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DARIAH Friday Frontiers Autumn Series [Registration Open]

Friday Frontiers Autumn Series

Friday 2nd October, 10.30 WEST / 11.30 CEST / 12.30 EEST

Case Studies from #DiscussAI: A National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence in Ireland

Speakers: Dr Emma Clarke (Dublin City University) & Paula Kelly (Technical University of Dublin)

Description
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in everyday life, decisions about its development and deployment are often made without meaningful input from the people it affects. Ireland’s national AI strategy, AI – Here for Good, places strong emphasis on citizen involvement. However, public understanding of AI and its societal impact lags behind the pace of technological advances. Many communities, particularly those traditionally underserved by science and technology engagement, remain excluded from the conversation, therefore, AI literacy is essential to enhance inclusion. The Research Ireland ADAPT Centre launched #DiscussAI in September 2021, establishing a national conversation on AI that equips people across Ireland with the knowledge and skills to critically engage with AI-driven systems and make informed choices. Co-creating dialogue is at the heart of #DiscussAI. This session introduces that approach through two case studies, and explores why participatory, co-created dialogue matters for research and practice on the societal impact of AI.

Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSQOL_dAQWCujoTv3jqy7A


Friday 6th November, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET

Working Title: “Rethinking the Humanities: Artificial Intelligence as Method and Meaning”

Speaker: Benedikt Perak, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/aL4zJmNgTbGQnlrRRo4FKw

Description
Artificial intelligence is transforming not only how we conduct research in the humanities but
also what it means to ask humanistic questions. This talk explores AI’s evolving role in
humanities scholarship — from computational tools for text analysis and natural language
processing to AI as an epistemic partner that reshapes interpretive frameworks. Drawing on
concrete examples from knowledge graphs, conceptual metaphor analysis, and intelligent
tutoring systems such as the AI Language Tutor developed at Syntagent and the University
of Rijeka, I will argue that AI does not replace humanistic inquiry but reconfigures it, opening
new avenues for understanding language, culture, and cognition. The presentation builds on
themes from my recent book Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and ongoing
research at the intersection of cognitive linguistics, digital humanities, and machine learning.


Friday 4th December 2026, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET

Title: Bibliography as Data: From Scholarly Indexes to Interactive Research Software

Speaker: Cezary Rosiński, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/or7OvGobS2GXoZ7XPMOrOg

Description
Bibliographies, indexes and other documentary resources are usually created to organise
knowledge and support information retrieval. Yet the structures produced through
bibliographic work can also become a basis for new forms of humanities research. This
presentation explores how scholarly indexes can be transformed into relational data and
examined through network analysis without losing sight of their original documentary
function. Using the Monumenta Indica Network Explorer as a case study, I will discuss the
process of extracting, normalising and modelling index data, defining what relationships in
the resulting network actually mean, and designing an interactive research environment that
allows scholars to move between patterns and their underlying sources. The presentation
will also consider how research software can turn existing bibliographic resources into
exploratory spaces for generating and testing new research questions.

Case Studies from #DiscussAI: A National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence in Ireland [2 Oct, online, 10:30am]

Dr. Emma Clarke and Paula Kelly to present on two case studies from the #DiscussAI project

Friday Frontiers is back !

The first in the Autumn/Winter 2026 series of Friday Frontiers will welcome Dr. Emma Clarke and Paula Kelly to present on two case studies from the #DiscussAI project. 

When: Friday 2nd October, 10.30 WEST / 11.30 CEST

Title: Case Studies from #DiscussAI: A National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence in Ireland

Speakers: Dr Emma Clarke (Dublin City University) & Paula Kelly (Technical University of Dublin)

Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSQOL_dAQWCujoTv3jqy7A
Description

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in everyday life, decisions about its development and deployment are often made without meaningful input from the people it affects. Ireland’s national AI strategy, AI – Here for Good, places strong emphasis on citizen involvement. However, public understanding of AI and its societal impact lags behind the pace of technological advances. Many communities, particularly those traditionally underserved by science and technology engagement, remain excluded from the conversation, therefore, AI literacy is essential to enhance inclusion. 

The Research Ireland ADAPT Centre launched #DiscussAI in September 2021, establishing a national conversation on AI that equips people across Ireland with the knowledge and skills to critically engage with AI-driven systems and make informed choices. Co-creating dialogue is at the heart of #DiscussAI. This session introduces that approach through two case studies, and explores why participatory, co-created dialogue matters for research and practice on the societal impact of AI. 

Case Study 1: Age-Friendly AI 

Age-Friendly AI places older adults at the centre of the conversation on AI. The AI training programme builds on dialogue with older people, ensuring that content reflects their real-life experiences and needs. 

Case Study 2: The Bigger Picture 

An art-science initiative designed to explore public perceptions and misconceptions of AI. Combining public workshops, critical analysis and artist submissions, The Bigger Picture uses creative practice as a route into critical dialogue about AI. 
Speaker Biographies 

Dr Emma Clarke – Age-Friendly AI Co-Lead 

Dr Emma Clarke is the Engaged Research Lead at the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre, based at Dublin City University where she works on ADAPT’s #DiscussAI initiative – a National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence that has engaged over 85,000 citizens in conversations about the societal impact of AI in Ireland since 2021. Emma’s work centres on citizen science, participatory dialogue and multi-stakeholder engagement. She is co-lead of Age-Friendly AI – Ireland’s National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative for Older Adults. Emma has presented her research at international forums including PCST and ECSA. She holds a PhD from the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, specialising in cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer. 

Paula Kelly – Age-Friendly AI Lead 

Paula is a lecturer and a member of the tPOT research group in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at TU Dublin. She is the team lead on the Research Ireland funded Age-Friendly AI: Ireland’s National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative. Over two years this initiative is fostering a national dialogue on AI with older adults across Ireland, and co-creating and delivering a comprehensive, accessible, and inclusive national AI literacy programme tailored specifically with and for this demographic. Paula is also involved as a volunteer tutor and facilitator in a number of public engagement STEM activities hosted by tPOT and WITU.

DARIAH-IE August Digest

A micro-newsletter for August 2026

We don’t issue a newsletter in July or August but here’s a digest of upcoming CfPs, Events and Workshops of interest to keep you going !

Calls for Papers 

Call for Papers: Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027 — “Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural Resources across Time and Space” 

Date: Online seminar series, 2026–2027 |   Location: Online 

A new cycle of the Entangled Histories seminar series seeks abstracts on medieval and pre-modern history through a digital lens, covering digital philology, manuscript studies, human-animal relations, folklore, and Indigenous perspectives, all viewed through the theme of borders and environmental sustainability. Proposals (250–300 word abstract, bio, affiliation) are for roughly 30-minute online presentations, with a possible publication opportunity in a special issue or edited volume with a major academic publisher. 

More info: https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/home 

Deadline: 31 August 2026

Call for Expressions of Interest: Special Issues of Digital Comparative Literature (ICLA-DCL) 

Date: Publication-based; first pieces expected from Autumn 2027 

The ICLA’s Digital Comparative Literature research committee invites short (max. 4,000 words) or long (max. 8,000 words) articles at the intersection of comparative literary studies and digital humanities: distant reading, digital archives, data visualisation for literature, electronic literature, and AI or machine translation for literary analysis. Accepted pieces will be placed with one of several partner comparative-literature journals. Submit a 500-word abstract plus a short biographical note. 

More info: https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2026/ICLA-DCL-journals-cfp.html 

Deadline: 7 September 2026 

Call for Abstracts: Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics 2027 (QDLCA27) 

Date: Conference: 14–15 January 2027   |   Location: King’s College London, Strand Campus, London 

The second edition of QDLCA brings together researchers using quantitative and computational methods to study how language changes over time and how those shifts relate to broader cultural dynamics. Keynote speakers are Prof Dirk Geeraerts (KU Leuven) and Dr Stefania De Gaetano-Ortlieb (Saarland University). The conference invites 20-minute presentation proposals, submitted as an anonymised 400-word abstract in .docx format, on computational or cross-linguistic approaches to diachronic change. 

More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quantitative-diachronic-linguistics-and-cultural-analytics-2027-qdlca27 

Deadline: 13 September 2026, 23:59 BST 

Call for Papers: Oral Archives Journal, Volume 4 (2028) 

Date: Publication: Volume 4, 2028   |   Location: N/A — online submission 

The open-access, peer-reviewed Oral Archives Journal, published by Firenze University Press and USiena Press in collaboration with CLARIN-IT, is now accepting submissions for its fourth volume. The journal covers all aspects of oral archives, from creation to preservation, transcription, ethics, and reuse. Manuscripts of 30,000–50,000 characters are accepted in English, Italian, or French, alongside a 150-word English abstract, prepared for blind peer review. 

More info: https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/oarj/index 

Deadline: 15 January 2027 

Conferences & Events 

Computational Humanities Seminar: “Knowledge-Guided Prompt Engineering for Explainable Bias Detection and Mitigation in Museum Exhibition Texts” 

Date: 2 September 2026   |   Location: Online

Mahnoush Pourhosseini Akbarie (Sapienza University of Rome / King’s College London) presents a human-in-the-loop framework combining expert annotation with knowledge-guided LLM prompting to detect and mitigate interpretive bias, gender, cultural, and algorithmic, in museum exhibition texts, and to generate bias-mitigated rewrites while preserving historical meaning. Part of the King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities’ Computational Humanities seminar series; register in advance to receive the online joining link. 

More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group 

Deadline: Register by 28 August 2026 

Computational Humanities Seminar: “The Laudisi Observatory: a computational pipeline for framing and agenda dynamics in French continuous news” 

Date: 9 September 2026   |   Location: Online

Yann De Boisvilliers (Paris-Dauphine / EHESS, PSL University) presents the Laudisi Observatory, a computational pipeline for tracking framing and agenda-setting dynamics in French rolling news coverage. Part of the same King’s College London Digital Humanities seminar series as the 2 September session, this talk explores how computational methods can surface patterns in how continuous news frames issues over time. Register in advance to receive the online joining link. 

More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-laudisi-observatory-a-computational-pipeline-for-framing-and-agenda-dynamics-in-french-continuous-news 

Deadline: Register by 1 September 2026 

ONB Labs Symposium: “Collections as Data – Biases as Data” 

Date: 9–10 November 2026   |   Location: Oratorium of the Austrian National Library, Josefsplatz 1, Vienna 

The fourth ONB Labs Symposium brings together GLAM and Labs practitioners to address bias in cultural heritage data, spanning gender, cultural, and algorithmic bias in collection, digitisation, and AI use, through presentation sessions, research reports, project presentations, and a panel discussion on mitigation practices. Free to attend but places are limited; a detailed programme and registration will follow on the ONB Labs website. Attendees can also catch the CLARIAH-AT Roadshow beforehand. 

More info: http://labs.onb.ac.at/en/ 

Training & Workshops 

WissKI How-to-Tutorial: Linked Open Data & Semantic Modelling 

Date: 29–30 September 2026   |   Location: Online 

A free, three-module tutorial (90 minutes each, over two days) run jointly by the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab and SODa, covering the fundamentals of ontology-based research data modelling using WissKI, an open virtual research environment built on Drupal. Modules cover introductory semantic modelling, ontology modelling with Protégé, and moving from diagram to WissKI implementation. Register for one, two, or all three modules depending on prior familiarity with the topic. 

More info: https://winoda.de/en/event/wisski-bits-how-to-tutorial/ 

Opportunities 

Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence — Call for Applications 

Date: Residency dates to be confirmed with award   |   Location: Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway 

The Arts Council and the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway are inviting mid-career and established digital artists to apply for the second year of this Digital Artist in Residence programme, part of the Arts Council’s Digital Arts Policy. The residency offers a stimulating environment and financial support, up to €18,000, to focus on digital arts practice, following a successful 2025 pilot programme. 

More info: https://artscouncil.ie/funding-opportunities/arts-council-digital-artist-in-residence-university-programme/arts-council-digital-artist-in-residence-at-university-of-galway/

Deadline: 11 September 2026, 17:30 

History and Art Journal — Call for Editors, Peer Reviewers & Copyeditors 

Date: Ongoing / rolling   |   Note: honorary, remote roles 

Following the launch of its inaugural volume, a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed annual journal deposited with the British Library and hosted via Zenodo/CERN, History and Art Journal is expanding its editorial structure and inviting scholars and heritage professionals to join as Section Editors, Peer Reviewers, or Copyeditors and Layout Designers. These are honorary roles offering editorial experience and named recognition in the journal’s permanent metadata. 

More info: https://www.historyandartjournal.org 

Other 

New Article: “Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives” 

Drawing on fifteen interviews with GLAM professionals and a computer-vision test on colonial photographs from the Archives Nationales d’Outre-mer, this open-access article by Jaillant, Kidd and Zhao proposes a framework combining automated triage, human review, clear labelling of AI-generated descriptions, and consultation with source communities for handling sensitive colonial archival images responsibly. Part of the British Academy-funded GENIAC project on AI and colonial archival images. 

More info: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x 

Scholarly Editing, Volume 43 — New Issue Live 

The latest volume of Scholarly Editing, a small online journal focused on editorial practice and scholarly digital editing, is now live on a newly redesigned website. As always, the issue includes newly published micro-editions: small-scale digital editions of texts that have not been favoured by the established literary canon. The journal is open to hearing from anyone interested in submitting work of their own. 

More info: https://scholarlyediting.org/issues/43/ 

TaDiRAH Update — Session at EADH 2026 

Date: 16 September 2026, 9:00–10:30am   |   Location: Room 303, al. Mickiewicza 9b, Kraków (EADH 2026) 

As part of EADH 2026, a session on the continued development of TaDiRAH (Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities) will cover its governance, multilingual expansion, interoperability, and integration with the German data-competence centres HERMES and SODa. The presenters, Ksenia Stanicka-Brzezicka, Canan Hastik, and Marlon-Benedikt George, welcome anyone with an interest in TaDiRAH to join the discussion at the conference. 

More info: https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/programme 

GenAI in Irish Libraries and Information Organisations [Survey, closes July 14th]

GenAI in Irish Libraries and Information Organisations: Readiness, Attitudes & Impact Survey

You are invited to participate in the research survey, “GenAI in Irish Libraries and Information Organisations: Readiness, Attitudes & Impact.” 

This study examines how library and information professionals in Ireland engage with Generative AI technologies, focusing on awareness, preparedness, attitudes, and current practices.

Participation is voluntary and anonymous. Responses will be used for research purposes only and reported in aggregated form. The study has received ethical approval from the UCD Human Research Ethics Committee – Humanities (Ref: 022-HS-26-LR-Havelka) and is a collaboration between UCD’s iSchool and the Western Regional Section of the Library Association of Ireland.

Your insights will help inform future research, training, and professional development related to GenAI in the Irish library and information sector. We encourage you to participate and share your response.

https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/ireland

The case for Public AI: making it happen with cultural heritage [Europeana Report Published]

The case for Public AI: making it happen with cultural heritage

Developed through iteration and in collaboration with over 400 professionals of the data space and the Europeana Initiative community, the paper presents a shared vision for how the cultural heritage sector can contribute to a more democratic, pluralistic and publicly accountable AI ecosystem in Europe. 

As AI reshapes how knowledge, culture and history are produced, accessed and interpreted, this paper explores how the cultural heritage sector, supported by the data space, can help build Public AI in Europe — AI that serves the public good, not just commercial interests.

The paper sets out a clear and ambitious role for the data space in turning this vision into reality: from leading by example and applying AI in line with Public AI principles across our technology stack, to acting as a rights broker, trusted infrastructure, literacy engine, technical partner and collective voice for the cultural heritage sector.  

Read the paper if you are curious to know:

  • Why is cultural heritage data so valuable for AI training?
  • Beyond data, how can cultural heritage institutions and professionals help shape an alternative AI approach in Europe?
  • What opportunities is the data space exploring to make this happen, and what challenges must we overcome?
  • What is Public AI, why is it gaining traction in policy debates, and how can it address structural imbalances in today’s AI ecosystem? 
  • What is the state of Europe’s AI landscape, and what role can our sector play in it? What partnerships are needed —and under what conditions— for us to play that role effectively?
  • What are the risks of inaction — for Europe, for the future of AI systems, for the open knowledge ecosystem and for our sector?

Read the paper in full

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