INTERFACE, as a multi-disciplinary and multi-lingual journal, feels particularly suitable to convene a conference that will attempt to understand both the present and the past debates concerning the introduction of new information technologies in the light of each other, and to present both retrospective as well predictive accounts of the course of each of these debates. Therefore, we call scholars working in fields such as anthropology, philosophy, history, education, literature, art, politics, sociology, religion, and cultural studies to submit proposals either for panels or individual papers.

Topics for consideration might include (but are not limited to):

• Information technologies and their effect on patterns of thinking/arguing in their societies
• Abuses/misuses of information technologies and social response
• Contributions of information technologies to preservation and dissemination of knowledge
• Information technologies and the (re)shaping of tradition
• Information technologies and pedagogy
• Information technologies and multilingualism
• Role of information technologies in social exclusion/inclusion
• The ethics and politics of informations technologies
• Poetics of/and/in/with information technology
• Transition(s) from one form information technology to another

Proposals for panels (instructions here) or individual papers of 25 minutes or less (instructions here) should be submitted at interfacejell@ntu.edu.tw by March 23, 2024.

The papers should be presented in any of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian.

The conference will take place on August 28-30, 2024 at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. It is organized as a physical face-to-face conference; however, it will laso be possible to present and participate remotely.

Papers presented in the conference can be submitted for publication in the Special Topic issues of INTERFACE to be published in 2025 (subject to double-blind peer review).