Events

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.