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Umanistica Digitale 23 (2026): special issue Digital Latin. Computational Infrastructures for Research on Latin Language and Literature
by Fabio Ciotti 29 May '26

29 May '26

[Aplogies for cross posting] Dear Colleagues, the latest issue of *Umanistica Digitale, 23 (2026), has been published. This special issue contains the proceedings of the international workshop *Digital Latin 2* (Siena, 4–6 June 2025), entitled "Digital Latin. Computational Infrastructures for Research on Latin Language and Literature”. The volume opens with an overview of major digital infrastructures and platforms for research on Latin language and philology, including LaLaLexiT, ALIM (Archivio della latinità italiana del Medioevo), SERICA, CLARIN-IT, DigiLibLT, The Latin Text Archive, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Digital Latin Library, Hyperbase, Mirabile Digital Library, Corpus Corporum, ELA (Eurasian Latin Archive), Musisque Deoque, Collatinus, Lexicon, Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum, and RAMMSES. The issue also presents ongoing research projects and introduces several new digital tools currently under development. A second section gathers peer-reviewed contributions devoted to case studies in textual and linguistic research whose methodologies and results have been improved, expanded, or made possible through the use of these tools. The third edition of the Workshop, dedicated to the use of artificial intelligence in lexical studies and lexicography, will take place in Siena at the Santa Chiara Lab on 15–16 June 2026. The event is co-sponsored by Università di Siena (Centro Studi Comparati “I Deug-Su”, DFCLAM), Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Università del Piemonte Orientale, and CNR Pisa. Further information is available at Centro Studi Comparati “I Deug-Su”. ------------ Umanistica Digitale accepts proposals on an ongoing basis. The journal publishes original scientific articles (5,000–10,000 words), reviews and reports (1,000–3,500 words), in Italian and English, on all topics and areas of the Digital Humanities. The guidelines for authors and editorial standards are available at the following address: https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/about/submissions Best regards, Fabio Ciotti Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio Editors-in-chair -- Professor Fabio Ciotti Dept. Studi letterari, filosofici e di storia dell’arte University of Roma Tor Vergata Director MA program "Communication and Artificial Intelligence" (ComunIA) Editor-in-Chief, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @fabio-ciotti.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-ciotti/

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Data Science Distinguished Lecture (University of Vienna): David Smith, Northeastern University
by Tara L Andrews 20 May '26

20 May '26

(Apologies for cross-posting) The research network Data Science @ Uni Vienna warmly invites you to attend the Data Science Distinguished Lecture for Summer Semester 2026: Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science 1. June 2026, 5:00pm CET Registration: https://booking.univie.ac.at/dsdl2026/ which will be given by Prof. David Smith of Northeastern University. David Smith is an Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. His interdisciplinary work focuses on natural language processing and computational linguistics, particularly through applications in the humanities and social sciences. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies. Abstract: As suggested by Alison Gopnik and others (e.g., Farrell et al., 2025), large language models and similar AI artifacts are "cultural technologies". Like language and writing—and also bureaucracies, democracies, and markets—AI transforms our relationship to memory and our interactions with each other. More particularly, state-of-the-art models are trained on archives collected from the digitized human record. Model trainers are recreating, intentionally or not, processes for selection, categorization, and source criticism that resemble some archival practices. After surveying some of the consequences of this archival view of AI, this talk will present work from our research group that traces the effects of training data composition on training dynamics and of mixtures of genres on high-level LLM capabilities. I will also discuss the ways in which analyzing large-scale patterns in the human record can help us build better models. Attendance may be in person or online. A link will be circulated a few days before the event to online attendees, and refreshments will be available after the lecture for in-person attendees. Please indicate your mode of attendance during registration. With best wishes, Tara Andrews -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tara L Andrews Digital Humanities Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Wien

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RIDE 21 published: Special issue on Crowd Editions
by Torsten Roeder 18 May '26

18 May '26

Dear colleagues, RIDE 21: Special issue on /Crowd Editions/, has now been published: https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-21/ <https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-21/> This special issue explores participatory approaches in digital scholarly editing and cultural heritage research, focusing on the relationships between crowdsourcing, citizen science, expertise, and editorial workflows. The issue examines how collaborative editorial practices are transforming scholarly editing, archival work, and digital knowledge production. The volume includes reviews and discussions of a broad range of projects and infrastructures: * Christian Erlinger reviews /crowdsourcing.wien/and its participatory approaches to historical source material: https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-21/crowdsourcingwien/ * Sarah Lang examines /The Making and Knowing Project/and the role of collective and tacit knowledge in digital scholarship: https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-21/makingandknowing/ <https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-21/makingandknowing/> * Janosch Förster discusses /What’s on the Menu/, including its significance as a crowdsourcing project and its recent discontinuation: https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-21/whatsonthemenu/ * Lavinia Ferretti and Elisa Nury review the /Papyrological Editor/as a platform-based infrastructure for distributed scholarly expertise: https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-21/papyrieditor/ * Daniel Burckhardt discusses /#everynamecounts/and its transformation from expert platform to citizen science initiative: https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-21/everynamecounts/ The editorial further reflects on the historical development of crowd editing, the role of “accidental editors,” and the changing relationship between human collaboration and automated methods such as OCR, HTR, and generative AI: https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-21/editorial/ All contributions are individually citable via DOI, as is the issue as a whole: https://doi.org/10.18716/ride.a.21 <https://doi.org/10.18716/ride.a.21> With best wishes, Torsten Roeder Martin Prell Anna Busch -- Dr. phil. Torsten Roeder @[email protected] Universität Würzburg Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität (ZPD) Emil-Hilb-Weg 23 97074 Würzburg The Sound of Change: Musikinstrumente im Wandel von Umwelt, Gesellschaft und Digitalität. Melusina Press, 2026. https://doi.org/10.26298/1981-5722-tsoc Pixels & Paper. Hybridität in Computer-Rollenspielen der 1980er Jahre. PAIDIA, 2025. https://paidia.de/pixels-and-paper-hybriditaet-in-computer-rollenspielen-de… Materialität (in) der Digitalität: Digitale Editionen als Hybrid aus Daten und Interface. V&R unipress, 2024. https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.14220/9783737015936.53 D64: Scientific Explorations of Computer Game History. Poly Play, 2024 https://www.polyplay.xyz/D64-Scientific-Explorations-of-Computer-Game-Histo…

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CFP Retooling Intertextuality: Digital Humanities and Textual Scholarship (Paris, 14–15 September 2026)
by Michael Sinatra 13 May '26

13 May '26

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite submissions for the international conference 'Retooling Intertextuality: Digital Humanities and Textual Scholarship’ to be held at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris September 14-15 2026. Full call for participation is below and here (https://modern.huma-num.fr/cfp-retooling-intertextuality/) Happy to field any questions about the event and its subject matter as needed. Many best regards, Glenn Roe, Michael Sinatra, Dario Nicolosi Call for Participation Retooling Intertextuality: Digital Humanities and Textual Scholarship 14–15 September 2026 Salle des Actes, École normale supérieure, Paris From its earliest theoretical formulations, intertextuality has established itself as one of the most productive concepts in literary and cultural studies. From the foundational work of Julia Kristeva (1969) and Roland Barthes (1974) to the synthesising perspectives of Nathalie Piégay-Gros (1996) Tiphaine Samoyault (2010), and Graham Allen (2022), it has sustained critical debate across generations of scholarship. Conceived at times in a narrow sense — focused on the identification of explicit, traceable textual content such as quotations, adaptations, and parodies — and at others in a broader sense encompassing allusions, implicit references, and generic, cultural, or linguistic frameworks, intertextuality remains a theoretically mobile object. The range of possible relations between hypotext and hypertext, as articulated most influentially by Gérard Genette (1982), continues to animate research across diverse corpora, from ancient to contemporary, in both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. In recent years, the digital humanities have lent new momentum to these inquiries. A number of projects have sought to mobilise computational methods, corpus analysis tools, visualisation techniques, and distant reading approaches to study the various forms of intertextuality and textual rewriting. Some researchers have explored parodic rewriting and pastiche, drawing on generative models to produce new instances of these forms (Dinu et al. 2025). Others have applied large-scale citation analysis to illuminate the reception of authors and works (Rosson et al. 2023; Roe 2024; Nicolosi 2026), while several studies have sought to trace textual influences and circulations across linguistic and historical boundaries (Reboul 2022; Gawley 2024). More broadly, as Andrew Coffee and collaborators demonstrated (Coffee et al. 2012; Coffee 2018), digital humanities have contributed to renewing the analytical frameworks for intertextual phenomena, even as their theorisation remains a work in progress. The reflections of Mellerin and Büchler (2017), Forstall and Scheirer (2019), and Baron (2021) have further underscored the need to articulate tools, methods, and concepts more rigorously. Against this backdrop, it seems timely to collectively examine what digital humanities contribute to the study of intertextuality. What do digital tools actually enable in the analysis of quotations, allusions, pastiches, parodies, plagiarism, and more diffuse textual filiations? To what extent do they transform not only our research practices, but also the theoretical categories through which we understand intertextuality, rewriting, and literary influence? What new knowledge do they make possible, and what methodological, hermeneutic, or critical limits do they reveal? This colloquium aims to bring together researchers who draw on digital humanities methods or tools to study intertextuality, textual rewriting, and literary influence, or who wish to reflect on the epistemological effects of these approaches on the definition of their objects of inquiry. It seeks to foster dialogue across empirical work, methodological proposals, theoretical reflection, and critical assessment of digital practices. Topics Proposals may address, among others, one or more of the following areas: - Computational detection and analysis of quotations, adaptations, allusions, pastiches, parodies, or plagiarism; - Intertextual relations in large-scale, multilingual, or diachronic corpora; - Visualisation, mapping, and modelling of textual networks; - Critical reflection on the categories of intertextuality, rewriting, influence, hypertextuality, or literary tradition in the digital age; - Uses of large language models in the analysis, simulation, or production of rewriting phenomena. The colloquium welcomes proposals from a range of disciplines, including literary studies, comparative literature, linguistics, cultural studies, book history, media studies, information science, and digital humanities, as well as contributions at the interface with computer science or natural language processing. Submission Guidelines Proposals of 250–300 words, in French or English, accompanied by a brief bio-bibliographical note indicating institutional affiliation, should be submitted by 1 June 2026 to: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Notification of acceptance will be communicated to authors by 1 July 2026. Presentations, in English or French, should not exceed 20 minutes. The organisers will cover accommodation costs for all invited speakers. Publication of the proceedings is envisaged. The colloquium is organised within the framework of the ERC ModERN project and the L’Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM – UMR 8132 CNRS/ENS), in collaboration with the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) and the Groupe de Recherche sur les Éditions critiques en contexte Numérique (Université de Montréal). Michael Sinatra<https://www.michaelsinatra.org/> | Professeur titulaire et directeur Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN<http://crihn.org/>) Responsable du Groupe de Recherche sur les Éditions critiques en contexte Numérique (GREN<https://gren.openum.ca/>) Responsable de l’option doctorale en Humanités numériques<https://llm.umontreal.ca/programmes-cours/humanites-numeriques/doctorat-en-…>, du microprogramme<https://admission.umontreal.ca/programmes/microprogramme-de-2e-cycle-en-hum…> et de la mineure<https://llm.umontreal.ca/programmes-cours/humanites-numeriques/mineure-en-h…> en HN, Université de Montréal Co-Chair centerNet, An international network of digital humanities centers)

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Call for Associate Editors – Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
by Mariangela Distilo 11 May '26

11 May '26

Dear EADH community, *Digital Scholarship in the Humanities* (DSH) is seeking two Associate Editors to join its editorial team. This is an excellent opportunity for scholars in Digital Humanities to contribute to one of the field’s leading international peer-reviewed journals. The initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of a longer-term appointment following evaluation. The role involves managing peer review workflows, supporting the editorial team, and contributing to the strategic development of the journal. Review of applications will begin on 1 June 2026 and will continue until the positions are filled. The full call is available here: https://eadh.org/news/2026/05/11/associate-editor-positions-2-dsh-digital-s… Best regards, Mariangela Distilo

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Call for Papers – Beyond the Book <15.07.2026>
by Sido Bozan, Joudy 11 May '26

11 May '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions for the 1.5-day workshop “Beyond the Book: Digital Research, Presentation, and Sustainability.” The workshop explores how digital research—especially in the context of non-Latin script languages—can move beyond the constraints of traditional scholarly formats. As computational research increasingly produces data, models, and analytical outputs that cannot be adequately represented through static text, this workshop focuses on a critical pipeline: how digital research is produced, how it is presented, and how it can be sustained over time. Organized by the project Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data, the workshop will feature three thematic sections: * NLP for Non-Latin Scripts: Contributions addressing computational approaches and outputs that challenge conventional scholarly representation. * Digital Scholarly Communication: Work exploring innovative, interactive, and multimodal formats for presenting research. * Sustainability of Digital Scholarship: Practical strategies for maintaining and preserving digital research outputs over time. We particularly welcome submissions grounded in concrete projects, implementations, and experiences, including those that reflect on challenges or failed approaches. Each section will include a keynote, two talks, and a panel discussion. Submission deadline: July 15, 2026 More information and submission details: https://closingthegap.github.io/workshop/ We welcome contributions from researchers, developers, and practitioners in digital humanities, computational linguistics, and related fields. Please feel free to share this call with interested colleagues and networks. Best regards, Joudy Sido Bozan On behalf of CtG Team ___________________________________ Joudy Sido Bozan Research Associate Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data funded by Berlin University Alliance (BUA), directed by Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gruendler Website: https://closingthegap.github.io/ GitHub: https://github.com/closingthegap/closingthegap.github.io Freie Universität Berlin FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Seminar für Arabistik Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin WebEx personal room: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/meet/joudysidobozan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0687-1091

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Call for Applications: Summer School Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions
by Scholger, Walter (walter.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 08 May '26

08 May '26

Dear all, We welcome applications for this year's CLARIAH-AT Summer School on Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions. The summer school will take place from September 21 to 25 at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Graz and is aimed at students and researchers interested in the intersection of digital scholarly editing and machine learning. Please forward this call to anyone who might be interested. More information and how to apply is available at: https://dhgraz.github.io/dse-ml-2026/index.html#call Application Deadline: 15.5.2026 Best wishes, Walter Scholger ____________________________ Walter Scholger Konsortialsprecher, CLARIAH-AT | Consortium Speaker, CLARIAH-AT Institut für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften | Department of Digital Humanities Universität Graz | University of Graz (Austria) Elisabethstraße 59/III, A-8010 Graz E-Mail: walter.scholger(a)uni-graz.at<mailto:[email protected]> tel: +43 (0)316 380-2292 web: https://clariah.at<https://clariah.at/>

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CfA: Novelty and Inequalities in Science (October 8–9, 2026; Prague, Czech Republic)
by Radim Hladik 05 May '26

05 May '26

*NOVELTY AND INEQUALITIES IN SCIENCE* International Research Symposium on Recognizing and Rewarding Novelty in Science October 8–9, 2026; Prague, Czech Republic ------------------------------------------------------------------ Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies <https://stss.flu.cas.cz> at the Czech Academy of Sciences <https://www.avcr.cz> invites prospective participants to submit abstracts for presentation at the international research symposium *Novelty and Inequalities in Science*, to be held in *Prague, Czechia, on October 8-9, 2026*. Call for Abstracts Every entry in the scientific record is expected to deliver a novel contribution to the stock of knowledge. Yet, despite its implied omnipresence, novelty has lately emerged as itself a novel research object in the science of science. This shift compels us to examine the social processes driving novelty to the forefront of scientific inquiry, and whether the concept complements or supplants established notions such as priority or originality. What motivates the current emphasis on novelty? There is an increasing concern that the proportion of truly novel work shrinks despite - or perhaps due to - the exponential growth in scholarly communication. Other explanations point to policy frameworks that prioritize innovation and commercialization, gradually seeping into the research agenda from the outside. But on the inside, the availability of new computational tools and large-scale datasets has also enabled scholars to tackle previously elusive concepts such as novelty. Either way, the question of what counts as novel, and who gets to decide, has acquired fresh urgency. Upon closer look, novelty remains an ambiguous concept. It oscillates between a property of scientific work determinable *ex ante*, at the time of publication, and a process of recognition that can only be retraced *ex post*, susceptible to social prejudice. While novelty is frequently treated as an asset that earns rewards, there are also indications that it acts as a liability subjecting academic careers to penalties from risk aversion. Understanding how funding agencies, peers, and research institutions identify, evaluate, and reward novelty - and whose novel contributions are overlooked - requires a critical interrogation of structural inequalities in the academic field. In this context, the development of algorithmic measures holds the potential to either disentangle novelty from prestige or exacerbate academic audit culture. The symposium aims to provide a collaborative platform to reflect on the recent attention devoted to novelty research and discuss the relationship between novelty and inequalities in science. We welcome empirically grounded contributions driven by computational, network, quantitative, or qualitative methods in disciplines such as the science of science, research on research, scientometrics, and sociology of science. Suggested topics include: - Measuring and recognizing novelty - Inequalities in novelty assessment - Novelty and funding allocation - Risk aversion, gatekeeping, and barriers to novel research - Neglected novelty and delayed recognition - Novelty and interdisciplinarity - Types of novelty in science - Novelty in career trajectories - Novelty and team or epistemic diversity - Policy demands or support for novelty Participants are encouraged to share both accomplished and research-in-progress work for non-archival presentation and debate. To submit an abstract by *June 21, 2026*, find out more details, or get the latest updates, visit https://stss.flu.cas.cz/all/events/novelty2026 or send an inquiry to resfun(a)flu.cas.cz. The organisation of this event has been funded by a grant from the Programme Johannes Amos Comenius under the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008711.

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TOTh 2026 Terminology & Ontology - Call for Participation - Program - Registration - 20th Anniversary Edition
by Christophe Roche 05 May '26

05 May '26

Please share / Merci de diffuser [Apologies for multiple postings] =========================================================================== *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * *TOTh 2026 - Terminology & Ontology: Theories and applications* *The 20th Anniversary Edition of the Longest-Running International Conference on Terminology* University Savoie Mont Blanc (France) *Conference: 4 & 5 June 2026 * http://toth.condillac.org/ *Opening Talk*: https://toth.condillac.org/opening-talk *Conference Program*: http://toth.condillac.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/TOTh_2026_Program_En.p… * **Training session: 2 & 3 June 2026 * "Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Terminology: A Step-by-Step Project Approach" https://toth.condillac.org/training-2026-ai *Registration*: http://toth.condillac.org/registration *Conference Fees*: Student: 25 € - Academic: 75 € - Other/Industrial : 150 € *Training Fees*: Student: 50 € - Academic: 100 € - Other/Industrial : 150 € ===========================================================================

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Reminder: ESU in Digital Humanities 2026 – Apply by 24 May
by Mariangela Distilo 04 May '26

04 May '26

Dear EADH Community, this is a friendly reminder that there is still time to apply for the *European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture and Technology” 2026 (ESU DH 2026)*. The Summer University will take place at the Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in Besançon (France), from *6 to 18 July 2026*. *Applications are open until 24 May 2026!* We are currently at the midpoint of the call and warmly encourage interested colleagues and students to submit their applications. The ESU offers an intensive and interdisciplinary programme including workshops, lectures, project presentations, poster sessions, and panel discussions. At its core are two-week hands-on workshops running in parallel, covering areas such as: - Critical AI and Large Language Models - Distant Reading and Computational Text Analysis - Digital Archives, Cultural Heritage, and Data Curation - Phonology and Sound Analysis - Spatial Humanities and Mapping - Text Encoding and Digital Philology Please note that applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so early submission is recommended—especially for those who may need to arrange visas or travel. More information and application: https://esudh.github.io For inquiries: esudh2026(a)umlp.fr We would greatly appreciate it if you could also share this call within your networks. With best regards, Mariangela Distilo EADH Communication manager

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