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World Anthropological Union Congress 2027, Lisbon
The discipline's world congress, themed «Life Imagined», includes a dedicated track on AI, identities and alterities. The call for papers opens on 9 November 2026 and is the most direct route for bringing the anthropology of AI to Lisbon.
Papers and posters · Opening soon · opens on 9 November 2026 · closes on 18 January 2027 (Europe/Madrid)
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SIEF 2027 — Frontiers: Hidden, Visible, Mobile
The congress examines frontiers, coloniality and mobility through ethnology and anthropology. The current call is for panels and roundtables; papers open on 30 November.
Panels and roundtables · Open · closes on 2 November 2026 (Europe/Rome)
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IIEMCA 2027 — New Horizons
Johannesburg hosts debates on interaction and methodological horizons. A dedicated AI stream supports the study of human–machine encounters and underrepresented contexts and languages.
Presentations (English abstract, up to 500 words) · Open · closes on 6 November 2026 (Africa/Johannesburg)
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Digital Humanities 2027 — Creativity
Creativity, AI and heritage frame this digital humanities meeting. Its call offers space to discuss authorship, cultural access and the material conditions of computational research.
Long and short papers, posters, workshops and mini-conferences · Open · closes on 20 November 2026, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth (UTC−12))
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Philippe Descola closes the Lyon seminar on naturalism, science and the environment
Descola closes a seminar series that has spent the academic year debating his category of naturalism from philosophy, biology and ecology. His reading of ontologies is a familiar tool for thinking about how AI redraws the boundary between the human and the non-human.
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Development Days 2027 — Empowering Development
Technology and inequality meet political ecology, digital colonialism and data extractivism. A relevant forum for debating technological sovereignty and commons from Global South perspectives.
Papers · Opening soon · opens on 28 October 2026 · closes on 25 November 2026 (Europe/Helsinki)
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Latin American and Caribbean Congress of University Extension, Mar del Plata
One strand of the congress links university extension and democracy with algorithmic control, the effects of artificial intelligence and digital sovereignty. It offers a space to set these technologies against territorial knowledge and practices of community participation.
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Societal Relationships with Materiality, a workshop with Tim Ingold in Hamburg
Tim Ingold joins an HIAS workshop on how societies relate to materials. It offers a way into thinking about the materiality of AI and its infrastructures through the anthropology of materials.
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American Anthropological Association 2026 — On the Verge
The annual meeting addresses AI, institutional crises and political change. It places digital culture within wider anthropological debates.
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VI MeLCi Lab Autumn School on AI, media and communication
An advanced school on AI research methods and critical literacy. It connects methodological choices with bias, transparency and power in media.
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Museum Big Data Week 2026
A week on data and digital change in museums and heritage: AI for GLAMs (10–11), a 3D digitisation masterclass (12) and the conference (12–14 November).
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Resilient citizenship in the digital age
A discussion of digital wellbeing, mental health and audiovisual regulators. It addresses institutional responsibilities for digital environments that shape everyday life.
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The Role of Universities in Media and Information Literacy Education
A Mexican roundtable on teaching, research and university outreach in media literacy. It places educational responsibility beyond individual skills.
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Critical thinking, ethics and generative AI at UNED
The congress connects language learning and humanities with ethics and bias. Critical mediation through RAG and cultural heritage offer ways to study AI as a situated practice.
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First Spanish Forum on Media and Information Literacy
A forum on critical literacy and public policy, with UNESCO participation. It offers a view of how regulators, schools and media share responsibility in platform societies.
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Growing up in a connected world
A webinar on childhood, families and digital challenges. It invites reflection on everyday platform relations and the social distribution of care and risk.
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Assessment in Higher Education in the Era of AI and Digital Technologies
A webinar on responsible assessment with AI, bringing perspectives from the Philippines and South Africa. Its focus on equity matters for the study of university knowledge.
View call ↗ - Special activity · media and information literacy · Online · Ongoing
AIthropology FM: Thinking Critically with AI
AIthropology FM is presenting an independent programme during Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2026, listed in UNESCO's international calendar of activities.
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