Call for Papers: RO-MAN 202534th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive CommunicationTheme: “Shaping our hybrid future with robots together”Eindhoven, The Netherlands [and online; see below]August 25-29, 20254https://www.ro-man2024.org Deadline for submission of regular and special session papers: March 20, 2025 (extended; see https://www.ro-man2025.org for more information) We are very pleased to invite you to submit your latest research results, developments, and ideas to the 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, which will be held at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from August 25th to 29th, 2025. The theme of the IEEE RO-MAN…

Call for Participation: “Person, Thing, Robot” by Dr. David Gunkel – A Critical AI Futures and Ethics LectureApril 8, 2025Charlotte, North Carolina and onlinehttps://link.icahdq.org/discussion/person-thing-robot-by-dr-david-gunkel-a-critical-ai-futures-and-ethics-lecture-april-8-2025 Please join us for the upcoming “Critical AI Futures and Ethics Lecture” hosted by the Department of Communication Studies and the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. David Gunkel will present “Person, Thing, Robot” based on his book of the same title published by MIT Press (2023). This lecture is also co-sponsored by the Program of Health & Medical Humanities in the College of Humanities & Earth…

Call for Proposals: 2025 New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) Annual UnconferenceMay 13-14, 2025100% Virtual (Zoom)https://newmediawritingprize.co.uk/unconference/ Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2025 (extended) The New Media Writing Prize is an international award for digitally-born writing. The NMWP encourages and promotes the best in new-media writing and is leading the way toward the future of the ‘written’ word and interactive storytelling. You are cordially invited to our third annual New Media Writing Prize Unconference. This two-day creative and critical participant-directed Unconference is hosted by Bournemouth University (UK) in partnership with the Electronic Literature Organization and the British Library. The Unconference will culminate…

Call for Participation: Explore the Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of Existing and Emerging TechnologiesAt the ELSI Think TankApril 23, 2025Tinkham Veale University Center (TVUC) BallroomCase Western Reserve University (CWRU)Cleveland, Ohio, USAhttps://case.edu/inamori/initiatives/emerging-technologies/elsi-think-tank Register at https://community.case.edu/inamori/rsvp_boot?id=2265237 All events are open to the CWRU campus community and the general public. There is no cost to attend. Register for one, some, or all events. Join the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence as we explore the ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of existing and emerging technologies, such as: robotics computer science data science engineering biomedical engineering medicine human enhancement augmented/virtual reality…

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…