[SIGCIS-Members] [DEADLINE EXTENDED] SIGCIS 2026 Known Error (Berkeley, CA) | Abstracts due Mon, 2/23

[Gili Vidan]

Dear SIGCIS Community,

*The deadline for submitting proposals to SIGCIS 2026 annual meeting has
been extended to Mon, 2/23.*

Our theme for this year’s meeting is "Known Error.” *Please see the full
CFP here. <https://meetings.sigcis.org/> *We will gather at the School of
Information, UC Berkeley in June 17-18, 2026, but will also have options
for virtual participation.

This year we are accepting submissions for individual papers,
pre-constituted panels of 3-4 papers, software demos, roundtables, and
other formats. We are also once again running our graduate student
works-in-progress (WIP) closed session, where students can share draft
chapters or article manuscripts with a more senior SIGCIS community member
and receive feedback. If you would like to serve as a WIP mentor but are
not otherwise submitting a proposal to SIGCIS, please reach out to us at
sigcis.conference at gmail.com.

We are also excited to announce that this year's *keynote, **"Computing in
the Age of Decolonization,"* will be delivered by* Dwai Banerjee,
<https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/>*
<https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/>Associate
Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT.

Bio: What new perspectives about the history and practice of science,
technology, and medicine emerge when we foreground the intellectual labor
of thinkers and practitioners from the Global South? Dwaipayan Banerjee's
work centers the lives and creative visions of scientific practitioners in
South Asia, challenging scholars to reorient how we understand the past and
future of science, technology, and medicine. He is an Associate Professor
in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and the author of *Enduring Cancer: Life, Death,
and Diagnosis in Delhi* (Duke Univ Press), * Hematologies: The political
life of blood in India* (Cornell Univ Press) and * Computing in the Age of
Decolonization: India's Lost Technological Revolution* (forthcoming,
Princeton Univ Press).

Please help us circulate the call and deadline extension widely by
forwarding the announcement to your own networks and communities!

Looking forward to seeing you in-person or virtually this summer!

With best wishes,

The SIGCIS Meetings Organizing Committee:
Morgan G. Ames <http://morganya.org/>, University of California,
Berkeley (SIGCIS
Co-Chair)
Katya Babintseva
<https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html>,
Purdue University
Jason Ludwig <https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/person/jason-ludwig/>,
University
of California, Santa Barbara
Colette Perold
<https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold>, University
of Colorado, Boulder
Honghong Tinn <https://cse.umn.edu/hstm/honghong-tinn>, University of
Minnesota
Gili Vidan <https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan>, Cornell University
(Vice-Chair of Meetings)

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Gili Vidan
Assistant Professor | Information Science | Cornell University
Pronouns: she/her
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