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. 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@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, 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,