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Dear SIGCIS Community,</div>
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We are writing with a reminder that the due date to submit your proposals to SIGCIS 2026 annual meeting is
<b>a little less than three weeks from now — Mon, 2/16.</b></div>
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Our theme for this year’s meeting is "Known Error.” <b>Please see <a href="https://meetings.sigcis.org/" data-outlook-id="4e9f2126-713d-4c1c-a309-00ea00d3d054">
the full CFP here.</a> </b>We will gather at the School of Information, UC Berkeley in June 17-18, 2026, but will also have options for virtual participation.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="mailto:sigcis.conference@gmail.com" target="_blank" id="m_1078599387880819907gmail-docs-internal-guid-38bc94f0-7fff-7366-ecf3-3bad4bb9146e" title="mailto:sigcis.conference@gmail.com" data-outlook-id="f513da1a-db35-4638-9180-b8a3b16e2558" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;">sigcis.conference@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">We are also excited to announce that this year's
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"><b>keynote,
</b></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>"Computing in the Age of Decolonization,</b></span><b>”</b><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>’
</b>will be delivered by</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;"><b> <a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/" data-outlook-id="70496292-c1de-418e-abf5-ee17c2811615">Dwai
Banerjee,</a></b><a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/" data-outlook-id="b638c7ce-170c-4723-a44d-866a132d5906" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;"> </a>Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society,
MIT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bio:
</span><span style="font-family: "Aptos Light", Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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).</span></div>
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Please<b> </b>help us circulate the call widely by forwarding the announcement to your own networks and communities!</div>
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Looking forward to seeing you in-person or virtually this summer! </div>
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With best wishes,</div>
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<div style="text-align: left; text-transform: none; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The SIGCIS Meetings Organizing Committee:<br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 103, 141); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://morganya.org/" target="_blank" title="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmorganya.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cebabints%40purdue.edu%7C455a405afb4144ffb4f708de578426e4%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C1%7C0%7C639044422278419696%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xUDppvSkAVxTX%2Fc2oPnwvaaJ7oa7fa1CD8a4eJZPASU%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://morganya.org/" data-outlook-id="185e32eb-d307-4b5f-951a-6a49551c185e" style="color: rgb(36, 103, 141); text-decoration: none;">Morgan
G. Ames</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, University of California, Berkeley
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(SIGCIS Co-Chair)</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 103, 141); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html" target="_blank" title="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/ekaterina-babintseva.html" data-outlook-id="46064fc5-3b87-4bd2-b6cb-fc295692c281" style="color: rgb(36, 103, 141); text-decoration: none;">Katya
Babintseva</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Purdue University</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 103, 141); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/person/jason-ludwig/" target="_blank" title="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu%2Fperson%2Fjason-ludwig%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cebabints%40purdue.edu%7C455a405afb4144ffb4f708de578426e4%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C1%7C0%7C639044422278430376%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uDylHECzYOmfGuFd8aGKt3OfX7lhAL4ejAuJ49Vi2kU%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/person/jason-ludwig/" data-outlook-id="e944f283-ed99-4de3-a8bd-5cf4c857dfcb" style="color: rgb(36, 103, 141); text-decoration: none;">Jason
Ludwig</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, U</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">niversity of California,
Santa Barbara</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 103, 141); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold" target="_blank" title="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.colorado.edu%2Fcmci%2Fpeople%2Fmedia-studies%2Fcolette-perold&data=05%7C02%7Cebabints%40purdue.edu%7C455a405afb4144ffb4f708de578426e4%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C1%7C0%7C639044422278440740%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZlTtVFOMcvChdiFay5HM01gyKbHGlOvGEmfBG%2BLuOX4%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold" data-outlook-id="2e8cfc45-22f0-4e8a-90d3-986847b1c86c" style="color: rgb(36, 103, 141); text-decoration: none;">Colette
Perold</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">University of Colorado, Boulder</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 103, 141); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/hstm/honghong-tinn" target="_blank" title="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcse.umn.edu%2Fhstm%2Fhonghong-tinn&data=05%7C02%7Cebabints%40purdue.edu%7C455a405afb4144ffb4f708de578426e4%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C1%7C0%7C639044422278451217%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9Y0631eP4pwxxiMxlR505K8GmElDWUJHQSq3fieA3%2Bw%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://cse.umn.edu/hstm/honghong-tinn" data-outlook-id="41638ad1-b588-4e26-a688-48cd02b845de" style="color: rgb(36, 103, 141); text-decoration: none;">Honghong
Tinn</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, University of Minnesota </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(36, 103, 141); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan" target="_blank" title="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finfosci.cornell.edu%2Fcontent%2Fvidan&data=05%7C02%7Cebabints%40purdue.edu%7C455a405afb4144ffb4f708de578426e4%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C1%7C0%7C639044422278461352%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=mmGDhfMBp1sovv8RT81mKa5Zbik%2B4mvyE2rBS6vnZgI%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/vidan" data-outlook-id="68b1ccfb-a8a6-4733-aa2a-828c6a7afb80" style="color: rgb(36, 103, 141); text-decoration: none;">Gili
Vidan</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Cornell University (Vice-Chair of Meetings)</span></div>
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