CfP | Climate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources Symposium

Published On: Jun 17 2025

Deadline: Aug 15, 2025

As climate risks intensify, the idea of “climate havens”—and the identification of regions like the Great Lakes as more resilient to environmental change—raises pressing questions about space, belonging, justice, resources, and community. This symposium will explore climate havens through historical, philosophical, artistic, literary, and cultural perspectives, organized around three central themes: 1. What Is a Haven? 2. Whose Haven Is It? 3. Climate Havens and Natural Resources

CfP | Workshop and book 'Hostility by Design'

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...

CfP | Synthetic Data: Representation and/vs Representativeness

Published On: May 22 2025

Deadline: May 28, 2025

Full-day, onsite workshop at Aarhus 2025 Computing [X] Crisis Conference. Synthetic data promises to address three key concerns for data-driven technologies: sparsity, privacy, and bias or lack of diversity. This workshop will interrogate the promise of creating better, more diverse, more representative datasets, by critically examining how data are understood to be “representative” in different senses, for example, statistically, through stereotype, or more qualitative and individual depictions of identity and other qualities. We invite participation from anyone interested in the ...

AAAS-TWAS | Course on Science Diplomacy

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...

CfP | Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025

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

CfP | Strengthening Comparative Research and Critical Thinking on Academic Freedom in the Americas

Published On: Oct 18 2024

Deadline: Oct 28, 2024

This Call for Research is sponsored by the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas and by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, within the framework of its Platforms for Social Dialogue Project, and has the following objectives: to deepen knowledge and understanding of the issue of academic freedom in the Americas; to create a critical mass of researchers throughout the region capable of contributing to this field of research; to disseminate research findings in written and oral form, through CAFA and CLACSO websites, and through workshops and seminars, establishing dialogues w...

CfP | "Radiant Futures" Spiral Research Centre

Published On: Apr 10 2025

Deadline: May 15, 2025

The Spiral Research Centre at the University of Liège is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025. Created in 1995, Spiral has developed into a vibrant STS community practicing fundamental and applied research, methodological innovation and interdisciplinary conversation across the social sciences and humanities. An anniversary provides the occasion to pause and reflect on past, present and future; it is a moment of recollection and anticipation: to single out and emphasize what matters. Remembering, looking ahead, and celebrating work best in the good company of others, which is why Sp...

CfP | Laboring Landscapes: Workers’ Agency in Transforming Agricultural Spaces

Published On: Apr 8 2025

Deadline: May 20, 2025

Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes International Congress
We welcome contributions that examine the interrelationships between labor and spatial typologies such as fields, mills, irrigation systems, packing plants, cold-storage warehouses, factories, or transport networks. Approaches across architecture, history, geography, anthropology, labor studies, and environmental humanities are encouraged.
Agriculture has been instrumental in shaping modern space, entangled with colonialism, extraction, consumerism, depletion, and dispossession, with labor at its core. From plantation economies ...

CfP | Sustainable Databases in the Humanities conference

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...

CfP | SciDataCon 2025

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...

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