Events

DARIAH-IE Visits UCC [March 19th, 2026]

Save the Date ! DARIAH-IE visits UCC on March 19th, 2026

DARIAH-IE will be continuing our visits to Irish HEIs with a trip to University College Cork on March 19th. We are looking forward to meeting with colleagues engaged in digitally-enabled arts and humanities activities across the university – from practitioners, researchers, academics to those involved in research support services.

The visit to UCC will include an Open Session with a short presentation on DARIAH and Ireland’s national node DARIAH-IE, followed by a Q&A with Joan Murphy (DARIAH-IE National Manager) and Prof Jennifer Edmond (DARIAH-IE National Coordinator). During the Q&A attendees will be given the opportunity to discuss their needs and wants from the national node in a relaxed and informal way. A number of smaller meetings will also take place.

Further details of the day will be communicated shortly, but if you have any questions in the meantime please contact joan.y.murphy@tcd.ie directly.

Location: North Wing Council Room (first floor, Main Quad)

Time: 11-12:30

Event: Open Session – Q&A / discussion

‘How shall we do this?’ keynote with Alex Martinis Roe [Feb 26, NCAD, 18:00 GMT]

‘How shall we do this?’ keynote with Alex Martinis Roe

26 Feb 2026 / 18:00 / 1 hour 15 mins

Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD

Booking required: https://imma.ie/whats-on/symposium-launch-how-shall-we-do-this-alex-martinis-roe

Feminist practices of researching and archiving minor histories, engage with the past to activate and develop their feminist, anti-colonial, anti-fascist and anti-capitalist politics. Alex Martinis Roe, artist, researcher and author of To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice.

Alex Martinis Roe’s practice seeks solidarity between different positions and generations, as a way of participating in the construction of cultures of difference. Making film installations, publications, workshops and dialogic public events, we gain insight into the artist’s use of transdisciplinary methods that combine writerly, performance and filmmaking methods with feminist and decolonial historiography, ethnography, and political organising.

In this lecture, Martinis Roe presents her expansive working methods that include: an ethnographic approach to archives, where communities guide Martinis Roe’s encounters with artefacts; using pedagogical formats to experiment with ways to learn about, tell and disseminate feminist concepts, methods and stories; using video as a collective transmission of embodied knowledge; working with different positionalities towards a plurality of values and narratives. Central to all of these methods is the importance of relationships: a commitment to radical relational processes of co-creating alternative systems of value and meaning. This relational politics starts from difference and creates kinships and alliances that exceed the dominant social order.

This opening address is followed by a drinks reception. This is the first of several events programmed as part a three-day symposium programme, How shall we do this? This leads onto the all-day symposium at IMMA on Friday 27 February 2026, from 10:30am, the programme concludes with a practice-based workshop on Saturday 28 February from 11am at IMMA. Read full details of these events on the main symposium webpage here.

Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections [Feb 17 @ 16:00 GMT online]

Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections

17 February (4:00 pm to 5:30 pm)

Join the Digital Humanities Research Hub (School of Advanced Study, University of London) for a fascinating discussion about ‘Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections’.

Registration: https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/gaps-silences-cultural-heritage-collections

The Digital Humanities Research Hub (School of Advanced Study, University of London) cordially invites you to the next session of their flagship seminar series on ‘The Fragile Record’.

We live in an age of abundant data — and yet, it remains strikingly fragile and incomplete. This seminar explores the topic of ‘Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections.’ We will discuss issues of inclusivity and bias from an interdisciplinary perspective and examine uncertainty, privilege and power in digital archives. How do these factors influence which stories are told and how they are represented in cultural heritage collections and related research?

Please find below a short biography of the participants

Mandana Seyfeddinipur is Director of Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, formerly based at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and part of the CLARIN-UK Consortium. The programme moved to Berlin in 2021, and remains part of the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Linguistic Diversity and Language Documentation (CKLD).

Andrea Kocsis is Chancellor’s Fellow in Humanities Informatics, at the University of Edinburgh. She comes from an interdisciplinary and international background, and in her research, she combines heritage studies with data and network science. 

Giulia Taurino, Ph.D. is a researcher, artist, and curator specialized in AI for the management and preservation of cultural heritage collections. Her research focuses on forms of content organization in online repositories and digital archives, cultural implications of algorithmic technologies, and applications of AI in the arts, heritage and museum sectors. Past and present affiliations include the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science, the Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts Interest Group, Getty Research Institute, metaLAB (at) Harvard, MIT Data + Feminism Lab, Brown University’s Virtual Humanities Lab. 

Lucy Havens is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.  She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2024, where she investigated how machine learning could help archivists identify gender biases in descriptive metadata.  Her research interests include human-centered AI, gender bias and empowerment, and AI evaluation, with a focus on GLAM use cases.

The FLOW Project: A Modular Workflow for Automatic Text Recognition and Beyond [Feb 18, online @ 15:00 GMT]

The FLOW Project: A Modular Workflow for Automatic Text Recognition and Beyond

Bodleian Bytes

18 February 15:00 to 16:00

Online event. Registration required.

Registration: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/registration-bodleian-bytes-the-flow-project

Historical research often involves working with highly diverse and complex source materials, ranging from handwritten manuscripts to large, heterogeneous document collections. Machine learning methods are increasingly shaping how historians work with digitised sources, particularly through Automatic Text Recognition (ATR). In this talk, Jonas Widmer and Dana Meyer will introduce The FLOW, a modular, microservice-based framework designed to support machine learning–driven data management and processing in the Digital Humanities.

The talk will outline how The FLOW separates complex ATR workflows such as pre-processing, model training, inference, and evaluation into independent, reusable components that can be combined flexibly and accessed without programming experience. Using state-of-the-art transformer-based models, the project aims to make advanced text recognition workflows more transparent, reproducible, and scalable across diverse historical datasets.

Jonas and Dana will outline a typical FLOW workflow, showing how datasets are managed on the Hugging Face platform and then processed step by step. The focus will be on how such workflows can support everyday research practices when working with large and heterogeneous historical corpora.

Speaker Biographies

Jonas Widmer is a Research Software Engineer specialising in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern. In this role, he assists in planning and developing projects focused on Natural Language Processing. His primary interest lies in Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), where he engages with historical projects and their diverse sources.

Dana Meyer is a Master’s student in Intelligent Interactive Systems at Bielefeld University and works as a research assistant on the project The Flow in the Digital History group at Bielefeld University

Jonas Widmer

Jonas Widmer

Dana Meyer

Dana Meyer

Bodleian Bytes

Bodleian Bytes is a series of online talks hosted by the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries. The series engages with innovative national and international research in digital scholarship. It is a virtual space for discussions surrounding different tools and methodologies whilst also providing inspiration for future digital research.

Event Details and Registration

Registration is required for this free online event. Registration closes at 17.00 on Monday 16 February 2026.

Date and time: Wednesday 18 February, 15:00-16:00 (UK time)

Location: Online via Zoom.

For further information, please email the Centre for Digital Scholarship: cds@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

Centre for Digital Scholarship

The Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries is a space and place for engaging, leading and shaping discussions around digital scholarship practice and research within and beyond the University of Oxford. 

Digital Changelings: 3D Scanning Nature [Feb 17 @ 12:00 GMT in person (Galway) and online]

Digital Changelings: 3D Scanning Nature

Date & Time: 12pm, Tuesday 17th February

Location: Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, University of Galway

Registration

In person: https://ti.to/creative-tech/masterclass-liing-heaney

Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jbqJZag_T0CrOoJBH1CAFA#/registration

Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway, Masterclass Series

In this session, multidisciplinary artist 1iing heaney will talk about the use of 3D scanning in her practice, and how it has informed her thinking on digital and ecological life. She will discuss the technical and creative application of the medium as she has implemented it across installation, sculpture, and video.

Speaker Bio
1iing heaney is a multidisciplinary artist based in Leixlip, Co. Kildare exploring the complex entanglements of the anthropocene, particularly between technology and ecology. She is currently a Masters by Research candidate in IADT, funded by scholarship from TU Rise Elevate. Working across diverse mediums such as 3D print, Extended Reality, stone, CGI, steel, and screen, her work is presented as immersive, sculptural, and screened experiences.

Upcoming:

Róisín Berg – Tuesday, 24 February

Tara Jaye Burke – Tuesday, 3rd March

Claire Healy  – Tuesday 24th March

Jane Cassidy – Tuesday 31th March

Welsh language Wikipedia [Feb 17, online @ 14:00 GMT]

Welsh language Wikipedia

17 February 14:00 to 15:30, online via Zoom

Digital Scholarship at Oxford

Jason Evans, National Library of Wales, will talk about his work on Welsh language Wikipedia, and the challenges and importance of developing smaller language digital resources. There will be a short talk, followed by discussion and a Q and A

For this session we will hear from Jason Evans, Open Data Manager at the National Library of Wales.

For over a decade Jason has managed projects to improve content on the Welsh language Wikipedia. He works to advocate for open access within the culture sector and works to support the sharing of knowledge in smaller languages and about under represented groups. He has developed processes for transforming Library metadata in rich linked open data and connecting knowledge across languages, datasets and organisations. He advises Welsh Government on Welsh Language Data, currently sits on the Europeana Members Council and chairs the Europeana Impact Community steering group.

Jason will talk about his work harnessing the crowd and technology to disseminate knowledge in Welsh, the value of Welsh language Open Data, and smaller language digital resources. 

More info: https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/critical-digital-humanities-0

EADH 2026 Proposals deadline extended to Feb 27

EADH Proposals deadline extended to Feb 27

The deadline for the European Association for Digital Humanities 2026 conference has been extended to 27 February 2026!

The conference will take place from 15 to 19 September 2026 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), and is co-organized by the Jagiellonian Centre of Digital Humanities, the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Wrocław.

Under the theme “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”, the event invites the international Digital Humanities community to reflect on technological transformations, including artificial intelligence, multilingual infrastructures, sustainability, and responsible data governance.

Submissions are open for posters, short papers, long papers, and workshops. The thematic areas include: data and methods, AI and ethics, infrastructure and open science, cultural heritage and diversity, communities and futures of DH. All conference venues are fully accessible, and online participation is available for presenters.

The new deadline for all types of submissions is 23:59 AoE on Friday, 27 February 2026.

You can find the full Call for Papers as well as other information here: https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp

Futures in the Making: Identity, Speculation, and Digital Representation [Feb 10, online and in person, @12:00 GMT]

Futures in the Making: Identity, Speculation, and Digital Representation

Date & Time: 12pm, Tuesday 10th February

Location: Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, University of Galway

The Masterclass Series continues with 

Aisling Phelan, an Irish multidisciplinary artist exploring digital doubles, speculative futures and human-machine interactions and entanglements.

In this masterclass, Aisling will present an overview of her artistic practice, tracing the research, processes, and technological explorations that shape her work in relation to identity, corporeality, and digital representation. Drawing on recent research into DeepFakes, doppelgangers, and robotics, the session will also invite participants to engage in speculative thinking around possible futures shaped by emerging technologies, using fiction and open-ended questioning as tools to reflect on contemporary technological anxieties.

Speaker Bio
Aisling Phelan is an Irish multidisciplinary artist exploring digital doubles, speculative futures and human-machine interactions and entanglements. Through 3D animation, AI, video, sculpture, and live interactive technologies, her work explores what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological advancement and pervasive algorithmic influence. 

Drawing from a transhumanist and speculative fiction perspective, Phelan explores how far we are willing to go in the pursuit of self-optimisation and the potential costs of such advances. Fusing the intimate with the artificial, her practice confronts the seductive promise of transcendence and enhancement, creating space for reflection on the role of current digital infrastructures in shaping how we understand ourselves and others.

In person: https://ti.to/creative-tech/masterclass-aisling-phelan

Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fb4r-VXCTAOFEkSJdwm8iw

Upcoming Workshops:

Liing Heaney  – Tuesday, 17 February

Róisín Berg – Tuesday, 24 February

Tara Jaye Burke – Tuesday, 3rd March

Claire Healy  – Tuesday 24th March

Jane Cassidy – Tuesday 31th March

Immersive Storytelling in 360° [Feb 12, online & in person, @12:00 GMT]

Immersive Storytelling in 360°

Date & Time: 12pm, Wednesday 4th February

Location: Studio 3, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance, University of Galway

This 2 hour workshop will explore 360° storytelling processes. Drawing on the artist’s experiences with making 360° pieces in multiple languages and within different contexts, James will share what he has learned while referencing his work along with other international artists making work in this realm. No experience needed, this workshop is for anyone interested in telling stories, and how you might go about it in the digital space – touching on narrative structure, plot, character and the use of text and audio.

James Riordan is Artistic Director of Brú Theatre. His work in the digital space includes Ar Ais Arís (2020) – a merging of Irish language literature on immigration and VR, which recently toured to the US and Canada. In 2024 he directed No Tempo por Agua, A 360° VR piece for Portuguese company Teatro Do Silencio which premiered in Lisbon. Ologon, a 360° musical experience shot throughout Mayo premiered in 2021. 

He was Digital Artist in Residence with University of Galway’s Centre for Creative Technologies in 2024 and has presented his work and facilitated VR workshops for multiple companies including Prime Cut (Belfast) and Central School of Drama (London) and Galway International Arts Festival.

Registration:

In person: https://ti.to/creative-tech/masterclass-james-riordan

Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ddeqz_QWR12QOhQ-sX4gJA#/registration

Upcoming Workshops:

Aisling Phelan – Tuesday, 10 Februaury

Liing Heaney  – Tuesday, 17 February

Róisín Berg – Tuesday, 24 February

Tara Jaye Burke – Tuesday, 3rd March

Claire Healy  – Tuesday 24th March

Jane Cassidy – Tuesday 31th March

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.