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New JSTOR Text Analysis Support Process Available
by Amy Kirchhoff 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

Hi all, Late last year, ITHAKA made the decision to sunset Constellate<https://constellate.org/docs/constellate-sunset?ref=cms-prod.constellate.org>, our text analysis platform, on July 1, 2025. While we're proud of what Constellate accomplished in advancing computational literacy and text analysis skills, we concluded that we weren't achieving the broad-scale impact we had hoped for as a nonprofit organization. However, JSTOR has long supported text analysis research and will continue to do so. We've launched JSTOR Text Analysis Support (https://www.jstor.org/ta-support) to provide researchers with access to JSTOR's full-text content for text analysis projects. We've created comprehensive documentation<https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/32479181127575-JSTOR-Text-Analy…> and are offering a demonstration webinar, Intro to new JSTOR Text Analysis Support process: * Date and time: June 23, 2025 at 11:30 am EDT (3:30 pm GMT) * Register here<https://forms.gle/toM9G6ibTLgLavr89> For questions or assistance, just let me know. Best regards, Amy Kirchhoff -- Amy J. Kirchhoff (she/her) Senior Manager, Constellate | ITHAKA Bluesky: @amyjoankirchhoff.bsky.social<http://amyjoankirchhoff.bsky.social>

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CFP: Comics & AI [London, UK]
by Ernesto Priego 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

Dear all, With apologies for the double posting, I'd like to share this call with the members of this list. Comics & AI: Critical Prompts. A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity Thursday, 4 September 2025 | 10am–6pm | City St George’s, University of London *200-word abstract submission deadline: 10 July 2025* Full info at* https://comicsandai.org <https://comicsandai.org>. * If you prefer a PDF of this text, you can download it from * https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29069522 <https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29069522>* Many thanks! Ernesto @ernestopriego https://ernestopriego.com/ The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Parables of Care: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/parablesofcare/ Symbola Comics: https://figshare.com/collections/Symbola_Comics/4090025 Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj The information contained in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail must not be forwarded, disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of any related organisations, projects, colleagues or employers.

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CLS INFRA Online Workshop on Network Analysis
by Joanna Byszuk 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

[with apologies for cross-posting] We cordially invite you to a CLS Infra online workshop on Network Analysis taught by Daniil Skorinkin, Ph.D., from University of Potsdam, that will take place on 9th July. You will find the details below: Abstract: This workshop introduces the fundamentals of network analysis for humanities scholars, combining historical and literary case studies with hands-on practice. Participants will explore networks of literary characters, letter correspondence, and historical actors, and learn to visualise and interpret these structures using accessible tools like Gephi and EzLinaVis. Date: 9 July @ 10:30 am CEST (estimated to last ~2hours) Registration: https://forms.gle/XH875jLaCwxfTnKf8 On behalf of CLS INFRA, Joanna Byszuk -- dr Joanna Byszuk Pracownia Metodologiczna Computational Stylistics Group Logo IJP <https://ijppan.pl> HR Logo <https://ijppan.pl/logo-hr> Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk Institute of Polish Language Polish Academy of Sciences al. Mickiewicza 31 31-120 Kraków Phone +48 12 632 56 92 Phone-Internal 365 Email joanna.byszuk(a)ijppan.pl Informacja dot. przetwarzania danych osobowych <https://ijppan.pl/pl/polityka-prywatnosci/> | Privacy Policy Information <https://ijppan.pl/en/polityka-prywatnosci/>

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Project assistant in Digital Humanities at the University of Graz
by Scholger, Walter (walter.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 19 Jun '25

19 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, my apologies for "spaming" the list - the correct application deadline for the job opening at the University of Graz that I advertised yesterday is 7 July! There is currently a job opening at the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz for a Digital Humanities Project assistant (without doctorate) in the "Liminal Waters" CHANSE project: https://chanse.org/liminalwater/ Please also distribute this information to your networks. Project assistant without PhD (pre-doc), 20 hrs/week, starting in September 2025, until January 2027 (hours could increase in 2026). Essential: * Proficiency in spoken and written German and English (minimum B1) * Experience with a web-based CMS (content management system) * Experience with configuring and administrating a (preferably Linux-based) server * Knowledge of core GIS (Geographic Information Systems) concepts * Basic spreadsheet and desktop publishing skills) * Basic proofreading and copy-editing skills * Basic image editing skills (i.e. resizing and formatting image files) * General understanding of online maps and (online) content creation * International experience (work or study experience abroad) Desirable: * Proficiency in other languages (especially Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, German, Greek, French, and/or Portuguese) * Experience with GIS software experience (ie. ArcGIS or QGIS) * Understanding of taxonomies and categorisation of data * Understanding of uses of audio-visual sources in research (e.g. ethnographic film or ethnographic photography, video essays, PhotoVoice) * Experience with museum collections * Experience of digitization of archival or museum collections If you are interested, please send your application, including a CV and appropriate documentation of the required skills, to the project's PI at the University of Graz, Dr. Yvonne Zivkovic: yvonne.zivkovic(a)uni-graz.at<mailto:[email protected]> (phone +43 316 380 2437), who is also available for further information on the position and the project. The deadline for applications is July 7, 2025. Kind regards, Walter Scholger ____________________ Walter Scholger Institutsmanager | Department Manager Institut für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften | Department of Digital Humanities Universität Graz | University of Graz Elisabethstraße 59/III, A-8010 Graz Tel.: +43/(0)316/380 - 2292 E-Mail: walter.scholger(a)uni-graz.at<mailto:[email protected]> Web: https://digital-humanities.uni-graz.at<https://digital-humanities.uni-graz.at/>

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Project assistant in Digital Humanities at the University of Graz
by Scholger, Walter (walter.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, there is currently a job opening at the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Graz for a Digital Humanities Project assistant (without doctorate) in the "Liminal Waters" CHANSE project: https://chanse.org/liminalwater/ Please also distribute this information to your networks. Project assistant without PhD (pre-doc), 20 hrs/week, starting in September 2025, until January 2027 (hours could increase in 2026). Essential: * Proficiency in spoken and written German and English (minimum B1) * Experience with a web-based CMS (content management system) * Experience with configuring and administrating a (preferably Linux-based) server * Knowledge of core GIS (Geographic Information Systems) concepts * Basic spreadsheet and desktop publishing skills) * Basic proofreading and copy-editing skills * Basic image editing skills (i.e. resizing and formatting image files) * General understanding of online maps and (online) content creation * International experience (work or study experience abroad) Desirable: * Proficiency in other languages (especially Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, German, Greek, French, and/or Portuguese) * Experience with GIS software experience (ie. ArcGIS or QGIS) * Understanding of taxonomies and categorisation of data * Understanding of uses of audio-visual sources in research (e.g. ethnographic film or ethnographic photography, video essays, PhotoVoice) * Experience with museum collections * Experience of digitization of archival or museum collections If you are interested, please send your application, including a CV and appropriate documentation of the required skills, to the project's PI at the University of Graz, Dr. Yvonne Zivkovic: yvonne.zivkovic(a)uni-graz.at<mailto:[email protected]> (phone +43 316 380 2437), who is also available for further information on the position and the project. The deadline for applications is June 7, 2025. Kind regards, Walter Scholger ____________________ Walter Scholger Institutsmanager | Department Manager Institut für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften | Department of Digital Humanities Universität Graz | University of Graz Elisabethstraße 59/III, A-8010 Graz Tel.: +43/(0)316/380 - 2292 E-Mail: walter.scholger(a)uni-graz.at<mailto:[email protected]> Web: https://digital-humanities.uni-graz.at<https://digital-humanities.uni-graz.at/>

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University of Edinburgh - NLP Global Majority Visiting Fellowships 2025-2026
by Melissa Terras 16 Jun '25

16 Jun '25

Dear Colleagues, I would appreciate if you could share this opportunity with your wide networks - thank you! Melissa Join the Designing Responsible NLP Global Majority Fellowship Scheme at the University of Edinburgh! https://www.responsiblenlp.org/global-majority-fellowships-2025-2026/ Deadline: 31st July 2025, 23:59 British Summer Time Are you an early-career researcher or professional with a passion for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and looking for an extraordinary opportunity to expand your horizons? The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Designing Responsible NLP<https://www.responsiblenlp.org/> at the University of Edinburgh is thrilled to announce the launch of our Global Majority Fellowship Scheme, to be hosted at the Edinburgh Futures Institute<https://efi.ed.ac.uk/> and the School of Informatics<https://informatics.ed.ac.uk/>. This initiative is focused towards early-career researchers and professionals from the global majority* who are eager to challenge the norms and enrich the field of NLP with diverse perspectives. Fellows will be embedded within the interdisciplinary responsible AI community at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and can mentor, collaborate and exchange ideas with our doctoral students and their academic supervisors. The aim of these Fellowships is to support global majority researchers and professionals to develop their research network, and to enrich the training of our doctoral students The Fellowship comes with a stipend for living expenses and travel, seeking to enable Fellows to be hosted in Edinburgh for between 2-3 months in duration. We expect the first Fellow will join us in Edinburgh between January and March 2026. Fo the first year of this fellowship scheme, we are welcoming applications on the topic of “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage” which will be supported by Professor Melissa Terras<https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/melissa-terras>. *That is people who are black, Asian, brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and/or have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’. Topic Details: The focus for this year’s Global Majority Fellowship is to explore innovative but responsible applications of Natural Language Processing in analysing, enhancing, understanding, or reusing digital cultural heritage collections, including those from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM), or other communities. This interdisciplinary research topic may cover: * Identifying and navigating linguistic bias in cultural data sets * Computational aspects of creating Language Models from heritage collections * The potential for NLP to contextualise marginalised voices and communities within large scale digitised collections * Social, ethical, financial, institutional and legal aspects of the use of heritage collections to create Language Models * The intersection of NLP with related AI technologies within the cultural heritage space, particularly Advanced Text Recognition. * Any other related topic, including practice-based creative interventions in this area. Fellowship Highlights: * Duration & Support: Engage in a 2 to 3-month fellowship (during academic teaching semester) with living expenses up to £2,500 per month, including a travel grant of £1,000 to cover your journey to and from Edinburgh. * Innovative Environment: Be part of the vibrant academic community at the newly opened Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) and collaborate with top-tier researchers across EFI, the School of Informatics, and beyond. * VISA Fees Covered: We facilitate your journey as an Academic Visitor, covering VISA fees for you and your dependants (more information here<https://global.ed.ac.uk/staff-immigration-service/visiting-the-uk/visitors/…>). * Engagement & Dissemination: We will organise a public lecture for you during your visit, engage in mentorship meetings, invite you to participate in events with our Centre for Doctoral Training students and run a masterclass with them, and produce a featured blog post about your experience. Who Should Apply?: You can apply if you are an early career researcher defined as either of the following: * within eight years of receiving your PhD or equivalent professional training (measured from the date of successful PhD viva to the point of applying) * within six years of your first academic appointment (paid contract of employment which lists research or teaching as the primary role). Benefits of the Fellowship: * Gain unparalleled access to academic mentoring, networking events, and seminars through collaboration with Centre’s supervisors and University of Edinburgh academics across multiple disciplines. * Opportunities to integrate into seminars in cooperation with Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities<https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/about> and the Institute for Design Informatics<http://www.designinformatics.org/>enhancing both professional and personal growth. * Access to comprehensive training sessions, wellness activities, and public seminars that are part of the EFI’s research initiatives. Timeline: Applications are open until the 31st July 2025. We invite applicants to prepare for potential interviews at the end of August (these will take place virtually). This timeline will ensure you are ready to start your fellowship in the heart of Edinburgh during January to March 2026. How to apply: In order to apply, you need to: 1. Complete and submit the application form here: https://forms.office.com/e/JDFX6B0rsc 2. Prepare a CV, Cover Letter and Research Proposal and send these to: gmf.nlp(a)inf.ed.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]> The CV should be a maximum of 2-pages, and cover relevant work and professional experience, qualifications, and a list of relevant publications, projects and / or grants. The Cover Letter should be between 1 and 2 pages, and should describe your fit to the opportunity, highlighting anything in particular in your CV and your research proposal that you want to draw the committee’s attention to. The Research Proposal should include: * A description of the research project you would seek to undertake as part of your Fellowship – this should be aligned to the topical focus of this Fellowship call. (maximum of 500 words) * A description of how your research and/or professional responsibilities and experience intersects with responsible NLP. (maximum of 250 words) * A description of how you see the visit to Edinburgh both impacting your research and you in terms of your professional development. (maximum of 500 words max) * A summary of what you could offer as a masterclass for our Centre for Doctoral Training students. (maximum of 200 words) Applicants must submit both the form and the email with the three attachments by 23:59 British Summer Time on the 31st July 2025 in order to be considered for the Fellowships. If you have any questions: For more information on the Fellowship, or if you have any questions, please contact our team by emailing gmf.nlp(a)inf.ed.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]>. See more at: <https://www.responsiblenlp.org/global-majority-fellowships-2025-2026/> responsiblenlp.org<https://www.responsiblenlp.org/global-majority-fellowships-2025-2026/> [X]<https://www.responsiblenlp.org/global-majority-fellowships-2025-2026/> ———— Professor Melissa Terras MBE FREng Co-Director, CoSTAR Realtime Lab Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art University of Edinburgh @melissaterras 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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CCLS2025 in Krakow: Registration Deadline Extended to 23rd June
by Journal of Computational Literary Studies 15 Jun '25

15 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the local organizers have extended the deadline for registration for CCLS 2025 until the 23rd of June. Please also let your colleagues and friends know about the extension. Information about the conference: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2025/ You can register directly here: https://www.konferencje-uj.pl/?lang=en&go2rej=1&kid=397 Virtual attendance is free. Best wishes the JCLS editors & the CCLS2025 Local Organizers - - - - - - - - - - - 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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Code & Culture talk (12.03): Literary Computing of US-American Romance Novels (Guhr)
by Digital Humanities Potsdam 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Dear DH colleagues, The Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam cordially invites you to the next lecture in the 'Code & Culture' talk series <https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/aktivitaeten/code-and-cult…>. Our guest this time is *Svenja Guhr* (Technical University of Darmstadt/Stanford University), who will talk about "Literary Computing of US-American Romance Novels/"/*/./* _Abstract_*: */This talk explores the application of literary computing to contemporary popular fiction, focusing on the Romance series Men Made in America. By employing scene-segmented unit comparisons, it analyzes the representation of domestic space and character sound across the corpus, offering new perspectives on the structural and thematic elements of this popular genre./ _Time and place_*: March 12**, 2025*, 17:00 (CET), online via Zoom. Please *register* here to get the Zoom link: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-le… Best wishes, DH Network Potsdam -- Netzwerk Digitale Geisteswissenschaften Universität Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10 Haus 4, Raum 2.11 14469 Potsdam https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-humanities

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CCLS2025 Krakow: Registration open until June 12
by Journal of Computational Literary Studies 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, This is a friendly reminder that registration is open for the CCLS2025 conference (on-site attendance and virtual participation), on July 3-4, 2025 at the Jagiellonian University Krakow. Registration is open until 2025-06-12 23:59:59 GMT+1 (i.e. until next Thursday). Information about the conference: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2025/ You can register directly here: https://www.konferencje-uj.pl/?lang=en&go2rej=1&kid=397 Virtual attendance is free. Best wishes the JCLS editors & the CCLS2025 Local Organizers - - - - - - - - - - - Journal of Computational Literary Studies https://jcls.io <https://jcls.io/> E-Mail: info(a)jcls.io <mailto:[email protected]> Editors: Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke Editorial Assistants: Svenja Guhr, Julian Häußler, Élodie Ripoll, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje Production Developer: Dominik Gerstorfer 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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DraCor Summit (Berlin, 2025) – Programme, Registration, Travel Grants
by Peer Trilcke 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

[apologies for crossposting] Dear colleagues, Today we are pleased to provide you with more information about the programme of the DraCor Summit. Also, we are delighted to announce the opening of registration. The DraCor Summit will take place in Berlin from 1 to 5 September 2025. It will be organised by the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Potsdam. Programme We have now published the programme for the DraCor Corpora Conference on 2 September and the Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis on 3 September. We are looking forward to 18 corpus presentations and 11 research talks. Wow! Details on the programme can be found here: https://summit.dracor.org/programme-overview Further information on the DraCorOS Training Sessions on 1 September and the DraCor Barcamp on 4 September will follow in the course of the summer. Registration We would also like to draw your attention to the opening of registration. As of today, you can register for the DraCor Summit for free. As part of the registration process, you can also let us know if you require childcare during the Summit. We offer virtual participation for some components of the programme. You may register for all or individual components of the programme using the following form on the University of Potsdam website: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/events/dracor-summit Travel Grants Not to forget, we would like to point out that the registration process includes the possibility to apply for travel grants. Travel grants are expected to be up to €300. Please note that applications of participants who will actively contribute to the Summit (in the context of the Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis or the DraCor corpora conference) will be treated preferentially. Applications for grants can be submitted until 30 June (so if you are interested, register soon!). See you at the Summit! The Local Organisers – Julia Jennifer Beine, Ingo Börner, Frank Fischer, Luca Giovannini, Carsten Milling, Antonio Rojas Castro, Mark Schwindt, Daniil Skorinkin, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje, Peer Trilcke, Laura Untner. https://summit.dracor.org/ info(a)dracor.org

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5 year, full time, text and data mining post doc position - digital participation of war, Edinburgh
by Melissa Terras 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Hi folks, Please could you circulate this opportunity to colleagues seeking a postdoc? Thanks! Melissa ———— Professor Melissa Terras MBE FREng Co-Director, CoSTAR Realtime Lab Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art University of Edinburgh @melissaterras > > From: Andrew Hoskins <andrew.hoskins(a)ed.ac.uk> > Subject: 5 year, full time, experienced post doc position, Edinburgh > Date: 5 June 2025 at 12:23:06 BST > To: Melissa Terras <M.Terras(a)ed.ac.uk> > > FIVE YEAR FULL TIME RESEARCH FELLOW post at The University of Edinburgh. > > on the ERC awarded/UKRI funded WARSHARE - digital participation in war - project, beginning September. > led by Professor Andrew Hoskins – andrew.hoskins(a)ed.ac.uk <mailto:[email protected]> > > Project summary: > > The battle over representations and perceptions of war is transformed in an era of billions of images, videos and other digital content of war being produced, shared, edited, liked, linked, fabricated and deleted on smartphones, social media platforms and messaging apps. > > War in the twenty-first century is participative. People can record and document war, and unwittingly and deliberately transmit data points that can generate targets on the battlefield. Smart devices are both a way to represent war and a node in its practice. > > This project will produce new interdisciplinary understanding of how and why digital participation is transforming how individuals and societies (including militaries and states) fight, experience, and understand (perceive, explain, and de/legitimise) warfare. > > It will illuminate how smart devices, apps and platforms enable a wide range of actors – militaries, states, journalists, NGOs, private companies, soldiers, citizens, victims – to participate in warfare in an immediate and ongoing fashion. > > At the same time, this project engages the revolution in machine-learning and AI methods which enable mining and measuring of online behaviour at scale, and the illumination of multiple modes of communication (messages, images, video, memes and emojiis) that together shape participation and meaning in warfare. > > In experimenting with AI and machine learning methods, it will break new interdisciplinary ground (social and computing science, art, visual, media and communication studies) to test what kinds of knowledge about twenty-first century participative war (how it is fought, experienced, contested, legitimized, and remembered, for multiple actors) can be acquired and used. > > It takes the hybrid messenger service/social media platform of Telegram as its principal case study, an unbounded ‘new war front’, central to the waging and experiencing of the 2022- Russian war against Ukraine. > > Further details: > https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1… <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Felxw.fa.e…>

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CFP: 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
by Eva Mayr 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We're happy to announce the call for papers for the VIS4DH workshop co-located with the IEEE VIS Conference in Vienna, Austria! The VIS4DH workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from the fields of visualization and the humanities to discuss new research directions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities research. This year, you can contribute to VIS4DH 2025 in two ways - you can submit to the workshop's Paper track, or you can submit to the Agora track, which calls for provocations, artworks, work in progress, or lab talks. Our call for submissions is open to all fields of the (digital) humanities and social sciences, and to all areas of visualization research and practice. The workshop is intended to put different ways of seeing, knowing, articulating, and transforming arguments into dialogue in order to foster and intensify collaborations between humanities and visualization researchers. While the workshop theme for VIS4DH'25 remains open to all submissions exploring the intersection of the humanities and visualization, we especially invite contributions related to the theme Visualizing Peace and Conflict as a response to the global increase of violence and armed conflict (see https://ucdp.uu.se/encyclopedia) At the same time, however, submissions do not need to focus explicitly on conflict between warring parties. We also encourage submissions related to ideological, civil, social, environmental, or epistemic conflicts and the potential for their resolution to address a broader theme/trend of intensified division worldwide. The topic aims to bring together researchers in international relations, peace & conflict resolution, sociology, anthropology, digital humanities, and visualization to present and discuss how research approaches in these areas can critically inform one another and contribute to new ways of studying conflict and its peaceful resolution. Besides general contributions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities that provide theoretical and/or applied perspectives, with this year's theme, we invite work around (but not limited to) the following questions: * How can visualization techniques make cultural phenomena which are substantially structured or driven by tensions, antagonisms, controversies, or conflicts visible and negotiable? * How can visualization tools be designed to inform or support the resolution of conflicts? * What visual strategies can be employed to highlight how political conflicts frequently translate into representational or interpretive conflicts (e.g., generating contested or conflicting descriptions, datasets, framings, rhetorics, or other design choices)? * What role do disagreements play in collaborative research and visualization processes, and how might those be productively visualized rather than resolved or hidden? Submission Deadlines Paper Track: 30 June 2025, 23:59 AoE Agora Track: 22 August 2025, 23:59 AoE Please, visit the workshop website on https://vis4dh.dbvis.de for more information. The organizing committee looks forward to your contributions and to lively discussions in Vienna Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Mark-Jan Bludau, Eva Mayr, Monika Schwarz, & Tomas Vancisin vis4dh(a)gmail.com _______________ Dr. Eva Mayr Department für Kunst- & Kulturwissenschaften Universität für Weiterbildung Krems www.donau-uni.ac.at/eva.mayr/<http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/eva.mayr/> +43 2732 893 2324

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Reminder: Bielefeld guest lectures in Computational Literary Studies/Cultural Studies/Computational Linguistics/Digital Linguistics/Open Science
by Berenike Herrmann 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

Dear all, (with apologies for cross-postings), This summer term, the Bielefeld research colloquium “LiLi revisited: Digital Interface Research between Literary Studies and Linguistics" and the Bielefeld “Computational/Digital Linguistics Work Group Meeting” (H. Buschmeier/S. Zarrieß) will another guest lecture that I would like to draw your attention to. June 10: Prof. Dr. David Bamman (Berkeley): Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood The lecture is public and can be attended in person and via zoom. The talk will not be recorded. David Bamman (Berkeley) Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been limited due to the availability of data. In this talk, I'll discuss our efforts to build a collection of 2,307 films representing the top 50 movies by U.S. box office over the period 1980 to 2022, along with award nominees. Building this collection allows us to carry out several large-scale computational studies of film; I'll discuss our work measuring changing patterns in the representation of gender and race/ethnicity over the past 43 years (where we see an increase in diversity over the past decade) and in leveraging it to model variation in emotional performances and choice of adverbial intensifiers over both narrative and historical time. This work illustrates a new frontier of the data-driven analysis of film at a large scale. When: June 10 2025, 10-12 hs Where: Hybrid. Bielefeld University, Lecture Hall CITEC 1.204 and Zoom Zoom link: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/64995938421?pwd=VzH0WHjA5I1LaLsGQeB2wJuvB… We are looking forward to a vivid discussion! Berenike Herrmann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß (DH, CLS, CL, DL) prof. dr. berenike herrmann german literature | digital humanities bielefeld university | faculty of linguistics and literature universitaetsstraße 25 33615 bielefeld germany main building (UHG) U6, office 122 +49 (0)521 106-67194 personal homepage secretary: ms. andrea schrottenloher (andrea.schrottenloher(a)uni-bielefeld.de) office: main building (UHG) U6-135, phone: +49 (0)521 106-3702

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Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd2026) - Call for Papers
by Tara L Andrews 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, (German version below) I am very pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the DHd2026 conference today! DHd 2026, “Not Only Text, Not Only Data”, annual conference of the Association of Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries, organized by the University of Vienna. 23–27 February 2026. Submission deadline: 1 August 2025 https://dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de/ Both digitization of cultural heritage and abstract information modeling have, in recent years, significantly expanded the breadth of potential research in the humanities. The initial source of this expansion was primarily the creation of textual corpora and the development of algorithms and interfaces for text analysis. Over time, this has evolved to the point where it now includes the digital capture of virtually all "objects" within the humanities, and their attendant analytical interconnections: individuals, places, material culture, concepts, artworks, spoken interactions, and more. Yet despite the diversity of approaches, ideas, data, and methods in today’s digital humanities, focus often remains on more text-centred projects and data-focused results. We propose addressing the challenges posed by this expansion beyond text and data as the conference motto: not by excluding text-centered approaches but by placing them within a broader context. Disciplines such as art history, archaeology, and museum studies traditionally produce and analyze datasets related to material culture, including climate data, landscape profiles, and image matrices. They also produce analytical data, including human biological data such as genetics, and perception data, like eye-tracking, EEG, fMRT, and so on. However, this data is contextualized by informed integration with further information that completes a historical and contextual picture, necessitating varied data obtained through the analysis of diverse datasets. The conference aims to foster greater consideration of what diverse data means for scholars. Data creation is not the end but rather the very beginning of contemporary projects. Researchers in the digital humanities now frequently find themselves not only producing data but also conceiving of and developing algorithmic frameworks for their analyses, including the use of machine learning techniques recently mostly discussed under the label of Artificial Intelligence. Both the data itself and the approach taken are equally vital: data often lose much of their value when divorced from the methods used for both their creation and analysis. This aspect of knowledge production – the creation of methods and functions – has yet to receive sufficient attention in terms of their reuse and replication within the digital humanities. The lack of clear standards and best practices in this regard remain a fundamental challenge in digital humanities research. The same applies to preservation of interfaces and scripts of all kinds. Here too, it is essential to intensify cross-disciplinary dialogue. Code and algorithms each play a role that is as crucial for interdisciplinary dialogue with other fields of study (from computer science to social sciences) as academic prose. Other disciplines can only understand humanities data if they comprehend interpretations, which, in turn, depends on how they are processed. Hence, the development, preservation, and informed discussion of code are core components, if not prerequisites, for interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary engagement. The conference aims to create a productive space for encounters and discussions to explore these issues. Panels, presentations, workshops, and poster sessions will bring together experts from the fields of data science, digital cultural heritage research, and digital archival studies with representatives from the more text- and language-oriented digital humanities. We look forward to providing a venue for discussion and deliberation to foster discourse on code and algorithms, databases and archives, and text and data, and how these things positively push the boundaries of our research in the humanities. We invite contributions to interdisciplinary research that combines the humanities with computational methods and digital technologies, including but not limited to: Use of digital tools and resources to study humanities disciplines, including history, literature, art, and cultural studies Exploration of the impact of technology on humanities research and teaching Best practices around programming and software development in the humanities Reuse and adaptation of existing datasets and algorithms for new research directions Studies concerning the replicability of previously obtained research results Sustainability and preservation of both data and research processes; how does data stewardship engage with algorithms? Current and developing best practices for work with non-textual as well as textual digital cultural heritage (Not) reinventing the wheel: what to do about pre-processing scripts Data Studies and the transferability of data and algorithms across disciplines Libraries as mediators of heterogeneous data and/or software tools in DH: enabling access, integration, and reuse beyond text- and data-centric approaches Photogrammetry and modelling of cultural heritage spaces Soundscapes, music, and audio in the digital humanities Multimedia and game studies for the humanities Ethics and sustainability of LLMs The detailed call, including submission modalities, can be found on the conference website: https://dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de/ where other important information about the conference will also soon follow! Any questions may be addressed to the organisation team at dhd2026(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:[email protected]>. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Vienna! * * * Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, mit großer Freude eröffne ich heute den Call for Papers für die DHd2026-Konferenz! DHd 2025, „Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten“, Jahrestagung des Verbandes Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, ausgerichtet von der Universität Wien 23–27 Feber 2026. Einreichungsfrist: 1. August 2025 Zahlreiche geisteswissenschaftliche Disziplinen haben in den vergangenen Jahren durch digitale Erfassung kultureller Erzeugnisse und abstrakte Modellierung von Information die Grundlage ihrer Erkenntnisarbeit signifikant erweitert. Ausgangspunkt dafür war vor allem die Erstellung von Textkorpora, Entwicklung von Algorithmen und Interfaces für die Analyse von Texten. Nach und nach hat eine Erweiterung des Feldes stattgefunden, so dass inzwischen vermutlich sämtliche “Objekte” der Geisteswissenschaften digital erfasst und zunehmend miteinander analytisch verknüpft werden können: Personen, Orte, Objekte der materiellen Kultur, Begriffe, Kunstwerke, sprachliche Interaktionen etc. Wir schlagen vor, die Herausforderungen, die sich aus dieser Erweiterung über Text und Daten hinaus ergeben, als Motto der Konferenz aufzugreifen: nicht indem wir textzentrierte Ansätze ausschließen, sondern indem wir sie in einen breiteren Kontext stellen. Fächer wie Kunstgeschichte, Archäologie und Museumswissenschaft produzieren und analysieren traditionell Datenbestände aus dem Bereich der materiellen Kultur – Klimadaten, Landschaftsprofile oder Bildraster, aber auch materialanalytische Daten, bis hin zu humanbiologischen Daten (Genetik, aber auch solchen der Perzeption: Eye-Tracking, EEG, fMRT, etc.). Erst die informierte Zusammenschau mit hermeneutisch gewonnener Erkenntnis rundet ein aus Kontext erzeugtes historisches Bild ab, das zunehmend aus der Analyse unterschiedlich gearteter Datenbestände gewonnen wird. Datenerzeugung steht aber nicht am Ende, sondern vielmehr am Anfang zeitgemäßer Projekte. So finden sich digital arbeitende Geisteswissenschafter*innen immer häufiger in der Situation, nicht nur Daten zu produzieren, sondern auch ein adäquates algorithmisches Rahmenwerk für ihre Analyse zu konzipieren und zu entwickeln. Das schließt den Gebrauch von Techniken des maschinellen Lernens ein, die zuletzt meist unter dem Label der „Künstliche Intelligenz“ diskutiert wurden. Tatsächlich verlieren Daten oft viel an Wert, wenn die algorithmischen Methoden nicht gemeinsam mit ihnen aufbewahrt und gepflegt werden. Dieser Aspekt der Wissensproduktion in Form von Methoden und Funktionen hat bisher in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften nicht die nötige Aufmerksamkeit im Hinblick auf Nachnutzung und Replikation erhalten. Der Mangel an klaren Standards bzw. Best Practices stellt jedoch ein fundamentales Problem digitaler Forschung dar. Dasselbe gilt für Interfaces und Skripts jeder Art. Auch hier gilt es, den Dialog mit den einschlägigen Fachrichtungen zu intensivieren. Code und Algorithmen erfüllen eine Rolle, die nicht weniger wichtig für den transdisziplinären Dialog mit anderen Fachdisziplinen (von der Informatik bis zu den Sozialwissenschaften) ist als die wissenschaftliche Prosa: Solch andere Disziplinen können geisteswissenschaftliche Daten nur dann verstehen, wenn sie nachvollziehen, wie diese interpretiert werden, was wiederum davon abhängt, wie sie prozessiert werden. Insofern ist die Entwicklung, Erhaltung und informierte Diskussion von Code ein zentraler Bestandteil, wenn nicht eigentlich sogar Voraussetzung, transdisziplinärer Auseinandersetzung. Die Konferenz möchte einen Begegnungs- und Diskussionsraum zur Erörterung dieser Fragen eröffnen. Panels, Vorträge, Workshops und Poster-Sessions bringen Expert*innen aus den Datenwissenschaften, der digitalen Kulturerbeforschung und Archivwissenschaft zusammen mit Vertreter*innen der traditionellen, text- und sprachorientierten DH. Wir freuen uns darauf, einen Ort für Austausch und Reflexion zu schaffen, in dem über Code und Algorithmen, Datenbanken und Archive, Text und Daten nachgedacht wird – und darüber, wie diese Themen die Grenzen der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung im positiven Sinn verschieben können. Wir laden zu Beiträgen zur interdisziplinären Forschungsdebatte ein, die Geisteswissenschaften mit computergestützten Methoden und digitalen Technologien verbinden, darunter unter anderem: Einsatz digitaler Tools und Ressourcen zum Studium geisteswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen, darunter Geschichte, Literatur, Kunst und Kulturwissenschaften Untersuchung der Auswirkungen von Technologie auf die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung und Lehre Praktiken bzw. Best Practices rund um Programmierung und Softwareentwicklung in den Geisteswissenschaften Wiederverwendung und Anpassung bestehender Datensätze bzw. Algorithmen für neue Forschungsrichtungen Studien zur Replizierbarkeit bereits erzielter Forschungsergebnisse Nachhaltigkeit und Aufbewahrung sowohl von Daten als auch von Forschungsprozessen; wie greift Datenverwaltung in Algorithmen ein? Aktuelle und sich entwickelnde Best Practices für die Arbeit mit nicht-textuellen sowie textuellen digitalen Kulturgütern Das Rad (nicht) neu erfinden: Was tun mit Vorverarbeitungsskripten? Data Studies und die Übertragbarkeit von Daten und Algorithmen zwischen Disziplinen Bibliotheken als Vermittler heterogener Daten und/oder Software-Tools in den Digital Humanities: Zugang, Integration und Wiederverwendung über text- und datenzentrierte Ansätze hinaus ermöglichen Fotogrammetrie und Modellierung von Räumen des kulturellen Erbes Soundscapes, Musik und Audio in den Digital Humanities Multimedia- und Game Studies für die Geisteswissenschaften Ethik und Nachhaltigkeit von LLMs Der vollständige Call einschließlich Einreichungsmodalitäten finden Sie auf der Website der Konferenz: https://dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de/. Dort werden in Kürze auch weitere wichtige Informationen zur Konferenz veröffentlicht. Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an das Organisationsteam unter dhd2026(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:[email protected]>. Wir freuen uns darauf, Sie in Wien begrüßen zu dürfen! Best wishes / mit herzlichen Grüßen, Tara Andrews

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CCLS 2024: Program and Registration
by Journal of Computational Literary Studies 23 May '25

23 May '25

[with apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues, We are very pleased to inform you that we the program for the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS2025) on July 3 and 4 in Krakow is now published: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2025/ Registration for the conference (on-site and virtual participation) is also open: https://www.konferencje-uj.pl/?lang=en&go2rej=1&kid=397. Virtual attendance is free. For those of you who will be traveling to Krakow, we would like to draw your attention to our special pre-conference event. The EU project "CLS INFRA" will celebrate its Closing Event on July 2nd. Registration for this event is free: https://clsinfra.io/closing-event/ Best wishes, Evelyn Gius, Peer Trilcke and Christof Schöch - - - - - - - - - - - Journal of Computational Literary Studies https://jcls.io <https://jcls.io/> E-Mail: info(a)jcls.io <mailto:[email protected]> Editors: Evelyn Gius, Christof Schöch, Peer Trilcke Editorial Assistants: Svenja Guhr, Julian Häußler, Élodie Ripoll, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje Production Developer: Dominik Gerstorfer 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, 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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Electing new members to the EADH Executive Committee – Deadline: 28 May 2025
by Mariangela Distilo 22 May '25

22 May '25

Dear EADH Members, This is a warm reminder that nominations are still open for four (4) new members to join the EADH Executive Committee for the 2025–2028 term. *The deadline to submit your candidacy is 28 May 2025*. As EADH continues its relaunch, this is a pivotal moment to help shape the direction of our Association and support the growth and visibility of Digital Humanities across Europe and beyond. Joining the Executive Committee is more than a formal responsibility — *it’s a chance to actively contribute to the future of our community.* By serving, you have the opportunity to strengthen the European DH network, advocate for inclusive and open practices, and take part in defining strategic initiatives with real impact. It’s also a meaningful way to build lasting connections and grow as a leader in an international, collaborative environment. We warmly encourage you to consider standing or nominating a colleague. Your voice and energy can make a real difference in the direction and development of Digital Humanities in Europe. *🔗 Full details and eligibility criteria are available on our website:* https://eadh.org/news/2025/04/25/call-nominations-join-eadh-executive-commi… Warm regards, Mariangela Distilo EADH Communications Manager

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Bielefeld guest lectures in Computational Literary Studies/Cultural Studies/Computational Linguistics/Digital Linguistics/Open Science
by Berenike Herrmann 20 May '25

20 May '25

Dear all, (with apologies for cross-postings), This summer term, the Bielefeld research colloquium “LiLi revisited: Digital Interface Research between Literary Studies and Linguistics" and the Bielefeld “Computational/Digital Linguistics Work Group Meeting” (H. Buschmeier/S. Zarrieß) will host two guest lectures that I would like to draw your attention to. May 20: Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter (Cologne): More Open Science is not always the same as better science June 10: Prof. Dr. David Bamman (Berkeley): Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood Both lectures are public. The meeting on May 20 is organized by the Open Science Network Bielefeld in cooperation with the Bielefeld Center for Data Science (BiCDaS). For titles, abstracts and room information see below. Both lectures can be attended in person and via zoom. Talks will not be recorded. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nils Reiter (Cologne) More Open Science is not always the same as better science Open Science — the move(ment) to make processes and results of scientific research accessible to everyone — has gained popularity in recent years, and the goal to employ “open science” can now be found in many proposals, statements and web pages. The talk aims at taking a critical perspective, highlighting areas in which open science may actually also have negative impact. This will be discussed in two aspects of contemporary research: peer review and large language model use. Different forms of openness can be discussed for (open) peer review, such as the anonymity of reviewers/authors, or the publication of review texts. Training of large language models is not possible without a huge amount of text, and open data makes this substantially easier. For both cases, the talk will highlight some of the negative “side effects”, and try to give some recommendations to avoid them. When: 20.05.2025, 10-12 Uhr Where: Hybrid. Bielefeld, University X-E1-201 and Zoom Zoomlink: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/62739019294?pwd=QJN0osQV9sazjw94iIoWjE8aW… BiCDaS Lecture Series Data Science und Open Science Semester-KickOff ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ David Bamman (Berkeley) Measuring Representation and Linguistic Variation in Hollywood Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been limited due to the availability of data. In this talk, I'll discuss our efforts to build a collection of 2,307 films representing the top 50 movies by U.S. box office over the period 1980 to 2022, along with award nominees. Building this collection allows us to carry out several large-scale computational studies of film; I'll discuss our work measuring changing patterns in the representation of gender and race/ethnicity over the past 43 years (where we see an increase in diversity over the past decade) and in leveraging it to model variation in emotional performances and choice of adverbial intensifiers over both narrative and historical time. This work illustrates a new frontier of the data-driven analysis of film at a large scale. When: June 10 2025, 10-12 hs Where: Hybrid. Bielefeld, University, CITEC 1.204 and Zoom Zoom link: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/64995938421?pwd=VzH0WHjA5I1LaLsGQeB2wJuvB… We are looking forward to a vivid discussion! Berenike Herrmann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß (DH, CLS, CL, DL) Katharina Weiß, and Nina Schönfelder (BiCDaS, Bielefeld OSN) prof. dr. berenike herrmann german literature | digital humanities bielefeld university | faculty of linguistics and literature universitaetsstraße 25 33615 bielefeld germany main building (UHG) U6, office 122 +49 (0)521 106-67194 personal homepage secretary: ms. andrea schrottenloher (andrea.schrottenloher(a)uni-bielefeld.de) office: main building (UHG) U6-135, phone: +49 (0)521 106-3702

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2025 Open Scholarship Award Recipients
by Jon Bath 13 May '25

13 May '25

The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute <http://c-ski.ca/> and its partners, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, are delighted to announce the winners, and honourable mentions, for the 2025 Open Scholarship Awards. Award recipients demonstrated exemplary open scholarship via research, projects, or initiatives. Open scholarship incorporates open access, open data, open education, and other related movements that have the potential to make scholarly work more efficient, more accessible, and more usable by those within and beyond the academy. By engaging with open practices for academic work, open scholarship shares that work more broadly and more publicly. Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by scholars, librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators. Award Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), Nick Thieberger, University of Melbourne and the PARADISEC team Honourable Mentions "But I Live" Educators' Resource, Andrea Webb, University of British Columbia Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935, Stephen Robertson, George Mason University Emerging Researcher Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-stage professionals Award East Bay Punk Digital Archive, Stefano Morello, CUNY Graduate Centre Honourable Mentions Ni una menos: A collective identity in Rebeca Lane's rap, Silvia Rivera Alfaro, CUNY Graduate Center Collaging the Queer: An Abstract Self-Portraiture Workshop on Gender Abolition and Identity Creation, Jazmyne Olson, Undergraduate, Weber State University We would like to thank all those who nominated a project for the awards, and our selection panel, and will be announcing the call for nominations for the 2026 Open Scholarship Awards later this year. Jon Bath University of Saskatchewan

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DATA CHALLENGE: Let’s Make a Cinephile Search Tool!
by Golnaz Sarkar Farshi 09 May '25

09 May '25

Dear DH community, We are excited to invite you to join the data challenge “Let’s Make a Cinephile Search Tool!”, organized by the Data Competence Center HERMES! Are you passionate about film, media, and data innovation? We invite you to take part in the data challenge “Let’s Make a Cinephile Search Tool!”— a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of AI, cultural heritage, and audiovisual archives. In this second edition of our data challenge, you'll work with 40 hours of real-world moving image data published by leading German and Dutch institutions. Your mission? Develop a discovery tool that enables multimodal search across 40 hours of public domain video content — not just using metadata, but also analyzing the visual and audio features of the footage. Your tool might detect shot types, identify objects and actions, or even find scenes that visually resemble an input image. You can integrate all of your developed features into a chatbot capable of handling complex prompts to perform multimodal searches across the dataset and return relevant results. This is your chance to create something impactful for scholars, researchers, and film enthusiasts — and push the boundaries of digital cultural access. Don’t worry if you don’t have a team yet! At the kickoff, we’ll help match participants from different disciplines. The attending teams or single individuals should ideally have expertise in both data science and film/media studies. Kickoff: 23 May 2025, 4:00 PM (CET) Registration Deadline: 31 May 2025, 11:59 PM Ready to take part? Find full challenge details, including the zoom link for the kickoff, here: *https://hermes-hub.de/forschen/datachallenges/challenges/challenge-2025.html* <https://hermes-hub.de/forschen/datachallenges/challenges/challenge-2025.html>. Let’s make the multimodal search of audiovisual history possible together!

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Lecture “More Open Science is not always the same as better science” by Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter (University of Cologne) as Open Science Network Bielefeld Summer Term Kick-Off
by Berenike Herrmann 08 May '25

08 May '25

Dear colleagues, (with apologies for potential cross postings), We are looking forward to the lecture “More Open Science is not always the same as better science” by Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter (University of Cologne) as Open Science Network Bielefeld Summer Term Kick-Off on 20 May at 10 am. The lecture is part of the Lecture Series Data Science of the Bielefeld Center for Data Science (BiCDaS). Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter (Universität zu Köln) More Open Science is not always the same as better science Open Science — the move(ment) to make processes and results of scientific research accessible to everyone — has gained popularity in recent years, and the goal to employ “open science” can now be found in many proposals, statements and web pages. The talk aims at taking a critical perspective, highlighting areas in which open science may actually also have negative impact. This will be discussed in two aspects of contemporary research: peer review and large language model use. Different forms of openness can be discussed for (open) peer review, such as the anonymity of reviewers/authors, or the publication of review texts. Training of large language models is not possible without a huge amount of text, and open data makes this substantially easier. For both cases, the talk will highlight some of the negative “side effects”, and try to give some recommendations to avoid them. Open Science Semester Kick-off SoSe 2025 & BiCDaS Data Science Lecture Series When: 20 May 2025 10-12 hs Where: Hybrid X-E1-201 University Bielefeld or via Zoom Zoomlink: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/62739019294?pwd=QJN0osQV9sazjw94iIoWjE8aW…) What: Prof. Dr. Nils Reiter (University Cologne): More Open Science is not always the same as better science (Open Science Semester Kick-Off und Vortrag im Rahmen der Lecture Series Data Science) We are looking forward to a vivid discussion! Katharina Weiß, Nina Schönfelder und Berenike Herrmann prof. dr. berenike herrmann german literature | digital humanities bielefeld university | faculty of linguistics and literature universitaetsstraße 25 33615 bielefeld germany main building (UHG) U6, office 122 +49 (0)521 106-67194 personal homepage secretary: ms. andrea schrottenloher (andrea.schrottenloher(a)uni-bielefeld.de) office: main building (UHG) U6-135, phone: +49 (0)521 106-3702

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Call for Applications: 3 Postdoc Positions in Digital Humanities at the University of Tartu (Deadline: June 2, 2025)
by Mariangela Distilo 06 May '25

06 May '25

Dear EADH community, We are pleased to share an exciting opportunity for early-career researchers. The University of Tartu is now accepting applications for *three full-time postdoctoral fellowships* at the *Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS)*, funded by the European Union. Please find the full announcement below and feel free to circulate it within your networks: *Type of position:* 3 full-time postdoc positions *Expected starting date:* 1 September 2025 *Duration of employment:* 54 months (until 28.02.2030) *Working time:* 100% (40 hours per week) *Application deadline:* 2 June 2025 *Apply here:* https://ut.ee/en/job-offer/research-fellow-digital-humanities We are happy to announce that the University of Tartu Faculty of Arts and Humanities is launching a call for applications for *3* *postdoctoral **research fellows **in **Digital Humanities*, at the Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS), funded by the European Union (see the project description here <https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101186601>). *DigiTS* is aimed at carrying out cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research using modern digital methods applied to textual data in Humanities and Social Sciences. To this end, an international and interdisciplinary team will be formed at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Tartu (UT), including postdocs and doctoral students. This new team of experts will enable key actions establishing UT as a center for research and education in Digital Humanities. Each Research Fellow will mainly conduct research in the field of digital humanities, computational linguistics, computational literary studies, digital history, or related fields (depending on individual competencies), while also having the opportunity to teach and to participate in governance and institutional development. Applicants *must have* a PhD in Humanities, Social Sciences, Computer Science or related fields, experience in analysing textual data with digital tools, as well as experience in programming languages, such as Python or R. The research fellows will be employed at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, but their specialisation and focus will depend on the broader context of their research. For further information, see the Center for Digital Humanities website <https://digihum.ut.ee/en> and the job vacancy <https://ut.ee/en/job-offer/research-fellow-digital-humanities> (opens 1 May). Applications should be submitted online by June 2. Each fellowship will run from the agreed-upon starting date (ideally 1 September 2025) through the end of the DigiTS project in February 2030. The gross salary is 3500€/month. Please also note that the DigiTS team is looking for *one junior research fellow (PhD student) in Digital Humanities* to join the team, as well as possible collaboration with other new junior research fellows at our faculty. More information about the PhD job can be found here <https://ut.ee/en/content/phd-open-calls>, and admission requirement are here <https://humanitaarteadused.ut.ee/en/content/programme-admission-requirement…> . For more information about the positions contact the project leaders Prof. Maciej Eder (maciej.eder(a)ut.ee) or Prof. Liina Lindström ( liina.lindstrom(a)ut.ee) *Why apply now?* Currently there are multiple innovative projects being conducted in Estonia on closely related topics. This creates an exciting and promising scene for both formal and informal collaboration, especially since many of these projects are carried out at least partly at the University of Tartu, including the *Estonian Center of Excellence in AI* (EXAI <https://exai.ee/>), the ERC Consolidator project *Rise and Demise of Industrial Modernity* (RiDe <https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101170823>), the *Language Data Research Infrastructure* (KeTa), and *Neural text analysis models enhanced with external linguistic resources* (description <https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/7f84cf46-e183-4248-988c-7d777e2…>); note that RiDe is also offering PhD and postdoc positions. *Why study or work in Estonia?* Estonia offers Nordic quality of life, a strong academic environment and convenient digitized services—all while maintaining a reasonable cost of living that supports comfortable student life. The University of Tartu, founded in 1632, ranks among the top 1% of the world’s most cited universities and actively fosters sustainability and intersectoral collaboration, having produced numerous successful startups. Estonia itself ranks #1 in startups per capita in Europe. As a member of the EU and NATO, Estonia is internationally minded, and English is widely spoken. Estonia’s digital infrastructure streamlines official procedures, as everything from contracts to taxes can all be handled online in minutes by citizens and residents alike. Tartu is a lively university town known for its cozy atmosphere, vibrant student life, bike and walking friendly spaces, and scenic riverside. It has been named the UNESCO City of Literature, and the European Capital of Culture in 2024. The city is well connected to Europe and the world, but also offers easy access to nature, with nearby vast networks of forest hiking trails, excellent winter sports opportunities, and the charm of four distinct seasons. Best regards, Mariangela Distilo EADH Communications Manager

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Deadline extended: 2. Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis (Berlin)
by Luca Giovannini 06 May '25

06 May '25

Dear colleagues, The deadline for submitting abstracts (up to 500 words) to the second edition of the /Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis: Achievements and Opportunities/ (03.09.2025, Berlin, Germany), has been extended to *May 13, 2025*. Please find below the original call. We look forward to your contributions! Best regards, Luca Giovannini and Daniil Skorinkin Workshop Organizers --- Dear colleagues, We invite submissions for the second edition of the /Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis: Achievements and Opportunities/, taking place on 3 September 2025 as part of the /DraCor Summit 2025/ (1–5 September, Berlin, Germany). The workshop aims to explore recent advancements, challenges, and new perspectives in computational drama analysis. For more information, please see the full call for papers here: https://summit.dracor.org/cfp-drama-analysis. Selected papers will be published in peer-reviewed proceedings (more details to follow). Key dates: * Abstracts (up to 500 words) due: 6 May 2025 * Notification of acceptance: by 26 May 2025 * Full papers (4000–6000 words) due: 10 August 2025 * Workshop: 3 September 2025 at FU Berlin Please submit your abstract in PDF format to info(a)dracor.org with the subject "Submission Drama Workshop" by 6 May 2025. We look forward to your contributions! Best regards, Luca Giovannini and Daniil Skorinkin Workshop Organizers

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Call for Nominations to EADH Executive Committee
by Mariangela Distilo 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Dear EADH and Associate Organization Members, The nomination period for EADH Elections is officially open. We are currently seeking four (4) new members to join our Executive Committee. This is an exciting opportunity to actively contribute to the development of a newly relaunched EADH from 2025-2028! When does the nomination and election period open and close? The nomination period opens on 1 May 2025 and closes on 28 May 2025. The Elections will be held from 5 June 2025 to 2 July 2025. Elected EADH Executive Committee Members will be announced when the election period ends, and formally inducted in July 2025 during the General Meeting of EADH Members at the ADHO (DH) Conference in Lisboa, Portugal. More information about the conference can be found here: https://dh2025.adho.org/ What does an EADH Executive Committee Member do? Members of the Executive Committee regularly support EADH by acting in a number of roles, including by serving on the ADHO Constituent Organization Board and the yearly Programme Committee for the ADHO conference, by lobbying the European Commission for more funding through representation in the European Alliance of Social Science and Humanities (EASSH) organization, etc. We also have members who take on the responsibility for distributing bursaries and other funded awards to members of our community. Any member who wants to take action on their own initiative relevant to their interests and the goal of EADH is welcome to propose new lines of action. The work of EADH is supported by infrastructure run and maintained by the EADH exec, and is informed by a series of close relationships with our Associate Organizations (AIUCD [Associazone Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale], CzADH [Czech Association for Digital Humanities], DHd [Association for Digital Humanities in the German Speaking Countries], and DHNB [Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries]). Executive Committee Members shape and execute this work on behalf of the organization. What is the time commitment for this position? We expect EADH Executive Committee Members to take an active part in our organization by serving in a variety of specific roles, which can include (but are not limited to) our Small Grants Committee, Outreach Committee, Infrastructure Committee, Governance Committee, and Elections Committee. These committees are cyclical, meaning that at certain times they become more active and at other times of the year they can be dormant. Normally, the Executive Committee holds monthly online all-hands 1.5 hour meetings to update each other on progress within specific committees, and we also have designated, smaller group meetings to work within these committees when they are active. At times of the year when we are planning workshops, seminars and conferences, Executive Committee members from relevant subcommittees can spend ca. 5 hours per week working communally on EADH business. Executive Committee members also have a Mid Term meeting once per year which is typically a one to two day in-person event, and we also organize an in-person General Meeting each summer at the ADHO Conference that lasts ca. 1.5 hours. The attendance of all Executive Committee Members at the Midterm Meeting is funded by EADH, and the attendance of the Officers (Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, etc.) at the ADHO General Meeting is funded by EADH. Where attendance in person is not possible, the meetings can be run in a hybrid format. Who is eligible to be an EADH Executive Committee Member? EADH members and members of Associated Organizations of EADH are eligible to become members of the EADH Executive Committee. This means that those wishing to take part during the nominations period as either nominees or proposers (explained below) must have been Members in Good Standing (i.e. have paid their membership fees) by 25 April 2025, whether as a direct or joint member of EADH, or through one of its Associate Organizations. What are we looking for in an EADH Executive Committee Member? We particularly support members of our Associate Organizations to run for elections in the EADH Executive Committee, to better represent the missions of their local organizations at the European level.We welcome candidates working at every level of professional and educational development and every area in which aspects of DH are practiced, including archives, galleries, libraries, museums, universities, independent scholars, and any other public or private organizations invested in promoting DH activities across Europe. More important than a particular academic or professional degree is a candidate’s willingness to work actively and communicate openly with and for our community. EADH encourages a diverse and representative Executive Committee, and welcomes candidates from all backgrounds. For further information, please see our diversity and inclusivity statement <https://eadh.org/about/diversity-and-inclusivity> < https://eadh.org/about/diversity-and-inclusivity>. How do nominations work? Potential candidates can self-nominate with the support of two current members of EADH.* Each person wishing to be nominated to stand for election to the EADH Executive Committee must submit the following three documents: - two nomination statements by EADH members (here, the proposers), stating the name of the person they wish to nominate (that is, the nominee). The names of the proposers and their respective nomination statements will not be made public. - a statement by the nominee of no more than 200 words (links excluded), expressing the willingness to stand for election. Statements longer than 200 words will be disregarded. Statements by the nominees will be a matter of public record during and after the election. The statements of the proposers and the statement of the nominee (three documents in total) must be sent by the nominee to the Chair of the Elections Committee, Ulrike Wuttke (elections(a)eadh.org) no later than midnight on 28 May, 2025 (GMT). All nominees and proposers must be Members in Good Standing. This means they must have paid the 2025 membership fee of either EADH or an Associate Organisation (DHd, AIUCD, DHNB, CzADH) no later than 25 April 2025, otherwise the nomination will be invalid. Nominees are encouraged to confirm membership status with their proposers in advance. Potential candidates can self-nominate with the support of two current members of EADH.* These members (the proposers) must EACH submit a statement with the name of the person they wish to nominate (the nominee). The names of the proposers and their statements will not be made public. The nominee must also submit a statement of no more than 200 words (excluding links) expressing their willingness to stand for election. Statements by the nominees will be a matter of public record during and after the election. Submit this statement along with the names of your two supporting members and their statements (three documents in total) to the Chair of the Elections Committee, Ulrike Wuttke (elections(a)eadh.org) The statements from the proposers and the nominee must be submitted to the Chair of the Elections Committee no later than 23.59 [11.59 pm] GMT on 28 May 2025. Proposers may nominate only one (1) nominee. Additional nominations received from the same proposer will be considered invalid. *If you wish to stand for EADH elections in 2025 but do not know two other members of EADH, please be in touch and we can help you to find two supporting members. About EADH EADH is the umbrella organization for researchers interested in Digital Humanities across Europe. We have direct membership options for EADH, as well as membership options for our Associate Organizations (AIUCD [Associazone Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale], CzADH [Czech Association for Digital Humanities], DHd [Association for Digital Humanities in the German Speaking Countries], and DHNB [Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries]). We also collaborate with other European DH organizations, such as our participating organization, Digital Humanities BeNeLUx, and the external UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association. Members of the Executive Committee of EADH coordinate the DH community across Europe through monthly seminars, occasional workshops, and bi-annual conferences. EADH advocates for and supports all of our members in their digital humanities work. Contact Questions about nominations and elections can be directed to Ulrike Wuttke, Chair of the 2025 EADH Elections Committee (elections(a)eadh.org) Questions about membership can be directed to Jan Rybicki, Membership Officer of the 2025 EADH Election Committee (membership(a)eadh.org) Sincerely, Mariangela Distilo Communications Manager of EADH On behalf of The EADH Elections Committee (Ulrike Wuttke, Jan Rybicki, Valeria Vitale)

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Funded PhD opportunitiy: Fanfiction and Online Communities
by Paul Gooding 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

Dear all, With apologies for cross-posting… The University of Glasgow and the British Library are delighted to offer a fully-funded PhD studentship entitled “Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practices and Inclusion in a National Collection,” under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme<https://www.ukri.org/councils/ahrc/career-and-skills-development/supporting…>. I’ve included a project overview below, but full details, including eligibility and how to apply, are available online at the following link: https://www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships/ahrccollaborativedoctoralpartnershipcdpp…. Please do consider applying and/or passing this onto anybody that may be interested. Kind regards, Paul Gooding (Information Studies, University of Glasgow) The University of Glasgow and the British Library are seeking a doctoral student for an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, “Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practices and Inclusion in a National Collection.” The PhD aims to explore the publication, collection, and preservation activities of online fan communities and fan archives. It will investigate the methodologies and practices utilised in fan communities in creating and archiving works compare them to current practices in national libraries, and help develop an ethical framework for collecting online fan-generated content. This project will be jointly supervised by Paul Gooding (Professor of Library Studies and Digital Scholarship) and Rebecca Noone (Lecturer in Information Studies) at the University of Glasgow, and by Giulia Carla Rossi (Curator, Digital Publications) and Ian Cooke (Head of Contemporary British and Irish Publications) at the British Library. The student will spend time with the HEI partner and the British Library and will become part of the wider cohort of AHRC CDP-funded PhD students across the UK. The studentship will commence on 1st October 2025, and is funded for 48 months full-time or part-time equivalent for between 60-90 months. We are keen to encourage applications from a diverse range of people, from different backgrounds and career stages, and particularly welcome those currently underrepresented in doctoral student cohorts. The award pays tuition fees up to the value of the full-time home UKRI rate for PhD degrees, and the University of Glasgow will provide a fee waiver for the difference between the home fee rate and international student fees, meaning that the successful applicant will be eligible to have their fees covered in full. The award also pays a full stipend for all students (approx. £20,780 in 2025/26), an additional London allowance of £1,000/year, and a CDP maintenance payment of £600/year. In addition the successful applicant will be eligible for an additional research allowance courtesy of the British Library, of up to £1,000 per year or part time equivalent. The student will be based in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow, and will also have the opportunity to spend significant time with colleagues at the British Library. This is a unique opportunity to gain a wide range of transferable skills, and to work with leading researchers and practitioners in the library sector. Full details of the studentship can be found in the advert at this link<https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_1173348_smxx.pdf>, and include details of eligibility, relevant qualifications and experience, and how to apply. To apply, please follow instructions on the University of Glasgow scholarship page<https://www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships/ahrccollaborativedoctoralpartnershipcdpp…>. If you are interested in applying, you are welcome to contact Prof. Gooding for an informal discussion: paul.gooding(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]>.

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Announcement for DHI- a new DH journal from India
by Merisa Martinez 29 Apr '25

29 Apr '25

with apologies for cross-posting Dear Colleagues and friends: The Digital Humanities Lab and <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAEXITQEBOFYt7v-SRwaBT8kVxsiPCnS_YI0>Jaya Prakash Narayan National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaya-prakash-narayan-national-centre-of-excelle…> IIT Indore is excited to announce the launch of Digital Humanities Intersections (DHI), the first Digital Humanities journal from India. We invite the Indian and global DH community to please check it out and consider sending your submissions for the inaugural issue tentatively slated for release in October 2025. We are also looking to add reviewers and also look forward to proposals for special issues- while there will be a formal call for the same, we are happy to look at proposals. Please Check out the journal here: https://dhi.iiti.ac.in/index.php/dhjournal/index The call for papers and the submission portal for manuscript submission is now open. The attached documents also include a QR code for anyone to scan and enter the journal submission portal. Thanks and best wishes Nirmala ---------------------------------------------------- *Prof. Nirmala Menon, PhD * Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Affiliate Research Professor, University of Oxford Editor- Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) Series Editor, Routledge Publishing, Taylor and Francis, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Series Editor, DH in Asia Series, Routledge Publishing Convener, J P Narayan National Institute of Excellence in the Humanities Associate Dean of Administration Research Lead: Digital Humanities and Publishing Studies Room 521 Pod 1D Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) INDORE MP INDIA Phone: +91 9630002229 email: nmenon(a)iiti.ac.in nimmenon(a)gmail.com https://jpnnationalcentre.com/ <http://people.iiti.ac.in/~dhiiti/> https://iitikship.iiti.ac.in/ *All who wander are not lost*

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