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安 孟竹（Emma） via Eurograd

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发件人: 安 孟竹（Emma） <Emma...@outlook.com>
日期: 星期三, 2026年4月29日 17:02
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主题: [Last Call] CFP 4S 2026 Open Panel: Imagining Sociality: What does it mean to be social within robot-human interactions?

Dear colleagues,


Submissions to our panel are still open (until April 30 / tomorrow), hence we send a friendly final reminder for you to consider submitting your abstracts to our upcoming open panel:

"Imagining Sociality: What does it mean to be social within robot-human interactions?" 

at the 2026 4S Meeting (October 7–10, 2026) in Toronto, Canada.  

If you are interested in contributing to our panel, please upload your abstracts until April 30th, 2026 online via the 4S submission portal: https://www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/abstract/abstract.cfm 


Panel Description:

This panel will delve into numerous facets of what it means to be social when robots, androids, and other embodied droids encounter humans. We can analyze the idea of sociality, “our relationships with the world”, or “becoming with” from so many positions and perspectives: as sociality, post-sociality, para-sociality, and alternative social worlds where significant otherness mirrors what sociality is or is not. We are eager to discuss and analyze symbiosis of more-than-human networks of robot-human interactions, which do not pre-exist their interactions but are rendered capable through them.  

The radical and ongoing transformations of human relationships and sociality, new terrains of emotional life, and intimacy are influenced by social robotics and affective computing technologies. Social robots and affective computational sensory technologies, networks of algorithms, as well as their designers, are parts of the social ecology that produces and performs entanglements of contemporary multiple computed embodied various kinds of sociality and “our relations to the world”.  

We want to discuss the following questions:  

  • Which sorts of sociality can we analyze within social robotics and affective computing?   

  • What types of agents, actants, subjects/subjectivities, persons, personhood are involved?   

  • Digital personhood, digital subjects, nonhuman personhood, human personhood, legal person, environmental personhood?   

  • What kind of a-social, impersonal, para-social relations and networks are built up within this environmentality?   

  • How can we analyze the specific bio-political technology of programming the world in this context?   


Please note: We are aiming to collect papers from this panel and offer them to the special issue in an international journal.


Warmest regards,

Eva Slesingerova & Mengzhu An

EMOROB Project, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University

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