humanities

A monthly round-up of DH-related events, webinars, conferences, opportunities & jobs from the DARIAH-IE inbox…

Generative AI and Historical Research: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks – an interdisciplinary workshop convened by Dr Bronagh Ann McShane

Event: May 7, 2025, 9:30 – 14:00 (in person)

This in-person, interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, social scientists and computer scientists to explore the methodological, ethical, and practical implications of Generative AI in historical research. Through presentations, case studies, and discussions, participants will examine:

• How to harness AI’s potential while maintaining historical rigour.
• The role of AI in research workflows (scalability, replicability, and ethical considerations).
• How AI tools can be trained to recognise historical nuance and context.

Registration: Generative AI and Historical Research

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Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century

Event: May 14th, 2025 11am (online)

On 29 April 2025 Scottish Universities Press (SUP) will publish its second open access book, Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century edited by James O’Sullivan, Michael Pidd, Sophie Whittle, Bridgette Wessels,  Michael Kurzmeier and Órla Murphy. To celebrate the release of the book SUP are hosting a fireside chat with co-editor Bridgette Wessels and chapter authors Andrew Prescott and Michelle Doran. 

The collection brings together twenty chapters that cover practical design processes of digital editions as well as conceptual approaches to editing born-digital material. It also engages with timely and important topics that are often neglected, including queer approaches to editing, accessibility, editing and publishing in the age of artificial intelligence, and the data edition.  

Registration: SUP fireside chat: Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century.

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Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research Summer School

Deadline: 1st June

Event: 8th – 11th September 2025 (in person)

This year’s Summer School on “Large Language Models for Digital Humanities Research“, organized by the University of Cologne’s Competence Area III, in conjunction with the Center for Data and Simulation Science, the Department for Digital Humanities, the Cologne Center for eHumanities, and the Data Center for the Humanities, takes place from 8th – 11th September 2025, at Cologne University (on site).

This summer school addresses MA students and doctoral candidates from Linguistics and Digital Humanities, as well as other fields that focus on the application of LLMs for DH Research. Please Note: Participation in the summer school is free of charge! However, minor costs might occur if specific hardware (e.g. Google Colab) is required during workshops.

Further information and application instructions: http://ml-school.uni-koeln.de/

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DHBenelux 2025

Event: 3–6 June 2025

We are excited to announce that registration for DHBenelux 2025 is now open! Join us in Amsterdam from 3–6 June 2025 for our traditional annual conference that brings together the vibrant Digital Humanities community across the Benelux region and beyond.

🎟️ Early bird tickets are available until 7 May 2025 (or until sold out), so make sure to register in time to secure your spot! Authors are required to register. 

🔗 Register here: https://2025.dhbenelux.org/registration/

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Announcing the new Heritage, Artificial Intelligence & Law (HAIL) Network

We invite you to join a supportive space for knowledge exchange and collaboration on all things related to heritage, AI and law.   

As recently seen in the UK Copyright & AI Consultation, the heritage sector faces complex issues and lacks meaningful representation in government policy on AI. We have an opportunity to fill that gap. HAIL will be an interdisciplinary space for practitioners, researchers and other advocates in heritage, technology and legal sectors to voice concerns and excitement around the use and development of AI. 

Our goal is to share information, best practice, publications, calls for evidence, consultations, news and other related events. For example, we’ve already started a collaborative list of relevant consultation responses (by the way, let us know if your response is publicly available). By combining forces, we will be better able to organise and enable the diverse voices of the heritage sector to more meaningfully contribute to policy debates  — and at a crucial moment not only for AI regulation, but also for ensuring the sector’s visibility, representation and resilience. 

HAIL is led by Paula Westenberger, as part of her BRAID Fellowship on Responsible AI for Heritage, and supported by a steering group with Harriet Deacon, Bartolomeo Meletti, Anna-Maria Sichani and Andrea Wallace.

To join the HAIL network, subscribe to the listserv at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/HAIL. 

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International GLAM Labs Community Annual Report

The first official annual report of the International GLAM Labs Community is now available. We would like to thank all the contributions and suggestions. In addition, we have created a new community in Zenodo in which you will find additional presentations from the International GLAM Labs Community.

Report: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15096604

Zenodo community: https://zenodo.org/communities/glam-labs/) 

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AI-Powered Metadata, Hackathons, APIs & Notebooks

Event: 3–6 June 2025 (online)

Registration for the webinar*: https://clirdlf.zoom.us/meeting/register/KN5e8r48Q1G-i8BRUrKGWQ#/registration

*The webinar is kindly hosted by CLIR – Council on Library and Information Resources (https://www.clir.org/) and organised by Olga Holownia. Once you have registered you should receive an email from Olga confirming your registration, a zoom link and how to add the meeting to your calendar.

The agenda for the webinar will include 3 presentations and an opportunity for questions.

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ADHO GeoHumanities SIG – community-building and networking event

Event: 1 May 2025 (online)

Recently, we revived the GeoHumanities SIG with a new international group of co-convenors and we write to you today to announce a first community-building and networking event taking place online May 1st.

The GeoHumanities SIG has mainly been known for its mailing list (the GeoHumSIG mailing list), which also runs on ADHO servers. If you are not yet a subscriber to that mailing list it is likely that you’ll have missed a previous announcement of this event. Please consider subscribing here, which is the closest approximation of a ‘membership’ we have for an interest community connected to Spatial and Geo-Humanities within ADHO and beyond, comprising well over 400 current subscribers.

For the community-building event in May we welcome short 3-minute introductions about you and your GeoHumanities work. Whether you are a longtime contributor to this forum or a newcomer, we would like you to let us know about yourself. We suggest that participants prepare 3 slides: 

1- Who you are and what your background is 

2- What your contribution to the field has been in the past 

3- What you are working on at the moment (this could be a submission to ADHO or other current work) + future plans and projects.

We hope you will join us in this small online event to gather as many voices from the community as possible: postgraduate students, early-career researchers, but also experienced scholars and practitioners.

We will take it as an opportunity to reconnect and discuss the future of GeoHumSIG and gather ideas for the in-person pre-conference workshop at this year’s ADHO Annual Conference at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Please sign up for the online community-building and networking event using this short form.

This event will be held on Teams on Thursday May 1, 2025 from 17:00-19:00 GMT.

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Report on the Survey “Digitization and Artificial Intelligence for Archives and Documentary Heritage Materials

We are pleased to share the results of a survey exploring how AI is impacting digitization of archives and documentary heritage collections across different institutions. We thank all those who responded to the survey.

Link to the Survey Report

We are a team of researchers from archival, information, and librarianship backgrounds investigating the intersection of digitization and artificial intelligence (AI). 

For comments or questions, please contact the team at e.sengsavang@unesco.org. 

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Cultural Analytics

https://jamesosullivan.github.io/culturalanalytics.html

Proposals are invited for chapters to be included in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Cultural Analytics, a major new reference work that aims to consolidate and extend the field of cultural analytics at a time of considerable methodological innovation and critical reflection.

Cultural analytics—defined broadly as the computational and data-driven analysis of cultural materials—has matured from a set of experimental practices into a dynamic and increasingly central approach across the humanities and interpretive social sciences. This handbook seeks to capture the richness of this moment: to provide scholars, students, and practitioners with a comprehensive, critical, and forward-looking account of the field.

Contributions are welcome from across disciplines, institutions, and methodological traditions, including, but not limited to digital humanities, literary and cultural studies, art history, film and media studies, sociology, linguistics, and computational social science.

Chapters that focus on detailing specific methods are particularly welcome, but contributions are expected to adopt critical perspectives, rather than offering ‘how-to’ guides or focusing exclusively on case studies and accounts of project-based applications. Chapters should interrogate the epistemological, methodological, disciplinary, or infrastructural dimensions of cultural analytics. Prospective authors should consider The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities as an example of what is being sought. The aim is to offer durable, field-defining insights that speak beyond individual projects or tools. Essays will serve as entry points into individual topics and, with this in mind, should be framed broadly. The essay title should speak to the essay’s breadth of coverage.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, along with a short biographical statement to james.osullivan@ucc.ie by May 9th, 2025. Informal enquiries prior to submission are welcome.

Finals chapters will range from approximately 4,000–6,000 words, with manuscripts due in late 2025.

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Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection

Event: 22 May 2025, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm, UCL (in person)

The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH) is delighted to welcome Julianne Nyhan, former UCLDH Director and Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, to give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as the centre celebrates its 15th anniversary.

Oral History is undergoing somewhat of a digital turn. Digital technologies and digital methods are now expanding the range of forms that oral history can take and, potentially, the kinds of questions that we can ask about oral history interview collections.  From an earlier oral history landscape that was constituted of the oral history interview, its analogue or digital recording, its transcript and, potentially, its publication, we are now asking whether oral history can be understood as “data”? What happens when we try to organize or represent the rich and complex experiences shared in an oral history interview using a structured format, like a knowledge graph? And do such changes matter? Or, to put it another way, if we understand oral history as ‘data’, can digital methods be used to analyze it without epistemological loss or consequence?

All welcome but registration is required: https://ucldh-hockey-lecture-2025.eventbrite.co.uk

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Computational Humanities Research Conference

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2025 edition of the Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR 2025), which will take place on December 9–12, 2025, at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg.

In recent years, the arts and humanities have seen a significant increase in the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches. This kind of research is distinguished by its reliance on formal methods and the development of explicit, computational models—ranging from quantitative and statistical techniques to broader computational methods for processing and analyzing data, as well as theoretical reflections on these approaches.

Despite the growing prominence of this field, many scholars still struggle to find suitable venues where they can present and publish computational work while maintaining a strong connection to traditional humanities inquiry. This is precisely the gap that the CHR conference seeks to address.

The deadline for full paper submissions is July 18, 2025. For further details, please consult the full Call for Papers here.

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Text Affects Conference

Text Affects conference, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, 16-18 December.

The topic of this edition is the future of intelligence, a call to reflect on how Text Affects contribute to the development and expression of human and artificial intelligence. 

[CFP] Text Affects 2025 – DEADLINE 15 SEPTEMBER 2025

Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=AFFECTS/2025

Call for Papers https://digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects/text-affects-2025-2/calls/call-for-papers/

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European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture and Technology” 2025

Deadline: May 18 2025

Event: July 21 – August 2, 2025

Applications to the European Summer University in Digital Humanities “Culture and Technology” 2025 to be held at the university Marie and Louis Pasteur in Besançon (France) from July 21 to August 2 will open tomorrow 24 of March up to May 18 via Conftool

The Summer University will last for 11 full days with an intensive programme consisting of workshops, teaser sessions, public lectures, regular project presentations, a poster session, and a panel discussion. Each workshop consists of a total of 18 sessions or 36 teaching hours. Building on the spirit of previous editions in Leipzig and Cluj, the ESU in Besançon aims at being a space for interdisciplinary collaboration and opportunities for scholars and students in Humanities and therefore strengthening the community of practice already established in past years.

The ESU is sponsored by DARIAH with 12 scholarships of 450 Euros each to partially cover the costs of registration and staying in Besançon as well as by CLARIN for the organization of a workshop and of a conference. 

For all relevant information please consult our website which will be continually updated and integrated with more information as soon as it becomes available. To get some insight into what you can expect from the European Summer University please consult the archive section on our website.

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Celtic and Latin glossing traditions: uncovering early medieval language contact and knowledge transfer (GlossIT)

Deadline: 12 May 2025

The “Celtic and Latin glossing traditions: uncovering early medieval language contact and knowledge transfer (GlossIT)” ERC-CoG-project at the University of Graz is hiring a Digital Humanities postdoctoral researchers for four years. Candidates should have experience with digital editions and philological/linguistical projects. Furthermore, they should be familiar with Natural Language Processing and Text Reuse tools. 

https://jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/9a9b957f-510d-f070-8eef-67f92298cad3

The position will be available from 1 June 2025 (starting date negotiable). Deadline for applications is 12 May 2025.

For more information on the GlossIT project, see: https://glossit.uni-graz.at/en/

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Lecturer in Digital Humanities

Deadline: 9 May 2025

The Institute for Digital Humanities in Göttingen (Germany) is seeking to fill a permanent position as Lecturer in Digital Humanities (E13 (wage grade according to the public sector pay agreement TVöD)/50%) starting on 1 July 2025. Further information can be found here: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html

Complementary to this, a second position (E13 (wage grade according to the public sector pay agreement TVöD)/50%) is available in the ForContext project (https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html). It is of course possible to apply for both positions.

Particular research focuses on digital image and artefact studies, computer linguistics, computational literary studies and digital palaeography. At the IfDH, historical data from antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times are currently being researched in text, 2D, 3D and 4D formats. We would be delighted if you would enrich our team with your expertise.

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ECHOES Project (European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science)

The development in ECHOES contributes to the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) – a shared platform, designed to provide heritage professionals and researchers with access to data, scientific resources, training, and advanced digital tools.  ECHOES is currently conducting a “Consultation” in the form of a questionnaire to gather insights from cultural heritage stakeholders. As partner of the ECHOES Project, the Austrian National Library strongly encourages representatives of the Humanities to participate in this initiative and share the consultation within their networks. 

• How to participate? The questionnaire incl. a short explaining video can be accessed here: ECHOES Consultation 
• Who can participate?  All cultural heritage stakeholders, including professionals, researchers, computer scientists, developers, institutions, and umbrella organisations. 
• When is the deadline? The questionnaire will remain open until 30 April 2025. 
• With your contribution, we will be able to set up the Cultural Heritage Cloud with and for the GLAM-Community. We would be grateful for your support in spreading this with your professional networks. If this topic has already reached you through one of our many project partners, we apologize for any duplication.