Call for Abstracts: Land Use for Net Zero Hub Early Career Conference

Dear colleagues,

 

We are pleased to open the call for abstracts for the Land Use for Net Zero Hub Early Career Conference, which will be held on 7 September (1:00–6:00 pm) at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, ahead of the LUNZ consortium meeting (8–10 September). The call for abstracts will close on 12 June 2026.

 

The conference theme is: “Future Careers at the Science–Policy Interface: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in LUNZ.”

 

We aim to bring together early career researchers and practitioners from LUNZ Hub and LUNZ Research, as well as other early career groups interested in the conference themes, to network, share work, and discuss careers at the science–policy interface.

 

We welcome abstracts for poster and oral presentations within the following themes. Submissions can include works in progress and unpublished research, as we aim to stimulate open dialogue, feedback, and learning. We also encourage contributions from partners beyond academia. The format of the day will be shaped by the level of interest across these topics:

 

• Transdisciplinary collaboration across sectors and knowledge systems
• Science communication and knowledge impact
• Modelling and evidence for land use change
• Integrating people, place, and nature in Net Zero transitions
• Just transitions and community resilience
• Community-based research in academia and policy

 

Please complete the following form to submit your abstract: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOzhkowu0NdM3YlQz-XEIovSB3805zX5LTT4Fm7FzBPq3f7Q/viewform?usp=header

 

Once we have received and reviewed abstracts, we will open up registration to presenters and the wider community.

 

If you are interested in helping with the organisation of the conference at an early stage, we would be very happy to hear from you—please get in touch.

 

We look forward to your participation.

 

Best regards,

LUNZ Early Career Board

https://lunzhub.com/get-involved/early-careers-board/

 

Anita Lazurko (she/her)

Senior Transdisciplinary Scientist

Biodiversity and Land Use

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My source: At 'Ecologies of Care':

Henrike (Kika) Neuhaus

Pronouns: she/her, they/them

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology and Art

Livelihoods and Institutions Department

Natural Resources Institute

University of Greenwich 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1245-5881

CFP: Nonsense in Language and Thought

Guest editor: 
Krystian Bogucki (Polish Academy of Sciences)

Deadline for submissions: 
the 31st of July 2026 

Description:

Studia Semiotyczne (Semiotic Studies) invites submissions for a special issue of the journal. Papers should be written in English and prepared for blind review. 

An interest in nonsense was a hallmark of the early analytic philosophy. Bertrand Russell (1908) thought that a theory of nonsense could help us avoid some daunting paradoxes in logic. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1922, 1953) and Rudolf Carnap (1931) recognised nonsense as a fundamental concept for philosophical criticism. They claimed that much of philosophical discourse is defective in the most fundamental way: it is neither true nor false, it does not consist of thoughts and propositions ? it is nonsense. According to the early Wittgenstein, philosophers want to describe the nature of the world, thought, language and ethics, but they unwittingly fall into nonsense. The Tractatus was supposed to free us from this troublesome position by presenting a perspicuous notation. On the other hand, the later Wittgenstein claimed that we should compare deceptive philosophical images with our ordinary ways of thinking and speaking in order to avoid nonsense. Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday, so we must always remember the everyday use of concepts. For Carnap, propositions should be reducible to sense data and constructed according to the rules of logical syntax in order to be meaningful. 

Later, the topic of nonsense was discussed by Alfred Ayer, Gilbert Ryle, Willard V. O. Quine, Arthur Prior, Richard Routley and Georg H. von Wright, among others. Since the late 1970s, however, the interest in nonsense has faded. Only recently, some important works have been published. The first important stimulus came from foundational works on theories of nonsense (Cappelen 2012, 2013; Camp 2004; Glock 2015; Magidor 2009, 2013). The second source of the revival of interest in nonsense was Wittgenstein scholarship on the austere and substantial conceptions of nonsense (Conant 2001; Diamond 1995, 2005; Glock 2004; Hacker 2003; Moore 2003; Sullivan 2003). Some works also examined the relation of nonsense to other phenomena (Gotham 2017, Keller and Keller 2021, Shaw 2015, Sorensen 2003). 

The important questions to be addressed in the forthcoming volume are (to name but a few):

• What are the sources of nonsense? 
• Are some parts of philosophical and non-philosophical discourse nonsense?
• What is the relation between nonsense and figurative speech?
• Is it at all possible to be wrong whether our own thoughts are meaningful? 

We hope that the special issue of Studia Semiotyczne will further strengthen and deepen the scholarly interest in nonsense. 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Theories of nonsense
Nonsense and logical syntax
Nonsense and category mistakes
Nonsense and figurative speech (e.g. metaphor, metonymy)
Nonsense and fiction
History of the concept of nonsense (in particular Wittgenstein's and the Vienna Circle's views on nonsense)
Nonsense and understanding
Nonsense and illusions of sense
Nonsense and quantification
Nonsense and linguistics
Nonsense and ineffability
Nonsense, knowledge-how and knowledge-that
Logics of nonsense
Nonsense and semantic paradoxes
How to diagnose philosophical nonsense?
Metaphilosophical and methodological issues concerning nonsense

In order to submit the paper one is kindly asked to submit the manuscript by sending it to:
krystian.bogucki AT ifispan.edu.pl and studiasemiotyczne AT pts.edu.pl 

All submitted papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed.

My source (and emphasis):
Philos-L "The Liverpool List" is run by the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool 
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/

Tanzania Health Summit (THS)

Hello Peter Jones,

Warm greetings from the Tanzania Health Summit (THS).

As we prepare for the 13th Tanzania Health Summit, scheduled for 5th–7th October 2026 at Mlimani City Conference Center, Dar es Salaam, we are excited to share key opportunities and updates for your participation.

Abstracts Submission is underway, submit before 1st June.

We invite researchers, innovators, and professionals to submit abstracts aligned with this year’s theme:

“Building Health Sovereignty and Strengthening
Health Systems in a Changing Global Order.”

This is your opportunity to showcase impactful work and contribute to national and global health conversations.

Elizabeth & her Colleagues story about their wish to present at THS: 

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT NOW!!!

Early Bird Registration is Still Open

Secure your spot at a discounted rate by registering early. Take advantage of this limited-time offer and be part of Tanzania’s largest healthcare gathering.

My source: Email - THS

Final Call December AI-2026: Cambridge, UK :: June: Virtual seminar on 'A Future with AI Agents'

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

The proceedings of the AI-20xx conference series are now published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), a sub-series of the distinguished Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of conference proceedings.

AI-2026: Cambridge, UK, December 15th-17th 2026

Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (a EurAi Member Society).The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in Europe.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

http://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2026/

AI-2026 is the forty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI technologies and application areas. AI-2026 reviews recent technical advances in AI technologies and shows how these advances have been applied to solve business problems. Key features are:

• Papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) subseries of the popular Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (
• Papers are invited in two streams. The Technical Stream presents the best of recent developments in AI, covering a wide range of technical areas. The Application Stream is the largest annual showcase in Europe of real applications using AI technology.
• It is expected that the best papers will be reprinted in expanded form in an international journal.
• A mixture of full papers (maximum 14 A4 pages) presented orally and short papers (maximum 6 A4 pages) presented as posters. Papers of both kinds will be included in the proceedings.
• Prizes for best paper and best student paper in each stream and best presented short/poster paper.
• Invited keynote lectures.
• The first day comprises tutorials and workshops to provide greater depth in selected topics. (Separate one-day registration for this day is also available.
• A panel session or a debate on a topical subject.
• An 'AI Open Mic' session to allow delegates to have their say about any aspect of AI.
• In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner.

AI-2026 offers a valuable opportunity to keep up to date with developments in AI and to share experiences in the practical issues of developing AI systems.

More details ... 

:::: PLUS :::::

-------- Virtual Meeting seminar on A Future with AI Agents --------

The next in our series of free evening virtual seminars will be on Wednesday June 10th from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. (UK time). The topic will be A Future with AI Agents.

 

Humans are becoming the minority online with bots generating almost 50% of all internet traffic. The World Economic Forum recognised that the advancement of agentic AI is obvious and the agent-driven economy is here. The global AI agents market is growing from a $5.4 billion market in 2024 to $236 billion by 2034. Come along and find out about some technical foundations of agentic systems and how to build a minimal AI agent from scratch.

 

The speakers will be

Anirban Lahiri (Arndit Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom) on Agentic AI: A Friend or Foe'
Dr Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro (SGAI) on 'AI Agents 101'

The virtual seminar series is free and open to all. For further details and for the zoom link to use go to https://bcs-sgai.org/seminars/2026-06-10/.

 

Details of future SGAI events will be placed on the website at https://bcs-sgai.org as they become available. To register to be sent information about future SGAI events by email go to https://www.bcs-sgai.org/register/.

 

Max Bramer

Chair, BCS SGAI

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Chair, British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence

Emeritus Professor, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
http://www.maxbramer.org

 

My source: AI-SGES list

Call for Submissions: Reimagining the Frontline - The Evolving Roles of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in a Changing World

Dear HIFA Colleagues,

Are you a researcher operating in the community health space?

Sage Health Service Insight Journal, a JCR-ranked, peer-reviewed, fully Open Access journal with an Impact Factor of 2.5. launched a Special Collection focused titled:

Reimagining the Frontline:

The Evolving Roles of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in a Changing World
 https://journals.sagepub.com/topic/collections-his/002164/hisa

Your perspective would be invaluable to this collection, especially at a time when CHWs are at a pivotal crossroad. From navigating funding pressures and the health impacts of climate change to harnessing AI and digital tools, their roles are evolving faster than ever. This collection seeks to capture that transformation through rigorous, forward-looking research.

We welcome research articles and review articles on these topics: 

• Sustainable financing and economic models in a constrained landscape 
• Digital transformation: AI, mHealth, and data equity
• Adapting to emerging health threats and new health conditions 
• CHW resilience and wellbeing

Submission deadline: 13 July 2026

Additionally, authors may be eligible for APC discount through: 

• Sage Publishing Open Access Agreements (institutions with an agreement with Sage) 
  https://www.sagepub.com/explore-our-content/blogs/posts/sage-perspectives/2025/10/01/what-happens-after-you-submit-to-a-special-collection 
• Research4Life country discounts (50% or 100% waiver for Category A and B countries, respectively)

Please note that only the highest applicable discount would apply to the standard publication fee, as authors would be unable to stack the discounts.

We deeply appreciate your consideration and would be delighted to feature your work in this Special Collection. Please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions.

Should you have any questions about the Special Collection, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Guest Editors directly: Abimbola.Olaniran AT outlook.com and Roosa.Sofia.Tikkanen AT fhi.no. For journal-related queries, please contact: Katalin.Orosz AT sagepub.co.uk

Thank you so much for considering this invitation. I truly look forward to the possibility of featuring your work.

Best regards,

Drs Abimbola Olaniran & Roosa Sofia Tikkanen Guest Editors, Health Services Insights Special Collection

HIFA profile: Abimbola A. Olaniran (MB;BS, PhD, EMBA) is a physician, researcher, and digital health entrepreneur with over twenty years of experience at the intersection of clinical care, health systems research, and policy in Africa. He continues to collaborate with local and international partners as well as national governments across Africa on health policy, workforce planning, and implementation research. His mission is to ensure that the AI revolution serves the most underserved, building from the continent, for the continent. Abimbola.Olaniran AT outlook.com

 

🔷 

Just to add: In addition, if I can support any CHW's and team colleagues and managers in a contribution using Hodges' model, I would be pleased to do so.

My source: HIFA list

Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering - CDVE2026 Call for Papers

The 23rd International conference on Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering (CDVE2026) will be held at the Leuphana University, Lunenburg, Germany on September 21-23, 2026 in their amazing architecture landmark main building. Please check the Youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YrWvqdu6_E.

Important dates:

Long paper (10 pages): April 10, 2026
Short papers (6 pages): April 20, 2026

Topics: The conference focus is "cooperative". Papers about cooperative design, cooperative visualization, cooperative engineering and all other cooperative applications are welcome. Papers about multiple users, locations, sensors, multimodal applications and integration are all within our focus. Topics also cover social networks, IoT, sensor networks, e-health care, e-education etc. Check our web page

www.cdve.org for more information.

Proceedings publication: by Springer Nature in their LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

All accepted papers will be indexed individually by Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM, Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH etc. 

Selected papers will be considered in a couple SCI journal special issues.

In addition, according to the publisher, the CDVE conference proceedings books have very high number of access among the LNCS proceedings books which can definitely raise the impact of your paper.

The submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2026

Contact of the conference: cdve2026 AT easychair.org

You are welcome to forward this call.
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The 23rd International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering
Sept. 21-23, 2026, Lüneburg, Germany
www.cdve.org

New Journal Alert - Philosophy and Urban Affairs

Dear Philosophers,

I'm pleased to announce that Philosophy and Urban Affairs is now operational. Below is a description.

Philosophy and Urban Affairs is a peer-reviewed journal that explores the ethical, political, epistemological, metaphysical, and social dimensions of cities. Articles may be theoretical, applied, or both, provided they illustrate how philosophical investigation can elucidate, critique, or inform city living.

Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted. Instead, the journal solicits submissions through public calls on emerging topics or through invitations to scholars working on specific themes. On occasion, a focus article will be published to prompt response papers and foster sustained scholarly dialogue.

Philosophy and Urban Affairs is fully open access and charges no fees of any kind.

Check out the first CFP, Philosophical Perspectives on Coastal and Island Cities. 

All the best - Shane

Shane Epting, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Missouri University of Science and Technology

New Book: Creating Future Cities: Technology, Ethics, and the Fight for the Good Life

Shane Epting, in Creating Future Cities, insightfully analyzes complex normative challenges in urban planning and design—from organizing urban residents' political power to building for resilience—and passionately argues that citizens of cities must fight for their cities and their futures. - Ronald R. Sundstrom, University of San Francisco, USA

My source:

Philos-L "The Liverpool List" is run by the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Recent posts can also be read in a Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL/ Follow the list on Twitter @PhilosL. Follow the Department of Philosophy @LiverpoolPhilos 

Healthcare Evolution through AI and Digital twins - HEAD 2026

Dear colleagues,

We do hope this Call for Papers may be of your interest.
We do apologize if this CfP reaches you more than once.

Yours sincerely
HEAD Organizers

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Healthcare Evolution through AI and Digital twins - HEAD 2026

18 - 21 May, 2026 - Sydney, Australia

https://www.head.icar.cnr.it/

- in conjunction with the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2026) and in-cooperation with ACM SIGHPC

Submit your paper by using the link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/submission_new?a=35863199

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MISSION:
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All over the world, the number of investments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for healthcare and wellbeing (eHealth) is rapidly increasing. GLOBE NEWSWIRE has predicted that the Global eHealth market is expected to reach $123.78 billion by 2030. This means that digital health is of considerable interest worldwide, as it has the potential to improve both the quality of services and users’ access to health information, while also saving time and reducing the workload and associated costs for health service providers in the long term.

In this context, an increasing interest is growing around eHealth and ICT technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins, Cloud computing, Edge and Fog computing, and Internet of Things (IoT),

which are at the basis of revolutionising healthcare by bringing innovative network applications and services. In fact, modern healthcare applications are becoming increasingly dependent on heterogeneous infrastructures, including IoT and edge medical devices, as well as High-Performance Computing (HPC) backends, to support the execution of AI-driven models and patient-specific Digital Twins.

The HEAD workshop would explore the open challenges and current issues surrounding the application of these technologies, while bridging the gap between healthcare innovation and the hardware and software systems that support scalable and reliable computing. HEAD aims to encourage interdisciplinary discussion about how technologies such as HPC, distributed systems and performance optimisation can facilitate the deployment of reliable and scalable Digital Twins for healthcare. The workshop will highlight the role of computing infrastructures as key enablers of future digital medicine by linking algorithmic advances with architectural and systems-level innovations.


TOPICS:
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■ AI Algorithms and Learning Frameworks for Healthcare
■ Modeling and Simulation Methodologies for Healthcare
■ Programming Techniques and Architectures for Healthcare
■ Data Management, Analytics, and Knowledge Extraction
■ ICT Infrastructure and Tools for Healthcare Digital Twins
■ Cloud Computing, Edge and Fog Computing for Healthcare
■ Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Wearable Devices for Healthcare
■ Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of ICT for Healthcare
■ Accelerator-based architectures (GPUs, NPUs, FPGAs and DPUs) for Healthcare
■ Parallel and Distributed Training and Multi-GPU/Multi-Node Execution for Healthcare Applications
■ Energy-Efficient, Sustainable, and Optimization-Oriented Computing for AI in Healthcare


IMPORTANT DATES:
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• Submission deadline: February 01, 2026
• Notification of paper acceptance: February 28, 2026
• Submission of camera-ready papers: March 15, 2026
• Registration: March 15, 2026


PAPER SUBMISSION:
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Manuscripts should describe original work and should be formatted according to the IEEE conference proceedings format. 

Papers will be submitted through the CCGrid 2026 submission system.

Submit your paper here:

https://easychair.org/conferences/submission_new?a=35863199

All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the Technical Program Committee. Reviews will be double-blind.

Accepted papers will be published in the CCGrid 2026 workshop proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore.


BEST PAPER AWARD:
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A Best Paper Award certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality, and technical quality, as evaluated by the Program Committee.

Please visit https://www.head.icar.cnr.it/  for more information and if you have any questions kindly get back to us by sending an email

Kind regards,
HEAD 2026 Organizers

My source: Dr. Giovanna Sannino

Tongues: The Edinburgh Companion to the Global Medical Humanities

Editors: Benjamin Dalton (Lancaster University), Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast), Alex Wragge-Morley (Lancaster) and Stephanie Wright (Lancaster)

NEW Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026

The deadline for proposals to participate in a new Edinburgh Companion to the Global Medical Humanities has been extended. Following on from the landmark Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, this handbook aims to catalyse the emerging field of global, multilingual work in the medical humanities. In its earliest form, the medical humanities sought to recognize the importance of literature and the arts to medical education and communication. In the following decades, scholars have recognized the entanglements that have existed between mind, body and environment – entanglements that call into question still prevalent distinctions between the sciences and the humanities, or between biology and culture (Whitehead et. al., 2016). Now, scholars and practitioners are increasingly bringing global cultures, epistemologies, and languages to bear on the medical humanities. At the same time, new approaches that both challenge and extend the concerns of the medical humanities are emerging in non-Anglophone and non-Western contexts.

This volume will give students and scholars a comprehensive guide to the dynamic and emerging field of global medical humanities – identified as such in recent editorials in Medical Humanities, The Polyphony and The Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities. This is a field that engages critically with the notion of global studies, recognizing that some of its iterations simply perpetuate the cultural, epistemic, and cultural hierarchies that have so long dominated the fields of health and the humanities. At once synthesizing and developing the insights of the field, this Edinburgh Companion will deploy the metaphor of the tongue to bring together, without homogenizing, a globally diverse range of contexts and interconnections. The tongue is at once an instrument of speech and a bodily organ that connects people to their cultures and environments. Indeed, through its communicative function and the pleasures and pains of taste, the tongue relates people to the language and foodways frequently taken to define cultures and societies. Moreover, the tongue is an interface for pleasure, intimacy and connection between bodies. And, of course, the tongue quite literally brings the world into the body through acts of taste and eating (Mol, 2021).

On the one hand, therefore, this Companion will deal with language, exploring the manifold ways in which translation between cultural and linguistic contexts can change our understandings and experiences of health. But at the same time, taking its cue from the corporeality of the tongue, it will explore how thought, perception and bodily reality may alter or be altered by movement in and between cultural and linguistic settings. This new handbook will thus serve as a crucial resource for anybody engaging with the trans-cultural and trans-linguistic aspects of health and wellbeing, from scholars and students to medical practitioners and carers.

The handbook will include a foreword by Angela Woods (Durham University), and the editors invite proposals for chapters on any topic relating to the global medical humanities, including but not restricted to:

• Translating the medical humanities across cultures (broadly conceived)
• Vernaculars of healthcare
• Non-verbal languages
• Global conceptions or expressions of pleasure, sexuality, taste, and/or pain
• Bodies, senses and environments
• Failures of language to communicate pain and/or bodily resistance to translation

Abstracts of between 200-300 words should be sent along with a short (50-word max) bio to a.wragge-morley AT lancaster.ac.uk, b.dalton AT lancaster.ac.uk, s.wright9 AT lancaster.ac.uk and steven.wilson AT qub.ac.uk by 30 January 2026. Informal enquiries can be directed the same addresses.

My source: NNMHR list www.jiscmail.ac.uk/NNMHR

Free online mindfulness programme & ¥3800 (≈ £20) reward - research study

Dear all,

My name is Francesco Saldarini. I am a postdoctoral fellow at Waseda University (Japan) and a visiting researcher at the University of Surrey. My research focuses on investigating the (potential) effects of mind-body practices (e.g., mindfulness and martial arts) on psychology.

I am running a longitudinal intervention study investigating the effects of a digital mindfulness-based programme on a variety of health and cognitive outcomes and I would like to invite you to participate.

The study takes place entirely online and will require you to participate in two or three main experimental sessions, when you will be asked to complete a task and answer some questions. Each session will take approximately 40 minutes to complete. Moreover, you will get to participate in an online NHS-approved mindfulness-based programme! The programme is pre-recorded and you can flexibly choose when to attend a session. I will also reward you ¥3800 (≈ £20) for your participation.

This study was approved by the Waseda University research ethics committee (REF : 2024 - 314).

If you are interested in participating in the study and wish to know more about it, please contact me at:
w.iac23317 AT kurenai.waseda.jp.

Basic inclusion criteria:

- Currently feeling stressed
- Between 18 and 65 years of age
- Willing to complete a screening questionnaire
- No previous mindfulness experience
- Willing to practice mindfulness for minimum 2 hours per week for 4 weeks

Thank you,

Francesco Saldarini

My source: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=VIRTUAL-METHODS

11th Living Knowledge Conference 2026 – Call for proposal now open

Dear all,

we are excited to announce the Call for Proposals for the -

11th Living Knowledge Conference

in Gdańsk, Poland, from July 7-10, 2026!

Taking place in the birth of the Solidarity Movement, the theme of the conference is "Research and Solidarity" which will appeal to everyone interested in supporting, facilitating, or doing community-driven, collaborative research, thereby fostering a ‘community of practice’ that welcomes both old and new friends.

We look forward to hearing from both experienced and new, early-career researchers and practitioners working with community-based research, engaged research, or citizen science.

Deadline for submissions is Dec. 15 / Jan. 10 for poster submission.

Conference Info:

📅 Key Dates & Deadlines
📢 Call for Proposal
💻 Session Formats

More information about the venue and registration will be announced soon.

Attached please find a communication kit that can help to amplify this Call For Proposals. Please share with your networks, community partners, students and faculty.

With thanks,

The Living Knowledge Conference team

Int. Joint Workshop of AI for Healthcare (HC@AIxIA) and HYbrid Models for Coupling Deductive and Inductive ReAsoning (HYDRA)

From: Francesco Calimeri, Mauro Dragoni, Fabio Stella on behalf of the
HC@AIxIA – Working Group on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare 

HC@AIxIA + HYDRA 2025 

International Joint Workshop of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (HC@AIxIA) and HYbrid Models for Coupling Deductive and Inductive ReAsoning (HYDRA)

Bologna, Italy, 25-26 October 2025

CALL for PAPERS

The workshop welcomes original research contributions, summaries of recent work, and work-in-progress studies on frameworks, applications, and methodologies for combining deductive and inductive approaches. It invites a wide multidisciplinary spectrum of researchers, industrialists, entrepreneurs, and healthcare practitioners: submissions are welcome from a range of stakeholders, including Computer scientists, health informaticians, and emergency medicine experts; Public health experts, epidemiologists, clinicians, etc.; National and international public health agencies; Epidemic intelligence systems providers; NGOs and Agencies; Industry and startups. Collaborations across disciplines will bridge the gap between theory and practice and foster actionable AI-driven solutions across diverse domains. 

Continued ...

Call for Papers: Compassionate Futures for Collective Well-Being

Despite an academic affiliation, without any (part-time) tutoring hours this past year, it may be difficult to avoid article processing fees (APCs). A shame as I believe that Hodges' model can address this call (below) in a somewhat novel manner. 

If anyone is interested in exploring a writing project framed around Hodges' model and employing a relational - diagrammatic approach please let me know.

The exercise would be greatly enhanced by:

1. Engaging with one of more academics, adept in formal methods (maths, logic..?) and keen to apply their talents within the social sciences - humanities.
2. And, exploring the possibility of working with early career researchers, including from developing nations, independent and 'late career'(!) scholars would also be very welcome.

Previously:

Jones, P. (2004) Viewpoint: Can informatics and holistic multidisciplinary care be harmonised? British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management, 21, 6, 17-18.

Jones, P. (2004) The Four Care Domains: Situations Worthy of Research. Conference: Building & Bridging Community Networks: Knowledge, Innovation & Diversity through Communication, Brighton, UK.

Jones, P. (2008) Exploring Serres’ Atlas, Hodges’ Knowledge Domains and the Fusion of Informatics and Cultural Horizons, IN Kidd, T., Chen, I. (Eds.) Social Information Technology Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 7, pp. 96-109.

Jones, P. (2009) Socio-Technical Structures, the Scope of Informatics and Hodges’ model, IN, Staudinger, R., Ostermann, H., Bettina Staudinger, B. (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Nursing Informatics and Socio-Technical Structures, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 11, pp. 160-174.

Compassionate Futures for Collective Well-Being

Academic Editors: Karin Hannes (KU Leuven) and Natalia Martini (KU Leuven)

Deadline for Abstracts: 15 September 2025
Deadline for Articles: 30 January 2026

Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science; Impact Factor: 1.4) and Scopus (CiteScore: 3.5), welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Compassionate Futures for Collective Well-Being," edited by Karin Hannes (KU Leuven) and Natalia Martini (KU Leuven).

In an increasingly unequal world, the concept of “compassionate futures” offers a new paradigm to address the pressing challenges of social inclusion. Compassionate futures recognize vulnerability, interdependency, and mutual responsibility as fundamental features of social relations, and emphasize care and empathy as fundamental principles in designing socio-cultural, economic, and political systems where the collective well-being of diverse actors, human and other-than-human, can flourish.

We encourage contributions that engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers about what it means to create a caring society in the face of persistent inequalities. In addition, we welcome papers that demonstrate where and how humans take up the responsibility to conceptualize compassionate futures from a multi-species perspective, as well as those that focus on what hinders or supports the idea and the project of compassionate futures. We accept theoretical papers presenting frameworks on compassionate futures, prospective policy analyses, cases featuring the use of futures studies and co-creative approaches that promote compassion and care as central principles in re-imagining the future, and reflection papers focusing on global cooperation for fostering compassionate futures. Authors should connect to the general idea of how humans could or should relate to other agents with whom they share the planet or illustrate how the new narratives they developed support collective well-being.

Authors interested in submitting a paper to this issue are encouraged to read the full call for papers here:

https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/pages/view/nextissues#CompassionateFutures

Abstracts welcome until 15 September 2025.

Kindest regards,

Mariana
Mariana Pires
Social Inclusion
Cogitatio Press
1070-129 Lisbon 

Portugal

New issues (open access):
Public Participation Amidst Hostility: When the Uninvited Shape Matters of Collective Concern
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/419

Violence, Hate Speech, and Gender Bias: Challenges to an Inclusive Digital Environment
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/415

My source: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=COMPLEXITY-PRIMARY-CARE

AI-2025: December 16th-18th 2025, Cambridge, UK - fourth call for papers and posters

FOURTH CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

The proceedings of the AI-20xx conference series are now published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), a sub-series of the distinguished Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of conference proceedings.

AI-2025: Cambridge, UK, December 16th-18th 2025

Information for authors and to submit a paper  https://www.conferenceexpert.org.uk/?conf=ai2025&section=authors

Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (a EurAi Member Society).

The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in Europe.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

https://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2025/

AI-2025 is the forty-fifth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI technologies and application areas. AI-2025 reviews recent technical advances in AI technologies and shows how these advances have been applied to solve business problems. Key features are:

• Papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) subseries of the popular Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (www.springer.com/lncs).

• Papers will be presented in two streams. The Technical Stream presents the best of recent developments in AI, covering a wide range of technical areas. The Application Stream is the largest annual showcase in Europe of real applications using AI technology.

• A mixture of full papers (maximum 14 A4 pages) presented orally and short papers (maximum 6 A4 pages) presented as posters. Papers of both kinds will be included in the proceedings.

• Prizes for best paper and best student paper in each stream and best short paper.

• Invited keynote speakers, including Prof. John Naughton, University of Cambridge..

• The first day comprises tutorials and workshops to provide greater depth in selected topics. (Separate one-day registration for this day is also available.)

• A panel session on a topical subject.

• An 'AI Open Mic' session to allow delegates to have their say about any aspect of AI.

• In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner.

AI-2025 offers a valuable opportunity to keep up to date with developments in AI and to share experiences in the practical issues of developing AI systems.

FAIRS '25, the seventeenth annual forum for AI research students will immediately precede the AI-2025 conference at Peterhouse College on Monday December 15th, 2025. The aim of FAIRS is to support student members of the AI community providing advice and feedback on their research plans and work. This event is free of charge for research students except for a contribution towards the cost of refreshments and lunch in the College and no conference registration is required.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper/Poster Submission: Friday 27th June 2025

  This deadline is considerably later than for previous conferences in this series and will not be extended.

• Notification of Acceptance: Friday 29th August 2025

• Camera Ready Paper: Friday 12th September 2025

CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions presenting original work in AI are invited for both the technical and the application stream. Contributions may be submitted either as full papers of up to fourteen A4 pages for oral presentation or as short papers of up to six A4 pages for poster presentation. ...

For more details of Contribution types please see: https://www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2025/
...

All further information including details of the conference committee, program committees, paper format and uploading instructions is given on the conference website.

ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE SENT BY EMAIL TO THE CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT: 
sgai-conference AT bcs.org.uk

My source: SGES List - https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=AI-SGES

6º CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL DA SPF - CONVITE À SUBMISSÃO DE RESUMOS/CALL for PAPERS

6º CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL DA SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE FILOSOFIA

CONVITE À SUBMISSÃO DE RESUMOS

A Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia, em colaboração com o Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, organiza o seu 6º Congresso Internacional, que decorrerá na Faculdade de Letras da mesma universidade, de 1 a 3 de setembro de 2025.

O Congresso é aberto à participação de todos os interessados em apresentar e discutir a sua investigação em qualquer domínio e metodologia dos estudos filosóficos. As propostas serão avaliadas anonimamente por membros de um amplo painel de especialistas.

ORADORES CONVIDADOS

Genia Schonbaumsfeld (Universidade de Southampton)
João Carlos Salles (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Luísa Couto Soares (Universidade do Porto)
Olga Pombo (Universidade de Lisboa)
Viriato Soromenho-Marques (Universidade de Lisboa)

LÍNGUAS DO CONGRESSO: Português, Inglês, Francês e Espanhol

VALORES DA INSCRIÇÃO:

Participantes: € 80,00
Sócios da SPF: € 50,00
Estudantes (licenciatura, mestrado ou doutoramento): € 40,00
Estudantes sócios da SPF: 30€

DATA LIMITE para a submissão de propostas de comunicação: 1 de Abril de 2025

COMISSÃO CIENTÍFICA:

Álvaro Balsas (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga)
André Barata (Universidade da Beira Interior)
António Pedro Mesquita (Universidade de Lisboa)
Célia Teixeira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
David Yates (Universidade de Lisboa)
Diogo Ferrer (Universidade de Coimbra)
Gil Santos (Universidade de Lisboa)
Irene Borges Duarte (Universidade de Évora)
João Cardoso Rosas (Universidade do Minho)
João Constâncio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto)
Magda Costa Carvalho (Universidade dos Açores)
Nuno Venturinha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Pedro Galvão (Universidade de Lisboa)

EMAIL DO CONGRESSO: 6congressospf  AT gmail.com

INSTRUÇÕES PARA SUBMISSÃO DE RESUMOS E MAIS INFORMAÇÕES

Consulte a página do congresso no site da SPF: www.spfil.pt/6congresso

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ENGLISH

6th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Portuguese Philosophical Society, in partnership with the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon are organizing the 6th International Congress of Philosophy, to be held at the University’s Faculty of Letters on 1 to 3 September 2025.

The Congress welcomes all researchers interested in presenting and discussing their research in all domains of philosophical studies and according to all philosophical methodologies. Abstracts submitted will be anonymously refereed by members of a large panel of experts.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Genia Schonbaumsfeld (University of Southampton)
João Carlos Salles (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Luísa Couto Soares (Universidade do Porto)
Olga Pombo (Universidade de Lisboa)
Viriato Soromenho-Marques (Universidade de Lisboa)

CONGRESS LANGUAGES: Portuguese, English, French and Spanish

CONGRESS SECTIONS

Each proposal must indicate that it intends to be associated with one and only one of the following sections:

Teaching Philosophy (PE)

Epistemology / Philosophy of Knowledge (ET)

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (ES)

Ethics and Bioethics (EB)

African Philosophy (AF)

Philosophy of Science (SF)

Philosophy of History (FH)

Philosophy of Language (FL)

Philosophy of Mathematics (FMA)

Philosophy of Mind (FME)

Philosophy of Nature and Environment (FN)

Philosophy of Religion (FR)

Philosophy of Law (FD)

Philosophy and Gender (FG)

Phenomenology (FE)

Luso-Brazilian Philosophy (FB)

Political Philosophy (PF)

History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (HA)

History of Modern Philosophy (HM)

Logic (LO)

Metaphysics and Ontology (MO)

FEES:

Participants: € 80,00
SPF Associates: € 50,00
Students (Bac, MA or PhD): € 40,00
Student SPF Associates: 30€

DEADLINE for submitting proposals: ­­­­­­1st April 2025

SCIENTIFIC COMITTEE:

Álvaro Balsas (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga)
André Barata (Universidade da Beira Interior)
António Pedro Mesquita (Universidade de Lisboa)
Célia Teixeira ((Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
David Yates (Universidade de Lisboa)
Diogo Ferrer (Universidade de Coimbra)
Gil Santos (Universidade de Lisboa)
Irene Borges Duarte (Universidade de Évora)
João Cardoso Rosas (Universidade do Minho)
João Constâncio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto)
Magda Costa Carvalho (Universidade dos Açores)
Nuno Venturinha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Pedro Galvão (Universidade de Lisboa)

CONGRESS EMAIL: 6congressospf AT gmail.com

HOW TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS AND FURTHER INFORMATION on the congress page at the SPF site: www.spfil.pt/6congresso

My source:

E-mail: iestudosfilosoficos AT gmail.com

Sítio Web: http://www.uc.pt/fluc/ief

Call for Abstracts (for Publication): "Visual Narratives, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality: Imagery and the Construction of the Other"

Mappæmundi is pleased to announce a call for papers for a collective publication on 

"Visual Narratives, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality: Imagery and the Construction of the Other"

Please find all the details below.

We invite contribution proposals for the edited volume Visual Narratives, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality: Imagery and the Construction of the Other. The book aims to critically examine the persistent influence of colonialism in shaping modern subjectivities, tracing its historical roots in the formation of Western modernity and interrogating its continued implications in contemporary contexts. It positions media and visual narratives as central discursive spaces where colonial legacies are both perpetuated and, potentially, contested. This volume conceptualizes and critically interrogates aesthetics as a foundational condition that establishes a visual lexicon integral to Western modernity. The aesthetic framework not only shapes the development of visual narratives but also plays a crucial role in the construction and perpetuation of varied subjectivities.

In particular, we focus on the critical analysis of the role of visual narratives within the framework of epistemological colonialism. Visual narratives have been central in defining, reinforcing, and legitimizing colonial ideologies by shaping perceptions and controlling representations of colonized peoples and cultures. These visual narratives have played a fundamental role in constructing colonial time and space, which were systematically controlled by Western epistemologies. This volume positions itself as a counterpoint to this colonial legacy, offering critical perspectives that challenge and re/deconstruct the visual lexicon of Western modernity. Through this lens, the book seeks to uncover pathways for alternative visual expressions that resist colonial frameworks and promote inclusive, decolonized understandings of identity and, more broadly, cultural production.

The arts, the media, and communication are powerful forces that can either perpetuate or challenge colonial legacies. Addressing and dismantling these legacies is essential for the creation of just, inclusive, and equitable societies - i.e., societies that value, embrace and benefit from the diversity of reason. From a decolonial lens, the book seeks not only to question the validity of established forms of knowledge but also to question the very criteria by which knowledge is defined. The objective is to contribute to critical discourses on potential pathways forward by amplifying cultural voices marginalized within the colonial matrix of power.  To this aim, we invite contributions that engage with scholarship in diaspora studies, subaltern and postcolonial studies, critical race studies, decolonial aesthetics, visual culture, and visual practices, with a particular emphasis on non-hegemonic epistemologies.

When bringing together these critical issues and perspectives, the book shall offer a comprehensive and interconnected framework for understanding postcolonial experiences in the 21st century. It will explore the role of aesthetics in shaping modern subjectivities, tracing the roots of domination in multiple paths toward modernity. This book intends to serve as an essential resource for scholars, researchers, activists, and the general public, encouraging deeper engagement with colonial histories that continue to shape contemporary life.

We especially encourage contributions from scholars, artists, and practitioners from the Global South that:

• Engage in theoretical discussions on aesthetics and visual narratives from a decolonial perspective.
• Combine theoretical frameworks with analyses that directly engage with visual arts, such as photography and other forms of artistic expression.
• Discuss case studies that examine individual works of art, archives, photojournalistic projects, or other forms of visual narratives.
• Explore media as a space for resisting and challenging colonial legacies.
• Offer comprehensive analyses of how media and art contribute to the perpetuation or disruption of colonial ideologies.
• Provide practical strategies and share lived experiences that contest colonial-rooted narratives.
• Critique prevailing ideologies within the discursive spaces of media and art production and consumption.

Submission Details

The volume Visual Narratives, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality: Imagery and the Construction of the Other will be part of the Mappæmundi series published by Ventura Edizioni. It will be edited by Dr. Tomás Cajueiro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Dr. Estevão Bosco (American College of the Mediterranean and the Latin American Social Science Faculty). The final publication will be exclusively in English. However, abstracts may be submitted in Portuguese, English, Spanish, or Italian. Once a proposal is accepted, authors will be responsible for translating their final chapters into English. Chapters should range from 20,000 to 40,000 characters, including spaces, and must incorporate visual materials to support the analysis of visual works. 

Proposals must be submitted to tomaskju AT gmail.com by April 4, 2025.

Theoretical and Textual Articles

Chapters may integrate theoretical insights with practical interventions or focus solely on theoretical exploration. Contributions can draw on real experiences from individuals, communities, and organizations. Potential research methods include literature reviews, case studies, comparative analyses, discourse analyses, and analyses of photographs and visual works. Abstracts should have a maximum of 5,000 characters, including references. Chapters should fall between 35,000 and 40,000 characters.

Visual narratives

For contributions focusing on the analysis of visual content, the textual component must range from 10,000 to 15,000 characters. The abstract, while limited to a maximum of 5.000 words, should also include an overview of the visual material being analyzed.

Important Dates 

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 4, 2025
Notification of Proposal Acceptance: May 11, 2025
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: September 11, 2025 
For more info: tomaskju AT gmail.com
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Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
3004-530 Coimbra, Portugal ... (and my source).