Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
As digital humanities continue to grow, the creation, maintenance, and accessibility of databases are becoming critical to scholarly practice. However, databases in the humanities face a unique set of challenges: How can we represent the complexity and ambiguity of humanities data in digital forms? What strategies help build sustainable communities of practice to maintain and develop databases in new directions? How can we ensure long-term sustainability for humanities databases? Should there be specialized funding programs for databases in the humanities? How do we document and re-use data an...
Published On: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Apr 15, 2025
SciDataCon is the international conference for scrutiny and discussion of the frontier issues of data in research. The scope of SciDataCon covers policy matters and the place of data in the scientific endeavour and scholarly communications; the opportunities of the data revolution for the global research enterprise; innovations in data science and data stewardship; and the challenge of developing a sustainable data ecosystem, including the role of education and capacity building. Since 2016, SciDataCon has been organised as an integral part of International Data Week. 15 April 2025, 23:59 AE...
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: Mar 17 2025
Deadline: Apr 22, 2025
In light of a dwindling public trust in science (Oreskes 2019) and ambiguous calls for a ‘return to truth’ (Cain et al. 2019), understanding the relationship between science and a democratic public, the delineation of appropriate scientific practices, and how to reconcile conflicting interpretations of reality seems to be more relevant than ever. In the 1990s, struggles over these issues culminated in the Science Wars that consisted of a series of heated academic-public discussions, among them the infamous ‘Sokal Hoax’. The Science Wars represent a historic peak and int...
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: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Mar 14, 2025
We are excited to announce a workshop focused on researching academic communities, featuring six distinguished speakers from a range of disciplines. This workshop aims to provide junior scholars with insights into the research opportunities on this subject and to support their professional development through role models and networking opportunities.
Published On: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Mar 14, 2025
The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference is now open! This year’s theme is ‘Signals and Noises’. Please submit your proposals via this form. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, meet-ups, making and doing sessions, and pre-submitted papers - the CFP will be open until Friday 14 March (11:59pm AEDT).
This year’s conference will take place across three days, from Wednesday July 9th to Friday July 11th in Narrm/Melbourne. Day 1 will take place at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn. Days 2 and 3 will take place at Deakin Downtown (Doc...
Published On: Mar 3 2025
Deadline: Mar 15, 2025
This symposium explores Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for rethinking foundational debates in agency, ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Contemporary AI systems—whether seen as radically externalized, affective, distributed, simulated, or emergent—have striking precedents in medieval scholastic inquiries into non-human intelligences. Angelic intellects, demonic adversaries, and phantasmata (machines of illusion) were central figures in premodern ontologies, raising enduring questions about the nature of intelligence, will, and moral accountability. IACAP/AISB Conferen...
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: 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...