Transformativ: Call for Contributions open until May 15

The Call for Con­tri­bu­tions for the trans­form­at­iv-con­fer­ence, organ­ized by the RHET AI Cen­ter togeth­er with the exper­i­menta Sci­ence Cen­ter in Heil­bronn, has been exten­ded until May 15, 2025.

The RHET AI Cen­ter and the exper­i­menta Sci­ence Cen­ter invite experts from the­or­et­ic­al and prac­tic­al fields of work to share their work on and with Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence. The con­fer­ence is delib­er­ately inter­dis­cip­lin­ary and we invite experts from all dis­cip­lines and prac­tic­al pro­fes­sion­al fields that deal with arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to participate.

Experts can place their top­ic in one of these four tracks:

Track 1: Nar­rat­ives and Imagineries

The first track dis­cusses ideas, approaches, and visu­al worlds related to AI, traces their impact on tech­no­logy and soci­ety, and advances research perspectives.

Track 2: Access and Competencies

The second track con­cen­trates on the acquis­i­tion and teach­ing of skills for the hol­ist­ic applic­a­tion of and crit­ic­al reflec­tion on AI. 

Track 3: Strategies and Ideas

The third track focuses on indi­vidu­al and soci­et­al strategies for address­ing the chal­lenges of new types of AI systems.

Track 4: Per­suas­ive Sys­tems and Power Relations

In this track, we seek to devel­op a shared under­stand­ing of the com­plex web of polit­ic­al, cul­tur­al, eco­nom­ic, and tech­no­lo­gic­al struc­tures that make up AI systems.

In Tracks 1–3 the present­a­tions and dis­cus­sions will be done mostly in Ger­man, while Track 4 is spe­cific­ally reserved for inter­na­tion­al per­spect­ives with its main lan­guage being Eng­lish. How­ever, it is pos­sible to sub­mit present­a­tions in Eng­lish for Tracks 1–3, too.

Pos­sible formats to sub­mit are present­a­tions, prob­lem pitches or pan­el dis­cus­sions.

The Call for Con­tri­bu­tions is avail­able for Download.

Ven­ues: exper­i­menta and Bildung­scam­pus Heil­bronn (Aula/auditorium

Dur­a­tion of the event: Thursday, 04 Decem­ber 2025 (after­noon) to Sat­urday, 06 Decem­ber 2025 (noon)