Digital Humanities

New Community Interest Groups announced by UK-IE DHA


6 new Community Interest Groups (CIGs) have been approved and will be joining the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association.

We are delighted to announce that, following a highly competitive call for applications in May 2026, 6 new Community Interest Groups (CIGs) have been approved and will be joining the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association.

Newly Approved Community Interest Groups:

  • Cultural Heritage Open Scholarship Network (CHOSN)
  • Digital Humanities Pedagogies
  • Digital Infrastructures for Arts, Humanities & Cultural Heritage (DIAHCH)
  • Humanities and Data Science
  • UK-Ireland Web Archive Research Network (UK-IE WARN)
  • Feminist Digital Humanities

With these additions, we now have 10 active Community Interest Groups, reflecting the breadth, diversity, and vibrancy of digital humanities research and practice across the UK and Ireland.

To read more about our CIGs, these groups and more, you can read the full announcement here: https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2026-new-cigs/

Immigrant and Emigrant Correspondence [CFP, 4th Dec deadline]

Immigrant and Emigrant Correspondence, online event

The UK-IE DHA Digital Correspondence Community Interest Group, warmly invite you to register and submit proposals for an upcoming free online event on Immigrant and Emigrant Correspondence. 

Event Details:

  • Date & Time: Thursday, 14 January 2027 | 10:00 – 13:00 GMT 
  • Location: Online (Free) 
  • Audience: Historians, linguists, digital humanities researchers, educators, GLAM practitioners, and postgraduate students.

About the Event:

This workshop brings together perspectives on personal correspondence written by or about migrants. We welcome explorations across all time periods and media—ranging from historical physical letters and dispatches to contemporary digital messaging and email. 

Possible research areas include (but are not limited to):

  • Historical sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis 
  • History ‘from below’ and oral history in written contexts 
  • Preservation of linguistic heritage and digital archiving 
  • Stance, positioning, identity, and emotion in migrant letters 

Call for Papers (5–15 Minute Talks):

They invite short presentations on either works-in-progress or completed studies. 

Doing Sound Synthesis: Symposium and Exhibition [1-3 October, Graz]

Graz Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics Symposium and Exhibition

Thinking sound synthesis, composing sound synthesis, developing sound synthesis, programming sound synthesis, questioning sound synthesis, experimenting with sound synthesis, probing sound syntheses. What is it that we are doing in the artistic practice of sound synthesis?

As an artistic endeavour, doing sound synthesis is a knot of practices. It is not limited to the mere production of sound; rather, it seeds paths of speculation that grow into different, unthought, unseen and unheard potentials.Doing Sound Synthesis, a mini-symposium and exhibition within the artistic research project Speculative Sound Synthesis, brings a collection of such speculative seeds together.

Works by A. Isa Araújo, Adam Pultz Melbye, Fulya Uçanok and Martin Rumori, as well as by the project team – David Pirrò, Leonie Strecker and Ina Thomann – will be exhibited, performed and discussed over three days at the Tennenmälzerei in Graz. The programme also includes the presentation of the new artistic research project Composing Tools as Computer Music Discourse by Gerhard Eckel, Ludvig Elblaus, Alisa Kobzar, Ina Thomann, and Zlata Zhidkova, and closes with the presentation of the forthcoming Speculative Sound Synthesis publication.Doing Sound Synthesis – mini-symposium and exhibition 

October 1–3, 2026 
Tennenmälzerei, UNESCO-Esplanade 9, 8020 Graz 
Exhibition daily from 14:00 
Lecture performances and moderated talks from 18:00

Programme:
https://speculative.iem.at/docs/Events/doing_sound_synthesis_2026/

Participation is free.

We kindly ask you to register by sending a short email to speculative@iem.at.We look forward to welcoming you in Graz.the Speculative Sound Synthesis teamSpeculative Sound Synthesis is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within the Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) – PEEK AR 713-G. It is hosted by the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

https://speculative.iem.at/

contact: speculative@iem.at

(re)Imagining the future for Digital Arts and Humanities in Ireland [4th March, 2027, Save the Date]

📌 Save the date for a DARIAH-IE Networking Day hosting the UK-IE Digital Humanities Association’s Regional Meeting

📆 March 4th, 2027 | 📍 Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin  | 🕰️ 10:30 – 16:00

Save the date for a national event bringing together practitioners, researchers and academics working in digital arts and digital humanities across Ireland.

Hosted by DARIAH-IE, Ireland’s national node of DARIAH the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, the day will also see the first meeting of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association (UK-IE DHA) Regional Event Series.

This jointly organised event will bring together a broad range of stakeholders, reflecting the strength of collaboration between the DARIAH-IE infrastructure and the UK-IE DH Association.

The day is designed to:

  • Introduce the affordances of engagement with DARIAH-IE and the UK-IE DHA
  • Provide the opportunity to talk to – and hear from – colleagues across the island
  • Share knowledge across HEIs
  • Encourage participation in and engagement across DARIAH Working Groups and UK-IE DHA Community Interest Groups
  • Invite discussions on training needs, collaborations and events

Whether you are new to digital arts and humanities or already active in the field, this is a chance to connect with colleagues from across the island and help shape the future of both DARIAH-IE and the UK-IE DHA.

Full programme and registration details to follow, provisional timelines below:

  • October 20th, 2026 – Call for Papers and Provocations opens
  • November 27th, 2026 – CfP closes
  • December – Programme announced
  • January 11th, 2026 – Registration opens
  • February 11th, 2026 – Registration closes

A bursary call will also be announced in the coming months.

Keep an eye on our Event page for more info

For queries contact joan.y.murphy@tcd.ie or uk-ie.digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk 

DARIAH-CH Training Series 2026–2027: Building Digital Skills for the Arts and Humanities [from Sept 4, Online]

DARIAH-CH Training Series 2026–2027: Building Digital Skills for the Arts and Humanities

DARIAH-CH and its national partners are pleased to announce the DARIAH-CH Training Series 2026–2027, a new programme of online training sessions designed to introduce researchers to the methods, tools, and good practices that are shaping digital scholarship in the arts and humanities.

The series is aimed primarily at early-career researchers, doctoral candidates, master’s students, and anyone new to Digital Humanities who wishes to develop practical digital research skills. No prior technical knowledge is required.

Over eleven sessions, participants will explore fundamental topics in arts and digital humanities. The programme combines conceptual foundations with practical demonstrations and hands-on examples, enabling participants to understand both the underlying principles and their application to humanities research.

Each 90-minute online session consists of:

  • 40 minutes of theoretical introduction,
  • 30 minutes of practical demonstrations or hands-on activities,
  • 20 minutes of questions and discussion.

To support continued learning, all sessions will be accompanied by Open Educational Resources (OER) that participants can consult after the training.

Register

To take part in the series, register here and you’ll receive all the Zoom connection details by email.