Call for Chapters: Cozy MediaAmsterdam University Presshttps://cozymedia.net/call-for-papers/ Deadline for submissions of abstracts: March 31, 2025 We are seeking chapter contributions for an edited volume published by Amsterdam University Press, tentatively titled Cozy Media. The book will investigate the various meanings of coziness across media. Over the last five years, the adjective cozy has become more commonly used to describe comfort brought by media and their users’ experiences. After the global Covid-19 pandemic, the popularity of cozy in journalistic and social media discourse increased. It is now often used to describe video games, novels, playlists of low-fi or otherwise chill music,…

Call for Abstracts: Guiding Lights: Beacons of Academic Esports in the Digital Society and Future WorkplaceUniversity of Agder Academic Esports Seminar 2025May 21-23, 2025University of Agder, Norwayhttps://academicesports.net/call-for-abstracts-guiding-lights-beacons-of-academic-esports-in-the-digital-society-and-future-workplace/ Deadline for submissions of abstracts and bios: March 15, 2025 As digital transformation reshapes society and work environments, academic esports emerges as a crucial intersection of education, technology, and professional development. This seminar explores how academic esports influences and shapes our digital society and future workplace, examining its role in education, remote collaboration, virtual team dynamics, and technological literacy. Like the Norse navigators who mastered the seas, we seek to chart the course…

Call for Participation: ‘International Meet the Lab’ EventHuman-Machine Communication (HMC) Interest GroupInternational Communication Association (ICA)March 7, 2025Online (Zoom)[Adapted from an ICA HMC email message] Dear ICA HMC members, On behalf of the ICA HMC Interest Group leadership team, we’re excited to invite you to our 3rd online ‘International Meet the Lab’ event, set for March 7, 2025. Join us for what promises to be a productive exchange of ideas and perspectives. Building on last year’s success, this ‘International Meet the Lab’ event invites scholars to present their labs, centers, lab groups, and to introduce their current/future HMC research.…

International Call for Artistic Research Work: Artistic Research Exhibition (ARE 2025)Theme: Synthetic Rewilding, between Nature and the MachineJune 2-6, 2025Sofia, Bulgariahttps://wire.filmeu.eu/news-and-updates/are-2025-open-call Deadline for submissions: March 16, 2025 The European University FilmEU strives to develop and reinforce the field of artistic research in European Higher Education (or HEI), emphasizing the exploration of diverse cultural narratives and traditions, encouraging novel approaches to blending disciplines like technology, science, and humanities with the arts, and addressing pressing social issues, fostering critical thinking, and promoting dialogue on political or ethical questions through artistic methods. FilmEU, currently brings together eight European HEIs. Each year FilmEU WIRE…

[Note: See also “Are LLMs Natural Born Bullshitters?” by Anand Jayprakash Vaidya in The Philosophers’ Magazine. –Matthew] Call for Participation: “LLMs, Bullshit and the Epistemic Inner Citadel”An online talk by Joe Slater, Michael Townsen Hicks, and James HumphriesThe Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research (VICTR)Monday, March 3, 2025 at 11:00am ESThttps://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=index&L=PHILOS-L&O=D&P=107675259 Dear All, We are pleased to announce the first VICTR talk for this semester, which is from Joe Slater, Michael Townsen Hicks, and James Humphries, entitled ‘LLMs, Bullshit and the Epistemic Inner Citadel’. The session will be on Monday, March 3, 11:00am Eastern US time / 16:00 UTC /…

[Note: See the conference website for Calls for Scientific and Artistic Posters, Workshops/Tutorials, and Scientific Demos and Artistic Projects.  –Matthew] Call for Submissions: ACM 25th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual AgentsSeptember 16-19, 202Berlin, Germanyhttps://iva.acm.org/2025/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 4, 2025 Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) Annual Conference is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the design, application, and evaluation of Virtual Agents with social interaction capabilities. IVA 2025, the 25th Annual Conference, will be held in Berlin, Germany, September 16-19, 2025. IVAs are interactive characters that exhibit human-like capabilities, including communicating using natural human modalities such as…

Call for Papers: Panoramic Perspectives on Digital ImagesJuly 17–18, 2025University of MarburgMarburg, Germanyhttps://www.digitalesbild.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/call-for-papers-panorama/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 17, 2025 In the 19th century, the panorama became one of the first image-based mass media. Huge paintings of cities, landscapes, and battle scenes were mounted on cylindrical walls to be viewed from observation platforms. When visitors entered a panorama, they were immersed in a pictorial environment. However, the immense image could not be grasped at a glance, but had to be experienced sequentially, with the beholders moving around the physical space of the platform and directing their gaze to specific…

Call for Contributions: 2025 International Network of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking (INEFF) ConferenceJuly 17-18, 2025University of Salford, MediaCityUK, Manchester, UKhttps://www.ineff.org/2025-conference-call.html Deadline for submission of proposals: March 31, 2025 The third Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Conference aims to explore and define the boundaries of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking (EFF) by bringing together practice-as-research (PaR) academics, film scholars, industry professionals and independent filmmakers for a series of workshops, presentations and screenings. EFF draws upon traditions in cinema, experimental film, art cinema and expanded cinema, but also specific philosophical concerns and practitioner insights and sensibilities. EFF is not tied to one particular movement or period of…

[For a definition and more information about concept art see The StudioBinder Blog. –Matthew] Call For Papers: Concept Art and Character Design: Critical and Creative PerspectivesA one-day conferenceJuly 18, 2025University for the Creative ArtsFarnham, Surrey, UKhttps://cacd2025.edublogs.org Deadline for submission of abstracts and bios: April 30, 2025 The School of Games & Creative Technology at UCA, Farnham, is hosting a one-day conference on Friday 18 July 2025, exploring the role of concept art and character design in the culture industries. This event aims to explore approaches to understanding concept art and character design drawing upon multiple critical and creative perspectives.…

Call for Papers: Workshop on Persuasion and AI Disclosure: Building Trust in Synthetic MediaHeld as part of the 20th International Conference on Persuasive TechnologyLimassol, CyprusMay 5, 2025Workshop: https://aunmedia.org/AIDisclosure/Persuasive 2005 conference: https://2025.persuasivetech.org Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2025 This workshop is a full-day preconference event organized as part of the 20th International Conference on Persuasive Technology which will be hosted in Limassol, Cyprus, St. Raphael Resort and Marina, May 5-7 2025. The workshop date is May 5th, 2025. Artificial intelligence has revolutionized persuasive communication through the emergence of synthetic media—hyper-realistic AI-generated content that challenges the boundaries of trust, authenticity, and ethics.…

Call for Abstracts: Disney and the Multi-Media-Verse: Disney’s Engagement with Multimedia, Space and CultureThe Disney, Culture and Society Research Network’s Third Annual ConferenceJune 23-27, 2025ONLINECfP translations: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/100W8HiC3amHfEtT6qyPt4WOWEOFXw0pc Deadline for submissions: February 16, 2025 (extended) Submit your abstract here: https://forms.gle/yzXWcB9cTBCQmgbz5 The Walt Disney Company uses multiple online and offline spaces to sell and showcase their products to audiences and consumers. From cable networks, streaming and games, to licensed merchandise and theme parks, music, film and art – Disney fans can engage with the global multimedia conglomerate in a range of ways. But what do these spaces and options mean for audiences…

Call for Papers: Art, Aesthetics, and the Sense of TouchESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aestheticshttps://iaaesthetics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ESPES_CFP_Touch_final.pdfhttps://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2502&L=PHILOS-L&P=R8610 Guest editor: Carolyn Korsmeyer (University at Buffalo) Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2025 (extended) According to long philosophical tradition, the bodily senses of smell, taste, and touch are not suited to deliver aesthetic experiences. Among other disqualifying features, the requisite “distance” that permits the appropriate kind of pleasure is absent, especially in the case of touch, which requires physical contact to operate. The pleasures of touch, moreover, seem to be too sensuous to be aesthetic. That is to say, they stimulate a kind of pleasure…