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Published On: Apr 30 2025
Just one week to go to register & receive an 🐥 early-bird rate for 4S Seattle 2025! 🐥 Same rates for online + in-person. Purchasing a membership gives you access to reduced rates, so be sure to become a member first. 4S is undertaking many steps to help and support our members during their visit to Seattle for the conference. We have given 100 registration fee waivers this year & we've offered hybridity for those who want to connect online. While these offers come at a significant financial loss, 4S made the decision to offer this support. 4S exec & organizing committees &...
Published On: Apr 10 2025
Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning: those technical processes and operations that yoke together statistics and computer science to create artificial intelligence (AI) by furnishing vast datasets to learn tasks and predict outcomes. In DeepAesthetics, Anna Munster examines the range of more-than-human experiences this transformation has engendered and considers how those experiences can be qualitative as well as quantitative. Drawing on process philosophy, Munster approaches computational experience through its relations and operations. She combines deep learning—th...
Published On: Apr 3 2025
Professor Sandra Harding was a path-breaking scholar in Feminist Philosophy and Science Studies, and her many books and contributions will inspire future scholars for decades to come. She was a founding associate editor for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and this fund is being managed by the non-profit Board of Hypatia together with the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP, Pacific Division). This memorial fund will provide resources to support scholarly projects--such as conferences, travel grants, and publications--in the research areas to which Prof. Harding devoted her career. ...
Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University welcomes 2025-2026 fellowships applications. Fellows will reside in Cambridge, MA, to conduct independent work in collaboration with BKC faculty, staff, students, and the broader BKC community. Through this call, the Center will accept candidates across three tracks: Academic fellowships for full-time faculty members; Post-doc fellowships for scholars who have recently completed their PhDs or equivalent; Non-academic fellowships for accomplished practitioners from outside the academy.
Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
‘Security’ has become an increasingly dominant frame in recent decades, linking issues such as climate, biodiversity, borders, energy, food and military activities. Ever-more societal issues have been framed as security problems, even as existential threats. These frames seek to justify pre-emptive management through technoscientific expert systems, imagining control over everything and fostering an authoritarian culture. This SaC special issue will explore linkages among three dynamics: modern pre-emptive techno-securitisation, today’s active colonial relations, and the mili...
Published On: Feb 10 2025
This open access book is about how Israel is using Algorithmic Intelligence (AI) and other computer technology in military operations in the Gaza Strip to achieve goals based on ancient religious entitlements. Changes in Israel Defense Force (IDF) ethical codes and innovation policies have not led to victory, but have resulted in a wide range of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in a strategy focused on The Torture of Gaza, which includes ethnic cleansing and is approaching genocide.
Published On: Apr 10 2025
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
The Postdoctoral Visitor (PDV) will work on an international project for two-and-half years. The project title is “Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganizing Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era” and is funded by the Open Research Area 8 initiative through SSHRC (Canada), ESRC (UK), ANR (France), and DFG (Germany). The PDV will be working directly for Prof Birch on the Canadian part of the project but will also work with the other project partners. This project is a comparative study of the roles and relevance of open versus commercial digital research informati...
Published On: Jan 23 2025
Deadline: Feb 4, 2025
The UN Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (IATT) is calling upon scientists, engineers, economists, policy analysts, and UN staff experts to contribute science-policy briefs on science and technology issues that they would like to bring to the attention of policy and decision makers. The briefs will provide background knowledge to inform discussions at the MultiStakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), to be held at UN Headquarters in New York from 7 to 8 May 2025, wi...
Published On: Apr 8 2025
Deadline: May 1, 2025
The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for articles for a forthcoming issue. Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship. The editors especially value pieces that demonstrate the need for interdisciplinary solutions to twenty-first-century problems. Articles of interest will engage the advantages, challenges, and modes of interdisciplinary work.
Published On: Apr 8 2025
Deadline: May 1, 2025
The Land Institute is hiring an Ecosphere Fellow who will collaboratively lead the next iteration of The Land Institute's fellows program, focused on envisioning the human future within ecological limits. This is a two-year, full-time position. The Ecosphere Fellow will also actively participate in the program through their own research.