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2nd Call for Papers for the 13th International Conference on Multimodality
by 13th International Conference on Multimodality 18 Jun '26

18 Jun '26

2nd Call for Papers 13<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/13th-international-conference-multim…>th<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/13th-international-conference-multim…> International Conference on Multimodality<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/13th-international-conference-multim…> University of Helsinki, 1–4 June 2027 The 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM) will be organised at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The phenomenon of multimodality – or how communication and interaction build on coordinated combinations of multiple forms of expression – is now actively researched within diverse fields of study. Given the multifaceted nature and complexity of the phenomenon, pursuing a constructive dialogue between different approaches to multimodality is essential for moving towards a shared understanding. This is the main theme of the 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM), which celebrates the 25th anniversary of organising the first conference in the series in Salzburg, Austria in 2002. For 13ICOM, we want to specifically emphasise the role of early-career researchers working on diverse aspects of multimodality by organising a doctoral consortium on June 1, 2027 ahead of the main conference on June 2–4, 2027. The doctoral consortium features 5-minute pitch talks from participants and master classes in theories and methods from experts, with plenty of opportunities for networking with fellow early-career researchers. The main conference will feature four plenary sessions and multiple parallel sessions with 20-minute presentations. The confirmed plenarists for 13ICOM include (in alphabetical order): * Pentti Haddington (University of Oulu, Finland) * Maria Grazia Sindoni (University of Messina, Italy) * Beate Schirrmacher (Linnaeus University, Sweden) * Amanda Wasielewski (Uppsala University, Sweden) The detailed call for papers can be found on the 13ICOM website<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/13th-international-conference-multim…> along with further information. Abstract submission We invite submissions for both doctoral consortium and the main conference using the same format. Submissions must be anonymous and are limited to a maximum length of 250 words excluding references. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process that evaluates their quality, novelty and relevance to the broad field of multimodality. Further information about submission formats and the submission portal can be found on the conference website: Abstract submission<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/13th-international-conference-multim…> The deadline for submitting your abstract is September 15, 2026. Welcome to Helsinki in June 2027! For further details and up-to date information, see the 13th International Conference on Multimodality website<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/13th-international-conference-multim…>. Best, The 13ICOM Organising Team

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CALL FOR PAPERS: AI and Literature: Teaching, Research, and Interpretive Frameworks
by Emily Middleton 17 Jun '26

17 Jun '26

CALL FOR PAPERS: AI and Literature: Teaching, Research, and Interpretive Frameworks (de*adline 31 July 2026)* Edited by Dr Francesca Arnavas (University of Tartu) and Dr Emily Middleton (University of Leeds) As AI is increasingly influencing academic practice, the field of literary studies faces both unprecedented opportunities and urgent questions. This edited volume offers one of the first book-length treatments to focus exclusively on the intersection of AI and literary studies. Neither celebrating nor resisting AI, the volume maps productive dialogues between two domains often perceived as incompatible, offering scholars practical methods alongside theoretical provocations and reflections. The volume’s distinctive contribution is not only in asking how AI can enhance the teaching and researching of literature, but also what literature can tell us about AI itself: how literary texts, from Victorian fantasy to contemporary speculative fiction, can serve as cognitive models for understanding how AI influences human attention, creativity, and meaning-making. The volume is organised in three sections. To avoid discussions of AI becoming quickly outdated as technology evolves, we prioritise research-based chapters and case studies whose findings respond to theoretical, genre-based, and methodological issues that go beyond any specific platform or tool. Section 1: Teaching Literature with AI This section seeks chapters that explore practical, critically reflective approaches to teaching literature with AI tools, and/or the impact of AI on teaching. We welcome contributions that engage with specific case studies from undergraduate or postgraduate teaching, and that consider both the benefits and limitations of AI integration in the literature classroom. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): - Comparative approaches to teaching with and without AI tools - AI and academic integrity in literary studies courses - Assessment design with and without AI - AI as a tool for exploring genre, period, or theoretical concepts - Student reflections on AI-assisted learning Section 2: Researching Literature with AI This section seeks chapters that demonstrate how AI tools and methods can enhance literary scholarship. We welcome contributions drawing on computational methods, digital humanities approaches, and critical AI studies. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): - AI and corpus analysis of literary texts - AI in scholarly editing - AI and authorship analysis - Writing with AI as a scholarly practice - AI and critical neurodiversity studies in literary contexts Section 3: Exploring AI Through Literature This section seeks chapters that reverse the lens: rather than asking what AI can do for literary studies, they ask what literary texts can teach us about AI. Literature offers a unique imaginative laboratory for exploring the cognitive, ethical, and philosophical dimensions of AI. We welcome both expected and unexpected literary case studies - we are as interested in chapters on Victorian texts or children’s literature as in chapters on science fiction. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): - Literary representations of AI, machine cognition, and artificial consciousness - How narrative techniques illuminate what AI can and cannot replicate of human experience - AI and empathy, emotion, or affect as explored through literary texts - Mind wandering, attention, and cognitive processing in literary portrayals of AI - Posthumanism, the uncanny, and AI in fiction - Less obvious literary connections to AI (e.g. Gothic fiction, Victorian fantasy, modernist texts) - AI and questions of creativity, authorship, and originality in literary works Submission Guidelines We welcome contributions from scholars at all career stages. Please submit: - An abstract of 300 words outlining your proposed chapter’s argument, methodology, case study, and contribution to the relevant section. - A short biographical note of 100 words. - Your institutional affiliation and contact details. Completed chapters will be approximately 5,000 words (including notes and bibliography). Abstract deadline: 31 July 2026 Notification of acceptance: End of August 2026 Full chapter submission deadline: 15 March 2027 Please send submissions and any queries to: francesca.arnavas(a)ut.ee e.j.l.middleton(a)leeds.ac.uk

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Call for Participants: Survey on the Use of Digital Methods to Study Slavery and/or War
by Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja 17 Jun '26

17 Jun '26

Apologies for any cross-posting We invite you to participate in a survey as part of an ongoing study conducted by the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW). The study aims to better understand how researchers who use digital methods to examine slavery (both historical and modern) and/or war carry out their work. We are interested in the resources and methods currently used across different disciplines, and in how digital research infrastructure could support the exploration of the nexus between slavery and war. Your insights will directly inform the tools and resources we develop to support the research community in this area. The CRSW brings together researchers from different disciplines working to assess and explain slavery in war zones from the Haitian Revolution (1791) to the present day. Our work involves developing innovative digital tools and methodologies, harmonising contemporary and historical datasets, and applying methods such as machine learning to diverse sources including survivor narratives, oral histories, and memoirs. We would be grateful if you could take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete our survey by following the link below: https://qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_8vn8UfPAlppQDJk All responses will be treated confidentially and used solely for research purposes. If you have any questions about the study, please do not hesitate to contact us at maribel_hidalgo.urbaneja(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]> Thank you in advance for your time and contribution. Kind regards, Maribel Dr Maribel Hidalgo-Urbaneja Research Associate in Digital Humanities Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War<http://slaveryinwar.org/> King's College London Strand Campus Email: maribel_hidalgo.urbaneja(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]>

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Call for Participants: Workshop on Open Research in History, Cultural Heritage, and the Humanities: Darmstadt, 18 September
by Dr. Nadezhda Povroznik 15 Jun '26

15 Jun '26

Dear All, Humanities Data Science and Methodology (HDSM) and DisLab at TU Darmstadt invite Master’s, advanced Bachelor’s students and early-career researchers to a one-day workshop on practising Open Research in History, Cultural Heritage, and the Humanities. The workshop is an in-person event only, which will be organised at TU Darmstadt on 18 September 2026. The workshop focuses on concepts of openness, including open access, open data, and open science as a methodological workflow and offers practice in how research is designed, documented, versioned, and made reproducible. 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 📎 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲: English 📎 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲 / 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁: in person at the TU Darmstadt on 18 September 2026 from 9:00 to 17:00 📎 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: Darmstadt, Germany 📎 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: please fill out this form https://lnkd.in/eSnFWgqt 📎 Deadline: 20 June 2026 For participants, the workshop offers hands-on training in the tools and practices that underpin transparent and collaborative scholarship. For the project team, it serves as a field to test an open learnware package currently under development, allowing us to evaluate clarity, usability, and transferability before wider release. For more details, please visit the full description of the workshop: https://hdsm.hypotheses.org/7949 Best wishes, HDSM & DisLab TU Darmstadt

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Herman Cappelen, AI and Universities: Extinction or Transformation?
by Emmanuela Carbé 15 Jun '26

15 Jun '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, 17 June, at 17:00 CEST, the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will host the final VeDPH seminar of the semester: *Herman Cappelen (University of Hong Kong)AI and Universities: Extinction or Transformation?* The seminar will also be available online via Zoom <https://unive.zoom.us/meeting/register/5-pDq_6-R6GGxuN4YyccQQ#/registration> . Abstract and further information: https://www.unive.it/data/33113/1/112596 With best wishes, Emmanuela Carbé, on behalf the VeDPH -- Emmanuela Carbé Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH <https://www.unive.it/pag/39287>) Member of the Executive Board, AIUCD <https://www.aiucd.it/> Department of Humanities Ca' Foscari University of Venice Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà Dorsoduro 3484/D, Calle Contarini 30123 Venice, Italy

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Registration open for EADH 2026 Conference!
by Mariangela Distilo 05 Jun '26

05 Jun '26

Dear EADH Community, Registration is now open for the 2026 Conference of the European Association for Digital Humanities, which will take place at the *Jagiellonian University *in *Kraków*, Poland, on *15-19 September 2026*. It will feature keynotes by Melissa Terras and Tomasz Majkowski, a plenary session sponsored by ERC, 60 long papers, 60 short papers and 40 posters. The *early bird basic conference fee is offered until June 30th*, so hurry! It includes participation in the conference, coffee breaks and lunches; the so-called full fee also includes the conference banquet and the University Museum tour. Register for the conference using the link: https://eadh2026.systemcoffee.pl/ The conference website: https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/ Social media: X: https://x.com/eadh2026 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/eadh2026krakow.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@eadh2026 We look forward to welcoming you to Kraków and to sharing an exciting week of discussions, research, and collaboration within the Digital Humanities community. Best regards, Mariangela Distilo EADH Communication Manager

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Invitation to online event: Generative AI for GLAM Institutions: Opportunity or Risk?
by Enrico 05 Jun '26

05 Jun '26

Dear colleagues, Together with Cristina Grisot from DARIAH-CH and Christiane Sibille from the ETH Library, we are organising an short online event on June 25, 1:30-2:30 PM, titled Generative AI for GLAM Institutions: Opportunity or Risk? The event will showcase: A new research report: AI Compass for Cultural Heritage (2026) <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20391889> which explores the adoption of generative AI in the GLAM sector in Italy A contribution about the project Digital Einstein <https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/global/digital-einstein.html>- (ETH Zurich) a compelling example of AI-based conversational tools in an educational and cultural context Read the full description and program <https://www.infoclio.ch/fr/generative-ai-glam-institutions-opportunity-or-r…>here <https://www.dariah.ch/post/generative-ai-for-glam-institutions-opportunity-…>. To attend, please fill in this short registration form: https://forms.gle/sAEgdb3WroGvASXx7 We invite you to attend the event, and kindly ask you to circulate the invitation within your institutions and networks. Thank you! Best regards, Enrico Natale infoclio.ch Gutenbergstrasse 37 3011 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 New Living Book about History: Material Histories of Paper <https://www.livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/histoires-materielles-du-pap…> (EN) Histoires matérielles du papier <https://www.livingbooksabouthistory.ch/fr/book/histoires-materielles-du-pap…> (FR)

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#JobOpportunity: Researcher in Digital Humanities - MPI for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt
by Wagner, Andreas 03 Jun '26

03 Jun '26

The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt/Main, Germany invites applications for * one Researcher in Digital Humanities position (full-time, 3 years) for the research project Normative knowledge in the praxis of the Congregation of the Council. The production of normative categories and models for the post-Tridentine world headed by Prof. Dr. Benedetta Albani (https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/2732047/rg-albani-Normative-knowledge-in-the-praxis -of-the-Congregation-of-the-Council?c=2136899). The responsibilities include: * Developing knowledge graphs of historical data (data modelling / ontology design, query and analysis methods using SPARQL). * Further developing academic user interfaces (interactive web apps using R / Shiny, innovative publication formats) to link knowledge graphs, transcriptions, and image and map material. Salary is based on the German TVöD, up to salary group E13. Mobile working and flexible work hours in accordance with our works agreement are possible. Application Deadline: 07 July 2026 Beginning of Contract: 01 October 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter Please find details and a link to the application portal here: https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/job-offers For further inquiries, please contact: albani(a)lhlt.mpg.de Andreas Wagner -- Andreas Wagner ORCiD: 0000-0003-1835-1653 Digital Humanities Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Hansaallee 41 D-60323 Frankfurt am Main Germany

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Survey Invitation — Using Local Infrastructures for Generative AI
by tobias.hodel＠unibe.ch 03 Jun '26

03 Jun '26

Dear Colleagues Apologies for cross-posting. We're at PASC 2026<https://pasc-conference.org/editions/pasc26/> in Bern this July, and we are looking for your input on a topic we think matters a lot to the research community. We're running a short survey on how researchers, students, and scholars are using — or would like to use — local computing infrastructures (like HPCs and on-premise clusters) to run generative AI models and inference workloads. As AI tools become a bigger part of research workflows, we want to understand what's working, what's missing, and where local infrastructure could better serve the community. Who should fill this in? Anyone working or studying at a university or research institute — across all fields, from humanities to natural sciences. You don't need to be a tech expert; your experience (or lack of it) with these tools is exactly what we want to hear. It takes about 8–10 minutes: Take the survey<https://framaforms.org/serving-inference-unibe-1779955001> (https://framaforms.org/serving-inference-unibe-1779955001) Your data will only be used for this survey (and maybe a small publication), and the form will be deleted in 6 months. Your responses will help shape how local AI infrastructure is developed and made accessible to the broader research community. Thank you for your time — and feel free to pass this on to colleagues who might want to weigh in! Have questions? Come find us at PASC2026, or don't hesitate to reach out: tobias.hodel(a)unibe.ch Thanks in advance, and sending best wishes, Tobias Hodel ********************************** Prof. Dr. Tobias Hodel Universität Bern Digital Humanities Walter Benjamin Kolleg Muesmattstrasse 45 3012 Bern dh.unibe.ch<file:///Applications/Spark.app/Contents/Resources/smx-composer.bundle/dh.unibe.ch> tobias.hodel(a)unibe.ch<https://mailto:[email protected]>

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Ausschreibung: Tenure Track-Professur für Computational Humanities an der Universität Graz
by Scholger, Walter (walter.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 01 Jun '26

01 Jun '26

Dear colleagues, I am delighted to share the following job offer at our department: We are looking for a scholar whose work advances research and teaching at the intersection of Digital Humanities, computational methods, and the humanities. The position is based at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Graz, Austria, and offers a 6-year tenure-track appointment with a qualification agreement, with the option of a permanent position. Please find the application and full details at: https://jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/12b66cd0-111e-4ae4-926a-544277605cd1 We are looking forward to receiving exciting applications! Best regards, Walter Scholger ____________________________ Walter Scholger Institutsmanager | Department Manager Institut für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften | Department of Digital Humanities Universität Graz | University of Graz (Austria) Elisabethstraße 59/III, A-8010 Graz eMail: walter.scholger(a)uni-graz.at<mailto:[email protected]> tel: +43 (0)316 380 2292 web: https://dh.uni-graz.at

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