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Open Information Session in UCC – March 19th

DARIAH-IE is delighted to announce details of its visit to UCC on Thursday March 19th, 2026.

At the invitation of the Department of English and Digital Humanities DARIAH-IE will be hosting an Open Session in the North Wing Council Room from 11 – 12:30. 

The session will begin with a short presentation on DARIAH, the pan-European Research Infrastructure for digitally-enabled Arts and Humanities and will explore how Ireland’s national node, DARIAH-IE, supports Irish researchers, practitioners, and academics by leveraging the opportunities and resources offered through membership of this pan-European ecosystem. This will then be followed by a Q&A with Prof Jennifer Edmond (DARIAH-IE National Coordinator, and former DARIAH-EU director) and Joan Murphy (DARIAH-IE National Manager). 

The intention is to provide space for discussion, giving attendees the opportunity to articulate their needs and wants from the DARIAH-IE national node. 

If you are unable to attend in person please feel free to send questions, thoughts and potential discussion points to joan.y.murphy@tcd.ie in advance of the event.

Friday Frontiers Spring Series 2026 – Registration now open

Individual registration for Friday Frontiers sessions is required, but it’s free !!

Friday 10th April, 10.30am WEST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30 EEST

Title: Mytholudics: Games and Myth

Speaker: Dom Ford, University of Bergen

Registration: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/829zNVouQZKUG0zr7wQmpA

Presentation Description:

Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and folklore. Myth is understood not as an object or a kind of story, but as a way of expressing meaning, a way in which we produce a model for understanding the world and things in it. This talk lays out this approach and how it can help you analyse and conceptualise gameworlds. The framework helps to see games and their worlds in the whole. Stories, gameplay, systems, rules, spatial configurations and art styles can all be considered together as contributing to the meaning of the game.

Speaker biography:

Dom Ford is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, as part of the LEAD AI programme. His current project looks at nonplayer characters in games with AI-generated dialogue, how players respond to the use of this technology and how this use may challenge ideas in the philosophy of fiction like intentionality. He is also an editor for Eludamos. Previously he was a postdoc at the University of Bremen, part of the Media and Religion lab in the ZeMKI Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, where he was also the managing editor for gamevironments.

His first book, Mytholudics: Games and Myth, proposes a method for analysing games both as conduits of mythologies within society and as mythological structures in themselves. It’s out now and published by De Gruyter.

He wrote his PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Center for Digital Play between 2019 and 2022, supervised by Hans-Joachim Backe.

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Friday 8th May, 10.30am WEST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30 EEST

Title: Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice

Speakers: Monika Barget (University of Maastricht), Jenny Bergenmar (University of Gothenburg), & Susan Schreibman (University of Maastricht)

Registration: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/1Rib0DoaQaKSYM8nwOvOiw

Presentation Description:

In April 2025 Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice was published by The University of Illinois Press. It is an edited collection (which is available open access and can be downloaded here) divided into three main sections: Readings, Infrastructures and Pedagogies. The thread that runs through this collection is a theorisation of feminist DH practice as sites of possibility for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge production through new modes and processes of meaning making. Each chapter also reflects on what it means to be a feminist and a technologist through definitions of feminisms that are brought into conversation with DH scholarship. Feminist DH practices are presented as sites of possibility for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge production by enacting new modes and processes of meaning making. An overriding focus of the collection is to demonstrate how feminist lenses attuned to issues of intersectionality and gender can uncover structural inequities and present opportunities for social and intellectual change.

This talk will have a three-part focus. The first part will reflect on the collection as a whole, and how it intersects with current feminist thought and DH practice. The second part will explore the Readings section through the chapter Feminist DH: A Historical Perspective Excavating the Lives of Women of the Past by Monika Barget and Susan Schreibman which explores how the Irish digital humanities project Letters 1916–1923 adopted a feminist approach to surface marginalized women’s voices in a heterogeneous historical collection of letters dominated by male voices. The third part will focus on Jenny Bergenmar’s co-authored chapter Infrastructures for Diversity: Feminist and Queer Interventions in Nordic Digital Humanities from the Infrastructures Section, which explores how DH infrastructures in institutional frameworks can make space for feminist, queer, and activist perspectives, methods, and collaborations.

Speakers:

Monika Barget is an early modern historian and digital humanist specializing in the political history of the eighteenth century, visual cultures, and spatial history. From 2017 to 2018, she contributed to the Letters 1916–1923 and Ignite projects at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Following postdoctoral work in Mainz, she joined the History Department of Maastricht University as an assistant professor in August 2021.

Jenny Bergenmar is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a literary history scholar who has previously worked with digital scholarly editing and archival materials through digitization and crowdsourcing. She is currently principal investigator of the research infrastructure project QUEERLIT database: Metadata Development and Searchability for LGBTQI Literary Heritage (2021–2023).

Susan Schreibman is a professor of digital arts and culture at Maastricht University and a Co-Director of DARIAH. Her current research projects include: PURE3D2.0 and Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge.

Individual registration for Friday Frontiers sessions is required, but it’s free.  

DARIAH-IE Welcomes INSPIRE Research Infrastructure Investment Package

Statement from DARIAH-IE

DARIAH-IE, Ireland’s national node of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), warmly welcomes the recent INSPIRE investment package announcement by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless. In particular we welcome the commitment to support strategic national infrastructure in the investment strategy, which was informed by the recommendations of the Research Infrastructure Working Group.

We are especially encouraged by the report’s explicit recognition that research infrastructure in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) “extends beyond traditional laboratory equipment to encompass a broad range of physical, digital, and institutional resources” including digitised archives, large-scale data repositories, shared research platforms, and advanced digital tools. This understanding reflects the distinctive but equally vital infrastructure needs of AHSS research in the modern digital age.

DARIAH-IE in particular welcomes the shared advanced infrastructure model central to INSPIRE. Our experience demonstrates how, by connecting Irish researchers to pan-European computational methodologies and digital research networks, institutional strategies for developing highly-skilled, digitally-fluent graduates equipped for Ireland’s growing tech and creative sectors can be accelerated. 

AHSS infrastructure delivers impact across Ireland’s broader policy objectives beyond traditional economic metrics, advancing national priorities in digitalisation through its role in cultural heritage preservation and accessibility, supporting economic resilience by enabling digital transformation in creative industries, and contributing to social wellbeing by facilitating research on ethics, cultural identity, historical memory, and societal resilience.

The report rightly identifies that chronic underinvestment, fragmentation of resources, and insufficient technical and administrative staffing have constrained the sector’s ability to contribute fully to national and global challenges. We particularly welcome the landmark shift that allows AHSS disciplines to compete for Research Ireland’s infrastructure funding for the first time since PRTLI over 15 years ago. The report’s call for investment in shared digital infrastructure, sustainable funding models for major collections, improved computational access, and enhanced national library and archival resources aligns directly with DARIAH-IE’s mission and the expressed needs of our research community.

This represents a historic opportunity to unlock the full contribution of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to public policy development, societal resilience, cultural heritage preservation, and social innovation in Ireland. DARIAH-IE looks forward to playing an active role in realising this vision.

INSPIRE funding announcement: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-further-and-higher-education-research-innovation-and-science/press-releases/minister-lawless-launches-750m-inspire-research-infrastructure-investment-package/

Research Infrastructure Working Group Report: https://assets.gov.ie/static/documents/15d31ca7/Research_Infrastructure_Working_Group_-_Report_2025.pdf

DARIAH-IE Engagement Survey

As DARIAH-IE continues to rebuild its presence in Ireland, understanding the needs of the broad digital arts and humanities community in Ireland is essential to us. 

If you use digital data, digital tools or digital methods, or if you have a presence in digital spaces as part of your work in the Arts and Humanities then we want to hear from you.

We invite researchers, academics, practitioners, and support staff working in digitally-enabled research and teaching across the Arts and Humanities to share their thoughts on how we can better serve them. This survey is your opportunity to tell us what’s working, what could be better, and what you’d love to see in the future.

Please take a few minutes to complete this short survey, all responses are completely confidential.

DARIAH-IE Engagement Survey

(Re)introducing DARIAH-IE webinar

11:00 – 12:30 on Tuesday May 27th, 2025

On Tuesday May 27th DARIAH-IE held an online event for members of the Irish Digital Arts and Humanities communities.

The aim of the seminar was to provide an introduction to DARIAH, the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, to highlight the affordances of DARIAH participation to Irish Digital Arts and Research communities and to demonstrate the variety of ways that DARIAH might be structured at a national level to support engagement.

Watch the seminar on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/embed/zozUBev_C2s?si=UxanGdeBFjWf6QSc

Or have a quick look at the slides: https://www.youtube.com/embed/JQ9n-MtN_bQ?si=4MxGL-HYGW-mWNhu

Recent posts from DARIAH-IE about events and activities of interest to the Irish DH community.