Call for Submissions: Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) 2025September 24-26, 2025Rome, Italyhttps://cepe2025.uniroma2.it/ Deadline for submissions of abstracts, full papers, panels and roundtables: January 31, 2025 (extended) Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) is a INSEIT conference series. The CEPE conference series is recognized as one of the premier international events on computer and information ethics attended by delegates from all over the world. CEPE is held biennially, and is organized by INSEIT (the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology). Conferences are held about every 24 months, alternating between Europe and the United States. The next CEPE Conference will be held…

Call for Abstracts: Chapters for open-access book on Food, Technology, and Society (esp. ethics/philosophy)Posted to PhilUpdates on December 23, 2024https://groups.google.com/g/philosophy-updates/c/Me33oWp3AWE Deadline for 1-page abstracts: February 1, 2025 (expressions of interest requested as soon as possible) Hi everyone – Here at Cal Poly, we’re running a project on the ethical and social implications of AI kitchens and robot cooks, and we’re now soliciting abstracts for the edited book we plan to publish.  Here’s some basic information: WHAT: We are putting together an edited book for our project, funded by the US National Science Foundation.  While we’re most interested in AI kitchens…

Call for Papers: Next Generation Avatars (NGA) WorkshopAt IEEE VR 2025Saint-Malo, FranceNGA Workshop: March 8, 2025; https://project.inria.fr/nga2025IEEE VR 2025: March 8-12, 2025; https://ieeevr.org/2025 We are pleased to announce the first IEEE VR Workshop on “Next Generation Avatars”, to be help during the IEEE VR 2025 conference, 8th March 2025 8:30-12:30, in Saint-Malo, France. NGA2025 is a half-day on-site workshop which focuses on the very last advancement in avatar capture, modeling, control, animation, interaction and user-studies, with interests also in ethical questions. Recent advances in deep learning, neural representations, and physics-based character simulation… have contributed to a breakthrough in avatar design,…

Call for Papers: The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture International ConferenceOrganised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary ResearchAugust 22-23, 2025University of Malta and Onlinehttps://uncanny.lcir.co.uk/ Submission deadline for paper proposals up to 250 words: March 20, 2025 The uncanny captures the unsettling and the eerie—a feeling that defies boundaries between the familiar and the strange. Rooted in Freud’s exploration, the uncanny reveals how what is known and intimate can suddenly become alien, evoking dread and unease. Everyday objects, spaces, and experiences that once offered comfort transform into symbols of danger, disrupting not only our external environments but also the landscapes of…

Call for Papers: ECCE 2025 – European Conference on Cognitive ErgonomicsAnnual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE)Theme: Critical reflection for a better tomorrowOctober 7-10, 2025Tallinn, Estoniahttps://transform.tlu.ee/ecce-2025/ Deadline for paper submissions: March 31, 2025 [See below for other deadlines] The European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE), established in 1982, is the premier annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE). It serves as a platform for researchers, practitioners, and academics to share advancements, ideas, and discussions in the fields of cognitive ergonomics and human-media interaction. ECCE is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI.…

Call for Papers: Art, Imagination, and AffectSpecial issue of the Journal of Comparative Literature and AestheticsVol. 48, No. 3, Autumn 2025https://jcla.in/journal-of-comparative-literature-and-aesthetics/call-for-papers/ Guest Editors:Julia Langkau (University of Geneva)Radu Bumbăcea (University of Leeds) Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2025 Much of the philosophical literature on imagination and affective states has focused on our emotional reaction to imaginative engagement with fiction, in particular on two prominent puzzles, known as the ‘paradox of fiction’ and the ‘paradox of tragedy/horror’. While the first asks how we can (rationally) have emotions towards fictional events and characters, the second relates to our apparent enjoyment of negative emotions.…

Call for Abstracts: 10th STS Italia Conference“Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring”Organized by The Italian Society for Science and Technology StudiesJune 11-13, 2025Milan, Italyhttps://stsitalia.org/call-for-abstracts/ Deadline for submissions: February 3, 2025 We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the upcoming 10th STS Italia Conference “Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring”, which will be held on 11-13 June 2025 at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy). You can find more information about the conference theme and the list of panels here: https://stsitalia.org/call-for-abstracts/#theme We invite you to submit an abstract to one of the 77 panels that have…

Call for Proposals 12th International Digital Storytelling Conference 2025Lives, Voices, and Knowledge in a World on FireOctober 31 and November 1, 2025 – VirtualNovember 6-8, 2025 – Belém, Amazon, Brazilhttps://dst2025.org/call-for-proposals/ Deadlines for submission of abstracts: Global North: February 15, 2025 Global South: March 15, 2025 We invite proposals for participation in the 12th International Digital Storytelling Conference, which will feature two distinct components: A virtual gathering, from October 31 to November 1, 2025 and an in-person event in Belém, Brazil, from November 6-8, 2025. Hosted by Museu da Pessoa and StoryCenter, this will mark the first time the conference is…

Call for Papers The 12th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2025)July 21-23, 2025University of Siegen, Germanyhttps://2025.comtech.community/ Deadline for submission of papers: March 14, 2025 The 12th International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2025), to be held at the University of Siegen, Germany from July 21-23, 2025, cordially invites you to submit research papers, case studies, workshop proposals, posters, demos, panels/symposia, community events and doctoral research plans for potential presentation or facilitation at the conference! The biennial International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T) is the premier international forum for stimulating debate and disseminating research on the complex…

Call for Papers SOCIALIZE Workshop @ ACM IUI 2025Fifth Workshop on SOcial and Cultural IntegrAtion with PersonaLIZEd Interfaces (SOCIALIZE)Co-located with the 30th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2025Cagliari, Italy SOCIALIZE WORKSHOP:March 24, 2025http://socialize2025.di.unito.it/ ACM IUI 2025:March 24-27, 2025https://iui.acm.org/2025/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 15, 2025Authors notification: January 20, 2025Camera-ready: March 1, 2025Workshop date: March 24, 2025 OVERVIEW The SOCIALIZE workshop aims to bring together all interested in developing interactive techniques, including social robots, that can help promote social and cultural inclusion of a broad range of users, with a focus on vulnerable groups (e.g.,…

Call for Papers Mediatization Conference 6, 2025Exploring Mediatization in Times of interplay between Human and Artificial IntelligenceMarch 7-8, 2025Hybrid: Lublin, Poland and Onlinehttps://www.umcs.pl/en/ms-cfp.htm Organizers:Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in LublinPolish Communication Association, Mediatization Section Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2025 We cordially invite you to the next, sixth edition of the international scientific conference: Mediatization Conference 6, 2025. This time we want to discuss the relationship and dependencies between mediatization processes and applications of artificial intelligence in various areas of human life. In particular, we are interested in the interactions between human and algorithmic factors, which in different ways drive…

Call for Papers: Arts and Games21st annual spring seminar organized by the Tampere University Game Research LabMarch 26-27, 2025Tampere University, Finlandhttps://springseminar.org Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 20, 2024 The fields of arts and games are continuously and progressively intersecting, creating hybrids and cultural frames, mutually influencing each other. This is not new; arts have been using games as subject and material for millennia from depictions of athletes in ancient Greek sculpture to Yoko Ono’s All White Chess Set (1966) and from Caravaggio’s Cardsharps (1594) to Harold Hejazi’s game performance series Adventures of Harriharri. Weiqi, or as it is named…