Call for Abstracts International Workshop: Husserl’s Phenomenology of Phantasy and Emotions University of Cologne, Germany July 18-19, 2019 Submission deadline: May 6, 2019 This workshop is a small conference organized by the Husserl-Archive in Cologne and the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. Its goal is to bring together graduate students as well as experienced researchers interested in the relation of phantasy and emotions in the Husserlian work. Two keynote speakers from the Husserl Archive Cologne and four keynote speakers from abroad will lead the discussion. CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS: Jagna Brudzinska (Cologne) Saulius Geniusas (Hong Kong) Dieter Lohmar (Cologne) Ricardo…

Call for Papers Pro-Social Play! International conference on Storytelling and Well-being across Media Borders 17-19 October, 2019 University of Kent, U.K. www.prosocial-narrative.org Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2019 Plenary speakers: Charles Forceville, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam Tobias Greitemeyer, Social Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Austria Anja Laukötter, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Harry Yi-Jui Wu, Medical Ethics and Humanities, Hong Kong University Roundtable discussion with the award winning film director, Clio Barnard, following a screening of Dark River (2017) Workshops by artists at the arts charity People United on prosocial performances This truly interdisciplinary and international conference…

CALL FOR PAPERS GAME-ON’2019 The 20th annual Simulation and AI in Games Conference Breda University of Applied Sciences Breda, The Netherlands September 18-20, 2019 Organised by The European Technology Institute Sponsored by EUROSIS Breda University of Applied Sciences University of Skovde University of Žilina and GODAN For latest information see: www.eurosis.org or https://www.eurosis.org/conf/gameon/2019/ DEADLINES The submission period for GAME-ON’2019 starts APRIL 19th for early bird submissions and ends JUNE 5th for late submissions. You can submit papers in between those two dates. But try and aim for MAY 15TH which is the regular submission date. For more info on deadlines…

Call for Papers 4TUEthicsEDT: 4TU.Ethics Bi-annual Conference on the Ethics of Disruptive Technologies Technical University of Eindhoven Eindhoven, Netherlands November 7-8, 2019 https://www.easychair.org/cfp/4TUEthics-EDT Abstract registration deadline: June 15, 2019 Submission deadline: October 1, 2019 Throughout history, technology has been a driver of social change. The technologies of the industrial revolution played a crucial role in shaping modern society, and society has since then continued to be shaped by technological innovations. The conference focuses on technologies that will not just change specific domains or practices for which they were designed, but that will change our life in a much broader sense.…

Call for Papers Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Post Graduate Network (MeCCSA PGN) Conference 2019 July 1-2, 2019 Bangor University, Wales, UK https://www.meccsa.org.uk/news/cfp-meccsa-pgn-conference-2019/ 200-400 word proposals due: 8th April 2019 ‘Delivery technologies become obsolete and get replaced; media, on the other hand, evolve.’ -Henry Jenkins (2006: 13) The changes that have taken place within any aspect of media over the last several decades have been immense; some areas of the field are all but unrecognisable following such drastic adaptations and alterations. It is these adaptations, these changes, the evolution of media itself that is the theme of this conference.…

Call for Papers Interactive Assistants: How does their increasing ubiquity and intelligence impact users’ lives? Workshop at ACM IVA 2019 Paris July 2nd, 2019 https://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ags/soa/IVA-workshop/ Submission deadline for 2-page position papers: April 15, 2019 TOPIC After several decades of developments and research that was mostly restricted to laboratories and academic realms, intelligent agents now finally they enter people’s homes. Autonomous systems using artificial intelligence (AI) to communicate with humans will soon be a part of everyday life. Systems like Siri, Alexa or Cortana can already be found in numerous households, enabling the whole family to operate home applications (e.g., switching…

Call for Papers: Evental Aesthetics Themed issue: AI and ubiquitous smart technologies Deadline: 31 March 2019 Evental Aesthetics is an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to philosophical and aesthetic intersections. The journal is open-access, and there are no publication fees. The Editors seek submissions for a themed issue in the summer of 2019. Traditional conceptual distinctions between online and offline worlds are losing their explanatory grip. For half of the global population, being connected on a range of smart portable devices is now part and parcel of everyday experience and practices. So much so that it seems no longer appropriate…

Call for Chapters “New technological applications for foreign and second language learning and teaching” Editors Mariusz Kruk, University of Zielona Góra, Poland Mark Peterson, Kyoto University, Japan Proposals Submission Deadline: April 25, 2019 Full Chapters Due: August 23, 2019 Submission Date: December 16, 2019 Propose a chapter for this book: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3903 INTRODUCTION The book entitled “New technological applications for foreign and second language learning and teaching” will offer a wide-ranging exploration of the latest advances in technology-enhanced language learning. This publication combines theoretical and applied research from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. The volume will encompass contributions from international experts in the…

CALL FOR PAPERS SMPTE 2019 ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 21-26 October 2019 Westin Bonaventure Downtown Los Angeles https://2019.smpte.org/ Deadline for Abstract Submission: April 30, 2019 Submissions for proposals of technical papers is open for the SMPTE 2019 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (SMPTE 2019), 21-26 October, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites in Los Angeles. Abstracts must be submitted online no later than 30 April. Held annually by SMPTE, the annual technical conference is the world’s premier forum for exploring the evolution of media and entertainment technology. SMPTE 2019 will feature a high-tech exhibit hall, three days of…

Call for Curators IN MEDIA RES Theme week on Virtual and Augmented Reality https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQc2ap6hVA-gQSgLe4lgaOx1wkIrcg98pfu82zHCrps/edit Proposals due by March 18, 2018 In Media Res is looking for curators that are examining the topics of virtual reality and augmented reality, particularly in areas related to gaming, new media, and cinematic form. Curators can approach these related movements through a variety of lenses and methods including, but not limited to: Ontological structures of VR and AR Textual study of VR and AR media Virtual and augmented spectatorship VR & AR as queering technology Audience reception Virtual and augmented embodiment Disability studies The above…

CALL FOR PAPERS HCI Engineering 2019: 2nd Workshop on Charting the Way towards Methods and Tools for Advanced Interactive Systems Co-located with EICS 2019 – The 11th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (https://eics.acm.org/2019/) Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) Valencia, Spain, June 17-18, 2019 http://ui-engineering.org/hci-engineering-2019/ Submission deadline: April 5, 2019 This workshop, organized by IFIP WG 2.7/13.4 on User Interface Engineering, intends to contribute to the definition of a roadmap for future challenges and work directions for the engineering of interactive computing systems. Novel forms of interaction and new application domains involve aspects that are currently not sufficiently…

Call for Papers 18th IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing and Joint Conference on Serious Games at Arequipa, Perú, 11-15 Nov 2019 http://ucsp.edu.pe/icec-jcsg-2019/ Theme: “Putting the Fun in Functional: Entertainment for Serious Applications” Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS. Workshop and tutorial proposals due: April 15, 2019 Paper submissions due: June 1, 2019 The 18th IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing, the oldest and prime scientific conference series in the area of Entertainment Computing, and the Joint Conference on Serious Games (Serious Games Development and Applications and GameDays International Conference on Serious Games), will join together this year in…