Call for Sessions: Breaking (digital) barriers: Designing and conceptualizing technologies of inclusive societies
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) digital inclusion, accessibility, barriers of integration, ethics and trust in digital services, 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.
Please consider the following when writing and submitting your session proposal:
• Describe the topic of your session in approximately 300 words (2000 character limit).
• Offer examples of the kind of topics you would like to discuss in your session.
• Where possible, draw connections to the conference theme.
• State the language policy of your session, and if possible, invite multiple languages.
• If your session includes interactive elements or arts-based methods, you can add visual features as an attachment (pdf, jpeg, pptx, gif, tiff).
Do not hesitate to contact us (etmuconference2025@helsinki.fi) if you have any questions!
Date: 13.-14.11.2025
Location: University of Helsinki, City Centre Campus, Helsinki
Important dates
- The deadline for submissions of sessions: May 4th 23.59, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: June 6th 12.00, 2025
- Submission for abstracts begins June 16th, 2025
- The deadline for submissions of abstracts: August 3rd 23.59, 2025
We look forward to hearing from you!
The ETMU Conference 2025 organising team
