[iva] [HRI][meetings][CFP] Call for Contributions - GenR 2022 Workshop @RO-MAN 2022 - Gendering Robots: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics

[Giulia Perugia]

Dear Colleagues,


Apologies for any cross-posting.


We are glad to invite contributions for the 2nd Edition of the GenR
Workshop (*GenR 2022*) *Gendering Robots: Intersectional Feminist
Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics* which will be held as part of
the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive
Communication (RO-MAN 2022) on August 29th, 2022 in hybrid form.

This year we do not invite full papers but contributions in many different
formats - e.g., text, videos, pictorials, images (deadline: June 24th). We
would like potential contributors to describe their out of the box ideas,
visions, and reflections on the topic of the workshop in the format they
prefer.


Below, you can find our call for contributions, as well as the link to our
website and the submission form.


Feel free to contact us if you have any questions and to circulate the call
within your network.
Kindest regards,

Giulia Perugia


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[CFP] Call for Contributions - GenR 2022 Workshop @RO-MAN 2022 - Gendering
Robots: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics [
website <https://sites.google.com/view/ro-man-genr-workshop/home>]

This year’s GenR workshop aims to provide a space for collaborative
discussion, critical reflection, and creativity to find opportunities to
break with normative research practices in robotics methodology and robot
design from an intersectional perspective.

Our spotlight theme for this year’s workshop is Intersectional Feminism.
Kimberle Crenshaw first introduced intersectionality as a term to describe
the discriminatory effects of race and gender, which cannot be understood
in isolation as they amplify and resonate with each other. Crenshaw and
other feminists have since developed intersectionality as a framework to
understand the interaction of social markers such as gender, race, class,
disability, and their effects on social phenomena. The HRI literature has
extensively shown that social robots, especially humanoid ones, are exposed
to the same social categorisation processes that affect humans. The
integration of social robots in the political dimensions and social
categories of society demands a deeper engagement with their potential
dangers and opportunities.

Instead of a regular call for papers, the GenR 2022 workshop team invites
contributions describing ambitious, out of the box ideas to break with
normative practices in Social Robotics and HRI, as well as creative visions
for the future of social robotics and critical reflections about its
present from an intersectional lens.

We invite you to submit EITHER a one-page written submission describing an
idea, reflection, or vision (no template or pre-defined format), OR a media
(i.e., short 5-min videos, pictorial, drawing, sketch, design) depicting an
idea, reflection, or vision in a more artistic way. We do not set any limit
to creativity, but rather invite you to experiment!

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

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   Gendering practices in social robotics
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   Intersectional feminist robotics
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   Robot’s gender design
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   Norm-critical design
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   Queer design in HRI
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   Sex Robots
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   Ethics of gendered robots
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   Societal implications and applications of gendered robots
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   Performative arts encompassing a reflection on gender in robotics
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   LGBTQIA+ perspectives on robot gender
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   Marginalised perspectives on gender in HRI
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   Queering Robots
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   Queer identities in HRI
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   Black in Robotics
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   Race in Robotics
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   Disability in Robotics
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   Research methods to foster gender diversity in HRI studies
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   Critical design of gendered robots


Important dates

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   June 24th - submission deadline
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   August 5th - notification of selection
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   August 29th - workshop day (morning CEST)


Written and media contributions can be submitted at the following link
<https://htionline.tue.nl/limesurvey2/index.php/999913?lang=en>

Submissions will be checked for alignment to the workshop’s themes and goals.
In case we receive more submissions than we can showcase, we will perform a
light review of the contributions. The selected contributors will be
invited to participate in round table sessions or spotlight presentations
on the day of the workshop.

Organisers

Dr. Giulia Perugia, Eindhoven University of Technology, g.perugia at tue.nl

Dr. Katie Winkle, Uppsala University, katie.winkle at it.uu.se

Dominika Lisy, Linköping University, dominika.lisy at liu.se

Dr. Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, Potsdam University,
paetzel-pruesmann at uni-potsdam.de
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