Events

Computational approaches to visual and material culture [June 2/3, Oxford, in person – FREE ]

Computational approaches to visual and material culture

Join us for a two-day thematic research event on computational approaches to visual and material culture at Oxford’s Weston Library!

2 June 9:30am-5:00pm to 3 June 9.30am-5:00pm

In-person event: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, Oxford

Free event and open to all. Registration required, limited places available. Please follow the link below to register.

Register on Eventbrite

Data/Culture, the Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries), Digital Scholarship @Oxford, and Mapping the Arts and Humanities (SAS, London) are hosting a two-day thematic research event exploring new ways of working with images, objects, and performances. The event focuses on developing research questions and approaches, using existing tools and resources. Participants will work collaboratively in small groups, supported by Research Software Engineers, and have the opportunity to develop a research idea further through a prize of dedicated technical collaboration. No prior coding experience is required.

Who is this for?

This event is designed for:

  • Arts and Humanities researchers (scholars and postgraduate students)
  • those working with images, objects, archives, or performance materials
  • those interested in exploring new research methods
  • those developing or planning research projects or grant applications

What do you need?

  • An interest in your research question
  • (Optional) a dataset or collection you work with
  • A laptop is desirable but not essential

You do NOT need:

  • coding experience
  • prior knowledge of tools
  • technical expertise

DARIAH-Campus Open Education Resource Showcase [May 26 @2pm, DARIAH Annual Event, Rome]

DARIAH-Campus Open Education Resource Showcase

The DARIAH-EU Community Engagement Working Group and the DARIAH-Campus Editorial Board invite participants to join us during the DARIAH Annual event in Rome for a DARIAH-Campus Open Education Resource Showcase. 

This event will take place on Tuesday 26th May from 2-3.30pm in the Aula Bisconti in the main conference venue.

Please register your intention to attend by completing this form by Friday 22nd May.

This event is targeted at early career researchers, practitioners and those who are currently engaged in training provision as educators (e.g. lecturers, academics, trainers) as well as postgraduate students and lifelong learners. 

The session will showcase DARIAH-Campus resources through demonstrations from leading educators, using examples from their own teaching practices. Following the demonstrations a moderated discussion will afford the DARIAH-Campus team the opportunity to gain a deeper insight from the community in how they engage with Open Education Resources (OERs) such as those available on DARIAH-Campus.  Potential topics of discussion will include:

What formats work best?  

How are training materials identified?  

What sources are trusted for recommendations in OERs?

Participants in the workshop will leave with a deeper understanding of using DARIAH-Campus as a resource for teaching, training and learning and will also have played an active role in informing and shaping the direction of DARIAH-Campus and the development of training materials in current and future projects (e.g. ATRIUM, ARTEMIS, ECHOES).

Gamifying Digital Preservation: An Introductory Twine Workshop [May 12 @10am, online]

Gamifying Digital Preservation: An Introductory Twine Workshop

May 12, 10:00-12:00 UTC+1

The Digital Repository of Ireland is hosting a webinar on May 12th that may be of interest if you’re planning on attending their DPASSH (Digital Preservation in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) conference in late June! 

This 2 hour online workshop led by Francesca Mackenzie (National Archives UK), Lotte Wijsman and Susanne van den Eijkel (National Archives NL) is designed to guide participants in creating text‑based adventure games using Twine, a free and accessible tool for building interactive stories. Prompts, templates, and example structures will be provided to help participants shape their projects and develop their skills. Alongside technical learning, the workshop encourages a playful approach to thinking about digital preservation challenges, offering a creative space to re‑imagine familiar workflows and concepts.

Register:

https://dri.ie/events/gamifying-digital-preservation-an-introductory-twine-workshop

Galaxy – Digital Research Methods Training [Free, online, register by May 16]

Galaxy – Digital Research Methods Training online

We would like to draw your attention to the Galaxy Training Academy 2026, a free, international training programme focused on open, reproducible digital research methods, with particular relevance for arts, humanities, and cultural heritage research.

This training is relevant if you:

• work with textual, audiovisual, or cultural heritage data;

• are interested in practical approaches to digital humanities, text analysis, or machine learning;

• would like access to shared, non‑commercial computational infrastructure for research and teaching experiments;

• are interested in FAIR research practices for the digital arts and humanities.

About the Galaxy Training Academy 2026

The Academy is organised by the Galaxy Training Network, a long‑running international community that develops and delivers training for the Galaxy open‑source research infrastructure, which is widely used and supported across the global research community.

Dates: 18–22 May 2026 (Registration deadline: 16 May)

Format: Fully asynchronous (no live sessions)

Cost: Free

More details: https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/events/2026-05-18-galaxy-academy.html

The Academy is open to researchers at all career stages, including postgraduate students, doctoral researchers and early‑career academics. 

Participants work through a structured set of video‑based and text‑based tutorials at their own pace. No prior experience with Galaxy is required, although more experienced users are also welcome.

Topics

Recommended tracks for community members include: Digital Humanities; From Zero to Hero with Python Machine Learning.

Indicative topics in the Digital Humanities track include:

• Introduction to Digital Humanities workflows in Galaxy

• Researching cultural data using OpenRefine

• Text mining Chinese newspaper archives

• Automated transcription of audio and video materials

Middle voice in the diachrony of Ancient Greek: a quantitative (and qualitative!) approach [May 11 @ 5pmBST, online]

Middle voice in the diachrony of Ancient Greek: a quantitative (and qualitative!) approach

The eighth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 11th May 2026 at 5pm BST. Federico Viglino (Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy) will be presenting on “Middle voice in the diachrony of Ancient Greek: a quantitative (and qualitative!) approach”. 

Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 8th May and the link for this can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/ioQ7qbspf9ebc19J7 

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.

Artificial Intelligence and the Next Frontiers of Digital History: From Algorithmic Reading to Autonomous Agents [May 19 @3pm BST, online]

The seminar series organised by the Computational Humanities research group at the Department of Digital Humanities of King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group) will feature another seminar.
– 19 May 2026 3pmBST
– Javier Cha (The University of Hong Kong)
– Title: Artificial Intelligence and the Next Frontiers of Digital History: From Algorithmic Reading to Autonomous Agents
To receive the link to join, please register at https://forms.office.com/e/gZrrpypLzN by 12 May 2026.

See the event’s page (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/artificial-intelligence-and-the-next-frontiers-of-digital-history-from-algorithmic-reading-to-autonomous-agents) for abstract and bio.

Music and Digital Humanities [Mondays @ 16:00 CEST]

🎼 💡 Music and Digital Humanities

The Distinguished Lecture Series ‘Music and Digital Humanities’ at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna invites leading international experts in diverse aspects of DH to share their perspectives with the interested audience.

📅 Monday, weekly from 5 p.m.
📍 onsite at the mdw Campus and online via Zoom
🌐 https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/music-dh/

The series is aimed at a broad, non-technical audience. It provides a varied overview of the history and current state of DH as it applies to music, its philosophical underpinnings and societal implications, and is expected to yield insights into relevant methodologies, technologies, infrastructures, and applications working with humanities datasets.

More information, the Zoom link and the (tentative) programme is available at:
👉 https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/music-dh/

Program preview

The lectures take place from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM (Vienna).

March 2, 2026 — Anna E. Kijas , Lilly Music Library, Tufts University

March 9, 2026 — Chanda VanderHart and David M. Weigl , mdw

March 16, 2026 — Frauke Jürgensen , mdw

March 23, 2026 — Andrew Hankinson , RISM Digital

April 13, 2026 — Mark Gotham , King’s College London

April 27, 2026 — Alíz Horváth , Central European University 

May 4, 2026 — Frans Wiering , Utrecht University

11 May 2026 — Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller , Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Venue: K0101, mdw-Campus)

May 18, 2026     — David De Roure , University of Oxford

June 1, 2026 — Christof Weiß , JMU Würzburg

June 8, 2026 — Announcement to follow

June 22, 2026 — Panel: Digital Editions

June 29, 2026 — Announcement to follow

Web Archiving with DRI [April 15 @ 11am, online]

Web Archiving with DRI

15 April 2026, 11:00 UTC+1

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is pleased to present a new series of talks designed to de-mystify the day-to-day work of a digital repository. Our ‘Meet the Experts’ series will be designed around short talks and provide extended opportunity for discussion with staff and invited experts on various topics related to DRI’s work.

In this session, DRI Senior Software Engineer Dr Kathryn Cassidy will demonstrate DRI’s web archiving tool. Participants will leave with practical tips for preparing websites of all shapes and sizes for long-term preservation.

Audience

We invite anyone involved in the creation and/or management of a website in which they share research and engage audiences with digital social and cultural heritage resources. We further encourage anyone who would like to learn more about our work at DRI to attend.

Register here

An Interactive Tool for Interpretable Semantic Change Analysis via Definition-Aligned Embedding Spaces [April 13 @17:00 BST, online]

An Interactive Tool for Interpretable Semantic Change Analysis via Definition-Aligned Embedding Spaces

The sixth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 13th April 2026 at 5pm BST. Roksana Goworek (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom) will be presenting on “An Interactive Tool for Interpretable Semantic Change Analysis via Definition-Aligned Embedding Spaces” in an interactive session.

Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 10th April and the link for this can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/mBmDUufrgskRtHPB6 

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: 

https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/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.

3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland [April 22, in person, UCC] Registration Open

Registration is now open for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland

April 22nd, 2026 in University College Cork

The symposium is a collaboration between Sample-Studios and University College Cork’s Department of Digital Humanities and Future Humanities Institute. The Symposium is generously supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Registration is now open for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland. The symposium is a collaboration between Sample-Studios and University College Cork’s Department of Digital Humanities and Future Humanities Institute. The Symposium is generously supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

The Symposium will take place at University College Cork & the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park 22nd April, 2026. It is chaired by Stephen Roddy, James O’Sullivan, Aoibhie McCarthy & Emer Yip.

Book tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/3rd-symposium-on-digital-art-in-ireland-tickets-1985523941558

Participants and attendees may also be interested in submitting to Digital Art in Ireland: Theory, Practice, Futures, a new book that will be published in late 2026/early 2027:
https://www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-ireland

Symposium Programme

DATE 22nd April 2026

Symposium: 10am-5:15pm | Exhibition Opening Reception: 5:30-7pm 
Venue: Dora Allman, University College Cork
10am Opening Remarks
10.15am – 11.30am Session 1
  • FAILING SMALL: TRAINING A GENERATIVE AI MODEL WITH IMPERFECT DARKROOM IMAGES. Alaz Okudan with James McDermott , Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway
  • ARTISTIC ACCESS TO COMPLEX DIGITAL SYSTEMS THROUGH PARTICIPATORY DESIGN. Dr Paul Green and Juan Francisco Martinez, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design &  Nimbus Research Centre
  • A PRACTICE-LED APPROACH TO MUSIC VISUALISATION IN THE IRISH DIGITAL ARTS CURRICULUM. Guang Yang, University College Cork
Break 11.30-11.45am
11.45am – 1.00pm Session 2
  • FULLY SUBMERGED: COLLABORATIVE WORK AND IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES. Barbara Denier, University College Cork and Dr. Paul Green, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design
  • A MULTI-MODAL ADAPTIVE MICROTUNING ARCHITECTURE: BRIDGING MTS, MPE, AND MIDI 2.0 FOR REAL-TIME JUST INTONATION. Rui Su, Joseph Timoney, Damián Keller, Maynooth University
  • A LEGION OF DEVILS- THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE SCULPTURE OF JAMES L HAYES. James L. Hayes, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design

Lunch 1-2pm
2.00pm – 3.15pm Session 3
  • CHROMAESTHESIA IN CURGENVEN’S AGENESIS. Robin Parmar, University of Limerick
  • CREATIVE TRANSPARENCY: REFLECTIONS ON A DEVELOPING HYBRID DIGITAL PRACTICE. Chris Falconer
  • ACCESSIBILITY AND MULTI-SENSORY INSTALLATION. Jane Cassidy, University of Galway’s Centre for Creative Technologies
Break 3.15-3.30pm
3:30pm – 4:15pm Panel
  • THE BODY AS HARDWARE: ENTANGLEMENT OF FLESH AND MACHINE THROUGH DIGITAL PERFORMANCE. EL Putnam (Maynooth University), Katherine Nolan (Technological University Dublin), Phaedra Shanbaum (Maynooth University)
4:15pm – 5:15pm Final Session
  • METAGARDENER: CULTIVATING LIFE IN INTERACTION DESIGN. Caileann Finn, University of Limerick
  • LUDDITE ACADEMY; TOWARDS A POLITICISED DIGITAL CREATIVE PRACTICE. David Benqué, Institute of Diagram Studies, Sample-Studios Member
  • COUNTER-ARCHIVAL METHODOLOGIES AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF MEMORY: THE IRAQ PHOTO ARCHIVE AND HOUSE OF MEMORY. Basil Al-Rawi 

Exhibition Opening

House of Memory,  Basil Al-Rawi

The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, 5.30-7pm

CLICK HERE

Additional details: https://sample-studios.com/events/3rd-symposium-on-digital-art-in-ireland/