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George Bruseker, Ontologies for Art History: Modelling Creative Processes and Evolving Meanings [Nov 3rd, online, 3pm]

STAGE – From Stage to Data: The Digital Turn of Contemporary Performing Arts Historiography George Bruseker, Ontologies for Art History: Modelling Creative Processes and Evolving Meanings


As part of the European research project STAGE – From Stage to Data: The Digital Turn of Contemporary Performing Arts Historiography, directed by Clarisse Bardiot, this research seminar offers an in-depth introduction to the issues, concepts, methods, and tools involved in the digital study of texts, images, and cultural data. It aims to address the challenges and opportunities related to the use of digital data in art research – particularly in the developing fields of digital art history and culture analytics – and to show how the digital humanities open new research perspectives in the humanities. 

The seminars take place on Mondays from 4 to 6 p.m.:
– in person at the Villejean campus of the University of Rennes 2
– or online via Zoom. Registration is required via the following form so that the link can be sent to you. If you have already registered for this event, please do not fill in the form below again.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFoa97RsWVtuB0e6Xh9ETNC26lGi1zKPEJip7aJaok_kkYdA/viewform?usp=header

Sessions will be recorded and made available on the From Stage to Data website: https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr

Site web http://www.clarissebardiot.info/ 

Projet ERC From Stage to Data : https://stage-to-data.huma-num.fr/en/

Dernier livre :Arts de la scène et humanités numériques. Des traces aux données

/ Performing Arts and Digital Humanities. From Traces to Data.

Pursuing the Quantum Imaginary: Esoteric Knowledge Production and the Future of Telecommunications Masterclass [Oct 14th @12 – online]

Pursuing the Quantum Imaginary: Esoteric Knowledge Production and the Future of Telecommunications [Online and in person, Oct 14th, 12-2pm]. University of Galway Centre for Creative Technologies.

This masterclass is part of a series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway. The next of this semester’s Masterclass Series is with Nadia Armstrong, a visual artist and practice-based PhD fellow with NCAD and CONNECT, Research Ireland’s Centre for Future Networks and Communications.

Through an artist-ethnographic and cyborg feminist lens, Nadia Armstrong’s practice-based PhD research examines the systems of knowledge that underpin quantum communication technologies.

This masterclass will:

  1. take you through Armstrong’s practice-based research methodologies, and
  2. endeavour to explore how the field of quantum communications is understood through broader histories of science, technology, belief systems and culture – tracing the entanglements of bodies, machines, and knowledge systems to create what Armstrong calls the Quantum Imaginary.

Through this research and practice framework, Armstrong parafictions a techno-feminist horizon, using digital processes to conjure imagined phenomena that might help us resist technocracy and emerging forms of techno-feudalism.

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Through an artist-ethnographic and cyborg feminist lens, Nadia Armstrong’s practice-based PhD research examines the systems of knowledge that underpin quantum communication technologies. This masterclass will take you through Armstrong’s practice-based research methodologies, and endeavour to explore how the field of quantum communications is understood through broader histories of science, technology, belief systems and culture – tracing the entanglements of bodies, machines, and knowledge systems to create what Armstrong calls the Quantum Imaginary. Through this research and practice framework, Armstrong parafictions a techno-feminist horizon, using digital processes to conjure imagined phenomena that might help us resist technocracy and emerging forms of techno-feudalism. This masterclass is part of a series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway. Further information about the series can be found at: https://buff.ly/oJKIuoR About Nadia Nadia J. Armstrong is a visual artist and practice-based PhD fellow with NCAD and CONNECT, Research Ireland’s Centre for Future Networks and Communications. Her current artistic research harnesses the socio-technical imaginary to analyse systems of knowledge in the field of quantum communications. Armstrong’s installations act as interfaces to alternative realities, enveloping audiences in emancipatory parafictions that deconstruct appearances of “natural order.” She creates XR environments through which esoteric forms of knowledge become rituals for contemporary survival. Armstrong’s newest work GIRLHERO (2025) was commissioned by the Luan Gallery, Athlone for their exhibition SYSTEM ARMING curated by Aoife Banks.

The exhibition runs till November 16th. Armstrong’s full bio and more information about her work is available at: nadiajarmstrong.com

CONNECT – CONNECT is the world leading Research Ireland Centre for Future Networks and Communications.

DARIAH’s Visual Media & Interactivity Working Group – Workshop on audiovisual corpora annotation [Oct 22nd, in person & online]

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Workshop on audiovisual corpora annotation

October 22nd, 2025 [in person and online]

DARIAH’s Visual Media & Interactivity Working Group is participating in a one-day workshop on audiovisual corpora annotation, which will take place on October 22 during the 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference  (University of Osijek, Croatia). The workshop can also be followed remotely. Below is the link to the workshop presentation and to the registration form. 

https://dhh.dariah.hr/2025/workshops

The Consortium for Annotation, Analysis and Archiving of Video Applied to Scientific Activities (Canevas) is accredited since 2022 by the French research infrastructure for Digital Humanities Huma-Num. Since April 2025, this consortium has been receiving European EOSC-OSCARS funding for a period of 24 months, which has given rise to the OASIS project (Open Audiovisual Science Innovation Scheme). The aim of Canevas and OASIS is to facilitate research in the humanities and social sciences involving audiovisual corpora by facilitating actions such as archiving, annotating, commenting, analysing, and sharing videos. To do this, the members of the Canevas consortium have created two tools, Celluloid (for annotating corpora on media studies and media literacy) and e-spect@tor (for annotating corpora on the performing arts, especially theater), which enable collaborative annotation of videos for research or teaching purposes. These are free and open source tools (https://github.com/celluloid-camp/) that comply with open science and FAIR data standards, while leveraging AI to promote the intelligibility of videos and the interactions that result from them.

As part of the OASIS project, the Canevas Consortium is organising a workshop during the pre-conference day of the 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference, which will take place on Wednesday 22 October 2025. This workshop will be divided into two 3-hour sessions. The first will take place on Wednesday morning and aims to introduce participants to the PeerTube technology, developed by the French education-oriented video network Framasoft to offer an alternative to the services provided by the GAFAM, and particularly the online video hosting platform Youtube, and thus promote digital empowerment. The second session, on Wednesday afternoon, will be devoted to learning how to use the Celluloid and e-spect@tor tools. We invite you to discover collaborative annotation through your own audiovisual corpus, enabling you to develop new skills adapted to the changes of media practices and the epistemological issues that come with them. During this second session, we will focus on specific features provided by these tools: some are automated using AI, such as audio transcription and video segmentation into chapters, while others can be done manually and allow users to enrich their viewing experience through the traces they leave behind.

By renewing interactions and collaborations with these digital tools, this workshop aims to introduce participants, from all disciplines and all levels of video expertise, to our research methods while allowing to acquire new skills to foster a convergence culture around video archiving and annotations. These can then be deployed in various educational or research contexts, which can be enhanced, for instance, with group work in the classroom, or in research carried out by researchers in training (Masters, PhD) or more experienced researchers. 

The workshop will be led (in English) by:

  • Michael Bourgatte, Professor at the University of Lorraine (France)
  • Cécile Chantraine-Braillon, Professor at the University of La Rochelle (France)
  • Anatole Grimaldi, OASIS project engineer
  • Laurent Tessier, Professor at the Catholic University of Paris

NB: to get the most out of this workshop, please bring your own computer. It is also possible to follow this workshop with one computer for several people. Moreover, if you want to explore part of one of your corpora, you can send us one of your videos. All video formats are welcome. 

The Third Thursday – April 2025

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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

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.

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/

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/

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. 

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/) 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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.

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/

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.

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/

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.

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.

The Third Thursday – March 2025

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AI and Large Language Models: new impulses for university teaching in Romance studies

Event: April 4, 2025, 13:00-15:30 (CET)  (online)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming higher education – including Romance studies. But what concrete applications do large language models (LLMs) and AI-supported tools offer for teaching in linguistics and literature? What opportunities and challenges do they present for students and teachers in dealing with language, literature, and digital research practices?

In this workshop, experts from various fields of Romance studies will explore current AI developments and present possibilities for their integration into higher education teaching. The workshop is organized by the Digital Romance Studies Group (Verena Weiland and Ursula Winter) in cooperation with Text+ . 

The workshop is aimed at teachers, researchers and students of Romance Studies as well as anyone interested in exploring the potential of AI in humanities teaching.

Registration: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1064/

Persons in Context: Describing person observations in heritage and humanities

Event: April 4, 2025, 14:00-15:30 (CET)  (online)

Persons are observed throughout history in books, archival records, images, paintings and so forth. Linked Data now allows us to describe these person observations in a universal way. In the Netherlands a group of ontologists and a community of archivists and researchers has created a vocabulary to describe such person observations in an abundance of different types of sources. The vocabulary, Persons in Context,  uses mainly existing terms, predominantly from Schema.org. Via this vocabulary, archival institutions and researchers now talk one and the same ‘language’ when it comes to describing person observations, allowing for provenance trails from archival record to research result.

We would very much like to test the ‘universality’ of Persons in Context, against archival records, paintings, statues in other European countries. We therefore would like to draw on your help to see whether you could provide examples of person observations in records, paintings, statutes and other sources. Surely, Persons in Context, will not cover all use cases, but we hope this will serve to bring about a discussion to make Persons in Context even more widely applicable. You don’t need to speak “linked data” or be aware of the vocabulary. Any examples are helpful to us.

To explain our purposes, illustrate Persons in Context and answer questions, we organize an online session, Friday 2025-04-04, 14:00-15:30 CEST and we would very much like to invite you to it. 

For questions and the link to the session, please email: data AT iisg.nl 

Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School

Deadline: 22 April 2025

Event: 30 June – 3 July 2025 (in person)

Applications are now open for Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School, King’s College London.

Co-organised by King’s Digital Lab, Cambridge Digital Humanities, and Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society, in collaboration with the DISKAH project. Funded by STEP-UP, DISKAH project and Society of RSE.

Free to participants and bursaries available. 

Combines talks and practical activities for those studying or working in Digital Humanities and allied disciplines/sectors, who wish to engage with research software practices more deeply, or who would benefit from networking and support in moving into roles where such practices are more central.

This year’s topics:
* Working collaboratively through the software development life cycle
* Command line skills for digital projects
* High performance computing for large datasets and AI analysis
* Responsible digital research practices – sustainability, ethics and greening
* Case studies, careers and networking opportunities

Details and how to apply: https://dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk/

Deadline: 22 April 2025

Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon

Deadline: 12 April 2025

Event: 14-23 May, 2025 (in person)

Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon this year. The application period has started (until 12.4.2025) – apply now and be part of this milestone event! 

The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from the humanities and social sciences, it offers an opportunity to pose new questions to historical, cultural or social phenomena with data at scale. For people from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For both, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish.

This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following four themes:

  • Parliaments beyond borders: Exploring the Role of Foreign Nations in National Policy Debates
  • Digital Presence in Physical Absence: Survivors’ Testimonies and Holocaust Oral History
  • Rare Earth & Web Discourses: Parallel Mining Approaches
  • Economic bubbles, consumerism, and the colonies: Early modern newspapers as indicators of economic change in 18th century society

See further information on the #DHH25 themes

5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities. For the application you will need to supply a motivation for applying and if you are applying for travel funding a cost-estimation is also required.

Link: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-humanities/helsinki-digital-humanities-h…

UK-IE DHA Annual Event 

Registration Closes: Wednesday 28 May 2025

Event: 17-18 June 2025 (hybrid)

Registration is now open for the 2025 Annual Event, Collaboration beyond Boundaries / Co-obrachadh thar Chrìochthe. The event will be held at University of Glasgow from 17-18 June 2025 with selected sessions streamed online.

The keynote session for the event will be a roundtable on the topic of Failing Together: The Pitfalls of Collaboration (and How to Overcome Them). Panellists will draw on their own experience of the many ways in which collaborations within DH can go in unexpected directions, as well as what we can learn from these diversions and digressions.

The roundtable will feature:

  • Sarah Ames (National Library of Scotland)
  • David Kelly (University of Galway)
  • Barbara McGillivrey (King’s College London)
  • Bronagh Ann McShane (Trinity College Dublin)
  • Lisa Otty (University of Edinburgh)
  • Emma Gallon (University of London Press) – moderator

Registration

The fee for attending the Annual Event in-person will be £35. Students and independent scholars can attend at a discounted rate of £20. Registration is now open and can be accessed via the Association’s website. The deadline to register for in-person attendance is Wednesday 28 May.

Online Attendance

We recognise the importance of remote participation to support inclusive access and so we plan to livestream the main elements of the programme for attendees to view online. We will do our best to ensure that both in-person and virtual participants will have a rewarding and valuable experience. We may not be able to livestream breakout sessions, working meetings, or other portions of the event, such as the poster/demos session. 

Online tickets are free and available at the registration link above.

Bursaries 

Bursaries are available to support postgraduate students, early career researchers, and others whose employers will not pay for their attendance. You do not need to have a paper accepted to apply for a bursary. More details can be found on the bursary page – the deadline for bursary applications is Sunday 23 March at 11:59 PM.

Accommodation

Discounted housing is available for the conference via the University of Glasgow’s accommodation office. Single, ensuite rooms are available for £43 per night. These must be reserved for three nights (16-18 June) for a total of £129 per person. If you would like to reserve a room, please email uk-ie.digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk by Monday 12 May.

Europeana Academy Course – International Image Interoperability Framework

Event: 21st May, 2025 (online)

Register now for the Europeana Academy Course ‘Preparing image collections in the IIIF standard for Europeana’, taking place on 21 May 2025.

This online, instructor-led course will teach you about applying the IIIF standard, and how it supports you to share your image collections online to the highest-quality, with a user-friendly zoom function.

Find out more and register: https://pro.europeana.eu/event/preparing-image-collections-in-the-iiif-standard-for-europeana

Europeana Academy Course – APIs

Event: 28th May, 2025 (online)

Register now for the Europeana Academy Course ‘Introduction to Europeana APIs’ taking place on 28 May 2025.

This online, instructor-led course will teach you what an API is, why Europeana has several different APIs, what the differences between them are, how to use the Europeana APIs, how to get an API key, how you can use the APIs for your specific use cases – and more!

Find out more and register: https://pro.europeana.eu/event/introduction-to-europeana-apis

7th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities

Deadline: 20th March, 2025

Event: 4-8th August, 2025

Applications are now open for the 7th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities (BSSDH 2025), taking place from August 4 to 8, 2025, at the University of Latvia in Riga. This year’s theme, “Digital Methods for History Studies,” focuses on computational approaches for history research.

The program includes lectures and hands-on workshops on digitization of handwritten texts using Transkribus, network visualization and historical networks, spatial analysis and mapping with GIS, and AI in humanities research, including large language models and API access.

The participation fee is modest, only 50 EUR, covering all sessions. Participants arrange their own travel and accommodation. Upon completion, attendees can receive ECTS points or micro-credentials.

Applications close on March 20, 2025 Application Form

More details: https://www.digitalhumanities.lv/bssdh/2025
For inquiries, contact dh@lulfmi.lv

Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2025 Schedule Announced 

Deadline: 25th April, 2025

Event: 5-9th May, 2025

The conference program for CAA 2025 in Athens has been published. Members of the ATRIUM community are invited to join “Session 19: Reusable Digital Research Workflows for Archaeology“, which will take place from 8:30AM-12:45PM on Wednesday 7th May, hosted by Agiatis Benardou (DARIAH), Émilie Pagé-Perron (ARIADNE), Anne Baillot (DARIAH), Julian Richards (ARIADNE). There will also be a social event for the ATRIUM community on the evening of Tuesday 6th May (location TBD).

Surveys

Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) in cultural heritage institutions 

Valentina Vavassori, Digital Curator for OCR/HTR at the British Library.

We are currently researching different approaches to Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) in cultural heritage institutions as part of our work on our ATR workflow. As part of this work, we designed a survey and we would be really grateful if you can complete it.  One question at the end of the survey asks if other institutions are interested in taking part in a working group on ATR and, if possible, to share their email so we can kick-start having meetings and discussions. The anonymised results of the survey will be published in order to help other institutions working with ATR. The survey takes approximately 5-10 minutes to complete and all the information is available here:

https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2025/03/help-us-explore-automatic-text-recognition-in-cultural-heritage-.html

Your participation is entirely voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time or omit any question you prefer not to answer. Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at HMD@bl.uk or valentina.vavassori@bl.uk

Culture, Data and the Humanities in the Age of AI – Seminar (Dublin)

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The use of machine learning to study patterns of cultural and social change has developed very rapidly in the last decade and the insights from this kind of research are urgently needed in a context where AI tools are rapidly proliferating, raising issues of ethics, trust and epistemology. In this context, this half day colloquium will reflect on the experience of collaborative research between data science and the humanities and the potential it offers for new insights, resources and methodologies. It will hear from researchers on two milestone projects, reflecting on the nature of their collaboration, lessons for future research and reflecting with Irish researchers on the collaborative path forward.

The Ed Ruscha Streets of Los Angeles Archive at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles brought together an international team of art historians, media analysts, architects, urban planners, information specialists and software engineers with Getty staff to document, interpret, and debate the Streets of Los Angeles Archive, which was created by the artist Ed Ruscha beginning in 1965 and continuing over the subsequent fifty years.

Living with Machines was a flagship collaborative humanities and science research initiative at the Alan Turing Institute, bringing together historians, data scientists, geographers, computational linguists, library professionals, and curators to examine the human impact of industrial revolution. Developing new tools, methods and resources it exemplifies the capacity to analyse at scale and produce new insights and analysis through such collaboration.

Speakers: Eric Rodenbeck (Stamen), Dr. Emily Pugh (Getty Research Institute), Prof. Mark Shiel (King’s College London), Dr. Katherine McDonough & Dr. Daniel Wilson (The Alan Turing Institute)

More information:

This event is co-organised by the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics, and will feature visiting speakers from the Getty Research Institute and the Alan Turing Institute.

Venue: UCD Conway Lecture Theatre (B039), University College Dublin
Date: 7th March 2025
Time: 12.00-16.30

Registration here.

Doing AI Differently – Workshop (UK)

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The Doing AI Differently initiative challenges traditional approaches to AI development by positioning humanities perspectives as integral—rather than supplemental—to technical innovation.

London Workshop, Date & Venue:

  • Date: Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10am-4pm
  • Location: The Royal Academy of Engineering (Prince Philip House), London SW1
  • Working group sessions: continue on Friday, 14 March 2025, 10am-4pm
  • Aligned with the Alan Turing Institute’s major annual conference (AIUK) on 17-18 March

The workshop is an early opportunity to discover and help to refine the research vision and topic scope for an Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC–UKRI) International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) funding call launching April 2025. This call will focus on UK, US and Canadian collaborations.

Core Challenges

1. Developing Interpretive Technologies.

Leveraging current AI architectures to implement deeper interpretive capabilities, developing approaches to represent multiple perspectives and capture semantic depth while maintaining computational tractability.

2. Exploring Alternative AI Architectures.

Exploring fundamentally new approaches to AI design that move beyond current limitations in foundation models and gradient-based learning to enable more pluralistic and culturally adaptive AI systems.

3. Advancing Human-AI Ensembles

Moving beyond simple substitution or assistance models, to foster new relationships between human and artificial intelligence, each contributing unique capabilities to achieve outcomes neither could accomplish alone.

Initiative Objectives:

1. Develop pilot projects demonstrating humanities-driven technical advances in AI

2. Establish funding mechanisms fostering interdisciplinary partnerships

3. Create scalable pathways for humanities scholars to participate in large-scale AI projects

Expected Outcomes:

– New paradigms for addressing complex, context-dependent tasks in AI

– Enhanced AI tools for deep contextual analysis across disciplines

– AI systems better aligned with societal values and ethical considerations

The rapid advances in increasingly sophisticated AI systems makes this timing critical, and we seek to develop inclusive, research-led ideas that will provide practical ways to address some of the recommendations set out in the recent UK Government AI Opportunities Action Plan. This initiative adds the opportunities for research and innovation in AI – artificial intelligence – in the UK (see Transforming our world with AI).

More Information:

  • View our complete vision statement: doingaidifferently.org
  • To attend please complete an expression of interest HERE by 17 February 2025. We will be in touch to confirm your attendance by 19 February 2025.
  • A limited number of bursaries are available to support travel costs for participants who do not have other institutional support. See expression of interest form for details.
  • Capacity for the in-person workshop is limited. The workshop will also be available to stream online, with some opportunities for interaction for remote participants. 
  • A list of recommended hotels is available on request.