[Rdf-internal] FW: JIT workshop : "Futuring: ‘Digital’ Futures as a Novel Site of Inquiry and Imagination”

[Bernd Stahl (staff)]

For info

From: Dirk Hovorka <dirk.hovorka at sydney.edu.au>
Sent: 08 December 2025 03:36
To: muellerb <muellerb at uni-bremen.de>; edavidso <edavidso at hawaii.edu>; Chiasson, Mike (MGMT) <mike.chiasson at ubc.ca>
Subject: JIT workshop : "Futuring: ‘Digital’ Futures as a Novel Site of Inquiry and Imagination”

Dear  JIT “digital futures” authors,

Thank you all for responding to the informal polling regarding your attendance at ICIS 2025.

The vast majority of authors indicate they would be attending online. At what is a very busy time of year, it also became inordinately challenging to coordinate the SEs and provide a substantive workshop within the intricacies of ICIS scheduling.

We have made the difficult decision to delay until early January and provide the workshop entirely online in two sessions to accommodate time zones.   We are tentatively scheduling this in the range of January 5-10 (when two of the SEs will at least be in the same time zone!)

As you continue to work toward the SI submission deadline of Feb 15, please refer to the special issue CfP (attached) as you consider your approach and claimed contribution. We are aware that these are quite broad criteria  - we are indeed calling for new approaches and thinking that will help the IS field better engage futures as a result of present activity, as a method with which to engage with present activity and as a site of inquiry on its own terms.

We will inform you of dates/time as soon as we finalize plans and we hope you will be able to join us virtually. Please distribute this to your author teams – I apologize to those whose emails I did not capture for the list.

Best Regards,

Dirk (for the SEs)


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Dirk S. Hovorka
Professor of Systems and Design
University of Sydney
NSW, 2006 AU
T +61 2 9351 2949
Senior Editor/Research Perspectives
Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS)
2018 BGS Professor of the Year
http://sydney.edu.au/business/staff/dirkho<https://webmail.sydney.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=ih8ggEa0AvdCkhgiAZ4-qvl2q3lNSZ3RGfXpphUpWUR02iAlS8DTCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fsydney.edu.au%2fbusiness%2fstaff%2fdirkho>

Speculatively Engaging Futures: Four Theses<https://misq.umn.edu/misq/article-abstract/45/1/461/1824/Speculatively-Engaging-Future-s-Four-Theses1?redirectedFrom=fulltext>
DESRIST 2026: https://desrist2026.org/tracks/<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ptJOCxngwOfRG3vEvtqs3CyuUMP?domain=desrist2026.org/>

From: Dirk Hovorka
Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2025 9:45 PM
To: muellerb <muellerb at uni-bremen.de<mailto:muellerb at uni-bremen.de>>; edavidso <edavidso at hawaii.edu<mailto:edavidso at hawaii.edu>>; Chiasson, Mike (MGMT) <mike.chiasson at ubc.ca<mailto:mike.chiasson at ubc.ca>>
Subject: Gauging Interest in JIT "Digital Futures" workshop at ICIS (hybrid)?

Dear “Futuring”  Abstract Authors,

ICIS is fast approaching, and I have received several inquiries about the proposed JIT workshop for the Special Issue “Futuring: ‘Digital’ Futures as a Novel Site of Inquiry and Imagination”.

ICIS this year has presented a variety of access issues for authors and the Senior Editors. In discussing the options with the JIT -EiC, we have decided to host a short workshop to help you prepare for the submission deadline (Feb 15 2026 plenty of time!)
We what we to provide is  clarity of the types of contributions we hope to receive and expand on the brief feedback we sent out on each of your extended abstracts. We are hoping to provide insights on the challenges of writing and assessing this type of work but only one of the SEs is attending ICIS so we are unsure what exactly we will be covering.

Due to the situation with travel, we will try to do this in a hybrid mode (details to be worked out) --- that will pose time challenges for some people who are in other parts of the world.
To help with this planning, could you please let me know if you are :

  1.  Attending ICIS in person
  2.  Would join a hybrid workshop (if the timing allows)?

We are planning this in a PRE-conference timeframe (Dec 13 or 14), and I am negotiating with ICIS to find a time/space. I realize that without a firm time/ date it is not possible for you to commit, but I am trying to gauge interest before I involve too many more people. Please let me know ASAP and I will get back to you with further details.

Also – please help by informing your author teams – I could not recover all emails from a computer issue that has been – difficult. Apologies to those left off.

Regards,

Dirk


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Dirk S. Hovorka
Professor of Systems and Design
University of Sydney
NSW, 2006 AU
T +61 2 9351 2949
Senior Editor/Research Perspectives
Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS)
2018 BGS Professor of the Year
http://sydney.edu.au/business/staff/dirkho<https://webmail.sydney.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=ih8ggEa0AvdCkhgiAZ4-qvl2q3lNSZ3RGfXpphUpWUR02iAlS8DTCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fsydney.edu.au%2fbusiness%2fstaff%2fdirkho>

Speculatively Engaging Futures: Four Theses<https://misq.umn.edu/misq/article-abstract/45/1/461/1824/Speculatively-Engaging-Future-s-Four-Theses1?redirectedFrom=fulltext>
DESRIST 2026: https://desrist2026.org/tracks/<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ptJOCxngwOfRG3vEvtqs3CyuUMP?domain=desrist2026.org/>

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