1st Interpersonal Philosophy Network Workshop 2027

University of Lethbridge, AB, Canada | 2-3 April 2027

The Interpersonal Philosophy Network (IPN), in collaboration with the Critical Thinking & Civic Engagement Lab at the University of Lethbridge, invite abstract submissions for a two-day workshop exploring philosophical questions concerning interpersonal relations.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on the nature, value, and normative significance of our relations with others. We welcome contributions from a wide range of philosophical traditions and subfields.

Keynote Speakers

(1) Kimberly Brownlee (University of British Columbia)
(2) John Bengson (University of Texas at Austin)

Abstract Submission

We invite submissions on any topic related to the philosophy of interpersonal relations, though we are particularly interested in the epistemology, ethics, and politics of interpersonal relations. For example, papers might address topics such as:

• Love, friendship, and care
• Shared agency and collective intentionality
• Collective or shared inquiry and epistemic cooperation
• Solidarity, belonging, and community
• Relational autonomy and freedom
• The ethics and politics of human relationships
• Interpersonal approaches to personhood and the self.

Please submit an anonymised PDF abstract (up to 1000 words) through the following form by 15 December, 2026:
https://forms.gle/jXPRqdNE2dzSQnEW7

Further Details - The workshop will feature:

Two keynote talks
Eight contributed papers

Presentations should be suitable for a 30-40 minute talk, followed by discussion.

Accepted speakers will receive a CAD $300 honorarium to help offset travel and accommodation expenses.

Participants are warmly invited to join an informal excursion to Waterton Lakes National Park on Sunday, 4 April 2027.

If you have any questions, please contact adham.elshazly AT uleth.ca.

Our best, 
Facundo, Adham, Paloma (Interpersonal Philosophy Network Committee).
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Adham El Shazly
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy | University of Lethbridge
Website

My source: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/

APHA Community-Based Primary Health Care Workshop, Saturday Oct 31 - Available for free online

Colleagues, join us and consider sharing this email widely. See flyer attached.

Our APHA pre-conference workshop on October 31 is now open to anyone, anywhere, at no cost. Please share this with colleagues and students who would benefit.

WHAT
Health Systems That Reach and Follow: 

Community-Based Primary Health Care in an Era of 
Mobility, Misinformation, and Digital Innovation

The annual pre-conference workshop of the Community-Based Primary Health Care Working Group, APHA International Health Section, which we have run for about twenty years.

People move. Misinformation travels faster than they do. The question we are taking up is how health systems follow.

WHEN
Saturday, October 31, 2026
11:00 AM to 5:00 PM US Central Time

HOW TO JOIN
Online, free, from anywhere:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/joyC0lTUQRuX1G3VCb6xcw

In person in San Antonio, Texas ($25 plus service fee, student discount available):
https://bit.ly/4y8xsaX

No APHA membership and no conference registration are required for either option.

Registration closes Friday, October 30 at 11:00 AM US Central Time.

So please forward this. If you have colleagues, partners, or students anywhere in the world who work on community health, send it to them.

Thank you!

Andrew and Henry 

Andrew Herrera, CHW, MPH, MBA

Executive Director

Impact Global Health Alliance
andrew AT impactglobalhealthalliance.org

Henry B. Perry, MD, PhD, MPH

Senior Associate, Health Systems Program

Department of International Health

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

hperry2 AT jhu.edu

POISONING THE WELL AND SILENCING IN ARGUMENTATION: ONLINE WORKSHOP - Student Commentators Needed!

WE ARE LOOKING FOR STUDENT COMMENTATORS FOR THE ONLINE WORKSHOP ON POISONING THE WELL AND SILENCING IN ARGUMENTATION.

The expressions of interest from student commentators deadline is November 15^th (the submission deadline for the associated Topoi issue is 15^th February) PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS!

 

What is this about?

Among the fallacies traditionally regarded as particularly dangerous, poisoning the well stands out. The literature describes poisoning the well as an argumentative move that consists in providing information about an interlocutor to diminish the credibility of what they have already said, or will say, thereby “poisoning” their ability to contribute - silencing them. Despite the fallacy’s importance, work on it and on silencing in argumentation is limited. 

 

The Poisoning the Well and Silencing in Argumentation Online Workshop (and the associated call for papers at Topoi) will contribute to filling this gap.

 

Student Commentators Needed!

We are now looking for student commentators! Student commentators will receive the paper they comment on two weeks before the workshop. Commentaries will be ten minutes long.

 

Look here (scroll down a little) to find the papers that will be presented at the workshop: 
Critical Thinking and Civic Engagement Lab.

 

If you are interested in commenting, please contact Amalia Haro Marchal/Katharina Stevens under 
ahmarchal AT fcsh.unl.pt and katharina.stevens AT uleth.ca by November 15th!

 

Make sure to state your first, second and third choice for papers to comment on with a short explanation, we will assign based on interest and compatibility!

 

My source (and via KS): 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.

Workshop: 'Under Pressure: Character, Certainty, Conspiracy'

How people change (or fail to) under pressure, false certainty and misinformation

Institute for Ethics & Society Workshop - Thursday 3 September 2026

10:00 am – 4:30 pm (AEST)

In an age of outrage, algorithms and information overload, how do we become people of resilient character, humble conviction and wise discernment? Drawing on several funded research projects in Europe and Australia, this workshop explores how pressure exposes the heart and yet shapes the self, how self-righteousness quietly corrupts our capacity for knowledge and understanding of self and others, and how conspiracy theories and AI-generated “slopaganda” shape the way we see the world.

The IES is pleased to host this event on the occasion of Laura Candiotto’s visit to Sydney. Laura is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy (Universities of Cagliari and Pardubice). She currently leads two research projects, including ‘Vicious Epistemic Cultures’ on the ethics of knowledge with a specific focus on emotional friction in revision responsibility, funded by the Czech Science Foundation. Laura is currently working on a monograph, Emotional Friction, and a co-edited collection entitled Vice Epistemology and the Philosophy of Emotions (Routledge).

 

SPEAKERS

Laura Candiotto (Cagliari and Pardubice) ‘Character revision under duress’

 

John Lippitt (Notre Dame IES and Pardubice) ‘Failures of receptivity: self-righteousness as a stealthy vice’

 

Adam Piovarchy (Notre Dame IES) ‘Conspiracy theories are Infohazards’

 

Mark Alfano (Macquarie) ‘Slopaganda’

Event poster: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/NdGNCq712YtRgVKVFXhKphE8bFg?domain=notredame.edu.au

 

Location:

The University of Notre Dame Australia,

NDS23/102 (Wilcox Mofflin Building)

46-52 Mountain Street Ultimo, NSW, 2007

 

Or online via Teams

For enquiries, Teams link and to RSVP:

Professor John Lippitt (john.lippitt AT nd.edu.au)

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

1st Workshop on the Internet of Mirrors (IoM): Connected Intelligence for Healthcare, Beauty, and Immersive Digital Experiences

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite your technical papers submissions to our 1st Workshop on the Internet of Mirrors (IoM): Connected Intelligence for Healthcare, Beauty, and Immersive Digital Experiences, which will be held in IEEE WF-IoT 2026 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Workshop Focus

The Internet of Mirrors (IoM) is an emerging IoT ecosystem built around interconnected smart mirrors that can sense, process, communicate, and deliver personalised services across healthcare, beauty, wellness, assisted living, fitness, and immersive digital experiences.
Although the workshop is centred on the Internet of Mirrors, the realisation of this vision requires multi-domain expertise. As such, we are very keen to receive contributions not only from researchers directly working on IoM, but also from those developing the architectures, algorithms, communication technologies, computing frameworks, and application domains that will underpin future intelligent IoT ecosystems.

Topics of Interest

• Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:Edge, fog, and cloud computing for IoT systems
• Distributed intelligence and multi-agent AI
• AI-enabled IoT applications and personalised services
• Multimodal sensing, data fusion, and contextual awareness
• Intelligent task orchestration and adaptive resource allocation
• Wireless connectivity, 5G/6G, and network optimisation
• Privacy-preserving AI, security, interoperability, and trustworthy AI
• Human-computer interaction, accessibility, and inclusive smart interfaces
• Digital twins, immersive technologies, and metaverse-enabled experiences
• Internet of Sounds, Internet of Medical Things, and broader Internet of Everything ecosystems
• Smart healthcare, assisted living, wellness, fitness, beauty, and immersive digital lifestyle applications
• Proof-of-concept implementations, benchmarking, testbeds, and real-world IoT deployments

Important Dates 

• Paper submission deadline: 12 July 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: 30 August 2026

Workshop Chairs

• Lina Mohjazi, University of Glasgow, UK
• Luca Truchet, University of Trento, ITALY
• Ahmad Taha, University of Glasgow, UK
• Rabeb Mizouni, Khalifa University, UAE
• Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Glasgow, UK
• Haneen Fatima, University of Glasgow, UK

Information

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/wfiot2026-workshop-iom
Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34901&track=138858

Contact Emails:
l.mohjazi AT ieee.org
ahmad.taha AT glasgow.ac.uk

It would be wonderful if you could consider submitting relevant work, or share the call with colleagues and students who may be interested!
--
Kind regards,
Dr Kubra Duran
Postdoctoral Fellow
Edinburgh Napier University, UK

My source: SOCIOTECH list - JISC

'Moved to Care' amid the Boxes - RCN

A Balikbayan Box for Nursing: artists and writers in residence

'Our new Arts Council National Lottery funded project takes the Filipino custom of the Balikbayan Box as its central theme, inspired by Romalyn Ante's poem Notes Inside a Balikbayan Box. The Balikbayan Box is a long-standing Filipino cultural practice through which we are exploring the spirit of nursing across borders and boundaries. 

Visit our exhibition to explore the installation ‘Inside Home’ by Haleema Aziz and meet our writers in residence – Romalyn Ante, Jennifer Wong and Christie Watson – to explore the art of nursing with a difference.

Our writers will each be running a writing workshop for a different audience to help them engage with the exhibition themes, and develop their own writing skills: refugees, schoolchildren and young adults.

Writing residencies run in the RCN Library and Museum (20 Cavendish Square) from April – June 2026. Find our what our writers have been working on at this public celebration of art and migration panel event in July.

Our writers will be based in the Moved to Care exhibition space in the England Library from 11am-4pm during their residency week. Anybody can drop in and chat to them between 3-4pm, or if you're a member you can book a free half-hour 121 slot. Discuss your own writing, ask questions about publication or the role of art and creativity in nursing with our writers in residence.'

Previously: 'box' : 'creativity' 

My source RCN Congress 2026

Invite to an In-person Interactive Workshop to Advance Action on SDoH [Geneva]

Advancing the Social Determinants of Health during the World Health Assembly

Dear Colleague

Is it possible to share in HIFA Network the following announcement?

Thanks a lot for your precious help

Dr Eric Comte Director of the Geneva Health Forum https://genevahealthforum.com

HIFA profile: Eric Comte is Executive Director, Geneva Health Forum, External Affairs Directorate, Geneva University Hospitals. eric.comte AT unige.ch

Bonjour,

We are pleased to invite you to take part in an interactive workshop dedicated to advancing action on the social determinants of health.

Forty years after the Ottawa Charter, there is broad consensus on the importance of health promotion and the determinants of health. Yet, translating this knowledge into effective policies and concrete action remains a major challenge. In a context marked by climate change, growing inequalities, rapid urbanisation and geopolitical instability, the need for more integrated, preventive and equity-oriented approaches has never been greater.

Building on this observation, this session will bring together, NGO, practitioners, policymakers and experts to move beyond general principles and focus on what really enables implementation in practice. Through the exchange of real-world experiences and case studies, participants will collectively identify actionable lessons, key barriers, and practical ways forward.

The expected outcome is a set of clear, operational messages to strengthen collaboration across sectors and support the implementation of strategies addressing the social determinants of health in diverse contexts. The session will also provide an opportunity to identify concrete avenues for further work, including potential projects that the Geneva Health Forum could support.

The workshop will take place on Tuesday 19 May from 9.00 to 12.30 at Campus Biotech in Geneva.

We would be delighted to count on your participation and active contribution to this important discussion.

👉 More information and registration on the link : https://worldhealthassembly2026.genevahealthforum.com/rethinking-determinants-of-health-in-todays-global-context-from-knowledge-to-action/

Space is limited, so only register if you really want to attend.

Registration is free but required so we can print badges and organize the workshop.

Link with the World Health Assembly discussions

This workshop is directly aligned with the strategic discussions taking place at the World Health Assembly, particularly in relation to document EB158/27 on well-being and health promotion. This report highlights the growing recognition of health promotion and the social determinants of health as essential pillars of public health, while also emphasizing the persistent gaps in implementation and the need to strengthen multisectoral action, governance, and measurable impact.

In particular, it calls for better integration of health promotion across the full continuum of policies and systems, stronger cross-sector collaboration, and a renewed focus on addressing structural determinants of health, including through more effective implementation mechanisms and improved coordination across actors.

Our session contributes to this agenda by focusing on practical experiences and implementation challenges, with the aim of identifying concrete, actionable lessons that can help accelerate the translation of global commitments into real-world action. In doing so, it also seeks to feed into ongoing reflections at the global level and to support more effective implementation of the priorities discussed at the World Health Assembly.

You are receiving this message because you are a member of the community HIFA - Healthcare Information For All.

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2026 Lancaster Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Workshop

I am looking forward to, and preparing for this event next week:

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Thursday 26 February 2026, 11:00am to Friday 27 February 2026, 3:30pm

Venue: Storey Lecture Theatre, Lancaster , LA1 1TH

Open to: Postgraduates, Staff

Event Details:
 
Sponsored by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
This workshop provides an informal forum where PhD students, and more experienced researchers, can present and discuss short works in progress. All paper slots are taken for 2026. 
Please email r.v.cooper AT lancaster.ac.uk if you'd like to attend.
THURSDAY 26th  FEB

10.45-11 Welcome
11-11.30 Hane Maung - Philosophy in Healthcare Practice: A Case Study.
11.30-12 Peter Jones - Hodges' model: A work-ALWAYS-in-progress and this is why...
12-12.30 Matthew Williams - The failure of the harm-minimisation argument for BID Surgery and the necessity of therapeutic justification
12.30-1 Clive Duddy – Autonomy in mental health care
1-2 LUNCH
2-2.30 George Turner - Difference denied.
2.30-3 Dieneke Hubbeling - Different ways of medical knowing in Walzer's different spheres of justice?
3-3.30 Ali Walker - Forget Fictionalism: Psychiatric Disorders are Quasi-Real
3.30-4 Ewa Grzeszczak - Philosophy of psychiatry and the methodology of social ontology.
4-4.30 Break
4.30-5 Alessandra Civani - What kind of concept is ‘incongruence’?
5-5.30 Anna Golova - Self-illness ambiguity without a self-illness distinction.
5.30-6 Break
6-7 Prof Miriam Solomon – Royal Institute of Philosophy talk ‘Stigma as an actant in the history of psychiatry’

FRIDAY 27th Feb

11-11.30 Sam Fellowes - Modelling psychiatric diagnoses when self-diagnosing - how does this work?
11.30-12 Giulia Russo - Epistemic and political role of experience
12-12.30 Frank Denning - Using Stebbing’s Directional Analysis to Evaluate ‘Mentalizing’.
12.30-1 Gloria Ayob - Flourishing as mental health
1-2 LUNCH
2-2.30 Richard Hassall - Hermeneutical Injustice and Damaged Intellectual Self-Trust in Psychiatric Service Users.
2.30-3 Lara Calabrese - Exploring epistemic injustice in dementia care: a scoping review and a qualitative study
3-3.30 Jacob Barlow - Epistemic borders: experts, communities, communication

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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

Bill Ross Memorial Workshop – BSP Special Event 2025

A workshop in memory of Bill Ross, and to celebrate the posthumous publication of his book Order and the Virtual: The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology (2024). 

Convened by the British Society for Phenomenology with the family and friends of Bill.

I never met Bill Ross, nor had I learned of his work prior to receiving news of this workshop. I attended today in Manchester; also realising I'd intended to post the details. It was well worth the effort in the (predictable!) rain. The speakers and sessions were as follows:

• Dan Smith (Purdue University): “Reality is a Problem: Deleuze’s Metaphysics of Manifolds”
• Michael Epperson (California State University, Sacramento): “Relational Realism and the Ontogenetic Universe: Subject, Object, and Ontological Process in Quantum Mechanics”
• Vera Bühlmann (Vienna University of Technology): “Cosmic splendour and signal messages, or the choice that will remain unmade”
• Kemal Tezgin (Virginia Tech): “The Virtuality of Space: A Deleuzian Reading of Quantum Fields”
• Robin Durie (University of Exeter) & Craig Lundy (London Metropolitan University): “What the imagination already knew: Science & Myth in the Genesis of Desert Islands”

Order and the Virtual (2024)

The sessions were informative and stimulating for studies here (category theory was noted).

With thanks to Carol at Edinburgh University Press, I have a review copy of Bill Ross's text.

Looking at the contents and index there are many fields in common, which I will share over the coming months.

As with the Laws of Form conference last year in Liverpool, here is another group of academics and scholars, welcoming and keen to share their expertise and learn.

So, thanks to Carol again for what looks an exciting book and the organisers and sponsors of this brilliant event acknowledging and commemerating the work of Bill Ross.

I will try to be more timely with news of related events, and developments. More to follow, but to close for now ...

'Bill Ross (1964 – 2022) had interests ranging widely across contemporary philosophy and culture, with a particular interest in the relations between science and philosophy. As managing editor, he was the driving force behind Clinamen Press, which in the early 2000s published new works by contemporary philosophers, and English translation of important works by continental philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Gaston Bachelard and Michel Serres. He completed his PhD in philosophy at Staffordshire University, where he taught on the MA in the Philosophy of Nature, Information, and Technology. Bill had a lifelong passion for the connections between science and philosophy, on which he had published several important articles. Bill was working on a monograph on the philosophy and science of Deleuzian cosmology, which was has been posthumously published by Edinburgh University Press. This event is to celebrate Bill’s book and his life, and to allow his friends, his colleagues, and anyone interested in his work or the topics and issues addressed by his work to continue the conversation that Bill’s work inspires.'

https://www.thebsp.org.uk/bill-ross-memorial-workshop-deleuzian-cosmologies/

Online: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare - Weds 17th Sept 2025 BCS Coventry Branch

Online event organised by British Computer Society (BCS)

Full details: 
https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/september/webinar-ai-in-healthcare-neural-ai-v-symbolic-ai-why-we-need-neuro-symbolic-ai/

*** Agenda (UK time) *** 

18:30 - Meeting opens
Welcome and Introductions
18:40 - Hand-over to speaker
19:30 - Questions
20:30 - End

Scope of workshop

This is to support you in putting together your application for the FEDIP application and the workshop will focus on:

• What level you should apply for
• How to work with the Standard
• How to map your evidence
• Putting together context
• Preparing your evidence in the best way 
• What the assessors will look for

Free-of-charge registration to obtain the Zoom link

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-healthcare-neural-ai-v-symbolic-ai-why-we-need-neuro-symbolic-ai-registration-1383661000299?aff=oddtdtcreator
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My source: Dr Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro.

FEDIP: https://www.fedip.org/

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 ...

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Society and the Public Good: Technologies, Applications, and Governance

Dear CHAIN member,

CHAIN member Laura Brookes would like to draw your attention to the following free event.
Please pass on as appropriate. Thank you.

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Society and the Public Good:

Technologies, Applications, and Governance

2nd May 2023 - 3rd May 2023
Wivenhoe House Hotel

University of Essex, Park Road, Wivenhoe, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ

Book your tickets now

Join us as we bring together the brightest minds in data science and AI to showcase the power of data in action for public good and business applications.

Two days of fascinating talks at the prestigious Wivenhoe House Hotel will include interactive workshops, case study presentations to share best practice and an opportunity to form new partnerships across academia, the public sector and industry for more high-impact projects moving forward.

This workshop aims to explore the development and deployment of AI and data science methods in government and the wider public sector, but also businesses and charities. This includes the use of such methods to support the development and implementation of policy and delivering improved services to citizens at the regional and national level, whilst we simultaneously tackle global challenges and the delivery of the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This workshop is for those inspired to make a difference and for those ready to embrace the revolutionising potential of data science and AI to improve society for all. A cross/interdisciplinary workshop, this event is aimed at researchers, policymakers, practitioners and professionals already working in or interested in exploring this area.

Further information

Complimentary refreshments will be available on both workshop days including a networking lunch.

Guests are welcome to use the free onsite parking for the workshop. Delegates are also eligible for discounts on accommodation at the Wivenhoe House Hotel should they wish to stay overnight. To receive your discount code please contact me directly.

Further information about the event and full agenda can be found on Eventbrite:

https://AIandDataScienceforPublicGood.eventbrite.co.uk

We hope you can join us for this exciting workshop. Please feel free to contact if you wish to discuss any aspect further.

Equally, you are welcome to share this invitation with colleagues and those within your network. ‘

Laura Brookes

Outreach and Publicity Officer
ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Centre
. . .

Regards,

Wendy Zhou
CHAIN Manager
[ I did attend, and spent the 1st May in Cambridge. PJ ].

The 1st International Workshop On Ontologies for the Disaster Domain

We invite submissions to the First Workshop On Ontologies for the Disaster Domain – WOODD -

to be held as a part of The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) 2022 at Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden, from August 15 to 19, 2022.

Image via paper from
International Journal of Geo-Information
(Paper - Implementation of FAIR Principles for Ontologies
in the Disaster Domain:
A Systematic Literature Review)

The workshop aims to bring together knowledge modeling engineers, domain ontology experts, developers of disaster knowledge graphs to discuss different techniques and rationale for constructing various ontologies in the disaster domain. This will potentially also set the stage for opening the floor for discussion about limitations of existing research, missing pieces, and overall address a key question

“Do we need a domain ontology or a reference ontology for the hazard domain”?

Topics

1) Ontologies that focus on modeling different aspects of the domain (e.g. phases of disaster management life cycle, observational data, spatial-temporal views, such as point, area, or trajectory phenomenon)

2) Ontologies that model causal chains (e.g. for compounding disasters and disaster impacts)

3) Construction and annotation of domain taxonomies or vocabularies using machine learning and other artificial intelligence technologies

4) Ontology integration and ontology alignment in the hazard-disaster domain

5) Ontology modularity in the hazard-disaster domain

6) Ontologies and disaster domain knowledge graphs

Submissions are particularly welcome that address aspects of this theme, but submissions outside of the theme, but maintain the core idea of the workshop are also welcome.

Submissions

We encourage three types of contributions:

1) Full research paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography. Please, note that the minimum length is 10 pages.
Short paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 6 pages excluding the bibliography. Please, note that the minimum length is 5 pages (including the bibliography).

2) Extended abstracts (presentation only) should be 2-4 pages long including the bibliography. Please, note that extended abstracts will not be included in the CEUR proceedings.

Submissions should be made via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2022.

For more guidelines about submissions please refer to the workshop website at https://shirlysteph.github.io/woodd-jowo22/

Important Dates

Papers submissions: June 7th, 2022
Papers notifications: July 15th, 2022
Camera-ready version submissions:  August 5th, 2022
JOWO: August 15-19th

Chairs

– Shirly Stephen, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA  
– Rui Zhu, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
– Cogan Shimizu, Kansas State University, USA

My source: Cogan Shimizu via semantic-web AT w3.org

Opportunities: Global Research Nurses Pump Priming Awards 2021

The Global Research Nurses hub and The Global Health Network have made available £20,000 funds for small pump-priming grants of between £2000 and £10000 specifically for nursing and midwifery led research projects relevant to Low and Middle Income Countries

Nurses are always at the forefront of delivering care to patients and playing a key role in identifying and improving their quality of life. By getting involved in research, nurses can play a vital role in improving patient care since research is the only evidence-based method of deciding whether a new approach to care is better than current practice.

The way nurses are involved in research is two-fold. Pure nursing research looks at practice and ways to improve nursing activities, interventions or approaches to education that enhance professional practice. Examples of this could be looking at hospital-acquired infections, central line infections or pressure ulcers that patients get when lying down for long periods of time.

The other type of research is using their expertise as a nurse and participating with an intra-professional group of people around a patient population, an illness or an injury. An example of this is studying the way that a team works together to resuscitate a patient during an emergency.

We are delighted to announce that Global Research Nurses and The Global Health Network (TGHN) have made available funds for small pump-priming grants of between £2000 and £10000 specifically for nursing and midwifery led research relevant to LMICs. These may be used for three types of activities:

• To fund an exchange visit(s) to or from another area working on the same nursing and midwifery research project or with a view to developing a collaborative project
• To cover the costs of conducting a new small research project (typically proof-of-principle studies to facilitate further funding through other funders)
• To host a local, national or regional workshop/meeting about nursing/midwifery research with a view to subsequently developing a project
• The grant application should be for either a research project, travel or a workshop, not a mixture

https://globalresearchnurses.tghn.org/opportunities/

 

My source:

Ephriam Senkyire  senkyire88 AT gmail.com
IBPnetwork list

Dementia research meets motorsports: Innovation Accelerator

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in dementia?

Would you like the chance to collaborate, innovate and compete?

Race Against Dementia and the DEMON Network, in partnership with Cranfield University, are inviting applications to participate in our Innovation Accelerator. This unique event will bring together teams of early career dementia scientists and similar stage experts from the motorsport industry, create diversity of thinking and break down ‘silos’ that currently exist between institutions and disciplines.

You will have the opportunity to think big and outside the box, develop ambitious ideas and learn from experts in the motorsports industry and other commercial enterprises with track records of rapid progress and innovation.

Ultimately, you will pitch to secure a hypothetical £20k seed funding prize. This competitive workshop will prepare you as an innovator to create successful applications for dementia research funding. It is also an opportunity to network and develop collaborative relationships.

More detail including how to apply.

My source: DEMON network.

Workshop - Patient access to medical records: the patient's view

You may be interested in this online meeting/workshop for 3-5pm May 12th 

Patient access to medical records: the patient's view

It is open to all, free of course, and registration is here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patient-access-to-medical-records-the-patients-view-tickets-144456929565

The aim of the meeting is to add another little push towards getting this higher priority in the UK.  The assumption for the session is that most if not all who turn up will already be convinced of the benefits - but nevertheless it is useful to (re)hear some of those benefits from patients, and maybe one or two of the frustrations, and then get discussion from those present as to how it can be given higher priority by CCGs, Trusts, politicians, etc.

The meeting will be on Zoom and the provisional timetable is:

3:00-3.10            Ray Jones - Introduction (aim of the workshop, a little background, and welcome)

Short presentations taking questions and comments by the typed chat room

3:10-3.30            Liz Salmi - US experience of Open Notes

3.30-3.40            Jene Jinatun - experience 1 from Haughton Thornnley Medical Centre

3.40-3.50            Cheryl Ashton - experience 2 from Haughton Thornley Medical Centre

3.50-4.00            Fran Husson - experience of Patient Knows Best (London)

4.00-4.05            Nik Seth - comparing Patient Access in Estonia with the UK

4.05-4.10            Mar Soler-Lopez - comparing Patient Access in Madrid with the UK

4.15-4.45            Break out room discussion: how can patient groups help bring about better availability and uptake of patient access?

4.45-5.00            Feedback- 1 or 2 points from each group.

5pm                    Close

Please do register and come if you can, and please pass on to anyone and everyone. In particular if you have contacts in the media please invite them - given the need for patients to take control of their health information this should be topical and normally the media likes to take a 'personal story' approach.

Thanks

Ray

Ray Jones

Professor of Health Informatics, School of Nursing and Midwifery

Co-Facilitator for Centre for Health Technology

Research Gate

Email: ray.jones AT plymouth.ac.uk

University of Plymouth, Faculty of Health, PL4 8AA

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Source:

HIFA: Healthcare Information For All: www.hifa.org

Chaotic Modeling & Simulation Web Conference 22-24 October 2020

Dear Colleague,

Please see the announcement for the October CMSIM2020 International Web-Conference, 22-24 October 2020. You are invited to contribute by a presentation, a special session or workshop and suggest a keynote talk.

We already have done the appropriate provisions for an important meeting following the successful previous Virtual events.

The deadline for Abstract submissions and Special and Invited session and Workshop proposals is set to September 18, 2020, see at http://www.cmsim.org/cmsim2020webconference.html

We already invite papers for the Conference Proceedings where accepted papers will be included along with Book and Journal publications (submit following the conference paper guidelines to Secretariat AT cmsim1.org ).

On behalf of the Conference Committee,

Prof. Christos H Skiadas,

Conference Chair

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Over the years several Books from leading publishers emerged from the CMSIM and CHAOS Conferences and events.

Please see the last years Books published by Springer

11th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, 2019,

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030152963  and

12th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, 2020,

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030395148

13^th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, Springer (in preparation)

5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities

We are happy to announce that the 5th edition of VIS4DH — the Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities — will take place on Sunday, October 25, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah, as part of the IEEE VIS2020 conference.

For 4 years now, the VIS4DH workshop has brought together researchers and practitioners from the fields of visualization and the humanities to discuss new research directions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities research. The general aim is to foster productive collaborations that mutually advances all fields involved. Papers and invited talks from previous years can be found here.

Re-Thinking
Re-Defining
Re-Imagining Data

This year, we invite a dialogue on the topic and terminology around “data”, a contested term within and between a range of disciplines. There are varying perspectives on the meaning and use of data that impact how we engage and debate it. “Data” seems core to visualization! Or is it? We invite both theoretical and applied works at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities around these and other questions related to the workshop theme.

You can contribute and showcase your work through our paper track (just like in previous years) and/or through our provocations track (new for VIS4DH 2020!) – the official calls for papers and provocations can be found on the Call for Submissions page.

Check back here or follow us on Twitter for the latest updates.

Global Health Literacy Summit 2020

SAVE THE DATE: 26 - 28 October 2020

Where: Kaohsiung Taiwan

Why: To unite people all over the world, foster knowledge exchange, and promote action to advance health literacy

How:  IHLA Interest Group call for abstracts open now.  General call for abstracts opens soon.

Dear HIFA,

The International Health Literacy Association (IHLA) is a non-profit, member-based organization dedicated to the professional development of its members and the continued growth and development of the health literacy field. IHLA was formed in 2016, incorporated in 2017, launched a website and published its first member newsletter in 2018. IHLA now has more than 1,000 members in 80+ countries. Membership is FREE!

To become a member go to http://www.i-hla.org

In spring 2019, the IHLA Executive Board issued a call for proposals to co-host the first
 IHLA Global Health Literacy Summit 2020
http://www.i-hla.org/summit-2020

After a careful review of five EXCELLENT proposals, E-DA Healthcare Group, I-Shou University in Kaohsiung Taiwan earned the honor to host the meeting. In 10 months, IHLA members from around the world will meet in person, share their work, and learn from others locally and globally.

An immediate way to tailor the association to meet your needs is to join an IHLA Interest Group. Interest groups are run by and for members; they emerge and dissolve as health literacy topics and pursuits become relevant. In this way, IHLA Interest Groups keep the organization enduring and relevant. Interest groups (as described in IHLA's Constitution and Bylaw) have programming rights at the Global Health Literacy Summit and play a vital role in shaping the organization at large.

Here are the next steps for IHLA Interest Groups and the Global Health Literacy Summit 2020.

• Encourage Interest Group members to plan and submit research, practice, policy-oriented panels or workshop proposals for the 2020 Global Health Literacy Summit
• Interest Group Chairs and Co-chairs create a peer review process/subcommittee to screen proposals
• Interest Groups select proposals to forward to the Global Health Literacy Summit 2020 Program Committee by February 27, 2020
• Starting in March, the Summit Program Committee conducts a peer review process and either accepts proposals as submitted, or suggests changes
• The IHLA Program Committee has an open call for other proposals, which may lead to an opportunity to supplement interest group sessions - if needed.

For more information, please view this video:  https://youtu.be/RLKlkGPdhHo

Or contact Interest Group Chairs directly via email:  See list of Interest Groups, Chairs/Co-chairs, and email addresses<http://www.i-hla.org/about/interest-groups/

Also, please see below the Global Health Literacy Summit 2020 Principles of Participation, which apply to all IHLA Interest Groups and Members.

1. Interest group proposals must be peer reviewed by a subcommittee of 2-4 interest group members appointed by interest group chairs.
2. All interest group members should have an opportunity to be considered as a reviewer.
3. Reviewer names must be disclosed to interest group members.
4. Presenters in selected sessions must commit to attend the IHLA Global Health Literacy Summit 2020 prior to submission to the Summit Program Committee.
5. Each interest group is encouraged to use a template developed by the IHLA Summit Program Committee to review submission abstracts.
6. It is unethical to charge or receive money as well as in-kind contributions for abstract submissions and peer review.
7. It is unethical to lobby or influence the members of peer review subcommittees regarding the status of any abstract submission.
8. Research submissions must be original research. In addition, accepted submissions will be retracted if found to be plagiarized.
9. Discrimination is prohibited based on national origin, religion, ethnicity, gender, or any other socio-demographic variable.
10. Interest group sessions are open to all attendees.  As such, interest group sessions should be as welcoming as possible to all IHLA Global Health Literacy Summit 2020 attendees.

Sincerely,

Teresa Wagner  Teresa.wagner AT unthc.edu
Rob Logan  logrob AT gmail.com
Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi  sabrina.kurtz_rossi AT tufts.edu