Published On: Dec 30 2025
Deadline: Mar 26, 2026
For this year’s annual HPS conference, we are seeking a variety of perspectives on the phenomenon of “scientific expertise”: How have sciences, expertise, and the state been co-constitutive and mutually reinforcing? How have (and how do) practices of quantification and categorization contribute to colonial expansion and reification of racial hierarchies? How can we assess “good judgment” within scientific practices? Can such assessments be articulated and generalized to domains “outside the lab,” or are they inevitably “tacit” and context-s...
Published On: Dec 30 2025
Deadline: Feb 15, 2026
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers and Panels for the first Digital Commons conference is now open on our website: www.digicommons.org.
The conference, titled Digital Commons: Infrastructures, Design & the Ethics of Autonomy, will take place in Athens, Greece (8–10 October 2026). It is co-organized by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, and the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos.”
Published On: Dec 30 2025
Deadline: May 14, 2026
Dear Collegues, We are writing with reference to the VI Annual International Conference promoted by the International Lab for Innovative Cultural and Social Research (ILIS).
The mission of ILIS is to promote theoretical, epistemological and methodological advances in the field of social sciences.
The title of this year conference is “Epistemic Shifts in the Post-Digital Society. The dilemma of knowledge production between generative models and quantum futures” and it will be held on the 14th and the 15th of May 2026 according to a hybrid format (online and on-site).
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Published On: Dec 30 2025
Deadline: Jan 25, 2026
The mission of fPET is to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology; and to build bridges between existing organizations of philosophers, engineers and scholars in related fields. A biennial conference having its first meeting in 2007, fPET has been a leading site for work on the philosophy of engineering. Information about the fPET steering committee and past fPET events can be found here.
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
As part of the Desirable AI programme – a collaboration between Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Cambridge – this interdisciplinary conference, will explore the profound implications of large language models (LLMs), affective computing, and emotionally responsive AI. As machines venture into realms once thought uniquely human – emotion, creativity, irrationality – we ask: What does this mean for language, ethics, and the future of human expression? We welcome theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions from schola...
Published On: Nov 27 2025
Deadline: Dec 5, 2025
We are convening this workshop to foster synergies among scholars across diverse disciplines to reflect on the integration of data-driven tools and digital logics into agrifood systems and environmental policy and management. We are interested in i) the drivers, interests, institutional contexts, and development strategies structuring investment and innovation, ii) how questions of ontology and knowledge systems can inform analyses of innovation processes, with particular attention to the biases, assumptions, exclusions and relations of power embedded in data and design, and iii) progressive e...
Published On: Nov 27 2025
Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
The Craft of Science with AI: Evidence, Judgment, and Practice, convened online by Data & Society’s AI on the Ground program on March 19-20 2026, is a workshop about doing science when AI is in the loop. It asks a central, field-building question: What does it mean to do science with AI? What counts as evidence and theory-building explanation, how is scientific judgment exercised, and what gets foreclosed in the process?
As AI is integrated into scientific practice, the practice of science itself is changing. AI models that summarize, categorize, simulate, and predict not only sta...
Published On: Aug 8 2025
Deadline: Apr 24, 2026
The Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology is an experiment in creating a dedicated intellectual space for medical anthropology. This biennial conference was founded in 2011 to establish regional expertise, regular research sharing, networking and collaboration, graduate student training, and cooperative teaching and publication support in the medical anthropology field. It is a small, intimate, high-interest, low-cost weekend conference organized collaboratively by medical anthropologists on faculty at a number of different universities and colleges in the US Pacific Northwest and British C...
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: 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...