Call for Papers: Planetary Screens ConferenceEnvironmental Crisis, Interconnected Lifeworlds, & Sustainability in Film & Screen MediaSeptember 4-5, 2025Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Irelandhttps://planetaryscreensconference.wordpress.com/ Keynote Speaker: Dr Tiago de Luca (University of Warwick)Film Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 2, 2025 In today’s global environment, ecological destruction, biodiversity loss and climate change, as the consequence of accelerated industrialisation are no longer speculation (Beck 2008). Whether understood through the frameworks of the Anthropocene or the Capitalocene, these are now planetary threats, affecting not only a particular geographical region, but the whole world, endangering both human…

Call for Papers: AI in CommunicationA Special Issue of Review of Communicationhttps://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/ai-in-communication/ Special Issue Editor:Jihyun Kim, University of Central Florida, jihyun.kim@ucf.edu Deadline for manuscript submissions: May 31, 2025 The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we interact, collaborate, and communicate. From AI as a tool, AI-mediated communication, and AI serving as a conversational partner, these advancements have reshaped communication landscapes across various levels and multiple contexts. This themed issue of Review of Communication seeks to explore the multifaceted roles, uses, and implications of AI in communication. We invite studies that examine AI as a tool, mediator, or…

Call for Participation: Uppsala-Vienna AI Colloquium — Julian Hauser: “AI am I: Personal Assistants and the Self”May 30, 2025Online via Zoomhttps://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2505&L=PHILOS-L&P=R44718 The Uppsala Vienna AI Colloquium is a series of online colloquium-style talks focused on philosophical issues surrounding AI technology. Each talk will address a specific issue of relevance to AI systems (e.g., intelligence, agency, responsibility, etc.) and will be delivered by an expert with a research background on the topic. The intended audience of the talks are philosophically informed individuals with an interest in the philosophy of artificial intelligence. More details about the Uppsala Vienna AI Colloquium are available at: https://uv-colloquium.com/…

Call for Chapters: “Gotta Study ‘Em All: 30 Years of Pokémon”To be tentatively published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2026Full CFP (PDF): https://piotrsiuda.com/wp-content/uploads/CFP_Pokemon.pdf Editors: Samuli Laato, Elina Koskinen, Piotr Siuda Deadline for submission of initial proposals (Extended Abstracts): June 30, 2025 [NOTE: This volume proposal is to be submitted for review to Bloomsbury as the editors received initial positive feedback from the commissioning editors. Subject to their final decision, this book will go ahead as tentatively scheduled below.] Today, the Pokémon franchise is considered the world’s most valuable media franchise of all time (Statista, 2021; The editors of TIME, 2024).…

Call for Papers: The Role of Technology in Relational CommunicationA Special Issue of Review of Communicationhttps://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/technology-relational-communication/ Deadline for submissions: September 28, 2025 Special Issue Editor:Michelle T. Violanti, The University of Tennessee Knoxville Review of Communication is dedicated to advancing the field of communication by examining research areas that are still emerging to advance our knowledge about a communication phenomenon. The rise in telehealth, often advocated by insurance companies, has impacted provider-patient relationships at levels not seen previously. Similarly, workplaces have found ways to use technology to build and maintain relationships for their remote workers. Individuals working in isolating jobs, such as…

Call for Participation: The Other AI: Automated IntimaciesMay 13, 2025 at 13:00 to 22:00V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the NetherlandsAnd onlinehttps://v2.nl/events/the-other-ai-automated-intimacies You’re invited to the first one-day symposium of a research strand from the Queer Analysis Research Group, taking place at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The event combines queer and trans theory with psychoanalytic perspectives in relation to the automation of intimate relations and the exteriorisation of desire. Can automation—and its failures—bring something new, or invite new interpretations of old habits and…

Call for Papers: AIS25: AI & Society: Shaping a Responsible FutureA Local Meetup of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025) CommunityJune 28-29, 2025Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist UniversityZhuhai, Chinahttps://socialresponsible.net/ Deadline for submissions: May 25, 2025 We invite you to contribute to AI & Society: Shaping a Responsible Future, a local meetup of the FAccT community centered around the critical societal impacts of Artificial Intelligence. This event aims to foster discussion, share insights, and present cutting-edge research on the ethical, social, and technical challenges and opportunities presented by AI technologies. We welcome submissions from researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and…

Call for Abstracts: Avatar Aesthetics WorkshopAt Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) 2025June 30, 2025Valetta, Maltahttps://digra.org/digra-2025-workshop-information/ DiGRA 2025:June 30 – July 4, 2025https://digraconference2025.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 10, 2025 (extended) The DIGRA workshop on Avatar Aesthetics invites submissions on the characteristic properties of avatar-based videogames as an art form, and on the aesthetic aspects of self-embodiment in videogames. Avatarial aesthetics relate to a broader tradition of bodily spectacles and amusements while also sharing similarities with experiences created by VR, installation art and performance art. Furthermore, avatar aesthetics intersects with the aesthetics of architecture, of space and travel, and with…

[For more about CSPE, visit its website, and in particular the About page. –Matthew] Call for Participation: The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE)20th Anniversary ConferenceJune 4-6, 2025Glasgow, Scotlandhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-the-study-of-perceptual-experience-20th-anniversary-conference-tickets-1284212828139r Dear all, The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience (CSPE) has now been in existence for twenty years! We are going to hold a celebratory 20th Anniversary Conference on 4 – 6th June 2025 in Glasgow. We would love for you to join us. We will have a range of philosophy talks on all things sensory that have been core to the work at the CSPE, such as perception, illusion, hallucination,…

Call for Proposals: AI Politics: A New Interdisciplinary Book SeriesTo be published by: Intellect and University of Chicago Presshttps://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/ai-politics-series-cfp-2025.pdf Edited by Andrew Hoskins (University of Edinburgh) and Ben O’Loughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London) Deadline for submissions: [not included in cfp] We invite proposals for a new interdisciplinary book series, AI Politics, which will interrogate and shape debate on the social, political, and epistemological transformations wrought by artificial intelligence. This series provides a critical platform for researchers engaging with the emergent realities of AI — not speculative futures, but the immediate and ongoing contests over knowledge, data, information, power, identity,…

Call for Abstracts: 2nd European Congress on Disinformation and Fact-CheckingOctober 29 & 30, 2025Madrid, Spain and onlinehttps://www.disinformation.es/call-for-papers Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2025 Following the success of the inaugural event in November 2023, the 2nd European Congress on Disinformation and Fact-Checking is back and will take place on 29 – 30 October 2025 to convene experts, scholars, journalists, policymakers, and practitioners to address the evolving challenges of disinformation in Europe and beyond. Building upon the foundation laid by the first congress, which emphasized the multifaceted impact of disinformation and the importance of international collaboration, this year’s event aims to further…

Call for Papers: From Adolescence and Adulthood: Uncovering Youths’ digital practices in a continuously changing worldMedia International Australia Journal Special Issuehttps://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/CfP%20From%20Adolescence%20and%20Adulthood_Q2%202026-1744054262703.pdf Editing team: Bruce Mutsvairo, Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Tanja Bosch Deadline for full draft submissions: July 31, 2025 Research on the appropriation of digital platforms and their impact has grown rapidly over the last two decades. Although research on digital platforms has expanded, there remains a gap in understanding how young adults specifically navigate, appropriate, and experience digital technologies. In recent research, only a few of these studies have taken a special interest in the use of digital technology…