[NOTE: See the NCA website for more presence-related calls. –Matthew] Calls for Submissions: Experiential Learning in Communication DivisionNational Communication Association (NCA) 2025 ConferenceNovember 20-23, 2025Denver, Colorado, USAhttps://www.natcom.org/call-submissions Submission deadline: March 31, 2025 The Experiential Learning in Communication Division of NCA welcomes your submissions for our 2025 sessions in Denver, Colorado. Experiential learning involves creating and facilitating direct, practical learning experiences for students and asking them to reflect on the learning process. This division focuses on the practice of experiential learning with the goal of understanding the process and impacts of the communication process in our world. Forms of experiential learning…

Call for Proposals: “Digital Intimacies”Bloomsbury Academic Book Serieshttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2025-all/msg00474.html Series Editors:Kath Albury, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia/Jamie Hakim, King’s College, London, UK/John Mercer, Birmingham City University, UK/Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, University of Padova, Italy/ We are delighted to announce a new book series for Bloomsbury Academic on Digital Intimacies. Please consider submitting a proposal. Over the past 30 years cultures of intimacy have been transformed by the internet and its related technologies. This series will provide a platform for cutting-edge digital intimacies scholarship from both established and emerging academics. The series editors welcome proposals on all aspects of digital intimacies research, including…

Call for Papers: Revisiting Agenda-Setting Theory in the Age of AIA special issue of the journal Communication and Changehttps://link.springer.com/journal/44382/updates/27740956 Deadline for submission of abstracts and author information: June 30, 2025 (full papers by October 1, 2025) This special issue of the Springer open-access journal Communication and Change is edited by Lei Guo, Professor of Communication at Fudan University and Associate Editor of Communication and Change, alongside Chris Vargo (guest editor), Associate Professor of Advertising, Public Relations, and Media Design at the University of Colorado Boulder and Editor-in-Chief of The Agenda Setting Journal. David Weaver, Distinguished and Roy W.…

Call for Abstracts: Doing Family with Digital PlatformsSpecial issue of MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Researchhttps://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/announcement/view/1255 Deadline for submissions: May 14, 2025 Families are increasingly connected through digital platforms and are currently living in what has been referred to as ‘the platform society’ (Erstad et al., 2024; van Dijck et al., 2018). In the platform society, state and commercial platforms influence the organization of our lives. These new forces create new possibilities and challenges for families that must learn to use and navigate platforms as part of their family life; a life that is “increasingly structured according to platform…

Call For Papers / Appel De Communications: Canadian Jacques Maritain Association / L’association canadienne Jacques MaritainAnnual Spring SymposiumTheme: The Challenges of Technology for HumanityIn conjunction with the Canadian Philosophical Association and Congress for the Humanities and Social SciencesJune 1-4, 2025George Brown CollegeToronto, Ontario, Canadahttps://www.maritain.info/spring-meeting-cfp Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 30, 2025 We live in a time that is experiencing rapid technological change. The advances in Artificial Technology, robotics, medicine, telecommunications, and space travel, to name only a few examples, are directly impacting human life in ways inconceivable only a decade ago. Our societies are being impacted by these new…

Call for Papers: 2nd International Colloquium on Positive Psychology, Wellbeing and SpiritualityJune 16-18, 2025Turku, Finlandhttps://linnas.fi/kurssit/icppws/ Deadline for submissions of 300-word abstracts: April 1, 2025 Following on from the success of the inaugural international and interdisciplinary colloquium in Bhubaneswar, India in January 2023, the international PWS research group (Positive Psychology, Wellbeing and Spirituality) will be holding a second academic gathering in TBA, Finland in June 2025. This blind peer reviewed conference will focus on developing greater in-depth understanding of PWS, the interconnectivity between the PWS disciplines and the praxis that engenders high quality PWS organizational outcomes. Across all disciplines and workplace…

Call for Contributions: Creative AI Exploration and Imagination: Innovative Methods for Alternative Digital FuturesSeptember 25-26, 2025Leipzig University, Germanyhttps://tinyurl.com/5n8e7ptn Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2025 Are you exploring the intersections of citizen engagement, futures methods and artificial intelligence? Do you experiment with arts-based and/or participatory futures methods to reimagine digital futures? We invite you to share your work at our upcoming show-and-tell workshop. IDEA AND BACKGROUND Artificial intelligence (AI) and other types of digital technologies are deeply intertwined with the everyday lives of citizens, yet their underlying conditions and consequences often remain invisible or difficult to grasp. Many people experience the…

Call for Submissions: National Communication Association (NCA) 111th Annual ConventionCommunication and the Future DivisionNovember 20-23, 2025Denver, Colorado, USAhttps://www.natcom.org/111-annual-convention/https://www.natcom.org/call-for-submissions/ Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2025 The Communication and the Future (CATF) Division is dedicated to exploring communication research as it intersects with future-oriented thinking. The Communication and the Future Division accepts a variety of topics and methods: Be it critical, interpretive, qualitative, or quantitative, the division seeks to synthesize examinations of new communication issues in conjunction with established theories in the field. *Our field remains committed to inter/multidisciplinary projects that may bridge interests from a number of divisions or interest groups.…

Call for Papers: RO-MAN 202534th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive CommunicationTheme: “Shaping our hybrid future with robots together”Eindhoven, The Netherlands [and online; see below]August 25-29, 20254https://www.ro-man2024.org Deadline for submission of regular and special session papers: March 20, 2025 (extended; see https://www.ro-man2025.org for more information) We are very pleased to invite you to submit your latest research results, developments, and ideas to the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, which will be held at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from August 25th to 29th, 2025. The theme of the IEEE RO-MAN…

Call for Participation: “Person, Thing, Robot” by Dr. David Gunkel – A Critical AI Futures and Ethics LectureApril 8, 2025Charlotte, North Carolina and onlinehttps://link.icahdq.org/discussion/person-thing-robot-by-dr-david-gunkel-a-critical-ai-futures-and-ethics-lecture-april-8-2025 Please join us for the upcoming “Critical AI Futures and Ethics Lecture” hosted by the Department of Communication Studies and the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. David Gunkel will present “Person, Thing, Robot” based on his book of the same title published by MIT Press (2023). This lecture is also co-sponsored by the Program of Health & Medical Humanities in the College of Humanities & Earth…

Call for Proposals: 2025 New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) Annual UnconferenceMay 13-14, 2025100% Virtual (Zoom)https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/unconference/ Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2025 (extended) The New Media Writing Prize is an international award for digitally-born writing. The NMWP encourages and promotes the best in new-media writing and is leading the way toward the future of the ‘written’ word and interactive storytelling. You are cordially invited to our third annual New Media Writing Prize Unconference. This two-day creative and critical participant-directed Unconference is hosted by Bournemouth University (UK) in partnership with the Electronic Literature Organization and the British Library. The Unconference will culminate…

Call for Participation: Explore the Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of Existing and Emerging TechnologiesAt the ELSI Think TankApril 23, 2025Tinkham Veale University Center (TVUC) BallroomCase Western Reserve University (CWRU)Cleveland, Ohio, USAhttps://case.edu/inamori/initiatives/emerging-technologies/elsi-think-tank Register at https://community.case.edu/inamori/rsvp_boot?id=2265237 All events are open to the CWRU campus community and the general public. There is no cost to attend. Register for one, some, or all events. Join the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence as we explore the ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of existing and emerging technologies, such as: robotics computer science data science engineering biomedical engineering medicine human enhancement augmented/virtual reality…