36.3217, Confs: Kinds of Agency Online Graduate Conference (USA)

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Date: 21-Oct-2025
From: Utku Sonsayar [utku.sonsayar at uconn.edu]
Subject: Kinds of Agency Online Graduate Conference


Kinds of Agency Online Graduate Conference

Date: 21-Feb-2026 - 21-Feb-2026
Location: Storrs, USA
Contact: Utku Sonsayar
Contact Email: utku.sonsayar at uconn.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics

Submission Deadline: 14-Dec-2025

The Kinds of Agency conference invites interdisciplinary exploration
of the many forms and manifestations of agency. From intentional
action and communication to moral responsibility, autonomy, and
selfhood, agency is central to our understanding of human cognition
and behavior. Yet it is increasingly clear that agency is not a
singular phenomenon: it may be distributed, embodied, emergent,
nonhuman, or collective. Our aim is to foster cross-disciplinary
discussions on various types or kinds of agency that have intrigued
philosophers, cognitive scientists, linguists, neuroscientists, and
developmental, comparative, and evolutionary psychologists, among
others.
We welcome papers on topics including, but not limited to:
 - Agency in language, thought, and action
 - Developmental and evolutionary roots of agency
 - Nonhuman and artificial agency (e.g., animal cognition, AI systems)
 - Collective and distributed agency
 - Agency, autonomy, and normativity
 - The phenomenology of agency and selfhood
 - Agency and expression in social, cultural, or political contexts
Submission Guidelines:
We invite abstracts – roughly 1,000 words, excluding references – of
short papers, suitable for a 30 min presentation, by graduate students
and postdocs. Presenters will be asked to send a recording of their
talks a week in advance. The videos should not exceed 20 mins to allow
for 10 min discussion. The papers should be relatively accessible to a
cross-disciplinary audience and avoid overly technical discussions of
‘in-house’ issues/debates.
Submission Deadline: December 14, 2025
Notifications by: January 17, 2026
Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and include the title of
the paper; they should make clear both the topic and the main
arguments of the paper.
Abstracts should be submitted through the following form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAeRKJZAzldrdDBU5Ul44NYa7U8MzBNOf89hMC7cYVUE808Q/viewform



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