[NOTE: This is a Google-translated English version of a Call for Papers written in French. Submissions in English are invited but see the details below. –Matthew] Call for Contributions “The virtual and its avatars”For the journal Philosophical Implicationshttps://www.implications-philosophiques.org/appel-a-contributions-dossier-le-virtuel-et-ses-avatars/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2025 File coordinated by Charles Bodon, doctoral student in contemporary philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, attached to the Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences of La Sorbonne (ISJPS), Center for Contemporary Philosophy (PhiCo), Experience and Knowledge pole (EXeCO), UMR 8103, Paris 1-CNRS. INTRODUCTION Today, the virtual is put in the spotlight by…

Call for Papers Trextuality 2. Material Turns in Translation: Intermediality and CirculationSeptember 4-6, 2025The Anderson Centre for Translation Research and PracticeUniversity of Galway, Irelandhttps://translation.universityofgalway.ie/trextuality2/ Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2025 Keynote speakers:Karen Bennett (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal)Piotr Blumczynski (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) The Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice at the University of Galway, Ireland, is delighted to announce the 2nd Trextuality Conference, scheduled on September 4-6, 2025. Following the success of the inaugural conference at the University of Turku (Finland) in September 2023, titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Translated and Multilingual Texts,” this second edition will focus on the…

Call for Papers: ‘Before, After and Beyond: Prequels and Sequels in Literature, Arts and Culture’A Special Issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film & PerformanceEdited by Annamária Fábián and Márta Minierhttps://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-adaptation-in-film-performance#call-for-papers Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2025 Proposals for scholarly articles, practitioners’ perspective essays and practitioner interviews are warmly invited for the upcoming special issue of the Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance. This thematic issue will address adapting and recreating various forms of text into various modes of media through enhancing or challenging the concept of temporal and spatial continuity, i.e. through prequels and sequels.…

Call for Papers Leisure and TechnologiesSpecial issue of Leisure Studies Special Issue Editors:Damion Sturm (Massey University, NZ) – d.sturm@massey.ac.nzGarry Crawford (Salford University, UK) – G.Crawford@salford.ac.uk Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 20, 2024 This special issue explores the relationship between leisure and technology. With contemporary leisure activities often deeply shaped, if not potentially determined, by technological advancements and developments, a broader understanding of leisure and technology is required. This special issue looks to probe some of the ways in which technologies underpin, influence, infringe upon and/or furnish creations, opportunities for and expressions of leisure, while also contemplating how these affordances…

Preliminary Call for Full and Short Papers UMAP 2025 – The 33rd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationJune 16-20, 2025New York City, NYhttps://www.um.org/umap2025/call-for-papers/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 23, 2025Deadline for submission of papers: January 30, 2025 ACM UMAP is the premier international conference bringing together research in AI and HCI to support effective human-AI collaboration via interactive systems that can model, adapt and personalize to their users. The conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code…

Call for Papers International Communication Association (ICA) 2025Pre-conference: Media, Trust & TechnologyJune 11, 2025, 9:00am-4:00pmUniversity of Colorado (CU) Boulderhttps://www.icahdq.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2025 The question of trust in media is one of the major questions of our times. The Edelman Trust Barometer has surveyed trust in media for over 20 years, and Gallup has surveyed trust in news since the 1970s. Debates about political polarization, hyper-partisanship, mis- and dis-information and propaganda all point to questions about trust in media in general, and in the news media in particular. With traditional media business models in a period of…

Call for Abstracts Beyond Anthropocentrism: Non-human Agents and Objects in ScienceFor 2025 issue of the journal Spontaneous Generationshttps://www.acpcpa.ca/articles/call-for-abstracts-beyond-anthropocentrism-non-human-agents-and-objects-in-science Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 31, 2024 Spontaneous Generations graduate journal for the history and philosophy of science and technology at the University of Toronto, invites abstract submissions for 2025’s issue on non-human agents and objects in science. We invite submissions from the history of science, philosophy of science, and science and technology studies broadly construed. A description of the issue’s topic and submission details follows. Traditional studies of science focus on human theorizing and human actions while viewing non-human factors…

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…