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CFP: Third Annual Immersive Technologies and Cultural Heritage (ITCH) Symposium
by Curtis Fletcher 25 Sep '25

25 Sep '25

We invite proposals for the third annual Immersive Technologies and Cultural Heritage (ITCH) Symposium, jointly organized by the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences; the Ahmanson Lab of the Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study in the USC Libraries; and the UCLA XR Initiative. The ITCH symposium will take place as a live, in-person event on Friday, November 14, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. We seek innovative projects rooted in the humanities or humanistic social sciences that mobilize immersive technologies (including but not limited to augmented reality, mixed reality, virtual reality, photogrammetry, or 3D modeling) to enable close engagement with cultural heritage materials, or to open new possibilities for research, teaching, and learning with cultural heritage materials. We welcome work at any stage of development, with preference for projects that have at least completed a proof-of-concept, working prototype, or other early-stage exploratory development. We particularly seek projects working at the intersection of digital technologies and the liberal arts. In the interest of building a regional scholarly community, we will give priority to proposals from greater Southern California. Participants will: * Pre-circulate materials related to their current project two weeks prior to the symposium (e.g., a draft article, website, VR/AR experience, 3D model). * Give a 10-15-minute presentation summarizing their project’s context, goals, and implications for humanities scholarship at the symposium. * Offer comments, feedback, and questions on other participants’ projects. * Participate in a concluding roundtable discussion of the promise and perils of immersive technologies for humanities research, teaching, and learning. Workshop discussions will foreground humanities questions, interdisciplinary elements, and user experience in project development. To apply, send a single PDF document containing the project or presentation title; the name, title, and affiliation of each presenter; a 300-word abstract describing the project; any relevant URLs; and a one-page CV for each presenter to digitalhumanities(a)usc.edu<mailto:[email protected]> by end-of-day on Monday, October 13, 2025. Contact Us: Send questions to digitalhumanities(a)usc.edu<mailto:[email protected]> ITCH Organizers Francesca Albrezzi, Digital Research Specialist and Manager of the GIS and Visualization Research Technology Group, Office of Advanced Research Computing, UCLA falbrezzi(a)ucla.edu<mailto:[email protected]> Mats Borges, Assistant Director, USC Ahmanson Lab, mdborges(a)usc.edu<mailto:[email protected]> Amy Braden, Director of Programs, USC–Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute abraden(a)usc.edu<mailto:[email protected]> Lauren Dodds, Project Specialist, USC–Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute ldodds(a)usc.edu<mailto:[email protected]> Curtis Fletcher, Director, USC Ahmanson Lab, cfletche(a)usc.edu<mailto:[email protected]> Sean Fraga, Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Environmental Studies and History, USC; project director, Booksnake, sfraga(a)usc.edu<mailto:[email protected]> Joy Guey, Emerging Technologies Advocate and Bridge Innovation Studio Director, Social Sciences Center for Education, Research, and Technology, UCLA, jguey(a)ucla.edu<mailto:[email protected]> Curtis Fletcher, Ph.D. Director of the Ahmanson Lab Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study USC Libraries Ahmanson Lab | Web<https://polymathic.usc.edu/ahmanson-lab> | Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/ahmansonlab/> | Google Maps<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ahmanson+Lab/@34.021805,-118.2855569,17z/…>

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Call for Applications – EADH Small Grants 2025–2026
by Mariangela Distilo 25 Sep '25

25 Sep '25

Dear EADH community, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new round of *EADH Small Grants (2025–2026)*. These grants are intended to support a wide range of activities, from organizing research-related events such as seminars or workshops, to covering travel expenses for collaborative work or for consulting collections in galleries, libraries, archives, or museums. They can also provide support for research time on new or ongoing projects, or for the purchase of equipment and software licenses directly related to a project. A maximum of five grants of *€1,000 each* will be awarded. The call is open to all current EADH members and members of our Associate Organizations (AIUCD, CzADH, DHd, DHNB), and we particularly encourage early-career researchers to apply. The *deadline* for applications is *16 November 2025 (23:59 CET)*. *Full details about the call and the application process can be found* *here <https://eadh.org/news/2025/09/23/call-eadh-small-grants-2025-2026>.* We warmly invite members of our community to apply and share this opportunity within your networks. Best regards, Mariangela Distilo EADH Communications Manager

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Call for Papers: CCLS2026, Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies
by Peer Trilcke 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that the „Journal of Computational Literary Studies“ (JCLS) has launched its Call for Papers for our conference+journal track for CCLS2026, the 5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, from May 28-29, 2026, at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Deadline for submissions: January 8, 2026 Submissions open: starting November 3, 2025. All the details of the call can be found on our website at https://jcls.io/site/cfp/. We are looking forward to your submissions! Please feel free to contact us at info(a)jcls.io if you have any questions regarding the submission process or the journal more generally and make sure to follow JCLS on Mastodon or Bluesky for updates. All the best Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke Journal of Computational Literary Studies https://jcls.io E-Mail: info(a)jcls.io Editors: Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke Editorial Assistants: Svenja Guhr, Julian Häußler, Élodie Ripoll, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje Board: Katherine Bode, Anne-Sophie Bories, Amy E. Earhart, Maciej Eder, Miguel Escobar Varela, Martin Eve, Frank Fischer, José Eduardo González, Natalie M. Houston, Fotis Jannidis, Mike Kestemont, Erik Ketzan, Anouk Lang, David Mimno, Borja Navarro, Roxana Patras, Federico Pianzola, Glenn Roe, Richard Jean So, Tomoji Tabata, Ted Underwood, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Paul Vierthaler

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KCL DDH The Digital Conference • Call for papers
by Andrea Ballatore 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

KCL DDH The Digital Conference • CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital (23-26 June 2026) From the 23rd to 26th June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly shaped by digital technologies. Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Centre for Computing Humanities officially becoming a department of KCL, and 15th anniversary of being renamed as Department of Digital Humanities in 2011, we welcome scholars from around the world to critically reflect on what ‘digital’ entails in today’s world. Digital technologies have transformed the ways we live, work, create, and connect. From online grassroots movements to open-source tools, from digital archives to experimental art and music created with code, the digital has become a vital part of how we express ourselves, tell stories, and shape our futures. In our daily lives, the digital enables new forms of community and care, especially for those historically excluded from institutional or geographic centres of power. But these same technologies have also raised urgent questions. There is a growing concern across various disciplines and communities. Recent political, environmental and technological developments have shown that we cannot afford to treat “the digital” as neutral. It is shaped by geographies, specificities, regulatory environments, sociocultural contexts, and linguistic hierarchies, which condition how digital technologies are produced, used, and experienced across the globe. From the resurgence of extremist ideologies and algorithmic manipulation of public discourse, to the exploitative dynamics of platform economies and the environmental costs of large-scale computing, the digital now permeates nearly every aspect of our lives. Artificial intelligence is being used against workers, stealing their creative outputs and triggering a race to the bottom of working conditions. In addition to the socio-political impact of generative AI models, the deleterious environmental effects are also becoming increasingly clear. At the same time, computational and digital methods have enabled new forms of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and public-facing humanities research. They are reshaping not only our methodological choices but also how we conceptualise methods themselves—prompting us to revisit questions of reliability and reproducibility. These methods offer powerful tools for analysis, visualisation, preservation, and dissemination, while also enriching humanities scholarship by scaling up our analyses and opening up new avenues of inquiry. Unlike the underlying code, “the digital” is never binary. This is why, more than ever, we need to come together to discuss and debate its implications. There is a long tradition of critical research on digital methods and other issues concerning “the digital” at King’s, dating back to the early 1970s. The Department of Digital Humanities, established as the Centre for Computing in the Humanities in 1992, has been a key site for this work. Today it is home to a wide range of approaches to developing and applying digital methods in the humanities, as well as to interrogating the broader social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of the digital. Building on over fifty years of innovation and critical inquiry, this event invites scholars, practitioners, and communities to reflect on the role of Digital Humanities as both a methodological practice and a lens to understand and shape the digital world. We invite proposals that explore (but are not limited to) the following themes: * Computational humanities and computing culture: computational history, music computing, geoanalytics, digital classics, computational linguistics, computational social science, cultural analytics, computational literary studies * Creative digital practice and the arts, music and the digital, arts-based methods * Design, Interfaces, and Interaction: UX/UI * Digital ecologies, environmental justice and sustainable digital futures * Digital gaming and play * Digital health, digital care, and transformation of the care industry * Digital knowledge and epistemologies and critical technical practices and digital methods * Digital labour and economies, platform studies * Digital media * Digital Research Infrastructures and funding * Embodiment and identity: the digital and the embodied, digital childhood & youth * Global and decolonial digital cultures, digital commons, digital audiences, creator cultures * Politics, power, and resistance in the digital age: digital politics, deplatformisation, the digital university, engaged digital research We welcome contributions from across the humanities and beyond, from those who use and interrogate digital tools and those who develop them. We invite proposals for paper presentations (max. 15 mins) and panels (max. 4 x 15 mins) with a title and an abstract of no longer than 300 words, along with a short biography, no longer than 50 words. You can submit proposals via THIS FORM until the deadline of 30/09/2025. We aim to notify acceptance of abstracts by 15.11.2025. Please note: The conference will be face-to-face only, with career plenary sessions instead of keynotes (a panel consisting of academics from every stage). We offer a limited number of conference fee waivers, as well as limited numbers of partial bursaries for travel and accommodation. We will provide more information on these and conference fees after acceptance of abstracts have been sent out. For any inquiries, please contact thedigitalconference(a)kcl.ac.uk. Webpage: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digital-humanities-today-critical-inquiry-with… -- Dr Andrea Ballatore Senior Lecturer in Cultural Data Science • HPL/GTA Lead • PGT Coordinator Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London 🗺️ Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/cultural-geo-analytics-lab> • LinkedIn<https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andreaballatore> 🏛️ Mapping Museums Lab<http://mappingmuseumslab.io/> • Computational Humanities RG<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> 📅 Book Office Hours<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/6f04f6db5ec549ac9ba013233d0d8d1e…> • He/him • Research day: Friday Latest publications: Open access in GIScience and geographic data science link<https://aballatore.space/open-access-giscience> A geography of UK museums link<https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12578>

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Save the dates 25. & 26.11.2025 "From Networks to Narratives - Visualization of historical research data" & Gephi Workshop
by Freyberg, Linda 22 Sep '25

22 Sep '25

+++ sorry for cross-posting Dear Colleagues please save the dates for our two-part event taking place on 25 and 26 November 2025 in Berlin. The Digital History of Education Lab (DHELab) of BBF | Research Library for the History of Education at DIPF cordially invites you to attend two events in November: Tuesday, 25 November 2025: We will host evening presentations on the topic "From Networks to Narratives: Visualization of Historical Research Data" from 6 to 8 p.m. Tomas Vancisi (University of Edinburgh), Florian Windhager (University for Continuing Education Krems), and Mathieu Jacomy (Aalborg University) will present their current research and discuss innovative approaches to the visualization of historical data. The event will conclude with drinks and snacks. Wednesday, 26 November 2025: We will offer a hands-on workshop (approximately 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) on the visualization software Gephi, led by Mathieu Jacomy, creator of Gephi. Venue: Both events will take place at BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Warschauer Str. 34, 10243 Berlin Registration is now available via email to dhelab(a)dipf.de<mailto:[email protected]>. Please indicate whether you would like to participate in the evening event, the workshop, or both. Please note that the workshop attendance is limited. A detailed programme and further information will be published by the beginning of October. We look forward to welcoming you to Berlin! Best, DHELab-Team Dr. Linda Freyberg - Raum 244 - Mail: l.freyberg(a)dipf.de Tel.: 030-293360-684 ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4620-7571 Digital History of Education Co-Head DHELab https://bbf.dipf.de/de/dhelab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BBF | Research Library for the History of Education at DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education Warschauer Str. 34 10243 Berlin

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Conference: Open Science in History. From Enlightenment to Artificial Intelligence
by Enrico Natale 22 Sep '25

22 Sep '25

Dear list members, We are pleased to invite you to the 17th annual infoclio.ch conference, organised this year in cooperation with OpenEdition Lab: Open Science in History - From Enlightenment to Artificial Intelligence <https://www.infoclio.ch/en/programm-tagung2025> Open Science challenges researchers with increasingly complex decisions regarding the sharing of their research results, methods, tools, and data. The infoclio.ch Conference 2025 explores the intellectual and technical precursors of Open Science and discusses the practical challenges of its implementation in the age of generative artificial intelligence models. Date and place: 21 November 2025 in Bern (Switzerland) The programme is available in English online <https://www.infoclio.ch/en/programm-tagung2025> or in PDF format <https://www.infoclio.ch/sites/default/files/eventdocs/6-3_english_Programm-…>. Registration <https://www.infoclio.ch/en/registration> is now open. Online participation is possible on request only. See also the series of blog posts <https://www.infoclio.ch/en/node/190093> on Open Science developments in Switzerland and beyond. We look forward to welcoming you to Bern next November for this event. Best regards, The infoclio.ch and OpenEdition Lab teams infoclio.ch Gutenbergstrasse 37 3011 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 Colloque infoclio.ch 2025: Open Science in History Berne, 21 nov. 2025 Programme <https://www.infoclio.ch/programme-colloque2025> / Inscription <https://www.infoclio.ch/fr/inscription> infoclio.ch-Tagung 2025: Open Science in History Bern, 21. Nov. 2025 Programm <https://www.infoclio.ch/de/programm-tagung2025> / Anmeldung <https://www.infoclio.ch/de/anmeldung>

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[ADHO] Calls for open positions
by Nadezhda Povroznik 18 Sep '25

18 Sep '25

Dear All, *** with apologies for cross-posting *** The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has opened calls for three positions: · *Deputy Chair, Awards Committee* – supporting recognition of outstanding contributions in our field. · *Communications Officer / Deputy Communications Officer* – shaping ADHO’s communications and outreach. · *Communications Fellow (2025–2026)* – supporting ADHO’s communication channels and web presence. These are excellent opportunities to engage with colleagues worldwide and contribute to ADHO’s governance and activities. Full details and application information are available here: https://adho.org/jobs/ <https://adho.org/jobs/?utm_source=chatgpt.com> Please consider applying yourself or sharing these calls with your networks. Best wishes, Nadezhda Povroznik, ADHO Communications Officer --- Dr. Nadezhda Povroznik Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Humanities Data Science and Methodology Institut für Geschichte Technische Universität Darmstadt Communication Officer, ADHO Editor, Journal of Digital History Associate-Editor, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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Deadline extension, Text Affects conference (16-18 December)
by Francesca.Benatti [she/her] 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Dear EADH list members, Just a reminder that the deadline for the Text Affects: The Future of Intelligence conference has been extended to 6 October. *****[CFP] Reminder: Text Affects 2025 - DEADLINE EXTENDED 6 OCTOBER 2025 ***** ************************************************************************ Text Affects 2025 16-18 December 2025, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy https://digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects/ Deadline: 15 September 2025 23.59 AOE ************************************************************************ Important Dates - Submission: 6 October 2025 AoE (early submissions encouraged) - Acceptance: 4 weeks after submission • Conference 16-18 December 2025 Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=AFFECTS/2025 Call for Papers Text Affects brings together diverse scholarly communities that share a common interest in the creation, use and effects of text. The conference integrates different disciplinary perspectives with the aim of building a unified interdisciplinary research field. Submissions are encouraged to articulate perspectives from literature, linguistics, philosophy, history, informatics and related fields to address questions about intelligence, creativity, and human experience in the digital era, fostering constructive dialogue among various disciplines and highlighting both unique insights and interdisciplinary synergies. We welcome works at different stages of maturity that will be selected by their novelty and relevance to the Text Affects community. Novelty and relevance will be assessed by the community chairs (senior reviewers). Selected papers will receive a detailed peer review by two experts providing recommendations about improvements and presentation at Text Affects. Proposals must be submitted through the OpenReview portal (Text Affects 2025 Venue https://openreview.net/group?id=AFFECTS/2025) open from the 31st of March 2025. As for different stages of maturity, we accept contributions from extended abstracts to short or full papers (2, 6 or 12 pages + references) using the conference template (*author instructions*). The submission deadline is 15 September 2025 but we encourage early submissions as review will be carried out as soon as the paper is received and results notified in three weeks from submission. The topic of this edition is the future of intelligence, a call to reflect on how Text Affects contribute to the development and expression of human and artificial intelligence. Contributions should follow one of the three suggested pathways and inspirational tracks: 1. Intelligence (in text affects) This pathway explores the concept of intelligence—human and artificial—through its narrative, linguistic, and emotional dimensions. It also examines the interplay between humans and machines in text creation and reception, highlighting their collaborative potential and evolving dynamics. It focuses on how texts, both traditional and digital, can be analysed to understand the relationship between creativity, intelligence, and human-technological collaboration. - Literature, Linguistics, and Book History a. Defining intelligence in humans and machines from literary, linguistic, or technological perspectives b. Human-machine interaction and collaboration in text production and reception (historical and synchronic perspectives) c. Linguistic diversity and creativity in machine communication - Sensemaking and Creativity a. Exploring the co-creation of meaning between humans and machines in interpretative processes b. Analysing the impact of linguistic technologies on redefining hermeneutic intelligence c. Bridging computational tools with traditional close reading practices 2. Aesthetics (in text affects) This pathway examines the transformation of aesthetics and cultural experiences in the digital age, including new forms of literature, such as interactive digital storytelling, art, like augmented reality installations, and interactive design seen in narrative-driven video games. It focuses on the aesthetics of digitalisation and curatorial practices, exploring how technology shapes human engagement and the ways cultural and artistic works are consumed. - Phenomenology and Digital Aesthetics a. The transition to born-digital texts and non-linear forms of art and literature b. Modelling user engagement as a facet of human experience c. Digital curatorial practices focusing on aesthetics and interactivity - Hypertext, Electronic Literature, and Games a. The role of hypertexts, digital fiction, and narrative-driven games in challenging or expanding our understanding of intelligence and creativity b. Documenting and analysing non-textual digital artefacts (e.g., tech-demoscene products, machinima) c. Exploring interactive design and game mechanics as models of intelligence and creativity - Cultural Heritage a. Associations between art and text and their role in democratising cultural appreciation b. New technologies supporting the integration of paintings, music, and poetry in digital collections c. Curating and preserving interactive and multimedia narratives 3. Benefits (in text affects) This pathway addresses the role of media and digital technologies in personal and social wellbeing. It also considers issues related to the preservation and accessibility of digital texts, such as ensuring equitable access and long-term cultural sustainability. It includes case studies on how technologies positively impact the social fabric, alongside reflections on preserving emerging digital knowledge forms for future generations. - Positive Intelligent Media a. The role of media technologies and AI in wellbeing and personal and social growth b. Real-life case studies of digital health and wellbeing applications c. Unexpected negative effects of media technologies on individuals and communities - Digital Publishing, Libraries, and Archives Analysis of born-digital texts and emerging digital formats Multimodal, accessible, and inclusive approaches to digital literacy Archival and preservation strategies for digital-only genres and formats Submission deadline: 6 October 2025 Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=AFFECTS/2025 Best regards, Francesca Francesca Benatti (she/her), Senior Research Fellow in Digital Humanities Department of English and Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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CFP - Conference on radio and newspapers
by Martin Grandjean 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, The Impresso project and the History Department of the University of Lausanne are organising an international conference in June 2026 on the history of radio and newspapers. As these archives are increasingly digitized, we are very interested in digital/computational contributions that offer analyses of these two media together. You can find the call for papers on the following website (in French and English): https://impresso.github.io/radio-and-newspapers-conference/<https://impresso.github.io/radio-and-newspapers-conference> Submission deadline: November 10, 2025 All the best, Martin Grandjean, for the organisers IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Dr. Martin GRANDJEAN Senior Researcher UNIL (Switzerland) Impresso project ——————————————————— Vice-director of NUCLEUS, the Digital Humanities Center of the Faculty of Arts, UNIL ——————————————————— Web: https://www.martingrandjean.ch/

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UK DARIAH Day: 7 November 2025
by Jessica Witte 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, The 2025 UK DARIAH Day will be held at the University of Edinburgh on Friday 7 November. All researchers, practitioners, and infrastructure providers in Digital Humanities in the UK are welcome. We also invite contributions to the Lunchtime Showcase – please indicate interest when registering. The programme will include keynotes, panels, a lunchtime project showcase, and a hands-on futures workshop led by Jen Ross and Melissa Terras. The full programme and registration form can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dariah-day-2025-tickets-1537559875979. Attendance is free, but registration is essential. The event is organised by the UK cooperating partners of the DARIAH European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC): the Universities of Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter and Leeds; Kings College London; and the School of Advanced Study, University of London. DARIAH ERIC enhances and supports digitally enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. Kind regards, Jessica Witte The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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