformation, this multidisciplinary event will explore the entangled relationships between artificial intelligence, technology, society, and culture. There has been a significant amount of speculation about AI, including far-fetched…

Call for Papers Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries (DARCI)September 10-12, 2025School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of YorkYork, UKhttps://enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-conference-announcement Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 4, 2024 We are delighted to announce that in September 2025 we will be hosting the Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries (DARCI) at the University of York (UK). The arts are central to human experiences. However, lack of access to creative and cultural experiences, and to creative practice marginalises disabled people, and limits their representation. Moreover, most work on accessibility still occurs outside of…

Call for Papers Topical Collection: Ethics of VRFor the journal Ethics and Information Technologyhttps://link.springer.com/collections/bgdgiebfai Guest-Edited by Patrizia Breil & Jörg Noller Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2025 Like artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives. It is a major factor in media and communication, technological interaction, economic production, and simulation. Recently, David Chalmers (2022) has argued that virtual reality is as real as physical reality and that we can live a good life in virtual reality. Chalmers therefore raises the question of “[h]ow you should behave in a virtual world”. However, unlike…

Call for Papers Critical Studies in Media CommunicationFORUM – A Century of Propaganda Studies: From Pen and Sword to Surveillant Smartphonehttps://t.co/IZ2qDU7ime Editors:Emma L. Briant, Ph.D., Monash University, AustraliaMarc O. Jones, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Qatar Submission deadline: December 13, 2024 This Forum marks what has been, arguably, a century since the birth of modern Propaganda Studies: the flurry of scholarship that followed as a reaction to the rise of fascist and Stalinist propaganda use in Europe at a time of developing mass media. Propaganda is the deliberate use of organized communications to influence an audience or audiences to achieve political, or…

[NOTE: As with virtual reality’s long and continuing evolution, I’d argue that the answer to the question to be addressed at this event will impact but not negate the progression of presence experiences available to scholars and the public. –Matthew] Call for Papers Are we about to experience another AI Winter?A symposium of the 2025 convention of the UK Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)January 14-16, 2025Bristol, UKhttps://easychair.org/cfp/AISB-25AIW Deadline for submission of short papers and abstracts: November 11, 2024 The history of AI reflects many periods of novel technological development, followed by hyperbolic…

Call for Proposals Big Pictures edited collection on creative interventions in the built environmenthttps://www.instagram.com/wilsondesignkpu/p/DA9jXNSyQIR/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2024 We are excited to announce that we are currently seeking submissions for an edited collection of essays and imagery focusing on creative interventions in the built environment. Drawing from the themes showcased in the Big Pictures conferences (2023 and 2024), the publication will feature work exploring the role of murals, billboards, public art, and interactive projects in creating meaningful experiences in urban spaces. Potential themes could include, but are not limited to: Activating temporary and transitional public spaces…

Call for Papers Technotext: Text and Technology in Literature, Linguistics, and MediaIssue 26 (March 2025) of INTERFACE – Journal of European Languages and Literatureshttps://interface.org.tw/index.php/if/pages/view/CallforPapers26 Guest Editors:Charlène Clonts (Kyushu University)Claudio Sansone (National Central University) Deadline for submissions: December 30, 2024 The relationship between text and technology is as ancient as human civilization. Perhaps the first step might be the stone tools used to edge cave paintings or/and the formulas of oral literature. Later writing technologies (hieroglyphs, syllabaries, alphabets, etc.) revolutionized the way humans record, disseminate, and preserve knowledge, as their enabling the transformation of text into object they also enabled innovations…

Call: Chapters for “The Effects of Community on Game Play and Design” [NOTE: The earlier Call can be found in a June 2024 ISPR Presence News post. –Matthew] Dear colleagues, Please see the below CFA/CFP for an ongoing edited collection/book project. The project has undergone a refocusing from its initial title (“Git Gud”), so we are recirculating the CFA/CFP with a new December deadline to provide colleagues another opportunity to submit. There is now a clearer understanding of submission expectations and adjustment to the volume’s scope, which is now more explicitly focused on community and its role in game play,…

Call for Abstracts and Artistic Submissions Creative Machines and Minds Without Life: Critical Detachment and Disengaged FuturesA Cybioses Study Circle/Symposium organized by the Nordic Summer University (NSU)March 5-8, 2025“Augmented Performance Lab” at Aalborg University CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmarkhttps://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-2-cybioses-life-in-the-future-imperfect/ Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025 As part of the study circle/symposium series Cybioses – life in the future imperfect, organized as part of the Nordic Summer University (NSU; https://www.nsuweb.org/), we are pleased to announce a call for abstracts and artistic submissions for our symposium on “Creative Machines and Minds Without Life”. Invitation We invite scholars, artists, students, technologists, and other professionals working or…

Call for Papers “LOVE & LOSS” – Third symposium by THE NOSTAGAIN NETWORKAn interdisciplinary symposium featuring creative and critical perspectives on nostalgia, longing, attachment, and griefFebruary 14, 2025Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (and online – see event website)http://www.nostagain.ca/cfp2025 Deadline for submission of abstracts and research creation works: January 12, 2025 The NOSTAGAIN NETWORK is looking for paper presentations and research creation projects for our symposium “LOVE & LOSS” on February 14, 2025. THE SYMPOSIUM: Nostalgia is a complex thing to talk about and pinpoint. Scholarly efforts to recognize the more positive and creative aspects of nostalgia have opened up insights for…