Call for Papers Making Visible: Bodies, Environments, and Apparatuses Special Issue of Reti, saperi, linguaggi Editors: Prof. Chiara Cappelletto and Giulio Galimberti Submission deadline: February 3, 2023 Dear all, in this special issue of Reti, saperi, linguaggi, a peer-reviewed A-ranked journal released by Il Mulino, we want to address the topic of imaging technologies. Sixty years ago new visualization strategies came to the public floor displaying “pictures” of our living bodies and our cerebral and reproductive functions. These strategies make visible– that is, they visibilize–biological processes that are not visual per se, but rather chemical, thermal, magnetic, acoustic, electric. The…

CALL FOR PAPERS SIVA’23: Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents: From expressive and context-aware multimodal generation of digital humans to understanding the social cognition of real humans A satellite workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023 Hybrid (online and onsite) Submission by September, 12 2022: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023 SIVA’23 workshop: January, 4 or 5, 2023 in Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/ FG 2023 conference: January 4-8, 2023 in Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/ OVERVIEW Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality together with spectacular advances in artificial intelligence, the ultra-realistic generation and animation of digital…

Call for Papers Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2023 Conference May 31-June 3, 2023 Wilmington, North Carolina, USA Hosted by the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington http://scsmi-online.org/conference Deadline for proposals: Midnight (EST) December 12, 2022 The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) invites proposals for presentations at its annual conference to be held May 31-June 3, 2023, at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the United States. SCSMI is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, historical, psychological, neuroscientific, and evolutionary approaches to the analysis…

Call for Papers FDG 2023: The 18th Foundations of Digital Games Lisbon, Portugal April 11-14, 2023 http://fdg2023.org Submission deadline: November 4, 2022 The 18th Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) held in Lisbon, Portugal, invites all research contributions in the form of papers, posters, demos, doctoral consortium applications, as well as panels, competitions and workshop proposals. We invite contributions from within and across any discipline committed to advancing knowledge on the foundations of games: computer science, engineering, mathematics, natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, arts and design. Topics include [full descriptions here: http://fdg2023.org/tracks/]: Technical Game Development, Novel Controllers Game Design, Studio Practices,…

[Note: The focus of this workshop isn’t explicitly presence-related but there are obvious connections. –Matthew] CALL FOR REGISTRATION/PAPERS Workshop on Digital Citizenship September 1-2, 2022 Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) https://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2207&L=PHILOS-L&P=336426 We hereby would like to announce a workshop to be hosted on digital citizenship. There are also still a few slots open for presentations. If you’re interested in giving a talk that fits the workshop theme, please get in touch with the organization (details below). WORKSHOP INFO The idea of citizenship holds an important position in western political thought and different conceptions of citizenship have been proposed and challenged.…

Call for Papers “Enhancing Quality of Life and Health with ICT” Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Health_ICT Deadline for manuscript submissions: July 31, 2022 NOTE from the guest editors: IJERPH normally requires a publication fee, but we are waiving this fee for up to 10 authors of the special issue. You are invited to submit contributions, ten of which will be free of all publishing costs if accepted by the journal after peer reviews. We hope that you can make use of this opportunity to publish in this prestigious journal. Prof. Dr.…

Call for Papers Web3D 2022 – The 27th International Conference on 3D Web Technology November 2-4, 2022 In a hybrid format (in-person and online) Telecom SudParis, in Evry-Courcouronnes, Paris, France https://web3d.siggraph.org/cfp/ Submission deadline: July 30, 2022 (extended) Search engines trends show that the world, at large, discovered the concept of metaverse in October 2021. Since then, more and more people and organizations use the term as a buzzword, connecting it with various types of innovative products and services. Still, what is commonly agreed in many of these communications is the reference to 3D representation of content and to the online…

CALL FOR PAPERS: 7th “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference December 8-9, 2022 Gdańsk, Poland In person/ Online https://www.inmindsupport.com/nostalgia-conference Organizer: InMind Support Scientific Committee: Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Deadlines for abstracts and bios: onsite presenters – by 18 September 2022 online presenters – by 30 September 2022 The 7th edition of the “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” International Interdisciplinary Conference will take place on December 8, 2022,  in-person at Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel in Gdańsk (Poland) and on December 9, 2022, online (via Zoom…

Call for Papers: Playing While the World Burns: Games in a Time of Crisis Thematic issue of the open access journal Arts & Cultural Studies Review (Przegląd Kulturoznawczy) https://www.culturalstudiesreview.eu/calls-for-papers/playing-while-the-world-burns-games-in-a-time-of-crisis/ Submissions are open until September 25, 2022 The world is in peril, and yet we are still playing. In  the midst of the climate emergency and environmental disasters of the Anthropocene; in the third year of a global pandemic; as wars rage in Ukraine, Yemen, Tigray and elsewhere; as nationalistic and far-right discourses move closer to the political mainstream sphere; as authoritarianism rears its head, freedom of speech is curtailed, and…

CALL FOR PAPERS Post-phenomenology and the ethics of Artificial Intelligence Themed issue of the journal Scenari Edited by L. Possati, L. Taddio, and F. Ferro https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/scenari/call-for-papers-2-22-2 Deadlines: For submitting proposals (title and abstract): July 25, 2022 For submitting the papers: September 30, 2022 As advances in AI occur at a rapid pace, there is a growing need for us to explore and understand what impact these will have on society. Policymakers, opinion leaders, researchers, and the general public have many questions. Can we distinguish between actions and behavior of an AI system? Who or what is responsible for the behavior…

[This isn’t a typical call for papers here, but there’s a clear connection to presence (and “digital technologies” are mentioned in one of the topic examples). –Matthew] Call for Book Chapters Sensory Rhetorics: (Re)Making Sense in Perilous Times Steph Ceraso and Jon Stone, Eds. Proposals and bios due by September 1, 2022 Book chapters due in February 2023 This collection aims to explore sensory rhetorics as a generative, capacious area of scholarly inquiry. There is a growing corpus of transdisciplinary scholarship on the senses, affect, and bodily ways of knowing/being (Massumi, Cvetkovich, Panagia, Ott). Sensory studies has also become an…

Call for Submissions Workshop on Prototyping Cross-Reality Systems To be held in conjunction with the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2022) October 17th or 21st, 2022 (Monday or Friday) Hybrid Workshop: https://crossreality.hcigroup.de ISMAR 2022: https://ismar2022.org Submissions deadline: July 21, 2022 (Thursday) (EXTENDED) We invite researchers, practitioners, and designers to participate in the first workshop on prototyping cross-reality systems. Cross-reality (CR) systems offer different levels of virtuality to their users, enabling them to either transition along the reality-virtuality continuum or collaborate with each other across different manifestations. Many Augmented (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) systems are…