Dear all,

As the New Year begins, we are delighted to announce details for the Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI), now in its fourth year! In 2026, DMSI will take place in both the US and the UK, in conjunction with two of the most important gatherings for medievalists!

DMSI 2026 US will take place as part of the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University on 13 May 2026. DMSI 2026 UK will take place as part of the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds on 10 July 2026.

The DMSI offers a full-day programme featuring workshops on digital scholarly methods specifically tailored for medievalists. Participants are introduced to a range of digital methodologies currently used in medieval studies, with the opportunity for in-depth engagement through one of five workshop options offered on each day.

DMSI 2026 US in Kalamazoo, MI will feature the following five workshops:

• Building a Virtual Medieval Pilgrimage (Kalani Craig, Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• From Digitized Manuscript to Digital Edition (Laura Morreale, Independent Scholar, and Nicholas Laiacona, Performant Software)
• 3D Modeling from Photo and Video (Matthew Davis, Independent Scholar)
• Introduction to Handwritten Text Recognition (Tobias Hodel, Digital Humanities, University of Bern)
• Manuscript Description and Research in the Digital Ecosystem (L. P. Coladangelo, Digital Scriptorium, and Lynn Ransom, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries)

For more information and to apply for an award: https://tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-US

DMSI 2025 UK in Leeds will feature the following five workshops:

• TEI for Beginners: Encoding Text and Extracting Data (Sebastian Dows-Miller, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University College London)
• Using Local LLMs and VLMs: Prompting, Structuring, and Automating with Medieval Data (Delphine Demelas, Southampton Digital Humanities, University of Southampton)
• Nodegoat Curious: Building a Custom Relational Database for Your Research (Pim van Bree, LAB1100; Geert Kessels, LAB1100; Jesse W. Torgerson, Wesleyan University)
• Artificial Intelligence: Image Analysis Applied to Medieval Manuscripts (Dominique Stutzmann, Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris)
• Manuscript Materiality in a Digital World (Dot Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries) 

For more information and to apply for a bursary: https://tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-UK

Applications are open to everyone. A maximum of 10-12 participants will be accepted into each workshop. Participants may enrol in only one workshop during each of the events (but one can apply to both the US and the UK events). Registration for DMSI 2026 will take place via the respective congress registration platforms, both of which will open in February 2026.

We have a limited number of bursaries and awards available for each event. Applications for bursaries and awards are considered on a rolling, first-come, first-served basis, with the deadline for the first round being 20 January 2026. All award holders will be notified before congress registrations open in February.

Early applications for bursaries and awards are encouraged. Please feel free to share the event posters and information with those who might be interested:

https://tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-US-Poster

https://tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-UK-Poster

For all questions, please contact the organizers Laura K. Morreale and N. Kıvılcım Yavuz at dmsi.hello@gmail.com.

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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz 

Lecturer in Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities

Programme Lead for MA in Medieval Studies

Convenor of Digital Humanities Research Group

Institute for Medieval Studies | School of History

University of Leeds

Leeds, LS2 9JT

Director of the Executive Board: Digital Medievalist

Member of the Advisory Council: Digital Scriptorium

Member of the Scientific Consultative Board: Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures