Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School [Bursary Applications Open]

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School [Bursary Closing Date Feb 9th]

From 24-28 August at the University of Oxford, practitioners, students and academic researchers will come together to explore digital humanities together through a range of courses covering DH tools, techniques and research methods. 

With options for all levels, led by experts who are innovating in the digital humanities, DHOxSS is a unique opportunity to enhance your skills and grow your network professionally in a supportive environment.

In 2026 there are four in-person strands and two online strands on offer, as well as a virtual learning environment and two keynote talks which will be made available to all participants.

Available bursaries
Bursaries for online and in-person attendance are available for students, early career researchers and people currently working in a gallery, library, archive or museum. Specific bursaries are also available for Digital Humanities researchers who use historical primary sources in history, literature or the social sciences, studying at either DPhil/PhD or MPhil level in a range of global regions. All bursaries cover the registration fee for the Summer School. Some may also cover accommodation and offer a contribution towards travel – you will be notified of the full details if you are successful.

How to apply 

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/digital-humanities-at-oxford-summer-school-2026-bursary-applica
Bursary applications close on Monday 9 February at noon (GMT).

Summer School information sessions
If you have questions about the Summer School, why not join us for an information session in March? We will run two sessions to cater for different time zones – sign up here.

Session 1: Monday 23 March, 5pm (GMT)
Session 2: Wednesday 25 March, 8am (GMT)

Available workshop strands

Online:
•    An Introduction to Humanities Data
•    Using AI Tools and Technologies in Research Libraries

In person: 
•    An Introduction to Digital Humanities
•    Applied Data Analysis 
•    From Text to Tech
•    An Introduction to TEI 

Further detail on the programme.

SynFlow: Continuous Semantics Change Analysis via Dependency Co-occurences [Jan 26, online, @17:00 GMT]

SynFlow: Continuous Semantics Change Analysis via Dependency Co-occurences

The first talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2026 will take place remotely on Monday 26 January 2026 at 5pm GMT. Bách Phan-Tất (KU Leuven, Belgium) will be presenting on SynFlow: Continuous Semantics Change Analysis via Dependency Co-occurences

Registration for this talk will close at midnight on the Friday before the event and the link for this can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/HEnpTKreXdrZqjfA8 

Participants will receive a Microsoft Teams link via email on the morning of the talk. 

The abstract for this talk can be found at this page.

The programme and registration links for all talks in the series can be found on our website: 

2026 Programme

This seminar series is run by Andrea Farina (King’s College London) and Dr Mathilde Bru and is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. The purpose of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss current avenues of research in this topic. We hope that these seminars will nurture international collaboration and establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in this field.

Measuring Narrative Space: A Computational Study of German and English Prose Fiction [Jan 13, online, 10-12 CET]

Measuring Narrative Space: A Computational Study of German and English Prose Fiction [Jan 13, online, 10-12 CET]

The lecture is public and can be attended only via zoom. The talk will not be recorded.

Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher (Nürnberg/Erlangen):

Measuring Narrative Space: A Computational Study of German and English Prose Fiction

In this talk, I will present ongoing work on measuring the notion of narrative space using machine learning methods, specifically by fine-tuning BERT-based classification models and applying them to a large collection of German and English historical prose fiction, including both canonical works and non-fiction. Moving from theorization and conceptualization to dataset creation, modeling, analysis, and interpretation, I will outline the steps involved in conducting a computational study of this kind. We will examine results that show how the concepts of “setting” and “lived space” have been used in fiction over time and discuss their implications for “experientiality” and embodiment more broadly, including cross-linguistic perspectives between German and English. The talk also introduces a methodological model for iterative, interpretive “computational reading” that bridges qualitative and quantitative approaches.

When: January 13, 2026, 10-12 hs

Where:  Zoom 

Zoom link:  https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/67280092106?pwd=Zlzqqy980r2N7I1wTktAbbV33tCBaj.1

Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint [Dec 15, online, 13:30-15:00 GMT]

Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint

The Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities Network (DISKAH) is organising a webinar on “Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint” in collaboration with the Programming Historian to support interested colleagues in developing a publication targeted to this journal, and more widely in communicating your technical workflows within Digital Humanities research to relevant audiences.

Webinar date and time: Monday 15 December, 13:30-15:00 (GMT)

Please register here for the webinar: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diskah-webinar-technical-writing-in-the-humanities-tickets-1976718137160

Further information about the webinar: https://culturedigitalskills.org/webinar-diskah-programming-historian/

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition [Dec 16, online, @16:45 CET]

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition

The FSP Digital Humanities at the University of Vienna is very pleased to announce the third of the Digital Humanities Invited Lecture Series for the winter semester 2025/26. All lectures will be streamed via the following link: 

https://ustream.univie.ac.at/live/4b4961fd-6b8d-4be7-a222-62912c0dada0

16 December, 16:45 CET –  Dr. Jan Odstrčilík, Austrian Academy of Sciences

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition