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

29 May '26

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

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

20 May '26

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

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

18 May '26

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

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

13 May '26

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

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

11 May '26

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

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

11 May '26

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

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

08 May '26

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

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

05 May '26

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

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TOTh 2026 Terminology & Ontology - Call for Participation - Program - Registration - 20th Anniversary Edition
by Christophe Roche 04 May '26

04 May '26

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

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

04 May '26

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

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2-year DH postdoc / MPIWG Berlin
by Sarah Lang 29 Apr '26

29 Apr '26

Dear fellow DHers, MPIWG Berlin Department “Artifacts, Action, Knowledge,” led by Dagmar Schäfer, seeks to appoint one Postdoctoral Scholar on “Tackling the Digital Gap between Asia and Europe” in the research theme “EduTrack: Tracking Education Pathways and Social Policies <https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/edutrack-tracking-educati…>,” – for two years, with employment contract, TVöD-Bund pay scales (E13) – starting on September 1, 2026. For more information see: https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news-events/career/opportunities Best, Sarah Lang Dr. Sarah Lang (she/they) Head of Digital Humanties Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) Boltzmannstrasse 22 | 14195 Berlin slang(a)mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de <mailto:[email protected]> www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de <http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/>

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- Extended - CFP: Cultural Complexity and Computational Approaches
by Bárbara Romero Ferrón 27 Apr '26

27 Apr '26

*Apologies for cross-postings* We have secured funding to cover participants’ fees, so the conference is now free. In light of this, we have extended the submission deadline. CFP: Cultural Complexity and Computational Approaches – Complexhibit2026 (Málaga, 30 Jun–2 Jul 26) University of Málaga, Spain, 29.06.–01.07.2026 Submission deadline: 15.05.2026 **New Deadline** Complexity is a general property of cultural systems across historical periods. Cultural life has long unfolded through dense interdependencies among institutions and patronage regimes, media and material infrastructures, markets and circuits of exchange, publics and interpretive communities, and the norms and policies that govern cultural legitimacy. Across time—whether in early modern correspondence networks, nineteenth-century print cultures, or today’s platform-mediated environments—these interacting forces constitute cultural ecosystems whose dynamics are non-linear, multi-scalar, and historically stratified. They generate emergent phenomena such as canon formation and marginalization, reputational cascades, diffusion and imitation, cycles of attention, unequal circulation, and durable asymmetries of access and preservation. Over recent decades, the increasing data mediation of cultural activity and the rise of digital infrastructures have made some of these dynamics more visible, more rapid, and in certain domains more measurable—while also introducing new regimes of visibility, new feedback loops, and new forms of inequality. Contemporary technological developments—mass digitization, networked cultural infrastructures, machine-readable standards, and advances in AI and data science—reconfigure cultural ecosystems in ways that increase systemic complexity while simultaneously extending our capacity to render that complexity analytically tractable. They enable the formalization of cultural knowledge, the modeling of systemic dynamics, and the testing of claims against evidence at scales and resolutions that earlier scholarship could only approximate. This shift makes computational approaches methodologically salient not as a replacement for interpretation, but as a means to articulate interpretive arguments with explicit models, traceable assumptions, and empirical accountability. Against this background, the conference advances a deliberately reflexive research problem: What does it mean to study culture—rigorously and critically—when we conceptualize cultural ecosystems as complex systems that can be formally represented, computationally modeled, and empirically evaluated? A second, closely related question follows: How can we develop computational forms of cultural inquiry that are simultaneously system-sensitive and historically grounded—capable of formal representation, modeling, and evaluation—without collapsing cultural interpretation into mere measurement? The conference is anchored in the Complexhibit Project, which develops methods for the semantic integration of heterogeneous sources—such as catalogues, curatorial texts, reviews, institutional records, and digital traces—to enable enriched, comparative analysis of the exhibition domain across contexts and scales. Building on this framework, the conference welcomes contributions that extend complexity-informed perspectives to broader cultural ecosystems, including arts and heritage, cultural industries, archives and libraries, education, mediation, platform cultures, communities, and cultural policy. The event also commemorates the tenth anniversary of eHAD 2016, the IV International Meeting of Researchers in Digital Art History (Málaga, 2016), broadening its legacy from Digital Art History to computational approaches centered on cultural complexity across historical periods. Keynote Speakers * Lynn Rother, Lichtenberg-Professor for Provenance Studies and founding director of the Provenance Lab, Leuphana University (Germany). Her research combines art history, museum practice, and data science to investigate provenance, restitution, and cultural infrastructures. * Carlos Eduardo Maldonado, Professor of Complexity Science, Universidad El Bosque (Colombia). A leading figure in complexity studies in Latin America, his work addresses the theoretical and philosophical foundations of complexity science and the epistemology of complex systems. Thematic Clusters (non-exhaustive) I) Cultural Dynamics and Historical Change This cluster welcomes research that conceptualizes culture as a system of interacting forces unfolding across multiple scales and historical horizons. We invite work on how cultural forms, reputations, institutions, and interpretive communities emerge, stabilize, and transform over time through circulation, conflict, selection, and accumulation. Relevant topics include dynamics of visibility and invisibility, canon formation and revision, diffusion and imitation, attention cycles, and structural inequalities in access and circulation. We are especially interested in approaches that preserve historical specificity while enabling comparative or long-range analysis—through temporal modeling, event-based perspectives, or other frameworks suited to path dependence, thresholds, and turning points. II) Cultural Infrastructures, Knowledge, and Evidence Culture becomes knowable through infrastructures of description and preservation: catalogues, archives, standards, classification regimes, and institutional policies. This cluster invites contributions that examine how such infrastructures shape cultural memory and legibility, including their epistemic and political consequences. We welcome work on formal representations of cultural knowledge and the challenges of integrating heterogeneous sources across institutions and time: interoperability, conceptual modeling, data quality, and the management of uncertainty. We particularly value contributions that foreground evidence and traceability—provenance, versioning, missingness, and the limits of inference—so that computational claims can be evaluated as historically situated knowledge practices. III) Cultural Discourse and Interpretation Culture is also an ecosystem of discourse: criticism, catalogues, press, scholarship, correspondence, institutional writing, and platform-mediated conversation. This cluster invites research that investigates interpretation at scale—how meanings, valuations, and controversies circulate and become authoritative across genres, institutions, languages, and historical contexts. We welcome work that treats discourse not merely as “textual data,” but as a site where cultural power, legitimacy, and epistemic authority are negotiated. IV) Responsibility, Data Governance, and Sustainability Computational cultural inquiry raises questions of responsibility that are inseparable from methodological rigor. This cluster foregrounds the governance conditions under which cultural data is produced, structured, maintained, and operationalized, including legal constraints, institutional adoption, and the political consequences of automation. We invite contributions that address rights and licensing, sustainability of infrastructures, and critical analyses of bias and epistemic inequality—especially how standards, datasets, and models may reproduce historical exclusions or generate new forms of invisibility. Submission Types * Paper Presentations (20 min): Extended abstract, 500–800 words (PDF), with title, author information, and clear research question. * Panels / Roundtables (90 min): Rationale (250–400 words), 3–5 guiding questions, participant bios. * Workshops (Day 1, morning, 2-3 hours): Objectives, intended audience, relevance to conference themes, format. Important Dates * Submission deadline: 15 May 2026 (23:59 CET) * Notifications: 25 May 2026 * Conference: 30 June; 1-2 July 2026 General Information * Submissions may address any historical period and any cultural domain (arts, heritage, cultural industries, archives, libraries, policy, platform cultures). * Language: English or Spanish (working language: English). * Registration fee (accepted contributions): Free. * Proceedings: Book of abstracts; selected contributions invited to a special issue / edited volume. * Submit proposals to: digitalarthistory(a)uma.es<mailto:[email protected]> More information at: https://complexhibit.eu/es_es/complexhibit-2026-conference/

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CFP for Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR 2027), Manchester, January 5-8
by Gius, Evelyn 23 Apr '26

23 Apr '26

(With apologies for double posting) We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2027 edition of the Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR 2027), which will take place on 5 to 8 January 2027, at the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media<https://www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/>, University of Manchester. In recent years, the arts and humanities have seen a significant increase in the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches. This kind of research is distinguished by its reliance on formal methods and the development of explicit, computational models—ranging from quantitative and statistical techniques to broader computational methods for processing and analysing data, as well as theoretical reflections on these approaches. The CHR conference seeks to be a venue where scholars can present and publish computational work while maintaining a strong connection to traditional humanities inquiry. More specifically, the conference has two key goals: 1. Building an inclusive community of researchers who apply computational and quantitative methods to humanities data in all its forms. We see this community as complementary to the broader digital humanities landscape and actively encourage participation from anyone bringing fresh perspectives to computational humanities. 2. Promoting excellent research. This includes fostering transparency and reproducibility through open code and data, supporting research designs that clarify theoretical frameworks and methodologies, and better accommodating interdisciplinary work that blends computational methods with humanities-driven questions. The deadline for full paper submissions is August 14, 2026. For further details, please consult the full Call for Papers here<https://2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/>. If you have any questions, special requirements, or concerns, feel free to reach out to the organisers at pc(a)computational-humanities-research.org<https://mailto:[email protected]/>. Kind regards, Kaspar Beelen, Giovanni Colavizza and Evelyn Gius (CHR2027 programme chairs)

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[CfP] ESWC 2026 - Call for Participation
by Web and Publicity ESWC 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

(Apologies for cross-posting) ================================== ESWC 2026 - Call for Participation ================================== The European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) is a major venue for academic research and developments in the area of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs. The 23rd edition will take place from May 10 to 14, 2026, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The scientific programme of ESWC 2026 includes: * Three main scientific tracks (Research, Resources, and In-Use) * A poster and demo session * A PhD symposium * An Industry track * 13 workshops and 7 tutorials See https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/program/program-overview/ ================ Keynote speakers ================ ESWC 2026 is delighted to host the following lineup of keynote speakers ( https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/program/keynote-speakers/) * Prof. Maria-Esther Vidal (Leibniz University Hannover & TIB): leading research in semantic data management and neuro-symbolic AI for explainable, knowledge-driven discovery * Prof. Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen): pioneering work on fair and explainable NLP * Atanas Kiryakov (Graphwise): expert in semantic databases and knowledge graphs, and a driving force behind GraphDB ============================ Registration & Accommodation ============================ ESWC 2026 registration is open at https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/attending/registration/ Details on the conference venue are available at https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/attending/venue/ We’re looking forward to meeting you in Dubrovnik! The ESWC 2026 Organising Committee

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DH2026 SIG-DLS Mini-Conference – 2nd CfP
by Simone Rebora 16 Apr '26

16 Apr '26

Dear all, We remind you that the CfP for the upcoming SIG-DLS event at DH2026 (planned on 28 July in Daejeon, South Korea) *will close on 30 April.* You can read the Call text here below and at the following link: https://dls.hypotheses.org/2289 Please note that it will also be possible to submit a paper for an online presentation. In that case, you will be able to join just the first part of the event. All the best, Simone === In the context of the 2026 edition of the Digital Humanities Conference (DH2026) Conference in Daejeon, South Korea, the Special Interest Group Digital Literary Studies within ADHO (SIG-DLS) and the Digital Comparative Literature (DCL) research committee of ICLA jointly invite submissions for a mini-conference titled "Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today". Background and Goals Digital or Computational Literary Studies and Comparative Literature continue to evolve through the integration of computational methods, multilingual archives, and innovative analytical frameworks. This workshop seeks to explore the intersection of digital and comparative approaches, highlighting both established and emerging methods — from born-digital narratives, distant reading and cultural analytics to machine learning, generative Large Language Models, and beyond. We particularly welcome contributions that address the challenges and opportunities of multilingual, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary research, as well as critical reflections on the role of technology or such mediated narratives in literary scholarship. We encourage submissions for work that will be presented both as a (hybrid) lightning talk format as well as in an open-space, interactive poster session. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include but are by no means limited to the following areas: - Digital Methods in Comparative Literature: Applications of computational techniques (e.g., distant reading, network analysis, topic modeling, sentiment analysis) to compare texts across languages, cultures, or historical periods. - Multilingual and Multicultural Approaches: Case studies on digitized or born-digital literary archives, challenges of multilingual corpora, and cross-cultural literary analysis. - Generative AI and Literary Studies: Critical or applied uses of large language models (LLMs) and other AI tools, including their ethical, methodological, and theoretical implications. - Digital and Computational Linguistics for Analysis of Literary Texts: Applying linguistic theory and computational methods to study aspects of literary discourse. - Tools and Infrastructures: Software, workflows, or platforms that support digital and/or comparative literary research. - Theoretical and Methodological Innovations: New frameworks for combining digital and comparative approaches, including reflections on the limits and potentials of computational methods. - Born-Digital and Post-Digital Literature: Studies of electronic literature, hypertext, or other digital-born forms, as well as their analysis through digital tools. - Responsible Research Practices: Discussions on reproducibility, transparency, and ethical considerations in digital and/or comparative literary studies. Submission Guidelines Please submit a 300 to 500-word abstract (excluding references) describing your project, research idea, or theoretical contribution, by sending your abstract as one PDF file to Christof Schöch at schoech(a)uni-trier.de by the due date mentioned below. Mini-conference Format The half-day workshop will have two parts: first, a lightning talks session, then a poster session. All contributors are invited to participate actively in both sessions, that is: first present their work in a quick talk, then be ready to discuss their work supported by a poster. The main goal of the mini-conference is to foster exchange between researchers, developers, and practitioners, and provide a networking opportunity ahead of the start of the main conference programme. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the organizing committee. We expect to be able to offer free on-site printing of posters to most if not all participants (within our budgetary limits). Key Dates Submission Deadline: April 30, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2026 Mini-conference Date: July 28, 2026, in the afternoon (KST). Organizers / Programme Committee Samya Brata Roy (ICLA DCL) Youngmin Kim (ICLA DCL) Federico Pianzola (ICLA DCL) Christof Schöch (ICLA DCL / SIG DLS) Shanmugapriya T (SIG DLS) Joanna Byszuk-Podsadniuk (SIG DLS) Katherine Elkins (SIG DLS) Berenike Herrmann (SIG DLS) Nuette Heyns (SIG-DLS) Suzanne Mpouli (SIG DLS) Simone Rebora (ICLA DCL / SIG DLS) Pablo Ruiz Fabo (SIG DLS) Contact For inquiries, please contact Simone Rebora at simone.rebora(a)univr.it.

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CCLS2026: Program and Registration
by Digital Humanities Potsdam 13 Apr '26

13 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce that the program of the 5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS2026), to take place in Potsdam, Germany, on 28-29 May 2026, is now available on the conference website: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2026/. We have also opened the general registration for the conference: https://fmsup-ext.uni-potsdam.de/fs-extern/form/provide/564/. Both on-site and online attendance is possible. Thanks to the support of the University of Potsdam, there will be no participation fee. Please register as soon as possible (!) since the number of on-site participants at the conference is limited. All conference contributions will be collected in a reader, which will be delivered to each participant two weeks before the event takes place. Participants are encouraged to read the contributions ahead in order to enable in-depth discussions. During the conference, each contribution is allocated an half an hour slot, consisting of a 10-minute presentation by the author(s) and a 20-minute discussion. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at digital-humanities(a)uni-potsdam.de. We look forward to welcoming you to Potsdam! Best wishes, the CCLS2026 organising team

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Book of Abstracts for the ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2025 (DH2025) now available on Zenodo!
by Scholger, Walter (walter.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, I am delighted to share that the Book of Abstracts for the ADHO Digital Humanities 2025 Conference (DH2025) in Lisbon has now been published on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/19494802 Many thanks to the organisers Daniel Alves and Joana Vieira Paulino, as well as Patrick Helling, Nicole Majka, Simon Wiles and Diane Jakacki! Best regards, Walter Scholger ____________________ Walter Scholger ADHO Conference Officer DHd Representative to ADHO Department of Digital Humanities 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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Exciting Opportunities: Join the ADHO Executive Board
by Scholger, Walter (walter.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, Please allow me to share a reminder about exciting opportunities to join the ADHO Executive Board: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is seeking expressions of interest for several positions<https://adho.org/positions/>, offering members an opportunity to contribute to and help shape the future of the field. As the field of Digital Humanities continues to grow and evolve, ADHO is committed to promoting and supporting digital research and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines, drawing together humanists engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, creation, dissemination, and beyond in all areas reflected by its diverse membership. ADHO supports initiatives for publication, presentation, collaboration, and training; recognizes and supports excellence in these endeavours; and acts as a community-based consultative and advisory force. We are seeking applications for the following positions: 1. Executive Board Chair-Elect<https://adho.org/2026/03/03/call-for-adho-executive-board-chair-elect/> 2. Executive Board Deputy Secretary<https://adho.org/2026/03/03/call-for-adho-executive-board-deputy-secretary/> 3. Deputy Treasurer<https://adho.org/2026/03/03/call-for-adho-deputy-treasurer/> 4. Deputy Conference Officer<https://adho.org/2026/03/03/call-for-adho-deputy-conference-officer/> Please click on the links above for full role descriptions and application details. The deadline for applications is 1 May 2026. By joining the ADHO executive board, you will have the chance to work alongside leading experts in the field and contribute to shaping the policies and practices that define Digital Humanities in a collaborative and inclusive environment where your ideas and contributions are valued. Best regards, Walter Scholger ____________________ Walter Scholger ADHO Conference Officer DHd Representative to ADHO Department of Digital Humanities 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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Nominations for ADHO Roberto Busa Prize 2026
by Scholger, Walter (walter.scholger＠uni-graz.at) 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

Dear colleagues, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is inviting nominations for the 2026 Roberto Busa Prize. This award is presented in recognition of an outstanding lifetime achievement in the application of information and communication technologies to research in the humanities. The prize is awarded every three years. Nominations must be submitted by 15 June 2026. Further information on the criteria and procedure can be found at: https://adho.org/2026/04/09/call-for-nominations-adho-roberto-busa-prize-20… Kind regards, Walter Scholger ____________________ Walter Scholger ADHO Conference Officer DHd Representative to ADHO Department of Digital Humanities 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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Reminder: VeSSDPH 2026 applications close on 13 April
by Emmanuela Carbé 10 Apr '26

10 Apr '26

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Just a quick reminder that applications for the Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities <https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/1/113737>(VeSSDPH 2026) are open until 13 April 2026, 11:59 p.m. CEST. The Summer School will take place at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 6-10 July 2026, and offers advanced training in Digital and Public Humanities through lectures, hands-on workshops, guided visits, and project discussion sessions across Venice and its cultural heritage sites. Participation is free of charge. The School welcomes PhD students, postdocs, and practitioners, and will host a maximum of 25 participants. Application materials: - CV (max. 2 pages) - Cover letter (max. 2 pages) Applicants should complete the online form here: https://forms.gle/rH9tZnkbq4aUWqLt5 CV and cover letter should be sent in PDF format to vedph(a)unive.it, with the subject line: “VeDPH Summer School Application - Name Surname” Further information and full programme: https://www.unive.it/pag/39288/ Best wishes, Emmanuela -- 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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AI 4 Science conference, 5-9 October 2026 in Mainz
by Dr. Nadezhda Povroznik 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

Dear colleagues from DH and from AI applications research for journalism, education, law, media, market research, market communication, intelligent interfaces, etc., in the context of AI 4 Science conference, 5-9 October 2026 in Mainz, there will be a *** AI4Humanities&SocialSciences *** track, chaired by Julianne Nyhan https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianne-nyhan-77319133b/ (Technical University Darmstadt) and Christoph Bläsi (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) For this track, we invite contributions, also from application fields, on topics like: - (innovative) theoretical and analytical applications of AI in HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) and critiques thereof, for example concerning AI and hermeneutics and tools for empirical and analytical research (e.g. for content analysis) - ethical dimensions of the use of AI in HSS, for example, where AI may lead to the reinscription or activation of long standing or new dynamics of bias or an inappropriate use of resources or applications like deathbots - source analysis and source criticism of AI in HSS, for example, multimodal - AI and vector-based search - AI applications close to the methodological frontier in application areas linked to HSS, e.g. journalism, education, law, media, market research, market communication, intelligent interfaces, etc. - (innovative) presentation and dissemination of HSS research with the help of AI, for example storytelling - (innovative) approaches to the inclusion of stakeholders outside academia in Digital Humanities and Digital Social Sciences research, for example citizen science Regularly updated information on the conference and particularly the AI4HSS track you will find here: https://ai4sci.eu/ai4humanitiessocialsciences/. On behalf of the HDSM team, Technical University Darmstadt

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Call for Abstracts - 3rd Workshop on Frictional Design in Hybrid Human-AI Systems | Jul 7, Brussels @ HHAI26
by c.natali6＠campus.unimib.it 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

(apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for abstracts) -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Third Workshop on Frictional Design in Hybrid Human-AI Systems Co-located with the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI26) July 7, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium (in-person) Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home -------------------------------------------------- **Workshop Overview** This full-day workshop explores frictional design strategies in Human–AI interaction: design patterns that deliberately create moments of reflection, critical thinking, and cognitive effort in AI-supported decision-making. While contemporary AI systems are typically optimised for efficiency and seamless interactions, growing evidence in HCI, cognitive science, and safety-critical domains shows that overly smooth interaction can promote cognitive offloading, automation bias, over-reliance, and skill erosion. Frictional design examines when and how interaction mechanisms can slow down decision-making at appropriate moments in order to support human oversight, judgement, and appropriate reliance. Example mechanisms include: - requiring users to reason themselves before accessing AI support and/or scaffold reasoning through staged or reflective interaction - introducing novel uncertainty visualisations, present explanations or evidence in ways that prompt active scrutiny - any other approach that balances or favours cognitive engagement over seamless usability and speed Building on the success of the two previous editions, this workshop aims to advance an interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars across HCI, AI, cognitive science, and AI governance. The programme will include paper presentations, a keynote, structured discussions, and collaborative activities aimed at developing a shared research agenda for stimulating cognitive engagement in human-AI interactions. **Keynote** Bogdana Rakova (DLA Piper, Data & Society Research Institute, ex-Mozilla Fellow) Talk: “Speculative Friction: Exploring existing, speculative, and instrumental frictions in AI design and governance” **Topics of Interest** We invite extended abstracts from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers on topics including (but not limited to): - Design Principles for Cognitive Engagement (Interaction strategies that balance efficiency with reflection and critical engagement) - Methods to Measure Over-Reliance and Under-Reliance (Frameworks, metrics, or empirical studies assessing how AI affects human judgement, expertise, and decision behaviour) - Trust Calibration and Transparency (Investigations of how explanations, uncertainty communication, or interface design influence trust and reliance) - Governance and Policy Approaches (Legal, regulatory, or organisational perspectives on incorporating frictional principles into AI deployment and oversight) - Applications and Case Studies (Empirical studies, prototypes, or deployments demonstrating seamful or frictional interaction patterns in practice) **Submission Details** - Submission type: Extended Abstracts (500--1,500 words - to be extended to 5 pages for the post-workshop proceedings) - Format: CEURART-WS template (see workshop website) - Submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FrictionalAI2026 Accepted papers will be published in the HHAI 2026 Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop in person and register for the HHAI conference (single-day registration options available). **Important Dates** (AoE) - Submission deadline: 1 May, 2026 - Notification: 29 May, 2026 - Camera-ready: 19 June, 2026 - Workshop: 7 July, 2026 **Beyond the Workshop** This workshop series aims to build a research community around frictional and cognitively engaging AI design. Authors and participants will be invited to contribute to follow-up initiatives, including collaborative publications, special issues, and future events. Interested researchers can join the mailing list: https://www.freelists.org/list/friction **Organisers** Chiara Natali, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Fabio M. Russo, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca Simon W. S. Fischer, Radboud University Manni Cheung, University of Cambridge Brett Frischmann, Villanova University For further information: https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home

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[CALL FOR APPLICATIONS] DANES ScHack 2026 — First DANES Summer School & Hackathon | University of Turin | July 6–10, 2026
by shygordin＠gmail.com 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

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[CFP] GenAIK-NORA Joint Workshop @ IJCAI-ECAI 2026
by Btissam Er-Rahmadi 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

Hi All, We are pleased to announce GenAIK-NORA: The Joint Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs and KNOwledge GRaphs & Agentic Systems Interplay, which will be co-located with IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen, Germany. More details below. *Joint Call for Papers---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Joint Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK) and KNOwledge GRaphs & Agentic Systems Interplay (NORA),15-17 August 2026, Bremen, GermanyWeb: https://genetasefa.github.io/GenAIK2026/ <https://genetasefa.github.io/GenAIK2026/> and https://nora-workshop.github.io/IJCAIECAI2026/ <https://nora-workshop.github.io/IJCAIECAI2026/>X: @GenAIK26 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9868047 <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9868047> and https://www.linkedin.com/company/nora-knowledge-graphs-agentic-systems-inte… <https://www.linkedin.com/company/nora-knowledge-graphs-agentic-systems-inte…>Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@GenAIK <https://sigmoid.social/@GenAIK> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------In conjunction with IJCAI-ECAI 2026, August 15-19---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Workshop Overview---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the AI landscape, enabling systems to generate multimodal content and perform increasingly complex reasoning and decision-making tasks. Despite these advances, generative models still face important challenges, including hallucinations, limited interpretability, and difficulties in grounding outputs in reliable domain knowledge.Knowledge Graphs (KGs) provide a principled framework for representing structured and interconnected knowledge through entities, relations, and formal ontologies. They enable interpretability, reasoning, and the integration of domain expertise, making them an important component for building reliable and trustworthy AI systems. At the same time, LLM-based agents are emerging as a powerful paradigm for building autonomous systems capable of planning, tool use, and long-term task execution, often requiring structured representations of knowledge and memory.The interaction between generative models, agentic systems, and knowledge graphs is therefore becoming an important research direction in contemporary AI. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from AI, NLP, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, and Hybrid AI to explore methods, systems, and applications that combine these paradigms.This edition represents a joint workshop, bringing together the communities of GenAIK (Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs) and NORA (Knowledge Graphs and Agentic Systems Interplay) to foster collaboration across these complementary research areas.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Topics of Interest---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KG construction, completion, and refinement with GenAI and Agents— Text-to-KG extraction using LLMs (multilingual, multimodal)— KG completion, cleaning, and refinement (deduplication, entity resolution)— Fact verification, contradiction detection, and consistency checking— Human-in-the-loop KG curation and interactive refinement- KG grounding for information retrieval, including generation, querying, and dialogue— KG-grounded generation / GraphRAG (subgraph retrieval, path-based evidence)— Natural language querying of KGs via GenAI (e.g., NL-to-SPARQL) — Hybrid QA and dialogue systems combining KGs and GenAI (e.g., Agents) — Prompting / controllable generation using KG structure and constraints— Context and memory indexing and retrieval for GenAI and agents- Neuro-symbolic methods, reasoning, and explainability— Hybrid reasoning with rules, constraints, and structured evidence — Explainability and verifiable reasoning with provenance/evidence graphs — Cross-domain knowledge transfer with KGs and GenAIK- Representations, embeddings, and temporal/evolving KGs— GenAI for KG embeddings and hybrid vectorgraph representations — Temporal KGs, dynamic updates, continual learning, concept drift — Ontology learning, schema induction, alignment, and schema evolution- Trustworthiness, safety, and governance— Bias mitigation using KGs in GenAI and Agentic Systems— Hallucination reduction via grounding/constraints; robustness to attacks — Uncertainty estimation and calibrated confidence — Privacy, access control, and policy-aware KG-grounded generation- Agentic KGs and real-world systems — Agentic KGs: KGs as long-term memory/state for LLM agents— KGs serving agents' memories: Episodic (experiences, events, etc.), Semantic (facts, concepts, etc.), and — Procedural (skills, tasks, etc.)— KG-aware planning, tool use (query/update), and multi-agent coordination— Collaborative & shared agent memories and contexts.— Context Engineering enhanced by KGs- GenAI/Agents and KG Applications— Efficient and proactive personal assistance & Personalisation— Multi-Lingual & Multi-modal integrations and enablement— Personalisation vs Generalisation in GenAI and Agentic systems memory— Domain-specific applications: scholarly knowledge, biomedicine & healthcare, finance, education, etc.— Task-specific applications: personal assistance, dialogue systems, recommender systems, customer service, etc.— Architectures and pipelines - Datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation— Benchmark datasets for GenAI or Agents plus KG tasks— Evaluation of grounding/faithfulness, factuality, reasoning, robustness— Evaluation pitfalls: data leakage, LLM-as-a-judge bias, reproducibility, and reporting standards------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Important Dates (AoE)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: 7 May 2026- Notification of Acceptance: 10 June 2026- Camera-ready Paper Due: 25 June 2026- Workshop date (In-Person): 15, 16, or 17 August 2026------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Submissions Guidelines, Policies, and Awards are available on the website.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Organization---------------------------------------------------------------------------------GenAIK Team:- Genet Asefa Gesese, FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany- Angelo Salatino, The Open University, UK.- Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy- Shenghui Wang, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, GermanyNORA Team:- Btissam Er-Rahmadi, Independent Researcher, UK- Sebastien Montella, Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd, UK- Damien Graux, EcoVadis, UK- Andre Melo, Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd, UK- Hajira Jabeen, University Hospital Cologne, Germany* -- Btissam Er-Rahmadi

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AI-BRIDGES Symposium: Institutional Data, Open Knowledge & AI — May 28–29, London (free)
by Shani Evenstein Sigalov 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

Dear friends & colleagues, *TLDR: *You are invited to a free two-day event at Senate House, London, bringing together institutions, Open Knowledge communities, AI developers, researchers and funders. The event will focus on how institutional data, Linked Open Data, and GenAI can be better connected, featuring hands-on workshops, an expert panel (incl. Jimmy Wales, Denny Vrandečić, Prof. Elena Simperl, Renata Avila and others), and collaborative roundtables. More details & registration here <https://ai-bridges.org/2026/02/13/symposium/>. *The more elaborate version: * I have been wanting to write here for a few months now about AI-BRIDGES, and am excited to finally do that and specifically invite you to the AI-BRIDGES Symposium. For those researching the intersection of institutional data governance, Open Knowledge, and AI, an event that combines research dialogue with hands-on collaboration may be of interest. AI-BRIDGES <https://ai-bridges.org/> is a European Commission-funded project exploring how institutional data, Linked Open Data platforms like Wikidata & Wikibase, and Generative AI can be better connected, practically and responsibly. We work with various partners in the UK and globally (a partial list of which you could find here <https://ai-bridges.org/partners/>), and the project serves as a convening, facilitating and innovative space that connects communities that otherwise work in silos, in order to collaboratively tackle some joint challenges. On *May 28–29*, we're hosting a Symposium at *Senate House, University of London*: *Day 1 (Thu):* *pre-Symposium training day:* training about Wikidata, Wikibase, AI embeddings & MCP, and vibe coding for institutions and practitioners. Online attendance is possible. *Day 2 (Fri):* *the main Symposium day*: intro & framing, Expert panel & facilitated roundtables. Only in person (most will be recorded). *Panelists* include *Jimmy Wales* (Founder of Wikipedia), *Dr. Denny Vrandečić* (Founder of Wikidata & lead of Abstract Wikipedia), *Jon Lloyd* (Director of Advocacy, Digital Public Good Alliance), *Renata Avila* (CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation), *Prof. Elena Simperl* (Co-director King’s College Institute for AI; director of research Open Data Institute), *Dr. Aaron Halfaker* (Principal Scientist, Microsoft), and *Josie Fraser* (Head of Digital Policy, National Lottery Heritage Fund UK), alongside representatives from government, cultural heritage, academia and civil society. The *roundtables* are designed for collaborative problem-solving, participants work together on real challenges and leave with concrete next steps. Attendance is free, but registration is required. For more details and registration, please see here <https://ai-bridges.org/2026/02/13/symposium/> . *Beyond the Symposium*, AI-BRIDGES hosts monthly Open Forum meetings (last Friday of each month, 15:00 UK time), an open space for shared learning and collaboration. See here to learn how to join the google group and become a thought partner <https://ai-bridges.org/2026/01/06/open-forum/>. Finally, if you work at an institution, please check the "Get Involved" tab <https://ai-bridges.org/get-involved/>, specifically around contributing sample data to the project. If you have any questions or want to partner, we'd love to hear from you <https://ai-bridges.org/about/>. Best, Shani. -------------------------- Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher & AI-BRIDGES <https://ai-bridges.org/> project lead Digital Humanities Research Hub School of Advanced Study University of London +44-7783056290

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[CfP] ESWC 2026 - Call for Project Networking Track
by Web and Publicity ESWC 29 Mar '26

29 Mar '26

(Apologies for cross-posting) The European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) is a major venue for academic research and developments in the area of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs. The 23rd edition will take place from May 10 to 14, 2026, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The ESWC 2026 Project Networking Track provides a forum for research projects to connect, exchange knowledge, and explore synergies across the Semantic Web community. It aims to foster collaboration, support the sharing of data and technologies, and lay the groundwork for future joint initiatives, funding proposals, and partnerships. Participants can present their projects to a broad audience, discuss results and requirements, and identify opportunities for collaboration. The track welcomes submissions from concluding, ongoing, and upcoming projects, provided they are clearly aligned with ESWC core topics. Selected projects will engage in dedicated networking activities during the conference, including a short pitch session, a poster session, and a networking lunch. These formats are designed to stimulate interaction, increase project visibility, and support the creation of meaningful connections within the ESWC community. Important Dates submissions Thursday 9th April 2026 Notification of acceptance Thursday 16th April 2026 All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12). More information: https://2026.eswc-conferences.org/calls/project-networking/ Project Networking Chairs Valentina Presutti University of Bologna, Italy Beatriz Esteves IMEC - University of Ghent, Belgium Contact: eswc2026-networking(a)easychair.org

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CFP: Cultural Complexity and Computational Approaches Conference
by Bárbara Romero Ferrón 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

*Apologies for cross-postings* CFP: Cultural Complexity and Computational Approaches – Complexhibit2026 (Málaga, 30 Jun–2 Jul 26) University of Málaga, Spain, 29.06.–01.07.2026 Submission deadline: 25.04.2026 Complexity is a general property of cultural systems across historical periods. Cultural life has long unfolded through dense interdependencies among institutions and patronage regimes, media and material infrastructures, markets and circuits of exchange, publics and interpretive communities, and the norms and policies that govern cultural legitimacy. Across time—whether in early modern correspondence networks, nineteenth-century print cultures, or today’s platform-mediated environments—these interacting forces constitute cultural ecosystems whose dynamics are non-linear, multi-scalar, and historically stratified. They generate emergent phenomena such as canon formation and marginalization, reputational cascades, diffusion and imitation, cycles of attention, unequal circulation, and durable asymmetries of access and preservation. Over recent decades, the increasing data mediation of cultural activity and the rise of digital infrastructures have made some of these dynamics more visible, more rapid, and in certain domains more measurable—while also introducing new regimes of visibility, new feedback loops, and new forms of inequality. Contemporary technological developments—mass digitization, networked cultural infrastructures, machine-readable standards, and advances in AI and data science—reconfigure cultural ecosystems in ways that increase systemic complexity while simultaneously extending our capacity to render that complexity analytically tractable. They enable the formalization of cultural knowledge, the modeling of systemic dynamics, and the testing of claims against evidence at scales and resolutions that earlier scholarship could only approximate. This shift makes computational approaches methodologically salient not as a replacement for interpretation, but as a means to articulate interpretive arguments with explicit models, traceable assumptions, and empirical accountability. Against this background, the conference advances a deliberately reflexive research problem: What does it mean to study culture—rigorously and critically—when we conceptualize cultural ecosystems as complex systems that can be formally represented, computationally modeled, and empirically evaluated? A second, closely related question follows: How can we develop computational forms of cultural inquiry that are simultaneously system-sensitive and historically grounded—capable of formal representation, modeling, and evaluation—without collapsing cultural interpretation into mere measurement? The conference is anchored in the Complexhibit Project, which develops methods for the semantic integration of heterogeneous sources—such as catalogues, curatorial texts, reviews, institutional records, and digital traces—to enable enriched, comparative analysis of the exhibition domain across contexts and scales. Building on this framework, the conference welcomes contributions that extend complexity-informed perspectives to broader cultural ecosystems, including arts and heritage, cultural industries, archives and libraries, education, mediation, platform cultures, communities, and cultural policy. The event also commemorates the tenth anniversary of eHAD 2016, the IV International Meeting of Researchers in Digital Art History (Málaga, 2016), broadening its legacy from Digital Art History to computational approaches centered on cultural complexity across historical periods. Keynote Speakers * Lynn Rother, Lichtenberg-Professor for Provenance Studies and founding director of the Provenance Lab, Leuphana University (Germany). Her research combines art history, museum practice, and data science to investigate provenance, restitution, and cultural infrastructures. * Carlos Eduardo Maldonado, Professor of Complexity Science, Universidad El Bosque (Colombia). A leading figure in complexity studies in Latin America, his work addresses the theoretical and philosophical foundations of complexity science and the epistemology of complex systems. Thematic Clusters (non-exhaustive) I) Cultural Dynamics and Historical Change This cluster welcomes research that conceptualizes culture as a system of interacting forces unfolding across multiple scales and historical horizons. We invite work on how cultural forms, reputations, institutions, and interpretive communities emerge, stabilize, and transform over time through circulation, conflict, selection, and accumulation. Relevant topics include dynamics of visibility and invisibility, canon formation and revision, diffusion and imitation, attention cycles, and structural inequalities in access and circulation. We are especially interested in approaches that preserve historical specificity while enabling comparative or long-range analysis—through temporal modeling, event-based perspectives, or other frameworks suited to path dependence, thresholds, and turning points. II) Cultural Infrastructures, Knowledge, and Evidence Culture becomes knowable through infrastructures of description and preservation: catalogues, archives, standards, classification regimes, and institutional policies. This cluster invites contributions that examine how such infrastructures shape cultural memory and legibility, including their epistemic and political consequences. We welcome work on formal representations of cultural knowledge and the challenges of integrating heterogeneous sources across institutions and time: interoperability, conceptual modeling, data quality, and the management of uncertainty. We particularly value contributions that foreground evidence and traceability—provenance, versioning, missingness, and the limits of inference—so that computational claims can be evaluated as historically situated knowledge practices. III) Cultural Discourse and Interpretation Culture is also an ecosystem of discourse: criticism, catalogues, press, scholarship, correspondence, institutional writing, and platform-mediated conversation. This cluster invites research that investigates interpretation at scale—how meanings, valuations, and controversies circulate and become authoritative across genres, institutions, languages, and historical contexts. We welcome work that treats discourse not merely as “textual data,” but as a site where cultural power, legitimacy, and epistemic authority are negotiated. IV) Responsibility, Data Governance, and Sustainability Computational cultural inquiry raises questions of responsibility that are inseparable from methodological rigor. This cluster foregrounds the governance conditions under which cultural data is produced, structured, maintained, and operationalized, including legal constraints, institutional adoption, and the political consequences of automation. We invite contributions that address rights and licensing, sustainability of infrastructures, and critical analyses of bias and epistemic inequality—especially how standards, datasets, and models may reproduce historical exclusions or generate new forms of invisibility. Submission Types * Paper Presentations (20 min): Extended abstract, 1,000–1,500 words (PDF), with title, author information, and clear research question. * Panels / Roundtables (90 min): Rationale (250–400 words), 3–5 guiding questions, participant bios. * Workshops (Day 1, morning, 2-3 hours): Objectives, intended audience, relevance to conference themes, format. Important Dates * Submission deadline: 26 April 2026 (23:59 CET) * Notifications: 5 May 2026 * Conference: 30 June; 1-2 July 2026 General Information * Submissions may address any historical period and any cultural domain (arts, heritage, cultural industries, archives, libraries, policy, platform cultures). * Language: English or Spanish (working language: English). * Registration fee (accepted contributions): €180. * Proceedings: Book of abstracts; selected contributions invited to a special issue / edited volume. * Submit proposals to: digitalarthistory(a)uma.es More information at: https://complexhibit.eu/es_es/complexhibit-2026-conference/

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Survey on XAI and Cultural Heritage
by Orsola Borrini 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. I would like to invite you to participate in a survey on how professionals in the Cultural Heritage (CH) sectors perceive and evaluate eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) outputs. The survey is part of my PhD research on XAI for Cultural Heritage at the University of Amsterdam, with the supervision of Prof. Tobias Blanke and Prof. Julia Noordegraaf and supported by the HAICu project. The survey * Focuses on your familiarity with AI and your interpretation of XAI outputs, including a few practical examples * Language: English * Estimated time: 10-15 minutes * Closing date: 5th of April, 2026 Who can take part? Heritage professionals involved in AI integration processes; academic researchers involved in multidisciplinary AI research; professional audiences interacting with AI on GLAM platforms. 🔗 Access the survey here<https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5u9shxmJ7seeMvA> ! You can also copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser: https://uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5u9shxmJ7seeMvA Your participation will provide valuable information that will help establish how XAI tools can actually serve the needs of the CH community in the future. Please forward to anyone you may think would be interested in the project. Thank you in advance for your time and support. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me at o.m.borrini(a)uva.nl . Best regards, Orsola M. Borrini ------------------------------------ Orsola Maria Borrini (she/her) PhD Candidate, HAICu<https://haicu.science/> University of Amsterdam | Faculty of Humanities Institute for Logic, Language and Computation

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RESILIAGE Master on Inclusive Heritage for DRR. Digital and participatory methods for resilient communities
by Rosa Tamborrino 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Dear, As Horizon Europe project RESILIAGE we have launched a one-year (May 2026-May 2027) Master program on "Inclusive Heritage for DRR. Digital and participatory methods for resilient communities.” Hybrid modality. The title is provided by Politecnico di Torino. Information are available at this LINK<https://resiliage.eu/joinus/resiliage-master-school-inclusive-heritage-for-…> [upRESILIAGE - Master School header_updated.png] I ask your kind help in spreading the Call. Deadline April 30th. Kind Regards ROSA TAMBORRINO Prof Rosa Tamborrino PhD Full Professor Politecnico di Torino Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning Viale Mattioli 39 - TURIN, ITALY rosa.tamborrino(a)polito.it Coordinator of the Vera Comoli Study Center for History, Heritage and Inclusive Innovation Member of the Board of the European Association for Urban History Coordinator of the RESILIAGE Horizon Europe Research Project [Immagineallegata-1.png]

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NordiCHI 2026 - Final Call for Submissions
by Susanne Hägglund 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Final Call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa, Finland, October 3-7, 2026 **Apologies for cross-postings** Deadlines are approaching for the following tracks: Research papers, Critiques, Panel Proposals, Arts-based Approaches, and Industry Experience. April 16, 2026: Research Paper abstract and metadata submission April 23, 2026: Research Papers: Full paper, Critiques, Panels, Arts-Based Approaches, Industry Experience Calls for Workshop proposals, Tutorials, Demos, Late-Breaking Work, and Doctoral Consortium contributions are also available. Please see the conference website: https://nordichi2026.org/ Proceedings of the conference will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The biannual NordiCHI is one of the key venues for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research in the world, bringing together a global community of researchers, practitioners, students, and industry experts - including you! In 2026, NordiCHI will take place in Vaasa, Finland on October 3-7. The conference is jointly organized by Åbo Akademi University and University of Vaasa. Professor Yvonne Rogers, Professor Mattia Thibault, and Senior Designer and Deputy Professor Pontus Wärnestål will deliver the keynote addresses at the conference. The conference theme is Pulse – exploring the energy that drives us, representing the dynamic highs and calm lows of life, keeping us thriving. Vaasa is known for both its vibrant energy industry as the Nordic energy cluster and the tranquility of its surrounding nature and UNESCO World Heritage site. Our ambition is that the conference energizes through inspiring encounters and opportunities to truly feel the pulse of the HCI field. ======================= Submission deadlines (all AoE): * April 16, 2026: Research Papers: Abstract and metadata * April 23, 2026: Research Papers: Full paper, Critiques, Panels, Arts-Based Approaches, Industry Experience * May 7, 2026: Workshops, Tutorials * May 18, 2026: Late-Breaking Work, Demos, Doctoral Consortium ======================= Join us in Vaasa for an inspiring NordiCHI 2026! Warm regards, Susanne Hägglund and Laura Havinen General Chairs NordiCHI 2026 https://nordichi2026.org/

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First Call for Papers: 13th International Conference on Multimodality, 2027 in Helsinki, Finland
by 13th International Conference on Multimodality 24 Mar '26

24 Mar '26

Dear all, we are happy to announce that the 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM) will be organised at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in June 2027. 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) and Amanda Wasielewski (Uppsala University, Sweden). For the full call for papers, please see the conference website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/13th-international-conference-multim… Best, the 13ICOM organising team

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Code & Culture talk (17.11): Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale (Burghardt)
by Digital Humanities Potsdam 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, The Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam cordially invites you to the next lecture in the 'Code & Culture' talk series. This semester, we will have a special focus on digital environmental humanities, preparing the ground for our "Environments in and as Networks" Hackathon (Potsdam, 15-17.04.2026; more details and registration: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/events/environmental-digit…) Our first guest is *Manuel Burghardt* (University of Leipzig), with a talk titled "*Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities*/"/*//*(full abstract here <https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-le…>). The lecture will take place on* Monday 17 November** 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 für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Potsdam* /Potenzialbereich an der Philosophischen Fakultät/ Web: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-humanities Mail: digital-humanities(a)uni-potsdam.de Sprecher:innen: Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider, Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator: Dr. Luca Giovannini Board des Netzwerks: Dr. Anna Busch, Prof. Dr. Annette Gerstenberg, Prof. Dr. Katharina Wesselmann, Prof. Dr. Miriam Rürup, Prof. Dr. Anja Schwarz, Prof. Dr. Ilja A. Seržant +++

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DH2026 SIG-DLS Mini-Conference – CfP
by Simone Rebora 23 Mar '26

23 Mar '26

Dear all, (with the usual apologies for cross-posting...) I'm glad to announce the CfP for the upcoming SIG-DLS event at DH2026 (planned on 28 July in Daejeon, South Korea). This year it will be structured as a poster slam, with short presentations and poster exposition. Deadline for submissions is 30 April. You can read the Call text here below and at the following link: https://dls.hypotheses.org/2289 All the best, Simone ===== DH2026 SIG Mini-Conference – Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today In the context of the 2026 edition of the Digital Humanities Conference (DH2026) Conference in Daejeon, South Korea, the Special Interest Group Digital Literary Studies within ADHO (SIG-DLS) and the Digital Comparative Literature (DCL) research committee of ICLA jointly invite submissions for a mini-conference titled "Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today". *Background and Goals* Digital or Computational Literary Studies and Comparative Literature continue to evolve through the integration of computational methods, multilingual archives, and innovative analytical frameworks. This workshop seeks to explore the intersection of digital and comparative approaches, highlighting both established and emerging methods — from born-digital narratives, distant reading and cultural analytics to machine learning, generative Large Language Models, and beyond. We particularly welcome contributions that address the challenges and opportunities of multilingual, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary research, as well as critical reflections on the role of technology or such mediated narratives in literary scholarship. We encourage submissions for work that will be presented both as a (hybrid) lightning talk format as well as in an open-space, interactive poster session. *Topics of Interest* Topics of interest include but are by no means limited to the following areas: - Digital Methods in Comparative Literature: Applications of computational techniques (e.g., distant reading, network analysis, topic modeling, sentiment analysis) to compare texts across languages, cultures, or historical periods. - Multilingual and Multicultural Approaches: Case studies on digitized or born-digital literary archives, challenges of multilingual corpora, and cross-cultural literary analysis. - Generative AI and Literary Studies: Critical or applied uses of large language models (LLMs) and other AI tools, including their ethical, methodological, and theoretical implications. - Digital and Computational Linguistics for Analysis of Literary Texts: Applying linguistic theory and computational methods to study aspects of literary discourse. - Tools and Infrastructures: Software, workflows, or platforms that support digital and/or comparative literary research. - Theoretical and Methodological Innovations: New frameworks for combining digital and comparative approaches, including reflections on the limits and potentials of computational methods. - Born-Digital and Post-Digital Literature: Studies of electronic literature, hypertext, or other digital-born forms, as well as their analysis through digital tools. - Responsible Research Practices: Discussions on reproducibility, transparency, and ethical considerations in digital and/or comparative literary studies. *Submission Guidelines* Please submit a 300 to 500-word abstract (excluding references) describing your project, research idea, or theoretical contribution, by sending your abstract as one PDF file to Christof Schöch at schoech(a)uni-trier.de by the due date mentioned below. *Mini-conference Format* The half-day workshop will have two parts: first, a lightning talks session, then a poster session. All contributors are invited to participate actively in both sessions, that is: first present their work in a quick talk, then be ready to discuss their work supported by a poster. The main goal of the mini-conference is to foster exchange between researchers, developers, and practitioners, and provide a networking opportunity ahead of the start of the main conference programme. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the organizing committee. We expect to be able to offer free on-site printing of posters to most if not all participants (within our budgetary limits). *Key Dates* Submission Deadline: April 30, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2026 Mini-conference Date: July 28, 2026, in the afternoon (KST). *Organizers / Programme Committee* Samya Brata Roy (ICLA DCL) Youngmin Kim (ICLA DCL) Federico Pianzola (ICLA DCL) Christof Schöch (ICLA DCL / SIG DLS) Shanmugapriya T (SIG DLS) Joanna Byszuk-Podsadniuk (SIG DLS) Katherine Elkins (SIG DLS) Berenike Herrmann (SIG DLS) Nuette Heyns (SIG-DLS) Suzanne Mpouli (SIG DLS) Simone Rebora (ICLA DCL / SIG DLS) Pablo Ruiz Fabo (SIG DLS) *Contact* For inquiries, please contact Simone Rebora at simone.rebora(a)univr.it.

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Announcement: Colloquium Early modern (climate) Sources – Data – Databases
by Asmussen, Marvin Jonathan 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

Dear digital humanists, We are pleased to announce the program for the "Early Modern Climate Cultures Colloquium" for the summer semester 2026, focusing on data-driven approaches to early modern texts and climate discourses. The interdisciplinary research colloquium “Early Modern Climate Cultures”, which is organised by the Emmy Noether Research Group “Traces of the ‘Little Ice Age’ in Early Modern German Literature (LitLIA)”, is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of current research in the field of Environmental Humanities. A particular focus is placed geographically on Europe and historically on the early modern period. In the upcoming summer semester 2026, we will especially focus on the use of data and databases in researching early modern texts and climate discourses: How can literary and historical scholarship integrate quantitative methods into the study of historical climate cultures? How do you build a database that is suitable for environmental, historical, literary research? What are the potential pitfalls of data-based approaches to early modern sources? The colloquium will take place online. If you are interested in attending, please register at: van.de.loecht(a)uni-muenster.de<mailto:[email protected]> or marvin.asmussen(a)uni-muenster.de<mailto:[email protected]>. The sessions will be held in English. Dates: 23.04.2026, 16:00 (CET): Sylvia Brockstieger, Rebecca Hirt (Heidelberg/Karlsruhe): From Material Text to Digital Data: Creating the Writing Calendar Database 21.05.2026, 16:00 (CET): Siv Gøril Brandtzæg (Trondheim): Songs on Screen: The Making of a Database 02.06.2026, 14:00 (CET): Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews): The Universal Short Title Catalogue and the Perils of Big Data – joint event with Book Studies Münster 25.06.2026, 16:00 (CET): Rüdiger Glaser (Freiburg): Climate Data Analysis from the Little Ice Age to the Modern Warming 02.07.2026, 16:00 (CET): Jöran Landschoff, Carolin Schwegler, Leyla Rommel (Cologne/Bremen): Close Reading/Distant Reading: Approaching Climate Discourses in Large Text Corpora Best regards, Marvin Asmussen -- Marvin Asmussen (er/ihm, he/him) Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Emmy-Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe "Die Spuren der 'Kleinen Eiszeit' in der Literatur der frühen Neuzeit (1570–1780) (LitLIA)" Universität Münster Germanistisches Institut Schlossplatz 34 48143 Münster

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Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities 2026, July 6-10
by Emmanuela Carbé 20 Mar '26

20 Mar '26

*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear all, We are pleased to announce the Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities - VeSSDPH 2026 <https://www.unive.it/pag/39288/> which takes place at Ca' Foscari University of Venice from 6 to 10 July 2026. The Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities provides advanced and in-depth training in theories, technologies and methods applied to historical monuments, artefacts and texts. Focussing on cultural, archaeological, historical, literary, and artistic materials from Venetian sites and cultural heritage institutions, participants will engage in debates about digital cultural heritage and public humanities while enhancing their competences and skills in digitising materials and sources and in modelling, analysing and visualising multimedia humanities data. The Summer School takes place at historical sites and cultural venues across the city of Venice and its surroundings. Each day is dedicated to a specific academic field: archaeology, history, art history and textual scholarship. Teaching formats include lectures, hands-on workshops, guided tours and experimental performances. Units are planned and delivered by local experts and invited specialists. All classes will be taught in English. The programme includes “Pimp my Project” sessions for discussing the participants’ individual research projects with domain experts. *Eligibility and admission criteria*The Summer School warmly welcomes PhD students, postdocs and practitioners from the private, public, and non-governmental sectors. Applicants must hold at least a Master’s degree or equivalent at the time of application. Precedence will be given to those candidates whose cover letter will show that their research projects or profession will benefit from the Digital and Public Humanities methods that they will learn during the summer school. A fair balance among genders and among disciplinary backgrounds will be preserved. *Availability of positions*The School will host max. 25 participants. Up to five positions are reserved for applicants from the EUTOPIA DigIn Connected Community, and one position for an applicant from the Scuola di Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica of the Venetian State Archives. *Participation costs*- NO FEES - Biennale entry ticket: €20 (includes three non-consecutive days for both Giardini and Arsenale) - Optional booking of a single room (99 EUR per night) or double room (121 EUR per night) at Camplus University Residences (up to 6 nights) *How to apply*Your application must contain - a curriculum vitae (max. 2 pages) - a cover letter (max. 2 pages) stating your motivations for joining the School and your expectations about it. - Applicants are required to complete the online application form available at the following link: https://forms.gle/rH9tZnkbq4aUWqLt5. The CV and cover letter must be sent in PDF format to vedph(a)unive.it, with the subject line: “VeDPH Summer School Application - Name Surname”. *Important dates *Deadline for applications: 13 April 2026 (11:59 p.m. CEST) Notification of acceptance: 29 April 2026 *Full programme and further information: * *https://www.unive.it/pag/39288/ <https://www.unive.it/pag/39288/>* Contact: vedph(a)unive.it <vedph(a)unive.it> 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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Call for Positions at ADHO
by Dr. Nadezhda Povroznik 12 Mar '26

12 Mar '26

Call for Positions at ADHO Dear All, *** Apologies for the cross-posting *** Exciting Opportunities with ADHO! For details: https://adho.org/positions/ The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is seeking expressions of interest for several positions, offering members an opportunity to contribute to and help shape the future of the field. As the field of Digital Humanities continues to grow and evolve, ADHO is committed to promoting and supporting digital research and teaching across arts and humanities disciplines, drawing together humanists engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, creation, dissemination, and beyond in all areas reflected by its diverse membership. ADHO supports initiatives for publication, presentation, collaboration, and training; recognizes and supports excellence in these endeavours; and acts as a community-based consultative and advisory force. We are seeking applications for the following positions: 1. Executive Board Chair-Elect 2. Executive Board Deputy Secretary 3. Deputy Treasurer 4. Deputy Conference Officer Please click on the links above for full role descriptions and application details. By joining the ADHO board, you will have the chance to work alongside leading experts in the field and contribute to shaping the policies and practices that define Digital Humanities. We offer a collaborative and inclusive environment where your ideas and contributions are valued. Best wishes, Nadezhda Povroznik, Communications Officer, ADHO

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CfP, conference: Editopia - On the Future of Documentology and Scholarly Editing in the Post-Digital Age, Wuppertal, September External 6. ML/AIUCD ML Patrick Sahle attraverso Aiucd-l
by Emmanuela Carbé 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, I am sharing this Call for Papers circulated on the AIUCD mailing list for the conference “Editopia. On the Future of Documentology and Scholarly Editing in the Post-Digital Age”. Best, Emmanuela Carbé *Call for Papers: Editopia. On the Future of Documentology and Scholarly Editing in the Post-Digital Age* *Conference of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE), University of Wuppertal, Germany; 2-4 September 2026. Local organization: Digital Humanities Team (DH@BUW), supported by Interdisciplinary Center for Editing and Document Studies (IZED).What comes after the digital edition?* Digital editions have become an everyday scholarly practice. The critical representation of historical documents is now routinely digital, networked, openly accessible, and simultaneously available in multiple forms of representation. As the analogue–digital debate has largely come to an end, new questions come to the fore. We no longer ask whether digital methods are epistemically justified and viable, but how and to what end they are best used. Alongside persistent or newly emerging technical challenges, other challenges gain prominence in this shift. By way of example: What constitutes “the text” in the post-digital age, where principles of stability and processuality, material transmission and processual data streams, and authority and democratization coexist? How do source criticism and textual criticism and their processes of knowledge generation change under the influence of generative AI when machines act as “first readers” transcribing, interpreting, and annotating documents? Moving beyond its incunabula phase, how will the affordances of digital media shape concepts of publications? Are we moving towards an era of media presentation as a (as we used to say) mash-up or (as it is called now) transclusion of ubiquitously reusable building blocks? What responsibility do editions bear for the authenticity and trustworthiness of the edited material? How can editions be made more open, accessible, and future-proof? Does the edition as a form still persist under these conditions, or does it dissolve? And how might we need to rethink the models and processes that lead to data in the first place? One fundamental observation underlies all these questions: data constitute the content and core of the edition, and data themselves are primarily fluid, processual and networked. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) invites scholars to engage with these questions at the international conference *Editopia*. By post-digital we understand a condition in which digital tools and modes of thinking are no longer conceived primarily in opposition to the analogue, but as the foundation of humanities scholarship and, consequently, as the basis for further-reaching questions. We therefore invite contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following thematic areas: *The Post-Digital Document*. What does materiality mean in the digital realm, from file formats and storage media to infrastructures? Which documentological properties characterize digitized or born-digital sources such as emails, websites, or social media? How do we address versioning, ephemerality, and the processual nature of digital artefacts? What challenges arise from multimodal documents combining text, image, audio, video, and interactive elements? *Identity and Coherence of the Edition*. What constitutes an edition when its components are fluid and networked, or when externally created digital objects are integrated and reused? What roles do authorship, boundaries, closure, and authority play when editions become permanently updatable? What might establish coherence under such conditions, and is coherence still a relevant claim at all? *Scholarly Editing and Artificial Intelligence*. How do machine-based methods transform editorial practice, from automated transcription to annotation and contextualization? Where do they expand possibilities, and where do new dependencies emerge? Which new objectives arise, and which traditional aims may fade from view? How should we deal with machine-generated uncertainty and opacity? What does it mean when AI-generated texts themselves become objects of editing? How can the influence of AI on the emergence and formation of an edition be documented and critically reflected? *Source Criticism, Forensics, and Authentication*. How does source criticism change when documents are created digitally, migrated between media states or data models, and are inherently manipulable? Which methods of provenance research and authentication become necessary? How can trust in digital editions be established, and what responsibilities do editors bear with regard to transparency, traceability, and credibility? *Transmedial Representation and Aesthetics*. How does the edition change between print, screen, and other conceivable digital media? What design possibilities do interactive or immersive formats offer? How does the visual and sensory dimension of digital editions affect not only their use but also the scholarly process of knowledge production? *Labour, Economy, and Institutions*. How can editorial projects be organized between project-based logic and long-term sustainability? Do editions require new business models, and if so, which are compatible with open access and scholarly independence? How do roles and professional profiles change as editions become more collaborative, technical, and data-intensive? How can the entire process of producing an edition be fully documented? Under what conditions is good editorial work possible today? *Community, Accessibility, and Knowledge Transfer.* Who has access to digital editions, and who remains excluded? What do communities such as the TEI community contribute to editorial practice, and where are their limits? How can collaborative modes of work and open infrastructures be designed? How can scholarly editing be taught when digital competencies are assumed, and when documentological foundations as well as other technical skills must be newly conveyed? *Power, Participation, and Responsibility in Editing*. How does community-based knowledge production relate to academic gatekeeping models? How can open workflows democratize editorial decision-making? What may and what should be edited—what ethics of visibility are required? Who edits whom, with what authority—and which new perspectives, for example, gender-sensitive or decolonial approaches, open up alternative paths? What responsibilities do editors bear toward marginalized voices and sensitive content? How is the role of the editor changing? *Theoretical Foundations*. What is a “text” in the post-digital age? How can the concept of the document be redefined between stability and fluidity? What epistemic function does the edition fulfil—what do we produce, what do we represent? How can post-structuralist, neo-materialist, or other theoretical approaches renew scholarly editing? Which concepts of authorship, work, transmission, and document remain viable? These thematic areas are intended as points of orientation. We also welcome proposals that introduce additional perspectives. We invite submissions for *20-minute papers*. Abstracts should comprise 2,000–4,000 characters (including spaces and references) and clearly outline the research question, methodological approach, and expected results. Please also include a short biographical note. The *submission deadline is 22. March 2026*. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of April 2026. Selected contributions are planned for publication in the *SIDE book series*. The conference languages are English and German. Participation is limited to *60 participants*. No conference fee will be charged. Please send abstracts and inquiries to editopia2026(a)i-d-e.de. Conference page: https://editopia2026.i-d-e.de

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CFP: Static Websites for Scholarly Editions (SI Code4Lib)
by joris.van.zundert 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, We hope you may find the below call for papers to your interest. Kind regards -/-Joris van Zundert # Call for papers for a special issue of Code4lib # Static websites for scholarly editions and other publications in the Humanities Static websites are increasingly recognized as a sustainable solution for digital editions and other scholarly publications in the Humanities. They are broadly defined as applications that do not rely, or rely only minimally, on server-side processing; some definitions restrict static websites to applications that are free of JavaScript; others embrace its use for complex client-side generation. While static websites offer durability and ease of maintenance, they may present limitations in functionality and scalability. We frame the question of static publi-/-cations within the discussion about minimal computing in digital humanities and sustainability of research outputs as a research data management practice. This special issue will consist of short reports (1,000–2,000 words) on practical experiences and lessons learned when developing, maintaining, or refactoring digital editions and other types of research outputs as static publications. Contributions may address project-specific solutions, generic workflows, automation strategies, institutional approaches, and more. Contributions from any practitioner working on digital publication are welcome, regardless of the stage or sophistication of the publication's development. This includes boutique, shoestring publications created by PhD students or early-career researchers who may lack financial or technical support and resources, as well as large-scale projects that rely on institutional backing, development teams, practices, and infrastructure. We encourage authors to make their code and data related to their submission, or a sample of them, available in FAIR compliant repositories (e.g., Zenodo) and link to it from their article. While the emphasis is on hands-on reporting, reflective position papers discussing the definitions, sustainability, and technical or conceptual boundaries of "the static" are also welcome. Reports may describe unpublished work as well as work that has been published or presented elsewhere. ## Paper submission First, authors will submit a 500-word abstract. Five weeks later, they will submit a first complete draft (1,000-2,00 words), followed by the final draft four weeks after that. The papers will be published as a thematic special issue in the Code4Lib journal approximately six months after the abstract is submitted. All submissions will undergo peer review by the guest editors and the editors of the journal to ensure that all contributions align with the focus of the special issue and meet the journal’s quality criteria. For the complete guide on how to format the articles, please see: https://journal.code4lib.org/article-guidelines. ## Important dates * Abstract submission (500 words): 17.04.2026 * First draft (1,000–2,000 words): 22.05.2026 * Final draft (1,000–2,000 words): 19.06.2026 * Publication: autumn 2026 ## Guest editors * Peter Dängeli (University of Bern) * Chiara Martignano (University of Padua) * Matteo Romanello (University of Zurich) * Elena Spadini (University of Bern) * Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute) -/- -- Dr. Joris J. van Zundert Researcher & Developer in Humanities Computing Dept. of Computational Literary Studies / DHLab Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences joris.van.zundert(a)huygens.knaw.nl @jorisvanzundert +31624461051 http://jorisvanzundert.net/ https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/medewerkers/joris-van-zundert-2/ visiting address Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185 1012 DK Amsterdam The Netherlands postal address P.O. Box 10855 1001 EW Amsterdam The Netherlands -- Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code. Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines. (Pirates of the Caribbean) I wonder, Joe thought, if we might be one of the last generations to think of a fox as Reynard. (Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown.)

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Digital Humanities in Kyrgyzstan: Practices, Challenges, and Emerging Projects
by Dinara Gagarina 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the second seminar in *the series on the digital history of Central Asia and the South Caucasus <https://www.osteuropa.phil.fau.de/digital-history-seminars/>,* jointly organized by the Chair of Modern and Eastern European History FAU and Max Weber Stiftung Georgia Branch Office. The seminar will be held on *March 12, 14:00 CET* | 17:00 Yerevan & Tbilisi | 18:00 Tashkent & Almaty | 19:00 Bishkek online in Zoom. Language: English. Topic: *Digital Humanities in Kyrgyzstan: Practices, Challenges, and Emerging Projects.* Invited expert: *Dr. Daniyar Karabaev*, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Registration and Zoom-link: https://fau.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/SkVB__FPTnedWLpt4KhNxA *Abstract: *Over the past two decades, Digital Humanities has become an established field within global humanities research, bringing computational methods and digital tools into the study of history, culture, and society. In Kyrgyzstan, however, the systematic use of digital methods in the humanities is a relatively recent development. This presentation offers an overview of the current state of Digital Humanities and digital history in Kyrgyzstan, with particular attention to academic teaching, research practices, and institutional initiatives. Drawing on experiences from the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), the talk introduces the development of formal coursework in Digital Humanities, including the country’s first introductory course in the field and discusses how digital methods are integrated into disciplines such as history, anthropology, folklore studies, and Manas studies. The presentation also highlights selected projects, including the digital analysis of contemporary Manas narratives, digital mapping of historical and cultural heritage sites, and ongoing efforts to digitize manuscript and oral collections. By situating these initiatives within broader international Digital Humanities debates, the presentation reflects on conceptual challenges, methodological choices, and future directions for digital scholarship in Kyrgyzstan, emphasizing the role of interdisciplinary collaboration and open-access digital resources. All interested parties are most welcome to this talk. More information: https://www.osteuropa.phil.fau.de/digital-history-seminars/ Best regards, Dinara Gagarina --- Dr. Dinara Gagarina Research Associate Chair of Eastern European History, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Bismarckstraße 12, 91054 Erlangen, Germany https://www.osteuropa.phil.fau.de/person/dinara-gagarina dinara.gagarina(a)fau.de Research Associate Digital History and Information Systems, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association Gisonenweg 5-7 35037 Marburg Head of Digital Humanities Major Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Budva, Montenegro Co-Founder DH CLOUD Community (Community of Russian-Speaking Digital Humanists Worldwide) https://dhcloud.org, https://t.me/dhcloud mail(a)dhcloud.org

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Save the Date - Transforming Audiovisual Collection Search in the Age of AI
by Golnaz Sarkar Farshi 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

Save The Date **Transforming Audiovisual Collection Search in the Age of AI** Based on the Data Challenge “Let’s Make a Cinephile Search Tool!” [1] by the Data Competence Center HERMES, in cooperation with Digital Cinema-Hub and the NECS working group “Digital Methods” Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the pre-conference workshop of the NECS Conference 2026 on June 17, 2026, at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier (2pm to 6pm). The workshop will feature two sessions. In the first session, the three winning teams of HERMES’ data challenge will present the extraordinary tools they have developed for the multimodal search of audiovisual collections. They will discuss their results, their working processes, and the problems they tackled to achieve these impressive outcomes. In the second half of the workshop, we invite you to join a panel discussion on the current needs of audiovisual archives and collections, and how the newly developed tools can be implemented to meet those needs. We will conclude the workshop with drinks and nibbles, providing an opportunity to continue our discussions into the evening. As room capacity is limited, attendance will be restricted to registered participants. Please save the date and stay tuned for the detailed workshop program and registration link, which will be shared via the usual newsletters toward the end of April. We are very excited to honor the talented winners of the challenge and to welcome you to what promises to be an inspiring and engaging event. Organized by the data competence center HERMES (MCDCI, University of Marburg, funded by BMFTR) and the project Digital Cinema-Hub (Universities of Marburg, Mainz and Frankfurt, funded by VW-foundation), in cooperation with NECS working group „Digital Methods“. [1] https://hermes-hub.de/forschen/datachallenges/challenges/challenge-2025.html

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Summer School in Digital Humanities in Pisa
by Enrica Salvatori 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

Dear Colleagues, We want to confirm that registration is still open for the annual Summer School in Digital Humanities, hosted by the LabCD-UNIPI in Pisa. The deadline for submitting applications is April 15, 2026. Dates: May 25 – May 30, 2026 Language of Instruction: English Registration Fee: €500 Further details and the detailed program can be seen at the Summer School site: https://www.unipi.it/didattica/corsi/summer-schools/digital-tools-for-human… As in the past, the Summer School will maintain a hybrid format to accommodate a diverse range of participants. Attendees may choose to participate in person or join remotely via the Microsoft Teams platform. The program is designed for scholars, researchers, and students interested in acquiring foundational knowledge and practical experience with digital tools currently shaping the humanities. The 2026 curriculum will focus on essential methodologies in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Digital Philology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and the use of Artificial Intelligence tools in humanities research. The Summer School (organized by Enrica Salvatori and Vittore Casarosa) is held under the patronage of CLARIN (European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology), AIUCD (Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) and AIPH (Associazione Italiana di Public History) We invite all interested parties to register before the application deadline. Further details regarding the program and registration process can be obtained through the official UNIPI Summer Schools channels (see link above). Hoping to see you in May, best regards, Enrica and Vittore

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Save the Date - Transforming Audiovisual Collection Search in the Age of AI
by Golnaz Sarkar Farshi 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

Save The Date **Transforming Audiovisual Collection Search in the Age of AI** Based on the Data Challenge "Let's Make a Cinephile Search Tool!" [1] by the Data Competence Center HERMES, in cooperation with Digital Cinema-Hub and the NECS working group "Digital Methods" Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the pre-conference workshop of the NECS Conference 2026 on June 17, 2026, at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier (2pm to 6pm). The workshop will feature two sessions. In the first session, the three winning teams of HERMES' data challenge will present the extraordinary tools they have developed for the multimodal search of audiovisual collections. They will discuss their results, their working processes, and the problems they tackled to achieve these impressive outcomes. In the second half of the workshop, we invite you to join a panel discussion on the current needs of audiovisual archives and collections, and how the newly developed tools can be implemented to meet those needs. We will conclude the workshop with drinks and nibbles, providing an opportunity to continue our discussions into the evening. As room capacity is limited, attendance will be restricted to registered participants. Please save the date and stay tuned for the detailed workshop program and registration link, which will be shared via the usual newsletters toward the end of April. We are very excited to honor the talented winners of the challenge and to welcome you to what promises to be an inspiring and engaging event. Organised by the data competence center HERMES (MCDCI, University of Marburg, funded by BMFTR) and the project Digital Cinema-Hub (Universities of Marburg, Mainz and Frankfurt, funded by VW-foundation), in cooperation with NECS working group "Digital Methods". [1] https://hermes-hub.de/forschen/datachallenges/challenges/challenge-2025.html

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CfP: AVI 2026 Workshop – Visualising Knowledge, Navigating Uncertainty
by Andrew Richardson 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

CFP: AVI 2026 Workshop Visualising Knowledge, Navigating Uncertainty Human–AI Collaboration in Historical Knowledge Graph Systems A workshop at AVI 2026, Venice, Italy — June 8 or 9, 2026 Workshop page: https://flowstatesstudio.com/events/events-avi-workshop/ Important Dates Submission deadline: March 29, 2026 Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2026 Workshop: June 8 or 9, 2026 Submission form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-0PlRou58a0PhBNNAtkrgnF3JOOjInUD… We invite researchers and practitioners from HCI, data visualisation, digital humanities, cultural heritage, AI systems, design research, and related fields to participate in a workshop exploring how human–AI collaboration is reshaping the production and interpretation of historical knowledge graphs. As AI systems increasingly structure complex historical datasets, the role of human expertise is shifting from correcting machine errors to critically interpreting AI-generated knowledge structures. This workshop revisits the concept of the Social Machine, examining how visualisation and interface design can support epistemic transparency, uncertainty representation, and human–AI co-navigation of knowledge systems. The workshop will include short position statements, collaborative design challenges, and discussion aimed at shaping a new research agenda. ========================== 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces June 8–12, 2026, Venice ========================== Andrew Richardson School of Design Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK andrew.richardson(a)northumbria.ac.uk Alex Butterworth Senior Research Associate University of Sussex / Science Museum

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Fwd: Historical Network Analysis Collection: Call for Chapters
by Jiří Kocián 06 Mar '26

06 Mar '26

Dear EADH community, Below, I am sharing the CfP for contributions to an edited collection in Historical Network Analysis. Best regards, Jiri Kocian EADH Secretary _____ Dear EADH team, I hope you’re keeping well. I’m just emailing to share details for an edited collection in Historical Network Analysis The call for chapters is now open, with a deadline for abstracts of Friday 13th March. I’ve attached a PDF version of the CfP for sharing on social media and in newsletters etc., which can also be found in text format below. Further details or queries can be made to myself and Dr. Grace Di Meo at [ mailto:[email protected] | interlocked.universe(a)gmail.com ] . Many thanks for your time. Best wishes, Caitlin ——— Historical Network Analysis: Applications and New Directions Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic In his canonical book, Linked , Albert-László Barabási explored the history and prevalence of networks in the world, predicting that “network thinking is poised to invade all domains of human activity and most fields of human inquiry… aimed at approaching our interlocked universe.” Often influenced by methodologies from the social sciences, this ‘network thinking’ and an interest in the use of digital and computational tools within the humanities continues to flourish. More recently, this has fostered a growing demand to expand on how such interdisciplinary approaches can provide fresh insights into historical narratives. This edited collection will explore the methods and applications of social network analysis (SNA) within historical contexts, offering compelling demonstrations – both quantitative and qualitative – of historical SNA in practice. Following an introductory chapter that provides an overview into core concepts and methodologies of SNA, individual chapters will apply these methods to real-world case studies and demonstrate the ways SNA offers new angles into historical questions. We invite abstracts of 300-500 words for chapters up to 7,500 words . Chapters should focus on applying social network analysis to historical research, applying quantitative and qualitative methods and/or approaches. These may include but are not limited to: - working with network data; - network centrality; - community detection; - network evolution; - network data visualisation; - modelling/simulating networks; - and combining network analysis with other methodologies (such as GIS or linguistics). While all historical contexts will be considered, given existing accepted contributions to the collection as a result of a conference, a preference will be made for chapters focusing on regions outside of Europe and North America. Abstracts should include details of the methods applied, the historical period studied, and the source or data type used. Submissions should also include a working title and a brief author biography (max. 150 words). We welcome abstracts from researchers of all career levels and pathways. Please direct submission materials or any queries to Dr. Grace Di Méo and Dr. Caitlin Burge at [ mailto:[email protected] | interlocked.universe(a)gmail.com ] . Deadline for abstract submissions: Friday 13th March , 2026. Since this collection is under contract, priority will be given to early submissions. There will also be a quick turnaround from chapter acceptance to submission; we anticipate production to begin in mid-2026. Dr Caitlin Burge Taighdeoir Iardhochtúireachta | Postdoctoral Researcher STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700 Scoil an Bhéarla agus na nEalaíon Cruthaitheach School of English and Creative Arts Recent Publications Burge, Caitlin. ‘The King’s Gatekeeper: Thomas Cromwell, Epistolary Networks, and Power Structures at the Tudor Court, January–July 1540.’ Huntington Library Quarterly 86, no. 2 (2024): pp. 257 – 281. DOI: [ https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2023.a936418 | https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2023.a936418 ] Burge, Caitlin. 'Fragmentation and Disruption: Ranking Cut-Points in Epistolary Networks and the Court of Henry VIII.' Journal of Historical Network Research 10, no.1 (2024): pp. 122 - 149. DOI: [ https://doi.org/10.25517/jhnr.v10i1.99 | https://doi.org/10.25517/jhnr.v10i1.99 ] Burge, Caitlin. 'Mapping the Archives: Epistolary Networks and the State Papers of England, 1523-1540.' International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 18, no.1 (2024): pp. 95-108. DOI: [ https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2024.0323 | https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2024.0323 ] [ https://x.com/CaitlinBurge95 | Twitter ] | [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-burge-9887a019b | LinkedIn ] | [ https://bsky.app/profile/caitlinburge.bsky.social | Bluesky ] [ https://www.universityofgalway.ie/ ] [ https://www.universityofgalway.ie/ ] Uimhir Carthanachta Cláraithe/Registered Charity Number 20002107

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Reminder: Call for contributions - Living Book about History
by Enrico Natale 04 Mar '26

04 Mar '26

Dear colleagues, ‘Living Books about History <https://www.livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/>’ is a diamond open access collection of digital anthologies on current research topics. Each volume will feature an essay written by the editors as well as a selection of annotated texts and research resources. These contributions may include online resources such as open access articles, images, films, websites, or sound recordings. ‘Living Books about History’ showcases noteworthy and hitherto neglected scientific publications and sources on current topics. The selection made by the editors serves as a filter that distinguishes remarkable contributions from the mass of information available online. The project aims to reinforce the principles of ‘Open Science’. The 12 volumes published to date are available online, in both English and a second language. See for instance Toward an Expanded History of Television <https://www.livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/towards-an-expanded-history-…>, Histories of the Internet and the Web <https://livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/histories-of-the-internet-and-th…>, Women, Gender and Computing <https://livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/women-gender-and-computing> or Material Histories of Paper <https://livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/material-histories-of-paper> Types of Proposals Expected: infoclio.ch <http://infoclio.ch/> is launching a new series of ‘Living Books about History’ in 2026. The collection publishes research primarily in the field of historical sciences but welcomes diverse perspectives from other disciplinary fields. Proposals may address a variety of topics, without chronological, or geographical restrictions. The selected sources and scientific papers shed light on the respective research topics from different perspectives. ‘Living Books about History’ can have different objectives, such as providing a historiographical overview of a research trend, defining the contours of a new area of study, offering an introduction to a topic, illustrating different ways of interpreting a specific corpus of sources, or analyzing the challenges of a paradigm shift. Format of ‘Living Books about History’: Each volume consists of an original introduction of 20,000 to 40,000 characters and a selection of 20 to 30 resources already available online, accompanied by a brief commentary. Each volume is assigned a DOI and an ISBN. Submission of Proposals: This call for proposals is open to advanced researchers. We welcome proposals for volumes in the form of an abstract of no more than 4,000 characters outlining the theme and focus of the project, 2-3 examples of online resources to be included in the anthology, and a short CV of the editors. Proposals may be submitted in English, French, or German. The deadline for submitting proposals is March 20, 2026. Notification of accepted proposals will be sent on April 2, 2026. Please send proposals by email to: livingbooks(a)infoclio.ch <mailto:[email protected]> Accepted anthologies will be published during the summer and fall of 2026. The costs of editing and online publication will be covered in full by infoclio.ch <http://infoclio.ch/> (Diamond Open Access). If the text is written in a language other than English, editors are invited to participate in fundraising for translation. Full call: https://www.infoclio.ch/en/appel-%C3%A0-propositions-living-books-about-his… <https://www.infoclio.ch/en/appel-%C3%A0-propositions-living-books-about-his…> Contact: ‘Living Books about History’ is a publishing project of infoclio.ch <http://infoclio.ch/>, the Swiss professional portal for historical sciences. infoclio.ch <http://infoclio.ch/> is an institute of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW). Questions can be addressed to Enrico Natale: enrico.natale(a)infoclio.ch <mailto:[email protected]> Enrico Natale infoclio.ch Gutenbergstrasse 37 3011 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 Abonnez-vous à la newsletter <https://www.infoclio.ch/fr/newsletter> d’infoclio.ch Follow infoclio.ch on Mastodon <https://fedihum.org/@infoclio> À découvrir: Perspectives on the History of Forecasting <https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/public-download/4873> Histoire et informatique #24, 2025.

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