Organized by the Norwegian Research School on DigitalizationDigitalization, Culture and Society (DIGIT) school’s We welcome session proposals that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
Digital pasts: histories of computing, automation, data practices, infrastructures, and imaginaries
Digital presents: AI, platforms, algorithms, datafication, surveillance, and everyday life
Digital futures: anticipation, speculation, imaginaries, governance, and contested visions
Human consequences: labor, care, health, education, creativity, identity, inequality, and exclusion
Power and politics: bias, fairness, governance, regulation, and resistance
Repair, care, and maintenance in digital systems and infrastructures
Methods and epistemologies: historical, ethnographic, participatory, artistic, and speculative approaches
Intersections of science, technology, art, and society
Deadline: January 24, 2026
Session proposal deadline: January 24
Notification of acceptance: January 30
Call for papers opens: February 3
This conference brings together scholars from Science and Technology Studies (STS), digital humanities, social sciences, and allied fields to critically examine how digital technologies shape—and are shaped by—historical trajectories, present-day practices, and imagined futures. We are particularly interested in the human consequences of digitalization: how technologies reconfigure work, care, governance, democracy, knowledge, inequality, embodiment, memory, and social relations across time.
The conference is motivated by a shared concern that digital technologies are too often framed as novel, disruptive, or inevitable, obscuring their historical roots, uneven impacts, and alternative futures. Rather than focusing only on what is “new,” we invite contributors to situate digital technologies within longer temporal arcs, relational contexts, and lived experiences.
Deadline:January 24
