37.18, FYI: Call for Abtracts: Artificial Intelligence: Exploring New Paradigms and Conceptual Challenges for Social and Human Disciplines

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Subject: 37.18, FYI: Call for Abtracts: Artificial Intelligence: Exploring New Paradigms and Conceptual Challenges for Social and Human Disciplines

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Date: 27-Dec-2025
From: Manuel Macías-Borrego [manuel.macias at urjc.es]
Subject: Call for Abtracts: Artificial Intelligence: Exploring New Paradigms and Conceptual Challenges for Social and Human Disciplines


Artificial Intelligence: Exploring New Paradigms and Conceptual
Challenges for Social and Human Disciplines, Vernon Press
Submission and Contact: manuel.macias at urjc.es
Edited by: Dr. Manuel Macías Borrego, Dr. Jaime Oliveros García, and
Dr. María Cornejo Núñez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain).
We invite contributions for an upcoming interdisciplinary edited
volume tentatively titled Artificial Intelligence: Exploring New
Paradigms and Conceptual Challenges for Social and Human Disciplines,
to be published by Vernon Press in 2026.
This volume seeks to explore the profound conceptual and social
transformations introduced by artificial intelligence (AI) and to
examine their implications for the humanities and social sciences. We
aim to bring together scholars from diverse fields—sociology,
philosophy, linguistics, education, cultural studies, political
theory, and beyond—to address how AI is reshaping foundational
categories such as agency, knowledge, communication, and the human
condition itself.
AI systems are now deeply woven into social life: they classify,
recommend, diagnose, predict, and decide. These systems challenge
long-held distinctions between human and non-human agency, subject and
object, and theory and practice. This project responds to that
challenge by inviting theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary
reflections that help reimagine the social sciences and humanities in
an age of intelligent machines.
We invite contributions that engage with, but are not limited to, the
following thematic areas:
1. AI and the Human and Social Sciences
- Reconceptualizing agency and intentionality in human–machine
assemblages.
- Revisiting classical social theory (e.g., Weber, Durkheim, Marx,
Foucault) in the context of algorithmic decision-making.
- Posthumanism and critical data studies: beyond “the human” in the
social sciences.
- Knowledge and epistemology in the age of machine learning and opaque
inference.
2. AI in Interdisciplinary Approaches
- Cross-disciplinary dialogues between computer science, philosophy,
linguistics, sociology, and education.
- The role of AI in language and meaning: translation, communication,
and interpretation.
- AI and pedagogy.
- Methodological innovation: combining empirical and theoretical
lenses.
3. AI in Social Human–Machine Interaction
- AI in education: ethical, pedagogical, and cognitive implications.
- AI and language: authorship, creativity, and communicative agency.
- Translation and linguistic diversity in AI-mediated environments.
- AI in healthcare, welfare, and public service: reconfiguring trust,
empathy, and judgment.
- Global and cultural perspectives on AI: inclusion, inequality, and
digital justice.
We particularly welcome contributions from scholars across different
cultural, linguistic, and geographical contexts to ensure a global and
plural understanding of AI’s social and ethical implications.
Submission Details
- Abstract length: Up to 500 words (including references)
- Submission deadline: February 28th, 2026.
- Notification of acceptance: By 15th January 15, 2026
- Full Chapters: 31st May 2026.
Please include with your submission:
- Author name(s) and institutional affiliation(s)
- Email address
- A short biographical note (100–150 words)
Submission and Contact: manuel.macias at urjc.es

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Language Acquisition
                     Pragmatics
                     Translation

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)




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