Call for Papers: Digital Humanism – Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference
Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms
Call for Papers
Digital Humanism – Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference
November 20–21, 2025
MuseumsQuartier - Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna
https://dighum.org/dighum-res/
(Preliminary Information on Registration now Online)
Submission deadline: July 15, 2025
Notification: September 15, 2025
Final Versions Due: September 30, 2025
Invited Speakers:
+ Gry Hasselbalch, DataEthics.eu
+ Julian Nida-Rümelin, LMU München
+ Hannes Werthner, TU Wien
Aims and Scope
Technology and digitization profoundly shape the world we live in, and the stakes are high. This call invites papers that explore the complex interplay of technology and humankind, understanding the fundamental changes, examining the new opportunities enabled by technological advances as well as the tremendous risks inherent to digitization, and envisaging the prospects for a better life in the digitized era. Issues addressed by the conference program will revolve around digitalization and its entanglement with contemporary social, political, economic, and cultural developments – from algorithmic governance and regulation through the role of AI in popular culture to the ever-increasing permeation of our lives with digital devices.
The recent rise of AI has triggered a heightened awareness of the far-reaching impact of digitization on our lives, which ranges from numerous beneficial uses to worrisome concerns for open democratic societies and the lives of their citizens. Technological change is expanding the boundaries of what is possible.
There are strong reasons to be concerned about the enormous concentration of power, resources, and prioritization of future AI R&D directions in the hands of very few players.
We define Digital Humanism as an approach that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, influences the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a better society and life, fully respecting universal human rights.
Addressing these challenges requires interdisciplinary collaboration between a whole range of domains from computer science to humanities. We invite contributions that explore all scientific aspects at the complex interplay of humans and machines in the digitized age. Different research methodologies and approaches are welcome.
Topics
The following topics based on the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism
(https://caiml.org/dighum/dighum-manifesto/#vienna-manifesto-on-digital-humanism)
offer an illustrative, though certainly not exhaustive list of possible fields to be addressed:
+ The role of tech monopolies, market competitiveness and anti-trust
+ Internet governance and digital sovereignty
+ Automated and human decision making
+ Participatory approaches and collective decision-making,
computational social choice
+ New systems design
+ Cross-disciplinary approaches to technological questions, especially
collaborations between computer science / informatics and social
sciences and the humanities
+ New educational curricula, combining knowledge from the humanities,
the social sciences, and engineering studies
+ Researchers and practitioners and their shared responsibility for
the impact of information technologies
+ Human-centered AI, human-AI interaction, and human-AI teaming
+ Ethical models/frameworks around AI and data, handling of bias
+ Environmental costs and climate impacts of digitization/AI
All contributions welcome that address these topics – from computer science, AI research, social sciences, law as well as the humanities.
Submission Guidelines
DIGHUM-RES welcomes submissions of long papers (15 pages) or short papers (6 pages) of all types, including:
Empirical, conceptual, or theoretical
Technical or system descriptions
Position papers
The indicated number of pages includes title page, figures, tables, references
and appendix.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed (double-blind) and accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer’s Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of each accepted paper
is expected to register for the conference and present the work in person.
Evaluation criteria include scientific rigor, impact, and accessibility for an
interdisciplinary audience.
Submissions must be written in English, present original research, and be
formatted according to Springer’s guidelines and technical instructions
available at:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.
Paper submission is enabled via the DIGHUM-RES easy-chair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=dighumres25.
DIGHUM-RES will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under
review or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal
or another conference. These restrictions do not apply to previous workshops
with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Papers that include
text generated from large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are prohibited
unless the produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental
analysis. Note that this policy does not prohibit authors from using LLMs for
editing or polishing author-written text.
Conference Program Chairs
Ludger Hagedorn (Institute for Humans Sciences, Vienna)
Ute Schmid (University of Bamberg)
Susan J. Winter (University of Maryland)
Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology)
Contact
Please contact dighu...@easychair.org with any queries.