Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Conference on Creating Spaces for Digital FuturesCenter for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)October 9-10, 2025Bochum, Germanyhttps://www.cais-research.de/creating-spaces-for-digital-futures Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2025 In an era where digital transformation is reshaping every facet of our lives, the concept of digital spaces opens new frontiers for research. While spaces are understood differently across various disciplines and encompass both material and abstract dimensions, the term is commonly used to describe the interdependencies between individual practices and environments. Thus, individuals are shaped by economic, legal, social, cultural and spatial structures that simultaneously emerge from action (Lefebvre 1991; Löw 2001).…

Call for Papers: Photographic Portrait: Convergences, Divergences, Reflections and Thoughts (No. 16)For the journal Vistahttps://revistavista.pt/index.php/vista/announcement/view/89 Thematic Editors: Helena Pires (University of Minho, Portugal), Eduardo Camilo (University of Beira Interior, Portugal) and Florin Grigoraş (National University of Art „George Enescu”, Romania) Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 The call for papers “Photographic Portrait: Convergences, Divergences, Reflections and Thoughts” aims to bring together works that explore the multifaceted theme of photographic portraiture. We invite proposals from a wide range of domains, including, but not limited to, history of photography, philosophy of art and photography, visual culture and photographic studies, analysis of visual…

Call for Papers: 38th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2025)June 18-20, 2025Madrid, Spainhttps://2025.cbms-conference.org/call-for-papers/ Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 The 38th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2025) will be held at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas), Madrid, Spain, from Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th of June 2025. Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences in the fields of medical informatics and biomedical informatics. CBMS allows the exchange of ideas and…

[Note: Although this conference is about much more than presence, the concept and phenomena of presence are clearly relevant. –Matthew] Call for Papers: 5th Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference“Rise of the Machines”Toronto, CanadaMay 23-24, 2025https://spiralfilmphilosophy.ca/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2025 Recent breakthroughs in generative AI technology have once again drawn attention to cinema’s ongoing identity crisis. In the digital epoch, under what Davide Panagia calls the algorithm dispositif or what Shane Denson refers to as post-cinema, we increasingly encounter moving images that are preformatted for our consumption by artificial metabolic processes beyond human understanding.…

Call for Papers: 5th Conference on Society (SOCIETY 5.0 2025)Theme: “Society 5.0 – Co-Existence Between Human Being and Machine Being”June 25-27, 2025University of Camerino (UNICAM)San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italyhttp://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=183334https://www.conference-society5.org Deadline for submission of full research papers: February 10, 2025Deadline for submission of proposals for Industry Tracks, Workshop Tracks and Doctoral Symposium: March 1, 2025 In a rapidly evolving digital society, the growing interaction between humans and machines is redefining the boundaries of any aspects and stages of our life cycle. This emerging “collaboration” has the potential to drive forward social good, foster a more equitable, sustainable and responsible future, while…

Call for Papers: “Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction”A special session at the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS)June 30 – July 4, 2025Genoa, ItalyConference website: https://ias-19.org Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2025 Dear Colleagues, You are invited to submit a paper to the approved IAS 2025 Special Session “Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction.” This year IAS (International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems) will be held in Genoa, Italy, from June 30th to July 4th. Important Dates:Regular and Special Session Paper Submission: February 15, 2025Paper Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2025Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2025 Submission…

Call for Chapters: Expanded Storytelling Across Media: Creative Practices and Critical Approaches (Routledge)http://commlist.org/archive/all/2025-all/msg00163.html Editors:Dr James Calvert, Associate Professor Kath Dooley, Dr Kim Munro & Dr Ben Stubbs (Members of the Expanded Storytelling Lab, Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre, The University of South Australia) Deadline for submissions of abstracts: March 24, 2025 This edited collection, which is contracted with Routledge, sets out to highlight, explore and interrogate innovative contemporary storytelling approaches against a backdrop of evolving technologies and delivery platforms. ‘Expanded Storytelling’ can be defined as narratives told across media, platforms and virtual and physical spaces that experiment with…

Call for Expressions of Interest: Multisensory Storytelling SummitMay 29, 2025The Sheds, 65 Avon St, Bristol, UKhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=VIRTUAL-REALITY;2dddaec4.2501 Deadline for submissions via email to tom.livingstone@uwe.ac.uk: February  28, 2025 Inviting EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST for participation in MyWorld’s Multisensory Storytelling Summit, a key event in the programme of research being carried out by UWE’s Professor Mandy Rose and Dr Tom Livingstone into the evolution of storytelling in an era of multi-modal technologies. With a focus on the paradigm shifting potential of digital technology’s address of multiple sensory modalities, MyWorld’s research in this area seeks to map the impact this technological shift is having on…

Call for Abstracts: “Ethics of Imagination in the Age of Technology”A panel at the 10th STS Italia ConferenceJune 11-13, 2025Milan, ItalyPanel: https://stsitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/72.Ethics-of-Imagination-in-the-Age-of-Technology-ID_115.pdfSTS Italia: https://stsitalia.org/call-for-abstracts/ Deadline for submissions: February 3, 2025 I am delighted to announce the Call for Abstracts for the panel “Ethics of Imagination in the Age of Technology” to be held at the 10th STS Italia Conference — “Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring” — which will take place on 11–13 June 2025 at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan (Italy). Panel proposal: Einstein once said that imagination is more important than knowledge; the latter is limited, whereas…

Call for Talk and Paper Submissions: NarraScope 2025Celebrating Narrative GamesJune 20-22, 2025Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PAhttps://narrascope.org/ Deadline for submissions for talks and papers: February 7, 2025 WHAT IS NARRASCOPE? NarraScope is an event that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players. NarraScope 2025 will be hosted at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. All talks will be streamed live via Discord. We will make recordings available on our YouTube channel as soon as possible! Subjects vary from interactive fiction tools to writing best practices and everything in between. Previous talks had titles like “Choosing Your…

Call for Papers: Transforming Passions6th International Geomedia ConferenceSeptember 17-19, 2025Karlstad, Swedenhttps://www.kau.se/en/transformingpassions Deadline for submissions of proposals for individual papers, thematic panels, audiovisual essays, workshops or paper sessions: April 14, 2025 Passion is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only joy and intense emotional investment but also pain and suffering. Passion’s significance in the realm of media, visual cultures and artistic practices serves as a driving force behind the relationship people develop with technologies, platforms, content, and forms of creation, as well as with places, territories and other spatial formations. The rise of digital media has amplified a cultural turn to…

Call for Abstracts: 20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?20th Anniversary International ZeMKI ConferenceCentre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI)October 23-24, 2025University of BremenBremen, Germanyhttp://zemki.uni-bremen.de/futures Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2025 Media and communication research has traditionally focused on the present, often asking: What are the consequences of each “new” medium? How do digital media and their infrastructures impact contemporary cultures and societies? With this conference, however, we aim to shift the perspective—from analyzing present-day impacts to envisioning future possibilities. What can we learn from the current mediatization and datafication of society…