Dear all, Hope you are keeping safe and well. We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2021 ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency -- FAccT (formerly known as ACM FAT*) is now open. We welcome scholarship in dialogue with fairness, accountability, and transparency in computational systems, including critical approaches that investigate core assumptions and propose alternative designs, practices, and policies. This year’s conference will take place in the context of a worldwide reckoning with racism and other forms of injustice, in society generally and within the field of computing in particular. Such questions are not only a matter of personal and professional concern, but also a perennial focus of FAccT scholarship. *In this light, we especially welcome attention to insufficiently addressed issues in computing* such as: How do algorithmic systems develop in relation to racism and anti-blackness? How should the field address the problems and opportunities of intersectional perspectives on fairness? What kinds of marginalization are relevant to the concerns of ACM FAccT? How can perspectives and tools from gender/LGBTQ studies, postcolonial studies, indigenous studies, racial and ethnic studies, migration studies, work on disability and other relevant domains inform a broad perspective on how to frame and advance social justice in relation to design of computational systems? Submissions might include (but not limited to) the following areas: - *Algorithm Development* *e.g.* Fairness; Interpretable and explainable models; Data collection and curation - *Data and Algorithm Evaluation* *e.g.* Metrics; Audits; Evaluations - *Applications* *e.g.* NLP; Computer vision; Search engines; Recommender systems; Programming languages; Databases - *Human Factors* *e.g.* Human-computer interaction; Humans-in-the-loop; Information visualization; UX design; Community or participatory-research design - *Privacy and Security* *e.g.* Formal approaches; Privacy-preserving models; Usable privacy and security - *Law and Policy* *e.g.* Organizational governance; Data protection; Non-discrimination; Codes of ethics; Models from historically marginalized perspectives (*e.g.* Global Southern, feminist, communitarian, or Indigenous perspectives) - *Humanistic theory and critique* *e.g.* Interrogating foundational concepts; Bridging critical concepts across fields; Philosophical, moral and ethical analysis - *Social and organizational processes* *e.g.* Algorithms in organizations and institutions; Social, cultural, and historical shaping of algorithmic phenomena; algorithmic impacts on social phenomena - *Community-based approaches* *e.g.* Participatory algorithm design; Community designed and maintained systems; Activism-driven technological change - *Education* *e.g.* Pedagogical approaches, proposals, and experiences in areas of relevance to FAccT We welcome submissions on these topics from a broad set of expertise from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics, the humanities, and law. More details can be found here: https://facctconference.org/2021/cfp.html Paper pre-registration: 30 September 2020 Paper submission: 7 October 2020 Notifications: 11 December 2020 Conference: early March 2021 All deadlines are at 11:59 PM anywhere on earth (AoE) on the given date. Questions? Contact the Program Co-chairs: program-chairs@facctconference.org. And stay tuned for updates by following @facctconference on Twitter. Please forward this call to other people or groups you think may be interested. Best wishes, Abeba -- Cognitive Science Ph.D. candidate Complex Software Lab, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre School of Computer Science and Informatics University College Dublin, Ireland https://abebabirhane.wordpress.com/ t: @Abebab (she/her)