The 5th Biennial Philosophy and Literature Conference at Purdue University Theme: “Truth, Thought, and Technology” October: Friday & Saturday, 19th & 20th, 2012 Philosophers from ancient Greece to the present have explored technology’s relation to truth. Whether that exploration has been undertaken as part of a broader investigation of mimesis or causality, or whether it has been couched in terms of a questioning of Being, technology is never far from the concerns of philosophers. Similarly, writers of fiction have thematized technology and its cultural consequences. Writers ranging from Samuel Butler to Aldous Huxley to David Foster Wallace have reacted to…

Videogames 2012 5th Annual Conference in Science and Art of Videogames Game, Play, and Society 13, 14 and 15 December, Catholic University of Portugal – Lisbon Videogames 2012 – Annual Conference in Science and Art of Videogames will be organized by the research line “Media, Technology, Contexts” of the Research Center for Communication and Culture (CECC), at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal, and the Portuguese Society of Videogame Sciences (SPCV).The SPCV conferences take place annually and have come to constitute significant venues to promote research as well as debate and foster the videogames industry.…

Here are the five prospective pre-constituted panels looking for participants from the Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group (VGSSIG) of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) for the Chicago 2013 SCMS conference. Please note that deadlines and requirements for submissions vary from panel to panel; please contact the panel convener directly if you have questions. Best of luck to all! Sincerely, Jessica Aldred jessica.aldred@gmail.com Daniel Reynolds dreynolds@umail.ucsb.edu VGSSIG co-chairs Felan Parker felan.parker@hotmail.com VGSSIG graduate student representative…

Call for Participants, Ideas, and Sponsors Augmented Reality AT ICIS2012 A Special Face-2-Face Workshop December 16, 2012 08:30-12:00 at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2012) to be held in Orlando Florida, USA from December 16-19, 2012 ICIS (http://icis2012.aisnet.org/) is the major annual international meeting of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which has over 4,000 members representing universities in over 95 countries worldwide. It is the most prestigious gathering of academics and practitioners in the IS discipline, and provides a forum for networking and sharing of latest ideas and highest caliber scientific work among the IS professions. Each year,…

Call for Papers: Antennae: The Virtual Animal www.antennae.org.uk In his influential essay from 1977 titled ‘Why Look at Animals?’ John Berger advanced the thesis that human relationships with animals are predominantly shaped by representation. The essay argued that the increase of animal representation, which began at the end of the nineteenth century, constituted a phenomenon directly linked to the increasing disappearance of live animals in our everyday lives. Today animals have conspicuously emerged in video games and alternative reality scenarios, posing pressing questions about representation and interaction at a time when the virtual world seems to be on the brink…

Call for Papers International Conference on Narrative Manchester Metropolitan University, 27-29 June 2013 Plenary Speakers: Catherine Belsey – Swansea University Diane Negra – University College Dublin Nicholas Royle – University of Sussex Sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative and hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University, the International Conference on Narrative is an interdisciplinary forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, discipline, language, and medium.…

CALL FOR PAPERS: ICCE 2012 Workshop On “Real Education in Virtual Worlds: Foreign Language Learning and Teaching” Date: November 26, 2012 (Monday) ~ November 30, 2012 (Friday), Singapore. Held in conjunction with The 20th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2012) Description: The practices of educational applications in virtual worlds have obtained many concerns among educators and researchers over the past few years. To respond the increasing demands of practitioners applying virtual worlds in educational settings, the first workshop on Real Education in Second Life was held in conjunction with The 18th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2010).…

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION 2012 13-14 December 2012, The Hague, the Netherlands Responsible Innovation and entrepreneurship http://www.responsible-innovation.nl info@responsible-innovation.nl KEYNOTE SPEAKERS To be announced soon. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: We invite you to submit abstracts for the Second Annual International Conference on Responsible Innovation organized by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). NWO has launched an interdisciplinary research program that brings together researchers from ethics, applied science and the social and behavior sciences in research projects that aim at designing solutions to urgent societal problems. We encourage submissions from an interdisciplinary spectrum, including but not limited to…

1st Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-12) 23 October 2012, Kanazawa, Japan at JapTAL 2012 (the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing) OBJECTIVES This workshop aims at promoting and exploring the possibilities for research and practical applications involving Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Games. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and share ideas regarding how the NLP research community can contribute to games research and vice versa. For example, the use of NLP techniques can help the formal study and understanding of games as well as the design and development of…

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Videogames and Society Workshop@Cyberspace 2012 http://ksvi.mff.cuni.cz/games http://www.cyberspace.muni.cz Brno, Czech Republic IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for abstract submissions:  31 July 2012 (24:00 GMT) Notification of acceptance:  31 August 2012 Conference:  30 November 2012 – 1 December 2012 Workshop:  1 December 2012 Camera-ready copy of papers:  15 January 2013 WORKSHOP KEYNOTE TALKS: Jan L. Plass, Games for Learning Institute, New York University, USA Design factors for effective learning games Cyril Brom, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Czech Republic Towards applying Mayer’s Theory of Multimedia Learning in the Field of Serious Games: Learning effects of Europe 2045…

The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) invites papers to be presented at its divisional meeting held in conjunction with the Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association (February 20-23, 2013, New Orleans Hilton, New Orleans, LA).  Papers may address any topic that involves the connection between philosophy and the visual arts: film, photography, video games, or other aesthetic media.…