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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 15, 2025
The Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) is looking for STS graduate students, postdocs or early career scholars from/based in the Global South (especially Africa, Middle East, Asia) who can contribute as Assistant Editors for 4S Backchannels.
The candidate will be part of the team sharing and disseminating STS news, research from/about Global South in the form of short academic writings. Besides some editorial skills, they will encourage potential authors to contribute with their works. The Assistant Editor will assist the collection, editing and publication of the writings in Ba...
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 15, 2025
Footprint, the open access Delft Architecture Theory Journal, is now welcoming abstracts on Conditions of Architecture. Footprint 40 (edited by Alina Paias and Catherine Koekoek) explores the theoretical and practical implications of situating architecture within its conditions of production. Architects are used to seeing themselves as the ones who set conditions, as the designers of spatial constraints within which certain activities will develop. Issue 40 of Footprint will explore what happens when we start to consider that architects are in turn also conditioned by social, cultural, economi...
Published On: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
The College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in the Blue Humanities. This position is open to scholars who specialize in human-water interactions and who would contribute to broader conversations about the shifting roles of water in the era of climate change. Scholars trained in cultural and literary studies, ecocriticism, history, and/or environmental humanities who can address the materiality of water and have a demonstrated ability to work in interdisciplinary settings are encouraged to apply. Geographical an...
Published On: Nov 27 2025
Deadline: Dec 4, 2025
We invite applications for our 2026-27 Embedded Ethics postdoctoral fellowship based at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). Stanford Embedded Ethics is a collaborative program that embeds the teaching of ethics directly into the core undergraduate courses of Stanford’s computer science curriculum.
We seek applicants with a Ph.D. in philosophy, law, political science, information studies, computer science, or science and technology studies who can teach ethics (but ethics need not be their specialization). W...
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: Oct 18 2025
Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
The editors of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS), together with guest editors Tobias Burgers and Ian Kalman, invite submissions for an upcoming special issue. We welcome manuscripts that engage with the theme of the special issue. The abstract outlining its scope is included below. Scholars with relevant work are encouraged to submit full manuscripts directly through the EASTS submission system: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/teas20
When submitting, please indicate your intention to be considered for this special issue.
Published On: Nov 27 2025
Deadline: Dec 10, 2025
The mission of the 3-year Penn Postdoctoral Training Program in the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of Genetics and Genomics, supported by a training grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute, is to prepare junior scholars for success as creative, independent investigators in the field of ELSI research. Fellows will participate fully in the life of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, which is among the world’s leading bioethics departments, and will engage with the outstanding genetic medicine, science, and ELSI communities at Penn. Fellows wil...
Published On: Nov 27 2025
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
The Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University seeks an experienced scholar and leader with a commitment to interdisciplinarity to serve as department chair at the rank of full professor or associate professor nearing promotion to full in line with Michigan Tech. The Chair will lead our collaborative, multidisciplinary department in implementing a shared vision for excellence in scholarship, creative work, and teaching. The Chair will be responsible for developing and supporting new departmental initiatives as well as ongoing efforts to foster innovative interdisciplinary re...
Published On: Nov 27 2025
A floating plastic island has become a powerful symbol of ocean pollution, but no one can find it at sea. While marine scientists dismiss the trash island as myth, Synthetic Frontiers argues that its persistence is a consequence of dominant ways of knowing and exploiting the Pacific Ocean. Bringing feminist science and technology studies approaches to materiality together with hydrohumanities critiques of terracentrism, Kim De Wolff shows how ocean plastic pollution is shaped by land/water divides and the fluidities that defy them.