humanities computing and the internet

International conference on

Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Narratives, and Educational Futures in India and Australia

to be organised by the Centre for Australian Studies, Dept of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan

in collaboration with Australian Consulate-General, Kolkata

on 20 & 21 January 2026

at The University of Burdwan

Call for Papers

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal on phraseological and paremiological research edited by Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is seeking submissions of contributions for its twenty-eight issue. Even though the deadline is permanently open, only manuscripts received by October 24, 2026 will be considered for issue 28.

Call for Chapters

Streamculture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Platformized Viewing

The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2026:

“Humanity: Agency, Equality, Pleasure, Violence, Death”

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

April 25, 2026

Keynote Speaker:

Graham Harman,

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy,

Southern California Institute of Architecture

Call for book chapters: Reading as Habitation. In Memoriam Ana-Karina Schneider

In 2025, broad legislative and cultural backlash is focused on eliminating even the idea of trans people from public space. When public space is inaccessible, online communities have, for more than the past twenty years, been a place where trans people can still find one another, self-represent, and build their own publics. Now the walled world of the app economy, organized personal attacks, discriminatory social media algorithms, ID verification laws, and government intervention are changing the internet too. At such a moment, understanding the ways that trans people navigate their digital worlds is more important than ever.

Call for PapersCyber-Intimacies: Queer and Feminist Interventions in Global Cyber Politics

Edited by Amy Lind, Stephen Bryant, and Prateek Srivastava

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2025

In this special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television, the editors warmly invite contributions that engage with the spaces of New Horror and digital media.

Virtual Identities and Self-Promoting explores the fascinating intersection of self, identity construction, and self-promotion within the digital realm. The internet has revolutionized how we present ourselves to the world. Social media platforms, online games, virtual worlds, and even professional networking sites provide individuals with a myriad of opportunities to curate and project versions of themselves. In an increasingly online world, individuals craft and curate virtual identities across various platforms, engaging in strategic self-presentation to achieve personal, social, and professional goals.

Call for Papers and Talks
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden

22-23 April, 2026

Comics and Machines 

Steering Committee:

Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle Gribomont, Andre Holzapfel, Per Israelson, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Ilan Manouach, Pedro Moura, Everardo Reyes, Keith Tillford, Ray Whitcher

Communication skills are recognized as an integral component of professional competence in engineering education, complementing technical proficiency. English language educators play a significant role in developing communication skills among engineering students. Nevertheless, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in English most often overlook the inclusion of courses on science communication in the curriculum. As a result, research scholars in English who aspire to take up faculty positions in the engineering institutes do not get any formal training in science communication before entering academia. This FDP aims to bridge this gap by equipping English language educators with the skills necessary to become effective science communicators.

The International Conference on Invisible Infrastructures: Gender, Caste, and the Politics of Presence in India’s Digital Spaces (ICII), the academic event organized by the faculty of School of Sciences & Humanities (VISH) at VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, will mark its edition on November 14-15, 2025. This conference seeks to convene interdisciplinary voices, scholars, academicians, artists, technologists, and activists to interrogate how power operates in digital spaces not only through spectacular forms of violence, but also through subtle, everyday mechanisms of control and exclusion.

INTERNET CULTURE

CALL FOR PAPERS: PCA 2026 National Conference (April 8-11, 2026) 

The Internet Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association invites proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative format presentations for the 2026 National Conference, April 8-11, 2026. Proposals should explore Internet Culture as it relates to popular culture including, but not limited to:

• Social Media

• Mobility

• Apps/Applications

• Digital Marketing

• The Internet & Social Change

Editors-in-chief: Inês Fernandes and Teresa Weinholtz 

Issue 12 | Speak at Your Own Risk: The Many Faces of (Self-)Censorship