Events

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.

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. 

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.

Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) training [13-16 Oct, UCL, London]

CLDH training opportunity in Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), taking place from 13 to 16 October 2026 in the UCL Multi-Modal Digitisation Suite

We’re pleased to share an upcoming UCLDH training opportunity in Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), taking place from 13 to 16 October 2026 in the UCL Multi-Modal Digitisation Suite. 

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/consulting/advanced-imaging-consultants/training

Led by Dr Kathryn Piquette, this four-day practical course introduces RTI as a computational photographic method for capturing and examining surface shape, colour and fine detail. The course combines lectures, demonstrations and hands-on work, and is particularly relevant to colleagues working with cultural heritage, museum and archival collections, archaeology, conservation and digital imaging.

Participants will learn how to:

  • set up and capture RTI datasets
  • process, assess and view RTI images
  • work with portable objects and larger surfaces
  • use RTI for detailed examination and documentation
  • prepare and disseminate RTI images for research and publication

Dates: 13-16 October 2026

Location: UCL Multi-Modal Digitisation Suite, Malet Place

Fee: £1,400

Concession rate: £1,200 for full-time students, UCL students and staff, and organisations enrolling two or more participants

Places can be booked through the UCL Online Store:

https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-c01/information-studies-f15/f15-4-day-reflectance-transformation-imaging-training-course-oct-2026

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