Published On: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
We are excited to announce a workshop focused on equity and inclusion in academia, featuring six distinguished speakers from a range of disciplines. This workshop aims to provide junior scholars with insights into the diverse research opportunities on this subject and to support their professional development through role models and networking opportunities.
Published On: Jan 13 2025
Deadline: Feb 14, 2025
‘Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models’ is an interdisciplinary workshop taking place on 14th May 2025 at the University of Bath.
With the emergence of large language models (LLMs), some scholars have begun to experiment with the use of these tools in various academic tasks, including peer review. Recent studies have suggested LLMs could play some legitimate role in peer review processes. However, significant concerns have been raised about potential biases; violations of privacy and confidentiality; insufficient robustness and reliability; and the undermining of peer...
Published On: Nov 25 2024
Deadline: Feb 15, 2025
We invite scholars to contribute their insights and research presenting theoretical, empirical or visionary positions on how these spaces can be analyzed, perceived and designed. More specifically, this conference will focus on, but is not limited to, three specific types of digital spaces, each with distinctive implications, challenges and opportunities: Public Spaces, Learning Spaces and Data Spaces.
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 va...
Published On: Jan 23 2025
Deadline: Feb 21, 2025
Submit a proposal to present your work at EPIC2025, the essential annual gathering of practitioners across all sectors who use ethnographic and social expertise to drive decision making, strategy, and transformation. The EPIC2025 theme is Intelligences — the multiple, collective, and distributed capabilities of social, technical, business, and environmental systems. This year's conference will take place in Helsinki September 16-19.
We welcome submissions from anyone, in any discipline and sector, who practices ethnography or uses sociocultural expertise for impact in business and org...
Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Jan 8, 2025
In recent years, perhaps stimulated by the growing awareness of the power of digital technologies, there have been calls for engineers and designers to advance values ‘by design’, such as democracy, participation, privacy and transparency. This builds on earlier inclusive design and access-for-all initiatives. But not all encounters with technologies are fulfilling, and some are designed to exclude or harm people, animals and nature. This workshop focuses on those technologies that could be described as hostile or exclusionary by design.
The workshop is supported by the Maastric...
Published On: Jan 13 2025
Deadline: Jan 23, 2025
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are seeking candidates to participate in the annual summer course on science diplomacy to be held on 21-24 July, 2025 in person in Trieste, Italy.
The AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy training program was established in 2014 to expose scientists, decisionmakers, diplomats and other interested stakeholders and institutions to science diplomacy concepts, explore key contemporary international policy issues relating to science, technology, environment and he...
Published On: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Apr 17, 2025
An invitation to a workshop organized by MISTRA environmental communication and The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Sweden, October 23, 2025.
This workshop invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to discuss and explore the role and use of digital environmental technologies in policies, in professional use and in everyday life. We particularly invite papers that critically engage with environmental data as an everyday practice, and welcome participants to reflect on questions such as: In which ways do digitized ways of obtaining environmental data ch...
Published On: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Oct 20, 2024
The iConference is an annual gathering of a broad spectrum of scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. The iConference pushes the boundaries of information studies, explores core concepts and ideas, and creates new technological and conceptual configurations—all situated in interdisciplinary discourses.
Submission deadline (workshops & interactive sessions): October 20, 2024 | Event: 18-22 March, 2025 (in-person) & 11-14 March, 2025 (virtual)
Published On: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Oct 31, 2024
On February 28 and March 1, 2025, we will convene a small conference to explore contemporary biomedical and health technologies, hosted by the Department of Sociology at Yale University in New Haven, CT. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together social scientists and historians studying technologies using a science and technology studies lens. We seek to convene scholars across career stages who are conducting empirical investigations of contemporary biomedical and health technologies.
Published On: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in health and medicine.
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2024 | Notification of Acceptance: January, 1 2025 | Event: Feburary 7–8, 2025