Call for Papers Facets of Reality – Contemporary Debates Associated with the 45th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2024 (but submissions need not be related to Wittgenstein’s work) Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria August 11-17, 2024 https://www.alws.at/symposium/45th-international-wittgenstein-symposium-2024/ Submission deadline: March 1, 2024 What’s real? What is the totality of reality like? And what does it mean to be real? Though discussions of these questions have been ubiquitous throughout the history of philosophy, over the past two decades, questions about reality have been discussed with new enthusiasm. This conference brings together different contemporary philosophical debates about reality, addressing foundational issues just as well as…

Call for Papers Inference: Critical Approaches to Visual Generative AI A One-day Workshop April 22, 2024 In person but hybrid options may be available The University of Sheffield South Yorkshire, England https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/inference Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 5, 2024 The past 18 months have marked a significant moment for visual forms of generative AI. In July 2022, text-to-image model Midjourney entered an open beta; a few months later in August 2022, open-source model Stable Diffusion was released; and the very next month, Open AI’s text-to-image model DALL-E 2 was made available to the public without a waitlist.…

Call For Papers The Impact of Generative AI on Human Creativity Special issue of the Journal AI & Society https://www.springer.com/journal/146/updates/26259468 Guest Editors: Jon McCormack, SensiLab, Monash University, Australia, Jon.McCormack@monash.edu Dr Maria Teresa Llano, SensiLab, Monash University, Australia, llano@monash.edu Dr Nina Rajcic, SensiLab, Monash University, Australia, rajcic@monash.edu Ms Tace McNamara, SensiLab, Monash University, Australia, mcnamara@monash.edu Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2024 Manuscript submission deadline: April 30, 2024 The rapid rise of generative AI technologies in applications of human creative practice – including visual art, illustration, cinema, writing, performance and music – has raised both opportunities and questions regarding the future of…

Call for Papers ACM UMAP 2024: The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization July 1-4, 2024 Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy https://www.um.org/umap2024 Deadline for abstracts: January 22, 2024 (mandatory) Deadline for papers: January 29, 2024 ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. The proceedings, published by ACM, will be part of the ACM Digital…

Call for Papers Special Fall 2024 issue of Teaching Ethics on “Teaching AI Ethics” Editors: Glen Miller (Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M) and Deborah Mower (The Center for Practical Ethics, University of Mississippi) Submission deadline for abstracts: February 1, 2024 The rapid development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), and the widespread attention given to its capabilities, creates a fecund moment for those teaching ethics. Every day, there are new developments and news reports on how AI already predicts what will draw our interest (Netflix and Instagram), analyzes more data faster than humans can (financial and x-ray analysis), drives our…

Call for Papers DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) India Conference 2023 Theme: Love in/and/for Games Online December 9, 2023 https://digraindia.com/2023/10/20/digra-india-conference-2023/ Submission deadlines: Abstracts: November 15, 2023 Full-length papers: December 7, 2023 Loving a game can lead to formation of gaming communities, and game communities can later become sites where love can be found and at times love for games can be lost. One can also sit back and play to complete a love story as a side quest of a game. One could also declare one’s love for games by establishing an academic discipline. Each case is a specific and…

Call for Papers “Digital artifacts” for the journal Metaphysics https://metaphysicsjournal.com/announcements#call-for-papers-digital-artifacts Submission deadline: March 15, 2024 We invite submissions on the topic of “Digital Artifacts” for the next issue of the open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal, Metaphysics, co-edited by Kathrin Koslicki and Michael Raven. (http://www.metaphysicsjournal.com) The guest-editor for this issue is Alexandre Declos (Postdoctoral researcher, University of Neuchatel). DESCRIPTION: The category of digital artifacts includes things such as computer programs, simulations, websites, data, virtual environments, memes, videogames, NFTs, digital artworks, or smartphone apps. Although these entities have become pervasive in our daily lives, they have received comparatively little attention in the recent…

Call for Papers “Surrealism and Arts-Based Research: Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide” Online conference December 12-13, 2023 Sponsored by: London Arts-Based Research Centre Conference fee: 90GBP https://labrc.co.uk/2023/10/10/surrealism/ Proposal submission deadline: November 10, 2023 This transdisciplinary conference invites scholars, creatives, researchers, and practitioners to explore the enigmatic, the dreamlike, and the fantastical in their respective fields through the lens of Surrealism. We aim to come together to explore, discuss, and unveil the depths of the unconscious mind as it manifests in surrealist creativity and extends into various aspects of human existence. Surrealism, with its roots in the early 20th century,…

Call for Papers Game Studies, Culture, Play & Practice Area Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 45th Annual Conference February 21-24, 2024 Marriott Albuquerque Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.org Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023 Proposals are now being accepted for the 45th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/ The Game Studies, Culture, Play & Practice Area invites papers, panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and…

Call for Papers 8th Annual International GamiFIN Conference 2024 April 2-5, 2024 Ruka, Finland Conference website: http://gamifinconference.com/ Full CFP and instructions: https://gamifinconference.com/cfp2024/ We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming GamiFIN 2024 Conference, which will take place from April 2 to April 5 in the winter wonderland of Ruka Ski Resort, Finland. As one of the leading academic conferences in the field of gamification, we invite researchers, scholars, and professionals to submit their contributions to GamiFIN 2024. GamiFIN 2024 conference welcomes paper submissions, posters, and doctoral consortium applications. IMPORTANT DATES November 19th, 2023: Full papers and…

Call for Papers DESIGN COMMIT 2024 – 1st International Conference on Design & Industry Design for different futures, beyond economic growth May 20-22, 2024 Altice Forum Braga, Portugal https://designcommit.pt Submission deadline: November 30, 2023 It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the DESIGN COMMIT 2024, the 1st edition of the International Conference on Design & Industry, to be held on 20th – 22nd of May 2024 in the beautiful city of Braga in Portugal. The conference operates under the scope of the Research & Education in Design research group (REDES) from the Center for Research…

Call for Papers Digitalisation, subjectivities, and care University of Twente Utrecht, Netherlands March 7, 2024, 9.30am – 6pm (Utrecht, NL) Deadline for abstract submission: November 27, 2023 The Digital Collective (DC) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands is planning a symposium on digitalisation in care. More information below. Please consider submitting an abstract for a talk or poster presentation, deadline: 27 November. Any questions to: dc-bms@utwente.nl. INTRODUCTION Digitalisation is more than a technological phenomenon. It concerns an ever shifting relation between digital technologies and societal developments. Digital tools are increasingly common in care contexts, reshaping practices, institutions, relations, and…