Call for Papers - HaPoC 2025 - History and Philosophy of Computing - 17-19 December 2025, RWTH Aachen
Submissions are open for the 8th edition of the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) Conference that will take place on December 17-19 2025 at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) on behalf of the DHST/DLMPST Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC). Important dates: - Submission deadline: May 25, 2025 - Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 31, 2025 - Conference: December 17-19, 2025 Conference website: https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/hapoc-2025-conference HaPoC website (with links to past conferences): https://hapoc.org About the conference: Since 2011, the biennial History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) conference series has contributed to building an interdisciplinary community and environment to address the various facets of computing and computing technology. HaPoC aims to bring together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to discuss the past and present cultures, practices and images of computing. We welcome contributions from researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, such as history, philosophy, sociology, computer science and software engineering, cultural and media studies, computational sciences, design and art. We invite contributors to share their expertise in respective areas and openly engage in interdisciplinary discussions. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Historical and philosophical dimensions of computing practices - Social and cultural aspects of computing - Computing and the arts - New forms of computing, such as neuromorphic computing - Ethical and legal aspects of computing - Reflecting and historicizing AI We look forward to submissions by scholars from all career stages and aim at diversity of participants in terms of demographics that include gender, career stage/track, geographical location, and institutional affiliation. Submission procedure: Please submit to hapoc2025@khk.rwth-aachen.de a 2-page proposal in PDF format containing: - an anonymized abstract (1 page, ca. 700 words) for double-blind review - a max. 1-page statement of your name, affiliation, research focus, academic activities and optionally publications (max. 5). Acceptance notifications will be sent by July 31, 2025. There are no conference fees and travel grants will be offered to early career scholars, further information will follow. We look forward to meeting you at HaPoC-8 in Aachen! Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Robin K. Hill, University of Wyoming, US Alexandre Hocquet, Université de Lorraine, France Confirmed Members of the Program Committee: Arianna Borrelli, TU Berlin and RWTH Aachen, Germany Jianqing Chen, Washington University at Saint Louis, US Jack Copeland, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ Beatrice Fazi, University of Sussex, UK Gabriele Gramelsberger, RWTH Aachen, Germany Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, US Andrei Korbut, CAIS Center for Advanced Internet Studies Bochum, Germany Alfred Nordmann, TU Darmstadt, Germany Ben Peters, University of Tulsa, US Mate Szabo, University of Southern California, US Local Organising Committee at RWTH Aachen University: Gabriele Gramelsberger (philosophy of science) Stefan Böschen (sociology of science) Dawid Kasprowicz (philosophy of science) Phillip Roth (science and technology studies) Saskia Nagel (ethics of science) Torsten Voigt (science and technology studies)
Dear SIGCIS members, please consider the CfP for the 10th After Post-Photography conference, this time held in Yerevan. As in all previous years, the call is deliberately open, and we would be delighted to receive submissions concerning, say, the history of digital imaging, AI and drones, computer tomography etc. Any questions, please let me know. Best Friedrich ---snip--- After Post-Photography 10: What is photography becoming? Yerevan (Armenia), 5-8 November 2025 Yerevan Center for International Education Hamlet’s observation that the world is out of joint has been quoted so often that it became a truism long ago. Although the phrase thus may appear to be hollowed out by overuse, it still holds a morsel worthy of reflection: a world out of joint is not a world in chaos. Its pieces – people, society, economy, ecology – remain, but the fabric holding them together is weak, crumbling, torn. A similar observation can be made concerning photography. Its pieces – image, politics, technology, truth, light, memory, process – are still there, but as a concept, photography is swaying: is what we’re so used to calling photography still holding together? Or does it come undone into a disarray of erratically moving parts, spawning interpretations catering to the needs of those in power and those trusting them more than their own good judgment and their own eyes? Has photography as a concept of producing technical images with the help of electromagnetic radiations been flawed from the very beginning, and does this moment of crisis then come in handy to rethink what we want from, and for, photography – and maybe even what photography wants? We very much invite you to share your thoughts about these questions at our 10th After Post-Photography conference. True to the approach we established with our first conference in 2015 however we strongly encourage you to consider participation also if you prefer another subject over what we have laid out. We welcome papers from all perspectives: historical and theoretical, applied and experimental. So if you would like to present your research on any subject related to photography to an international audience, we’ll be delighted if you’d send us your paper – be it on the indexicality of AI generated images, early professional studios in Argentina, the exhibition Family of Man in the Soviet Union or whatever other subject you are into. Please submit a short summary of your paper (250-400 words preferably as .docx) only in English no later than 25 May to app@mur.at. As we are doing a blind review of the submissions, make sure that your paper does not include your name. Should you like to get in touch with us prior to your submission, please write to app@mur.at. This year’s conference is co-organized and hosted by the Yerevan Center for International Education (https://yerevancenter.org/). There is no participation fee for the conference, neither for speakers nor for guests. Costs for traveling and accommodation must be covered by the participants; partial funding, however, may be available. The conference will be held in person, but sessions will also be livestreamed for remote audiences. The working language of the conference is English. For programs of After Post-Photography conferences since 2015, please see www.after-post.photography. We would also sincerely appreciate it if you would forward the call to your own networks and other mailing lists. Organizing committee After Post-Photography 10: Olga Davydova, Maria Gourieva, Farrah Karapetian, Daria Panaiotti, Sergei Shtyrkov, Friedrich Tietjen, Erika Wolf t.me/afterpostphotography facebook.com/afterpostphotography -- The gibberish in the attachment is not a corrupt file, but my public PGP key - use it in case you prefer encrypted communication; otherwise ignore.
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Friedrich Tietjen