Call for Papers: Generative AI Companions: What They Are and Why That MattersA special issue of the journal Philosophical Studieshttps://link.springer.com/collections/iiaagcacje Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2026 The special issue aims to explore the ontological status of Generative AI companions and the moral upshot of entering into a relationship with these entities. Guest Editors: Marianna B. Ganapini — mbergam1@charlotte.edu Kesavan Thanagopal — kesavan.thanagopal@gmail.com Robert Clowes — robert.clowes@gmail.com DESCRIPTION The pervasiveness of Generative AI (GenAI) companion apps and the ease with which one can use them to create companion chatbots to interact with, have raised some concerns among the general public.…

Call for Papers: Artificial Intelligence and Children: Influencing Societies, Human Values and GovernanceAn International ConferenceSeptember 10-11, 2026Times School of Media and School of Artificial IntelligenceBennett UniversityGreater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India [and online]https://necs.org/news/calls-for-papers/artificial-intelligence-and-children-influencing-societies-human-values-and Deadline for submissions of abstracts: May 3, 2026 (full papers for accepted abstracts due June 21, 2026) The Times School of Media and School of Artificial Intelligence at Bennett University invites research papers and practice based presentations for an international conference on the theme, Artificial Intelligence and Children: Influencing Societies, Human Values and Governance, scheduled for 10th and 11th September 2026 at Bennett University.…

Call for Chapters: Architectures, Governance, and Operational Realities in the Symbiotic Metaversehttps://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/9930 Editor:Vincenzo De Masi, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China Deadline for submission of proposals: May 24, 2026 (Full chapters due: July 26, 2026) A call for chapters is open for the edited volume Architectures, Governance, and Operational Realities in the Symbiotic Metaverse, to be published by IGI Global Scientific Publishing. INTRODUCTION The idea of the metaverse, first associated with Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and later developed in contemporary strategic and technological terms by Matthew Ball, has evolved from a speculative virtual world into a broader framework for persistent,…

Call for Papers: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media TechnologiesA minitrack at HICSS-60, the 2027 Hawaii International Conference on System SciencesJanuary 5-8, 2027Big Island of HawaiiMinitrack: https://communicationhicss.wordpress.com/HICSS-60: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Deadline for submissions of papers: June 15, 2026 The Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack focuses on the study of communication taking place on digital and social media. Communication is the making of meaning and culture among people, with growing interconnections with a world of human-machine interactions. In mediated form, communication can involve text, emoticons, audio, images, video, virtual or augmented reality, or any combination thereof. The minitrack welcomes research on all…

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…