Call for Abstracts Ludo2025 – Conference on Video Game Music and SoundUniversity Square Stratford Campus, University of East London [and online; see below]July 10-12, 2025https://www.ludomusicology.org/2024/11/06/ludo2025-call-for-papers/ Submission deadline: February 28, 2025 The organizers of Ludo2025 are accepting proposals for research presentations. We welcome proposals on all aspects of sound and music in games. This year, we are particularly interested in papers that support the conference theme of ‘Rhythm, vibes, and beats’. Papers on this topic may include: Presentations should last twenty minutes and will be followed by questions. Please submit your paper proposal (c.250 words) with a short provisional list of…

[More information about Pedagogic Research at the University of Leeds is available on the website of the University’s School of Music. –Matthew] Call for Papers: Screen Music Pedagogies – Study DaySeptember 3, 2025School of Music, University of Leeds, UKhttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2025-all/msg00033.html Deadline for submissions: March 28, 2025 What is distinctive and discipline-specific about teaching and learning in screen music? And how might pedagogic practices relating to screen music inform — and be informed by — teaching and learning in other areas of the curriculum (both within Music, Film and Media Studies, and other disciplines)? Despite the popularity of screen music as an…

Call for Papers: The 8th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI)Affiliated with HRI 2025March 3, 2025Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaVAM-HRI 2025 Workshop: https://vam-hri.github.io/HRI 2025 Conference: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2025 KEY DEADLINES: ROLLING SUBMISSIONS: To accommodate the early registration deadline for HRI, we have introduced rolling submissions with updated deadlines. Make sure to submit by Jan 17th if you want notification before the HRI 2025 early registration deadline. Final submissions will close February 13, 2025 AoE. The 8th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) will bring together HRI, robotics, and mixed reality researchers to…

Call for Abstracts: “Redefining Relationships: Human Vulnerability and AI-driven Technologies“A panel at the 10th STS Italia ConferenceJune 11-13, 2025Milan, ItalyPanel: https://stsitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/22.Redefining-Relationships_-Human-Vulnerability-and-AI-driven-Technologies-ID_44.pdfSTS Italia: https://stsitalia.org/call-for-abstracts/ Deadline for submissions: February 3, 2025 We are pleased to invite you to submit abstracts for the panel “Redefining Relationships: Human Vulnerability and AI-driven Technologies”, which will be held as part of the 10th STS Italia Conference – Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring, and Reconfiguring. KEY INFORMATION PANEL OVERVIEW The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics has transformed human-machine interactions, prompting critical discussions on the ethical, social, and design implications of these technologies. This panel…

[NOTE: See the 4S website for more open panels and other submission opportunities. –Matthew] Call for Abstracts: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2025Open panel: ‘Temporalities of bodies, technologies and their entanglements in the experience of disability and/or chronic illness’September 3-7, 2025Seattle, Washington, USAhttps://www.4sonline.org/about_the_conference_seattle.php Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2025 We are pleased to invite you to take part in our panel at the next conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2025 (Seattle, 2025 3-7 September): Temporalities of bodies, technologies and their entanglements in the experiences of disability and/or chronic illness (Panel ID Number: 43)…

Call for Papers Adaptive eXplainable AI Workshop 2025Co-located with the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2025)March 24, 2025Cagliari, Italyhttps://axai.trx.li ACM IUI 2025:March 24-27, 2025https://iui.acm.org/2025/ Deadline for submission of papers: January 13, 2025 We are delighted to announce the second edition of the Adaptive XAI (AXAI) Workshop, to be held in conjunction with ACM IUI 2025. As the integration of Artificial Intelligence into daily decision-making processes intensifies, the need for clear communication between humans and AI systems becomes crucial. This workshop is dedicated to exploring the design and development of intelligent interfaces that adaptively explain AI’s decision-making…

Call for Abstracts Special Issue of Itinerari: Transformations of the Human in the Digital TransitionPosted to the Philos-L e-list on December 23, 2024 Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 30, 2025 The upcoming issue of Itinerari is dedicated to examining the profound transformation of humanity and its values in the context of the ongoing digital transition. The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) calls for a reevaluation of foundational normative concepts, enabling us to rethink what “human-centeredness” means in today’s world. By investigating both the benefits and critical challenges of this digital paradigm shift, the issue seeks to explore the…

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. For 2025, ECCE…