<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear SIGCIS Community,</div><div><br></div><div>We're thrilled to 
share our CFP for the upcoming SIGCIS 2026 annual meeting, "Known 
Error," which will take place at the School of Information, UC Berkeley 
in June 17-18, 2026, and virtually.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Abstract submission are due in 4 weeks--Mon, 2/16!</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Please see the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VP2Z2dMjFt055P0ee4PwpVyosWu8Mbgu0Jf8Uzk76B4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">full CFP here</a></b>.
 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 <font size="2">to us at <a href="mailto:sigcis.conference@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none" id="m_1078599387880819907gmail-docs-internal-guid-38bc94f0-7fff-7366-ecf3-3bad4bb9146e" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sigcis.conference@gmail.com</span></a>.</font></div><div><br></div><div>We are also excited to announce this year's <b>keynote speaker:</b> <a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/" target="_blank"><b>Dwai Banerjee</b></a>, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, on <b>"Computing in the Age of Decolonization."</b></div><div><br></div><div>Bio: <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="2">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 <i>Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi</i> (Duke Univ Press), <i>Hematologies: The political life of blood in India</i> (Cornell Univ Press) and <i>Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India's Lost Technological Revolution</i> (forthcoming, Princeton Univ Press).</font></span></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Please circulate this call widely to your own networks and communities!</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>We look forward to gathering both in person and virtually this<font size="2"> summer!</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><font size="2">The SIGCIS Meetings Organizing Committee:<br><a href="http://morganya.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,103,141);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Morgan G. Ames</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of California, Berkeley </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(SIGCIS Co-Chair)</span><br><a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,103,141);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Katya Babintseva</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Purdue University</span><br><a href="https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/person/jason-ludwig/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,103,141);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jason Ludwig</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, U</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">niversity of California, Santa Barbara</span><br><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,103,141);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Colette Perold</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Colorado, Boulder</span><br><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/hstm/honghong-tinn" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,103,141);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Honghong Tinn</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of Minnesota </span><br><a href="https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,103,141);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gili Vidan</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Cornell University (Vice-Chair of Meetings)</span></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>---<br></div><div>Gili Vidan</div><div>Assistant Professor | Information Science | Cornell University</div><div>Pronouns: she/her<br></div></div></div></div></div>