Col­lo­qui­um “Reject­ing the future: Affect and men­tal health”
6–8 May, 2026
Insti­tute for Advanced Study Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Del­men­horst, Germany

Orga­niz­ers: Annette Leib­ing & Mark Schweda

Wednes­day, 06 May 2026

1:00 Recep­tion and light lunch at the HWK

1:50 Short wel­come by Stef­fen Band­low-Raf­fal­s­ki, Mark Schwe­da, and Annette Leibing

2:00 – 3:00 Ste­fan Ecks (U Edin­burgh): Pre­dict­ing Unpredictability

3:00 – 4:30 Con­ver­sa­tion; Chair: Ulla Kriebernegg (U Graz)

Luiz Fer­nan­do Dias Duarte (UF Rio de Janeiro): Freez­ing time: Trans­gen­er­a­tionalopac­i­ty and men­tal disturbance

Mar­cos Freire de Andrade Neves (Freie U Berlin): The emp­ty cell next door: Sus­pend­ed futures and affec­tive life on death row

Mark Schwe­da (U Old­en­burg): ‘Tedi­um vitae‘ in the con­text of assist­ed dying

4:30 – 4:50 Cof­fee break („Kaf­fee und Kuchen“)

4:50 – 5:50 Leila Dawney (U Exeter): Chron­ic affects: on com­ing to terms with future­less­ness in a decom­mis­sion­ing nuclear town

Thurs­day, 07 May 2026

9:00 – 10:00 Anne Lovell (INSERM Paris): TBD

10:00 – 10:15 Cof­fee break

10:15 – 12:00 Con­ver­sa­tion; Chair: Isaac Yuen (Berlin)

Matthew Wolf-Mey­er (Rens­se­laer Poly­tech­nic Insti­tute): On anx­i­ety, com­pla­cen­cy, and bore­dom in the Anthropocene

Nolen Gertz (Twente U): War and Exile: On PTSD and mil­i­tary suicide

Clau­dia Boz­zaro (U Mün­ster): “Til death do us part”: the emerg­ing phe­nom­e­non of assist­ed dou­ble suicide.

12:15 –1:45 Lunch + walk

1:45 – 2:45 Ayo Wahlberg (U Copen­hagen): Fer­til­i­ty exhaus­tion in pro-natal­ist China

Fri­day, 08 May 2026

9:00 – 10:00 Stephen Katz (Trent U): The cri­sis of lone­li­ness and the future of aging

10:00 – 10:20 Cof­fee break

10:20 – 11:20 John Marlovits (San José State U): Can the asy­lum speak? Punk chal­lenges to psy­chi­atric con­tain­ment cul­ture in 1970s San Francisco

11:20 – 12:20 Con­ver­sa­tion; Chair: Mark Schweda

Matthew Wor­ley (U Read­ing): ‘Iden­ti­ty, it’s a cri­sis, can’t you see’: British punk and men­tal ill­ness, c.1970s-80s

Annette Leib­ing (U Mon­tre­al): Mud­dled affect: On uncom­mon futures 

12:20 – Final words (MS, AL)

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Sym­po­sium “Assist­ed Repro­duc­tive Tech­nol­o­gy and Social Sci­ences: Think­ing about what’s miss­ing. Invent­ing possibilities”
May 29, 2026
Cam­pus Con­dorcet (Aubervil­liers, France)

We wel­come con­tri­bu­tions from all fields of the social sci­ences address­ing the gaps, lim­its, and unmet needs in ART, as well as method­olog­i­cal and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach­es to explore them.

Please note that pre­sen­ta­tions will take place on-site only.

Dead­line for pro­pos­als: Decem­ber 1, 2025
Email: parcours2026@gmail.com
Abstract length: approx. 300 words (noti­fi­ca­tion by end of December)

The full call for papers can be found below

CfP Symposium_PARCOURS

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ACM Inter­ac­tive Health 2026
Ear­ly July, Por­to, Portugal
https://ih.acm.org/

About:

The ACM Inter­ac­tive Health Con­fer­ence (IH) is a new con­fer­ence that aims to be the lead­ing venue for pre­sent­ing work at the inter­sec­tion of Human-Com­put­er Inter­ac­tion (HCI) and Health. The con­fer­ence will wel­come all kinds of work in this space, includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to: the study of health prac­tices; the devel­op­ment of meth­ods and the­o­ries for engag­ing users and cre­at­ing human-cen­tered health tech­nolo­gies; or the design, eval­u­a­tion, and imple­men­ta­tion of health tech­nolo­gies to sup­port health and well-being.
Participate:

IH 2026 offers var­i­ous ways to par­tic­i­pate. Authors can sub­mit an extend­ed abstract in the fol­low­ing categories:

Short Forms – Pre­sen­ta­tions for new, emerg­ing, and engag­ing con­tri­bu­tions at the con­fer­ence as a poster;
Demos and Exhi­bi­tions – Sub­mis­sions for on-site demon­stra­tions of inter­ac­tive technologies;
Work­shops – Pro­pos­als for a one-day event for focused dis­cus­sion and for­mu­la­tion of shared goals and agen­das with­in the IH com­mu­ni­ty about key topics;

Doc­tor­al Col­lo­qui­um – Appli­ca­tions for Ph.D. stu­dents to receive men­tor­ships and share research among a small group of peers;
Ear­ly Career Work­shop – Appli­ca­tions for ear­ly career researchers (up to 5 years post-Ph.D.) to attend a one-day event to explore their pro­fes­sion­al activ­i­ties and goals, learn from one anoth­er, and dis­cuss top­ics most impor­tant to them.

We will also open a call for „Relat­ed Con­tri­bu­tions”, papers pre­vi­ous­ly pub­lished in oth­er con­fer­ences or jour­nals with an impor­tant mes­sage for the com­mu­ni­ty, which will be pre­sent­ed at IH as a poster or short presentation.
More­over, the con­fer­ence will not have a full paper sub­mis­sion track. Paper ses­sions at the con­fer­ence will be most­ly com­posed of papers accept­ed at the ACM HEALTH jour­nal Spe­cial Issue on Human Cen­tered Com­put­ing in Health­care.

First sub­mis­sion deadlines:

Short forms: Feb­ru­ary 12th 2026
Demos and Exhi­bi­tions: Feb­ru­ary 26th 2026
Work­shops: Jan­u­ary 15th 2026
Doc­tor­al Col­lo­qui­um: Feb­ru­ary 5th 2026
Ear­ly Career Work­shop: April 1st 2026

Join us!
The organ­is­ing team is extreme­ly excit­ed to bring IH to life. The HCI com­mu­ni­ty has been dis­cussing the pos­si­bil­i­ty of cre­at­ing a con­fer­ence bridg­ing HCI and Health for many years at the Spe­cial Inter­est Group on Com­put­er-Human Inter­ac­tion (SIGCHI) of the ACM – the largest asso­ci­a­tion of com­put­ing researchers and professionals.
We hope you will sub­mit your work and join us at the inau­gur­al ACM Inter­ac­tive Health Con­fer­ence in Por­to, Por­tu­gal. You will be joined by researchers, design­ers, prac­ti­tion­ers, health­care pro­fes­sion­als, and patients to reflect and dis­cuss emerg­ing chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties across the social-tech­ni­cal ecosys­tems of health and well-being.
For fur­ther details about the sub­mis­sions, review, pub­li­ca­tion process, or gen­er­al infor­ma­tion about the con­fer­ence, please go to: https://ih.acm.org.

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