{"id":4661,"date":"2025-04-22T11:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etmu.fi\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:37:46","slug":"etmu-days-2025-call-for-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etmu.fi\/en\/etmu-conference\/etmu-days-2025-call-for-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"ETMU days 2025: Call for sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ETMU 2025: Breaking (digital) barriers: Designing and conceptualizing technologies of inclusive societies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>13-14 November 2025, University of Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Migrants today must go through physical, emotional and social barriers as they make a new country home. These barriers are often created through technologies, practices, knowledge, and discourse that shape and make up human behavior. The world is also increasingly becoming digital, meaning barriers are also created through socio-technical means at multiple levels of society. Although the social nature of technology is evident, (critical) migration studies and technological sciences are two topics that are rarely discussed side to side. We aim to bring these two fields closer together in the 2025 ETMU conference organized at the University of Helsinki by Trust-M.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ETMU 2025 aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, and invites scholars, policy makers, students and practitioners to explore different angles of inclusion and exclusion, how technologies affect points-of-entry to society in general, and different physical, emotional, psychological, or social barriers to society. Sessions should touch upon the conference theme and related topics around (but not limited to) different barriers that limit inclusion in societies, accessibility, ethics in technologization, how these barriers are created\/dismantled, and the role of AI in public services. The sessions can be more intra-disciplinary in nature, but should be open to perspectives from other disciplines. The sessions are not limited to traditional academic proposals, and we warmly invite more creative\/arts-based workshops, exhibitions or demos of novel technology around the topic of migration and digitalization and sessions that promote interdisciplinary dialogue and discussion. Session conveners will be responsible for reviewing and selecting abstracts for their workshops and facilitating the presentations of their contributors.<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important days and information<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The deadline for submissions of sessions:&nbsp;<strong>May 4th&nbsp;23.59, 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Notification of acceptance:&nbsp;<strong>June 6th 12.00, 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The deadline for submissions of abstracts:&nbsp;<strong>August 3rd&nbsp;23.59, 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Notification of acceptance:&nbsp;<strong>September 10th, 2025<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The programme will be released:&nbsp;<strong>September 17th, 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Registration opens:<strong>&nbsp;September 17th, 2025<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CALL FOR SESSIONS OPEN UNTIL&nbsp;<strong>MAY 4th 23.59 EEST, 2025<\/strong>!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We warmly invite session proposals for the 22st ETMU conference 13-14.11.2025, held at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Submission deadline on&nbsp;<strong>May 4th 23.59 EEST, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The theme<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Migrants today must go through physical, emotional and social barriers as they make a new country home. These barriers are often created through technologies, practices, knowledge, and discourse that shape and make up human behavior. The world is also increasingly becoming digital, meaning barriers are also created through socio-technical means at multiple levels of society. Although the social nature of technology is evident, (critical) migration studies and technological sciences are two topics that are rarely discussed side to side. We aim to bring these two fields closer together in the 2025 ETMU conference organized at the University of Helsinki by Trust-M.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ETMU 2025 aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, and invites scholars, policy makers, students and practitioners to explore different angles of inclusion and exclusion, how technologies affect points-of-entry to society in general, and different physical, emotional, psychological, or social barriers to society. Sessions should touch upon the conference theme and related topics around (but not limited to) different barriers that limit inclusion in societies, accessibility, ethics in technologization, how these barriers are created\/dismantled, and the role of AI in public services. The sessions can be more intra-disciplinary in nature, but should be open to perspectives from other disciplines. The sessions can be more intra-disciplinary in nature, but should be open to perspectives from other disciplines. The sessions are not limited to traditional academic proposals, and we warmly invite more creative\/arts-based workshops, exhibitions or demos of novel technology around the topic of migration and digitalization and sessions that promote interdisciplinary dialogue and discussion. Session conveners will be responsible for reviewing and selecting abstracts for their workshops and facilitating the presentations of their contributors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Please consider the following when writing and submitting your session proposal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Describe the topic of your session in approximately 300 words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Offer examples of the kind of topics you would like to discuss in your session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Where possible, draw connections to the conference theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 State the language policy of your session, and if possible, invite multiple languages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not hesitate to contact us (<a href=\"mailto:etmuconference2025@helsinki.fi\">etmuconference2025@helsinki.fi<\/a>) if you have any questions!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Submit your session proposals<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>through this link<\/strong>: https:\/\/elomake.helsinki.fi\/lomakkeet\/134301\/lomake.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETMU 2025: Breaking (digital) barriers: Designing and conceptualizing technologies of inclusive societies 13-14 November 2025, University of Helsinki, Finland Migrants today must go through physical, emotional and social barriers as they make a new country home. 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