Call for Papers Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA) 2025 ConferenceTheme: “Breaks”June 7-10, 2025Montreal, Quebec and onlinehttps://gamestudies.ca/cgsa-acej-2025-breaks-arrets/ Deadline for submissions: December 13, 2024 The 2025 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 7–10. This year’s chosen theme is “Breaks.” We invite submissions from all disciplines and researchers working on or around games, including digital and non-digital games. Graduate student submissions and submissions from scholars outside of Canada are welcome and encouraged! Please indicate in your abstract if you are a grad student and/or…

Call for Papers BEHAVE AI WorkshopCo-located with the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2025)Cagliari, Italy BEHAVE Workshop:Date TBDhttps://www.hcai.eu/behave-ai/ ACM IUI 2025:March 24-27, 2025https://iui.acm.org/2025/ Deadline for submission of papers: January 9, 2025 This workshop aims to address the unique challenges posed by proactive systems, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers and practitioners. Topics include: Identifying unique challenges in designing proactive AI systems. Sharing best practices in the design and evaluation of proactive systems. Developing tailored evaluation metrics and methods for human-AI interaction. Case studies on the implementation and assessment of proactive AI in various domains.…

Call for Papers Routledge Companion to Media and Memoryhttp://commlist.org/archive/all/2024-all/msg01638.html Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 15, 2024 We are seeking chapter proposals for the Routledge Companion to Media and Memory, edited by Joanne Garde-Hansen and Red Chidgey. With over 50+ global contributions, this volume will create an essential resource for engaging with established, emergent and future directions in media and memory research. Covering diverse media, cultural and communication forms, practices and discourse, the /Companion/ will include chapters on cinema, television, music, gaming, social media, journalism, as well as museums, heritage, fan-made texts, digital innovation and advanced global media production.…

Call for Papers Virtual Sex: Pornography, Immersion, and Erotic EnvironmentsIssue of the online open access journal “AN-ICON. Studies in Environmental Images”https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/anicon/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/198 Edited by Ihsan Asman, Giovanna Maina, and Roberto P. Malaspina Deadline for submission of full articles: March 15, 2025 In a letter published in 1969 on Architectural Design, Donald Kenzotaki from the Bio-Cybernetic Institute of Tokaida, Japan, details the marvels of his research team’s latest invention. This ground-breaking device, known as “Cybersex,” is engineered to record the multimodal expressions of a sexual encounter, store them on a hard disk, and reproduce the experience for distribution to anyone seeking a…

Call for Chapters “Artificial Intelligence in Creative Industries: Psychological and Social Implications for Creators and the Public”To be published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Grouphttps://liveinnovation.org/call-for-chapters-artificial-intelligence-in-creative-industries/ Editors: Francisco Tigre Moura and Caterina Moruzzi Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2024 (Call will close when the maximum number of accepted proposals is reached) “Artificial Intelligence & Creativity: Psychological and Social Implications for Creators and The Public” aims to provide a comprehensive exploration of the transformative impact of AI on creativity from the perspectives of both creators and the public. This edited volume will focus on the complex interactions between humans and…

[NOTE: This is a Google-translated English version of a Call for Papers written in French. Submissions in English are invited but see the details below. –Matthew] Call for Contributions “The virtual and its avatars”For the journal Philosophical Implicationshttps://www.implications-philosophiques.org/appel-a-contributions-dossier-le-virtuel-et-ses-avatars/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2025 File coordinated by Charles Bodon, doctoral student in contemporary philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, attached to the Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences of La Sorbonne (ISJPS), Center for Contemporary Philosophy (PhiCo), Experience and Knowledge pole (EXeCO), UMR 8103, Paris 1-CNRS. INTRODUCTION Today, the virtual is put in the spotlight by…

Call for Papers Trextuality 2. Material Turns in Translation: Intermediality and CirculationSeptember 4-6, 2025The Anderson Centre for Translation Research and PracticeUniversity of Galway, Irelandhttps://translation.universityofgalway.ie/trextuality2/ Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2025 Keynote speakers:Karen Bennett (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal)Piotr Blumczynski (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) The Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice at the University of Galway, Ireland, is delighted to announce the 2nd Trextuality Conference, scheduled on September 4-6, 2025. Following the success of the inaugural conference at the University of Turku (Finland) in September 2023, titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Translated and Multilingual Texts,” this second edition will focus on the…

Call for Papers: ‘Before, After and Beyond: Prequels and Sequels in Literature, Arts and Culture’A Special Issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film & PerformanceEdited by Annamária Fábián and Márta Minierhttps://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-adaptation-in-film-performance#call-for-papers Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2025 Proposals for scholarly articles, practitioners’ perspective essays and practitioner interviews are warmly invited for the upcoming special issue of the Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance. This thematic issue will address adapting and recreating various forms of text into various modes of media through enhancing or challenging the concept of temporal and spatial continuity, i.e. through prequels and sequels.…

Call for Papers Leisure and TechnologiesSpecial issue of Leisure Studies Special Issue Editors:Damion Sturm (Massey University, NZ) – d.sturm@massey.ac.nzGarry Crawford (Salford University, UK) – G.Crawford@salford.ac.uk Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 20, 2024 This special issue explores the relationship between leisure and technology. With contemporary leisure activities often deeply shaped, if not potentially determined, by technological advancements and developments, a broader understanding of leisure and technology is required. This special issue looks to probe some of the ways in which technologies underpin, influence, infringe upon and/or furnish creations, opportunities for and expressions of leisure, while also contemplating how these affordances…

Preliminary Call for Full and Short Papers UMAP 2025 – The 33rd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationJune 16-20, 2025New York City, NYhttps://www.um.org/umap2025/call-for-papers/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 23, 2025Deadline for submission of papers: January 30, 2025 ACM UMAP is the premier international conference bringing together research in AI and HCI to support effective human-AI collaboration via interactive systems that can model, adapt and personalize to their users. The conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code…

Call for Papers International Communication Association (ICA) 2025Pre-conference: Media, Trust & TechnologyJune 11, 2025, 9:00am-4:00pmUniversity of Colorado (CU) Boulderhttps://www.icahdq.org/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2025 The question of trust in media is one of the major questions of our times. The Edelman Trust Barometer has surveyed trust in media for over 20 years, and Gallup has surveyed trust in news since the 1970s. Debates about political polarization, hyper-partisanship, mis- and dis-information and propaganda all point to questions about trust in media in general, and in the news media in particular. With traditional media business models in a period of…

Call for Abstracts Beyond Anthropocentrism: Non-human Agents and Objects in ScienceFor 2025 issue of the journal Spontaneous Generationshttps://www.acpcpa.ca/articles/call-for-abstracts-beyond-anthropocentrism-non-human-agents-and-objects-in-science Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 31, 2024 Spontaneous Generations graduate journal for the history and philosophy of science and technology at the University of Toronto, invites abstract submissions for 2025’s issue on non-human agents and objects in science. We invite submissions from the history of science, philosophy of science, and science and technology studies broadly construed. A description of the issue’s topic and submission details follows. Traditional studies of science focus on human theorizing and human actions while viewing non-human factors…