SIGCIS 2026: Known Error | CFP and Keynote Announcement | Submissions due: 2/16/2026
Dear SIGCIS Community, 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. *Abstract submission are due in 4 weeks--Mon, 2/16!* *Please see the full CFP here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VP2Z2dMjFt055P0ee4PwpVyosWu8Mbgu0Jf8Uzk76B4/edit?usp=sharing>*. 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 this year's *keynote speaker:* *Dwai Banerjee* <https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/dwai-banerjee/>, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, on *"Computing in the Age of Decolonization."* 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 circulate this call widely to your own networks and communities!* We look forward to gathering both in person and virtually this summer! 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) --- Gili Vidan Assistant Professor | Information Science | Cornell University Pronouns: she/her
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