October 2025 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

CfP for 2026 Policy & Internet Conference
by Nadia Tjahja 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

Dear all, Policy & Internet invites you to join our biennial conference, which will bring together scholars, policymakers, industry leaders and civil society to discuss the most pressing issues shaping our field in the next three years. >From the development and deployment of artificial intelligence to digital sovereignty agendas reshaping geopolitics, the Internet and digital technologies sit at the centre of policy discussions globally. Across issues of platform power, political trust, individual safety and social inclusion, diverse stakeholders are contesting and reconfiguring the rules, infrastructures and power dynamics of the digital sphere. The challenges these issues pose—to democracy, accountability, equity and sustainability—cannot be solved by a single discipline, actor or nation. They require international, interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Bring your ideas, insights and innovations—through papers, panels, workshops, or roundtables—to Sydney in 2026 and help shape the future of Internet policy research and practice. We invite submissions that address the most pressing and current digital society issues, including but not limited to: * Artificial intelligence and algorithmic governance * Digital sovereignty, geopolitics and global governance * Platform power, competition and market regulations * Digital infrastructures and cybersecurity * Trust, democracy and ethics * Inclusion, access, digital participation and online safety * Digital media, communication and societal change * Data governance, privacy and surveillance You are welcome to present work-in-progress papers, empirical or theoretical research, policy analysis, case studies, methodological innovations, and real-world perspectives. All proposed sessions should be designed to maximise discussion and deliberation. ________________________________ Submission guidelines Submit an abstract or one page proposal, including 3-5 keywords and a short ~100 word author biography, to j.gray(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:j.gray@sydney.edu.au> by 14 February 2026. Outcomes will be notified by 28 February 2026. Questions? Contact Editor-in-Chief, Dr Joanne Gray j.gray(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:j.gray@sydney.edu.au> Best wishes, Nadia Tjahja, PhD Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Brussels School of Governance | Adjunct Professor & Postdoctoral Researcher https://brussels-school.be/research/digitalisation-democracy-and-innovation United Nations University – CRIS | Co-Coordinator of the Digital Governance Cluster www.cris.unu.edu<http://www.cris.unu.edu/> YOUthDIG Coordinator, European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG)<https://www.eurodig.org/> European Regional Editor, Policy & Internet Journal (P&I<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19442866>)

1 1

Conference CFP (Cries and Whispers: Podcasting and the Promise of Disruption)
by Gerald Sim 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

Conference Call for Papers Cries and Whispers: Podcasting and the Promise of Disruption Feb 20-21, 2026, Florida Atlantic University Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Morris, PhD (UW-Madison) In the wake of what commentators called “the first influencer election” and the midst of what others term the first “podcasting presidency,” this conference takes stock of this millennial media format. How should we define podcasting, situate it in media and technological history, and assess its claim to be “new” media? For Martin Spinelli and Lance Dann, podcasting represents a “transitional moment in the history of audio making and listening. It is a moment in which marginal, DIY…practices burst into…popular consciousness and are taken seriously as more than just a subset of an older medium.” The claim echoes understandings of digital media more broadly as a disruptive and democratizing form that upends tradition and hierarchies of power. But, is it in fact a more slippery phenomenon, a do-it-yourself (DIY) medium that slides between mainstream and underground, algorithmically propelled across a host of social media sites? This conference aims to platform new research on podcasting that undercuts the countercultural and upstart connotations of DIY and other spreadable practices. Specifically, this conference spotlights the full range of podcasting’s perils and possibilities in light of current controversies. Proposal Deadline: OCTOBER 15, 2025 For full details and link to submission portal, please go to the conference website<https://criesandwhispers2026.wordpress.com>.

1 1

Apply to the Ofcom x TIP Policy Workshop in London: future directions for academic research, 19th November (Registration deadline 24th October)
by Liam McLoughlin 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

Dear Friends, The Technology, Internet, & Policy Group (TIP - https://psatip.uk/) at the UK’s Political Studies Association are hosting a free joint research/policy workshop with Ofcom (the UK’s broadcasting, internet, & telecommunications regulator) on the 19th November, which I think is relevant to many of you. If you’re able to make it, I strongly recommend it. The registration date is soon, so please apply early. ------ Apply to the Ofcom x TIP Policy Workshop in London: future directions for academic research, 19th November (DEADLINE 24th October) ## Ofcom and the Political Studies Association’s Technology, Internet and Policy group (TIP) are teaming up to deliver an event focusing on academic research in online safety technology and policy. Ofcom’s role is central to how the United Kingdom’s communications, media, and online sectors are regulated. In this capacity, it works with a range of stakeholders, including academics, as part of their knowledge exchange process to inform policy decisions. This event invites you to explore how you can take part in this process with your research to expand the impact of your work, potentially present your work on the day, and create links for future research impact. Participation is free, and on the day, catering will be provided. The event will be structured across three key areas: • Share research interests and ideas • Learn about Ofcom’s research priorities and approaches to academic engagement • Network with peers to foster future collaborations Date: Wednesday 19 November, 11:00 - 16:00 Location: Ofcom’s London office, Riverside House There are a small number of travel bursaries for early career attendees provided by the Technology, Internet and Policy (TIP) group and the Political Studies Association to support with travel costs to London. Please select this option with your submission if you wish to be considered. As places are limited, interested participants are invited to complete the short form below outlining their research interests. If the event is oversubscribed, attendance will be prioritised for researchers with the most relevant interest to core Ofcom areas (https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/o…) Please note that participation is restricted to academic researchers. The deadline for submissions is 24 October, and spaces will be confirmed by 31 October. REGISTRATION LINK: https://ofcom.eventogy.com/c/technologyinternetandpolicyandofcomfuturedirec… --- Best wishes, Liam Dr Liam McLoughlin Senior Lecturer in Politics Department of History, Geography, & Social Sciences Edge Hill University 📧 Liam.McLoughlin(a)EdgeHill.ac.uk ☁️ BSky: leelum.bsky.social Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) Specialist Group Convenor Website: https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/technology-internet-and-policy-tip ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

2 1

The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): First Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

*** First Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts). Although the submission deadline for the main conference is now over, we welcome the submission of papers to a number of workshops that will be held as part of IUI 2026. A list of these workshops, with a short description and the workshops' websites for further information, follows below. AgentCraft: Workshop on Agentic AI Systems Development (full-day workshop) Organizers: Karthik Dinakar (Pienso), Justin D. Weisz (IBM Research), Henry Lieberman (MIT CSAIL), Werner Geyer (IBM Research) URL: https://agentcraft-iui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Ambitious efforts are underway to build AI agents powered by large language models across many domains. Despite emerging frameworks, key challenges remain: autonomy, reasoning, unpredictable behavior, and consequential actions. Developers struggle to comprehend and debug agent behaviors, as well as determine when human oversight is needed. Intelligent interfaces that enable meaningful oversight of agentic plans, decisions, and actions are needed to foster transparency, build trust, and manage complexity. We will explore interfaces for mixed-initiative collaboration during agent development and deployment, design patterns for debugging agent behaviors, strategies for determining developer control and oversight, and evaluation methods grounding agent performance in real-world impact. AI CHAOS! 1st Workshop on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems (full-day workshop) Organizers: Tim Schrills (University of Lübeck), Patricia Kahr (University of Zurich), Markus Langer (University of Freiburg), Harmanpreet Kaur (University of Minnesota), Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/aichaos/iui-2026?authuser=0<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> As AI permeates high-stakes domains—healthcare, autonomous driving, criminal justice —failures can endanger safety and rights. Human oversight is vital to mitigate harm, yet methods and concepts remain unclear despite regulatory mandates. Poorly designed oversight risks false safety and blurred accountability. This interdisciplinary workshop unites AI, HCI, psychology, and regulation research to close this gap. Central questions are: How can systems enable meaningful oversight? Which methods convey system states and risks? How can interventions scale? Through papers, talks, and interactive discussions, participants will map challenges, define stakeholder roles, survey tools, methods, and regulations, and set a collaborative research agenda. CURE 2026: Communicating Uncertainty to foster Realistic Expectations via Human- Centered Design (half-day workshop) Organizers: Jasmina Gajcin (IBM Research), Jovan Jeromela (Trinity College Dublin), Joel Wester (Aalborg University), Sarah Schömbs (University of Melbourne), Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus), Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy (IBM Research), Hanna Hauptmann (Utrecht University), Rifat Mehreen Amin (LMU Munich) URL: https://cureworkshop.github.io/cure-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Communicating system uncertainty is essential for achieving transparency and can help users calibrate their trust in, reliance on, and expectations from an AI system. However, uncertainty communication is plagued by challenges such as cognitive biases, numeracy skills, calibrating risk perception, and increased cognitive load, with research finding that lay users can struggle to interpret probabilities and uncertainty visualizations. HealthIUI 2026: Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Health User Interfaces (half-day workshop) Organizers: Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh), Behnam Rahdari (Stanford University), Shriti Raj (Stanford University), Helma Torkamaan (TU Delft) URL: https://healthiui.github.io/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> As AI transforms health and care, integrating Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) in wellness applications offers substantial opportunities and challenges. This workshop brings together experts from HCI, AI, healthcare, and related fields to explore how IUIs can enhance long-term engagement, personalization, and trust in health systems. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to create systems that are advanced, responsive to user needs, mindful of context, ethics, and privacy. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, participants will address key challenges and propose solutions to drive health IUI innovation. MIRAGE: Misleading Impacts Resulting from AI-Generated Explanations (full-day workshop) Organizers: Simone Stumpf (University of Glasgow), Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University), Elizabeth M. Daly (IBM Research), Daniele Quercia (Nokia Bell Labs) URL: https://mirage-workshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Explanations from AI systems can illuminate, yet they can misguide. MIRAGE at IUI tackles pitfalls and dark patterns in AI explanations. Evidence now shows that explanations may inflate unwarranted trust, warp mental models, and obscure power asymmetries—even when designers intend no harm. We classify XAI harms as Dark Patterns (intentional, e.g., trust-boosting placebos) and Explainability Pitfalls (unintended effects without manipulative intent). These harms include error propagation (model risks), over-reliance (interaction risks), and false security (systemic risks). We convene an interdisciplinary group to define, detect, and mitigate these risks. MIRAGE shifts focus to safe explanations, advancing accountable, human-centered AI. PARTICIPATE-AI: Exploring the Participatory Turn in Citizen-Centred AI (half-day workshop) Organizers: Pam Briggs (Northumbria University), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Shaun Lawson (Northumbria University), Kyle Montague (Northumbria University), Hugo Nicolau (University of Lisbon), Ana Cristina Pires (University of Lisbon), Sebastien Stein (University of Southampton), John Vines (University of Edinburgh) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/participate-ai/workshop<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> This workshop explores value alignment for participatory AI, focusing on interfaces and tools that bridge citizen participation and technical development. As AI systems increasingly impact society, meaningful and actionable citizen input in their development becomes critical. However, current participatory approaches often fail to influence actual AI systems, with citizen values becoming trivialized. This workshop will address challenges such as risk articulation, value evolution, democratic legitimacy, and the translation gap between community input and system implementation. Topics include value elicitation within different communities, critical analysis of failed participatory attempts, and methods for making citizen concerns actionable for developers. SHAPEXR: Shaping Human-AI-Powered Experiences in XR (full-day workshop) Organizers: Giuseppe Caggianese (National Research Council of Italy, Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking Napoli), Marta Mondellini (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, Lecco), Nicola Capece (University of Basilicata), Mario Covarrubias (Politecnico di Milano), Gilda Manfredi (University of Basilicata) URL: https://shapexr.icar.cnr.it<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> This workshop explores how eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as a multimodal interface for AI systems, including LLMs and conversational agents. It focuses on designing adaptive, human-centered XR environments that incorporate speech, gesture, gaze, and haptics for seamless interaction. Main topics include personalization, accessibility, cognitive load, trust, and ethics in AI-driven XR experiences. Through presentations, discussions, and collaborative sessions, the workshop aims to establish a subcommunity within IUI to develop a roadmap that includes design principles and methodologies for inclusive and adaptive intelligent interfaces, enhancing human capabilities across various domains, such as healthcare, education, and collaborative environments. TRUST-CUA: Trustworthy Computer-Using Generalist Agents for Intelligent User Interfaces (full-day workshop) Organizers: Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Segev Shlomov (IBM Research), Xiang Deng (Scale AI), Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Yaeli (IBM Research) Zora (Zhiruo) Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) URL: https://sites.google.com/view/trust-cuaiui26/home<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are moving from point automations to generalist agents acting across GUIs, browsers, APIs, and CLIs—raising core IUI questions of trust, predictability, and control. This workshop advances trustworthy-by-design CUAs through human-centered methods: mixed-initiative interaction, explanation and sensemaking, risk/uncertainty communication, and recovery/rollback UX. Outcomes include (1) a practical TRUST-CUA checklist for oversight, consent, and auditing, (2) a user-centered evaluation profile (“CUBench-IUI,” e.g., predictability, oversight effort, time-to-recovery, policy-aligned success), and (3) curated design patterns and open challenges for deployable, accountable agentic interfaces. Important Dates • Paper Submission: 19 December, 2025 • Notification: February 2, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). Organisation General Chairs • Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel • Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organising Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshop and Tutorial Chairs • Karthik Dinakar, Pienso Inc, USA • Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA • Patricia Kahr, Eindhoven University of Zurich, Switzerland • Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, JKU, Argentina, Austria

1 0

Help us collect university AI policies and guidelines?
by amarkham＠gmail.com 14 Oct '25

14 Oct '25

Dear AoIR-ists, Some of us at the [1]Futures + Literacies + Methods Lab are starting a new short turnaround analysis of sociotechnical imaginaries regarding GenAI in higher education. We are seeking your help to crowdsource GenAI policy and/or guidelines documents from universities around the world to identify common trends or themes. Please contribute! Why? In an effort to respond to the evolving landscape of the use of Gen AI for knowledge-making processes, Universities are rapidly revising or developing new policies to adapt to GenAI use by students, educators, staff, and researchers. How do these documents situate and imagine AI in the context of higher education, knowledge production, and epistemic authority? How to contribute: Donated documents for analysis could be in the form of links to publicly accessible documents or pages, or an uploaded copy of a webpage or document in PDF We are collecting links on this google document: [2]https://bit.ly/Uni-policies-AI-crowdsourcing (includes a form if you want to upload documents; does not require any login) Note: Analytical findings be aggregated. We don’t seek to highlight particular universities and their policies, but rather, to identify trends. We do not identify this as a high-risk or ethically problematic study, but a scoping study with good potential to help share common frames, build stronger policies, and identify potential pitfalls in how AI is being framed in the context of higher education. Not sure what to donate? Anything. Any policy or guideline material from your university is useful for us. Documentation can be: --partial, in progress, or complete --New or old --university-wide or faculty/discipline-specific --Any language We will do the work of sorting everything once we see how many and what type of documents we are getting from this snowball sampling method. Read more here: [3]https://fll.pubpub.org/pub/9800nz5w/release/4 If you want to be involved in the study in some way, or be informed of the results of our analysis, drop a line to [4]admin(a)futureliteracieslab.org Thanks in advance, and please feel free to share this request for participation. Warm regards from, and with ultimate FOMO about not being at the conference this week in Brazil, annette Annette N. Markham (she/her) | Chair Professor of Media Literacies and Public Engagement | Utrecht University | [5]Department of Media and Culture Studies | Faculty of Humanities | Muntstraat 2a, 3512 EV Utrecht | Room 2.04 | [6]a.n.markham(a)uu.nl | [7]www.uu.nl/staff/anmarkham | professional website: [8]https://annettemarkham.com References 1. https://fll.pubpub.org/ 2. https://bit.ly/Uni-policies-AI-crowdsourcing 3. https://fll.pubpub.org/pub/9800nz5w/release/4 4. mailto:admin@futureliteracieslab.org 5. https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-media-and-culture-studies 6. mailto:a.n.markham@uu.nl 7. http://www.uu.nl/staff/anmarkham 8. https://annettemarkham.com/

1 0

Postponed: Invitation Workshop on Indigenous Communities & Digital Media
by Spellerberg, Jonathan 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

*Workshop was postponed to December 3rd. You can still sign up!* Time: December 3rd, 2025 at 8pm (CET) - 3pm (Buenos Aires) - 2pm (Ottawa) - 11am (Vancouver) Location: Online Registration: https://forms.gle/ux8RFWQvYg6J9PV7A Deadline for registration: *October 19th* With this call, we invite practitioners, academics, and activists who work from and alongside Indigenous communities on digital media, most broadly conceived, to join us for an online workshop to share ideas, insights, and challenges with one another. We are non-Indigenous academics working alongside Quechua and Inuit communities in Argentina and Canada. It is our intention to create a space for forming reciprocal relationships across projects and locations. We would like to bring together people from diverse backgrounds to discuss shared concerns and interests in this field, join our forces, and raise awareness of each others’ work, positions, experiences, and uncertainties. We believe that the concerns and practices of Indigenous peoples are not well represented in current discussions about the politics of digitization, although these standpoints are needed to understand its role in how people relate to each other and the world. While big tech fastens its grip on more and more areas of everyday life, and “data colonialism” (Mejias and Couldry 2024) and a push toward extractive AI technologies seems to be the sign of the times, this development is arguably not a new experience for many Indigenous peoples around the world who have been dealing with similar corporate colonialist strategies for centuries. Galloway (2012) argues that computers are “ethical machines” that make certain ideologies of objectification, individualization, calculability, and compartmentalization the very basis of everyday economic, social, and political processes. At the same time, Indigenous actors are at the forefront pushing for sovereignty over data and infrastructure to contend with extractivism that encroaches upon both data and land. In this situation, how are these multi-layered digital logics understood by Indigenous actors? How do they engage with digital technologies in the face of their colonizing tendencies? And how do Indigenous peoples leverage them to pursue their own cultural, economic, and political priorities? In this workshop, we aim to create a space for collective reflection rather than privileging formal presentations. To that end, we are organizing an online meeting structured in two parts. In the first part, participants are invited to select an image as a starting point for a brief (10-minute) story related to their research, experiences, and/or concerns on the topic. This initial segment is intended to set the tone for the encounter and help identify shared issues. In the second part, we will revisit the questions that emerged, engaging in a collective discussion to exchange perspectives, articulate challenges, offer advice, and develop ideas collaboratively. The goal is to establish a set of common concerns that can serve as a basis for further work. If you are interested in participating, please submit a short (e.g. 300 words) description of your intended story/presentation, a short biography, and a brief description of the themes and questions you would like to discuss with others (if any) before October 19th through this form: https://forms.gle/ux8RFWQvYg6J9PV7A We are inviting anyone who would like to be in conversation about themes surrounding Indigenous communities and digital media, including: - Everyday realities and challenges of digital media in Indigenous communities - Indigenous governance of media infrastructures - Indigenous media-making practices - Land relations and digital media - Digital media in the context of Indigenous media histories - Indigenous and tech temporalities - Online sociality in Indigenous communities - Arts, crafts, and culture in digital spaces - Colonial tendencies of digital technologies in Indigenous communities - Digital media and self-determination/sovereignty - Indigenous online activism - Digital media and Indigenous well-being - Digital sovereignty and infrastructures Organizers: Jonathan Spellerberg - University of Groningen j.spellerberg(a)rug.nl <j.spellerberg(a)rug.nl> Martina Di Tullio - University of Buenos Aires ditulliomartina(a)gmail.com -- Jonathan Spellerberg *(he/him)* PhD candidate Digital Arctic Media University of Groningen Arctic Centre A-weg 30 9718 CW Groningen The Netherlands E: j.spellerberg(a)rug.nl M: +49 1578 8247829 http://www.rug.nl/staff/j.spellerberg <https://www.rug.nl/research/arctisch-centrum/onderwijs/minor/?lang=en>

1 0

Call for Papers: Gender and Sexuality Research in Times of Crisis
by Kathryn Higgins 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

Call for Papers: Gender and Sexuality Research in Times of Crisis Symposium @ Birkbeck, University of London Friday, 13 February 2026 The CHASE Gender and Sexuality Research Network (CHASE GSRN) is happy to announce its inaugural symposium, Gender and Sexuality Research in Times of Crisis. This symposium aims to showcase the work of early career researchers, and facilitate connections and collaborations between scholars working on gender and sexuality, broadly defined, across the arts, humanities and social sciences. CHASE GSRN is a new interdisciplinary network established to support early career gender and sexuality scholars at a time when our work is under incredible pressure, both financial and political. Gender and Sexuality Research in Times of Crisis will create spaces of dialogue and opportunities for community-building between ECRs and established scholars in the field, who will be invited to participate as interlocutors. We invite abstracts from postgraduate research students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career scholars working across feminist theory, gender studies, queer and trans studies and related disciplines. In particular, we invite papers that work with these literatures and frameworks as they intersect with: * Far-right politics and movements * Race and racial capitalism * Migration, diaspora, and border regimes * Disability activism and ableism * Neoimperialism, militarism, and authoritarianism * Popular feminism and misogyny * Transphobia and trans exclusionary movements * Inclusion politics and DEI * Feminist and/or queer political economy * Queer poetics * Bodily autonomy and reproductive justice * Community and care in times of crisis * Queer media * Queer digital cultures * Local and transnational solidarities * Protest and resistance * Queer and feminist utopias * LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing * Gendered and sexual harm and violence * Censorship, misinformation, disinformation, and post-truth politics * Research methodologies, ethics, and obstacles To submit, please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short bio (max. 100 words) to chase.gsrn(a)gmail.com<mailto:chase.gsrn@gmail.com> by 1 December 2025. Decisions will be shared by 15 December 2025. A limited number of travel bursaries are available for non-CHASE funded students based outside of London. About CHASE Gender and Sexuality Research Network Struggles over the rights and freedoms of women, queer and transgender people are increasingly at the centre of the political zeitgeist, yet academic research that equips us to understand and navigate these struggles is increasingly politicised and systemically threatened. CHASE GSRN is a peer-to-peer support infrastructure for scholars engaged in gender and sexuality research, with a particular emphasis on building capacity across institutions and uplifting postgraduate researchers (PGRs) who are working in a national context of decreased prioritisation and institutional support for producing robust knowledge about non-normative sexualities and genders, and the inequalities attendant to those identities. The CHASE Network recognises that political assaults on non-normative sexualities and genders are increasing alongside pressures on scholars working in so-called ‘controversial areas’. This is particularly important for gender and sexuality studies, which not only includes many researchers working on contentious topics and with marginalised communities, but also involves a high number of scholars who are women, queer, and impacted by sexual and gendered violence. The Network is grounded in a fundamental commitment to the importance of nurturing inclusive and solidaristic communities for marginalised and minoritised scholars who are often (as is the case for LGBTQ+ scholars) facing threats to their basic rights and freedoms alongside fighting for their scholarship. Our ethos is grounded in a feminist ethics of care and a commitment to nourishing inclusive, and (where possible) intergenerational, formations of queer community. The co-directors of CHASE GSRN are Professor Tanya Serisier (Birkbeck), Dr Zeena Feldman (King’s College London) and Dr Kat Higgins (Goldsmiths).

1 0

Three new roles at the ANU HASS Digital Research Hub
by James Smithies 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. We're advertising three pivotal new roles tailored to help our new HASS Digital Research Hub build capability at the Australian National University, and nationally in partnership with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The research fellow roles would suit candidates interested in developing academic and/or research software engineering careers in the humanities and social sciences. The successful applicants will work with me and our community of scholars to define a digital strategy that will work now and into the future. The ARDC RSE-CEP RSE role will support the Research Software Engineering Capacity Enhancement Project (RSE-CEP), a co-investment partnership with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) through the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons (DOI: 10.3565/x5f6-mw53). The ARDC is enabled by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Position descriptions are available below my signature. Best wishes, James Smithies Professor of Digital Humanities Director HASS Digital Research Hub The Australian National University The Australian National University acknowledges, celebrates, and pays our respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples of the Canberra region and to all First Nations peoples on whose traditional lands we meet and work. Research Fellow (Values-based Digital HASS) https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-fellow-values-based-digital-hass-canb… Research Fellow (Computational Methods) https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-fellow-computational-methods-canberra… RSE-CEP Research Software Engineer https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-software-engineer-canberra-act-act-au…

1 0

Announcing the *Critical Commons Research Network*
by Zach McDowell 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

Hello AoIR, It is my pleasure to announce a new project, the *Critical Commons Research Network* (CCRN). This project is funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Research grant to help us gather researchers who examine the digital commons and its connections from infrastructural, political-economic, policy, and other critical approaches. This network aims to examine the role, importance, and impact of different aspects and areas of the digital commons and to foster relationships and mentorships for researchers in this area. I know many of y'all on this list align with this type of research, and it is our hope that this can help connect us together in ways that can elevate each other's work. We are establishing an annotated digital library, a mentorship program, collaborative online (and offline) spaces, symposia and workshops, and an upcoming CFP for an edited collection <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GBVDWi5EI35cn-S0z9UStxjGwf_davgyek8VHoF…> (click for sneak preview, to be announced officially soon). We are establishing some scholarships for graduate students who work in the area as well. You can find out more and join the network at https://criticalcommonsresearch.net/ *If you are at AoIR this week, find me at one of the "Birds of a Feather" meetups:* Friday, 17 October, afternoon break, 15:30 - 16:00 Saturday, 18 October, lunch, 12:30 - 13:30 live long and prosper, Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Communication University of Illinois Chicago www.zachmcdowell.com Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality - Read online or on Kindle for free <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003094081/wikipedia…>

6 7

The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026): Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

*** Second Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2026) 17 March, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/saner-2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> SANER 2026 will feature the following workshops. Please visit the workshops' websites and/or contact their organisers for more details. SQA4AI – Software Quality Assurance for Artificial Intelligence https://sqa4ai-ws.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Greenvolve – The Green Software Evolution Workshop https://greenvolve.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> Fairness 2026 – 2nd International Workshop on Fairness in Software Systems https://fairnessworkshop.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> F-TRANSFER – Facilitating Continuous Education and Training Through AI in SE https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~avescan/f-transfer-2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> IWBOSE 2026 – Ninth International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering https://www.agile-group.org/iwbose2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> VST 2026 – 9th Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests https://vstworkshop.github.io/vst2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> MSR4P&S 2026 – 4th International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories Applications for Privacy and Security https://msr4ps.github.io<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> SUBMISSION LINK https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saner2026<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YWlyLWwJCQlhaXItbEBs…> IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 12 December, 2025 • Paper Submission: 18 December, 2025 • Notification: January 14, 2026 • Camera-Ready: 20 January, 2026 All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth). ORGANISATION General Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Local Organizing Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs • Marcelo De Almeida Maia, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil • Juri Di Rocco, University of L'Aquila, Italy

1 0