Dear NoC colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the call for proposals for We Robot 2020 that will be hosted at uOttawa in April 2020 (see below). Deadline for paper proposals is October 7, 2019 (only an abstract is required). Best, Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau Assistant Professor, Common Law Section Director, Centre for Law, Technology and Society University of Ottawa [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7b52b817e6b79d902e8cbaae5/images/c2680569-4732-4a17-b0e8-e1dcaa9ac190.png]uO Centre de recherche en droit, technologie et société Centre for Law, Technology and Society [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7b52b817e6b79d902e8cbaae5/images/a8a2ab3a-a05a...] CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND ART INSTALLATIONS We are pleased to invite submissions for We Robot 2020, the 9th annual robotics law, ethics and policy conference, to be held at the University of Ottawa, Canada, on April 2–4, 2020. Download the We Robot 2020 Call for Proposals in PDF<https://uottawa.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b52b817e6b79d902e8cbaae5...> Deadline for papers extended to October 7, 2019! WeRobot Heads North! On April 2-4, 2020, We Robot will head north to Canada, and will be hosted by the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa. (On April 1st, a special event will be organized; details below). We Robot 2020 welcomes diverse contributions from academics, practitioners, and other thinkers. We Robot fosters inclusive conversations between people conceptualizing, designing, building, and deploying robots, and those designing or influencing our sociotechnical reality. We strongly encourage submissions from both emerging and established researchers and people from non-traditional backgrounds. We emphasize that We Robot seeks submissions from a wide range of disciplines and encourages interdisciplinary authorship and collaborations between developers of robotics, AI, and related technologies, and researchers in the humanities, social sciences, ethics, and law and policy. We Robot builds on a growing body of scholarship exploring how the increasing sophistication and autonomous decision-making capabilities of robots—and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, to the battlefield—disrupts existing legal regimes and social institutions, or requires rethinking policy and governance issues. We invite proposals for the following: papers; posters; and technical demonstrations or art installations. The conference website is at http://techlaw.uottawa.ca/werobot<https://uottawa.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b52b817e6b79d902e8cbaae5&id=16ba12458d&e=7254caecfd>. The submission portal will be available starting August 1, 2019 on EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wr2020<https://uottawa.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b52b817e6b79d902e8cbaae5&id=af78051e5e&e=7254caecfd> The full call for proposals is available at: https://techlaw.uottawa.ca/werobot/call-for-proposals<https://uottawa.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b52b817e6b79d902e8cbaae5&id=aac3b925b7&e=7254caecfd> Questions: All questions regarding this call for proposals should be directed to We Robot 2020 co-chairs (Drs. Martin-Bariteau and Millar) at wr2020@easychair.org<mailto:wr2020@easychair.org>. CELEBRATING DR. IAN R. KERR [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7b52b817e6b79d902e8cbaae5/images/b4412b93-7b66...] The Ian R. Kerr Memorial Fund<https://uottawa.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b52b817e6b79d902e8cbaae5...> Our community is devastated by the passing of Dr. Ian R. Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology at the University of Ottawa. 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