Digital Humanities

Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint [Dec 15, online, 13:30-15:00 GMT]

Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint

The Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities Network (DISKAH) is organising a webinar on “Technical Writing in the Humanities: a facilitated writing sprint” in collaboration with the Programming Historian to support interested colleagues in developing a publication targeted to this journal, and more widely in communicating your technical workflows within Digital Humanities research to relevant audiences.

Webinar date and time: Monday 15 December, 13:30-15:00 (GMT)

Please register here for the webinar: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/diskah-webinar-technical-writing-in-the-humanities-tickets-1976718137160

Further information about the webinar: https://culturedigitalskills.org/webinar-diskah-programming-historian/

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition [Dec 16, online, @16:45 CET]

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition

The FSP Digital Humanities at the University of Vienna is very pleased to announce the third of the Digital Humanities Invited Lecture Series for the winter semester 2025/26. All lectures will be streamed via the following link: 

https://ustream.univie.ac.at/live/4b4961fd-6b8d-4be7-a222-62912c0dada0

16 December, 16:45 CET –  Dr. Jan Odstrčilík, Austrian Academy of Sciences

When Machines Read Manuscripts: Tools and Challenges in Handwritten Text Recognition

Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily [Dec 10, online, @17:00 CET]

Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily

The Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH, Dept. of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) is pleased to announce the final seminar in its Winter 2025 series.

On 10 December 2025 at 5 p.m. CET, Simona Stoyanova (University of Oxford) will give a talk entitled Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily. The seminar is co-organised by Valentina Mignosa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) as part of the project TES: Tracing Eastern Sicily’s networks (11th-5th centuries BCE).

The event will take place at the VeDPH Lab and online via Zoom. Online participation is possible upon registration. More information and the registration link are available here:
https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/106868. 

Recordings of the seminars in the 2025 series will be made available on the VeDPH YouTube channel.

Submission deadline for Digital Humanities 2026 extended to Dec 15, 2025

The DH2026 organisers announce that the submission deadline for Digital Humanities 2026 proposals has been extended to December 15, 2025.

Next year’s conference (July 27–31, 2026) will be hosted by the Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH) at the Daejeon Convention Center in Daejeon, South Korea. 
The theme for this conference is “Engagement.” Submissions are welcome in multiple formats, including long and short papers, posters, workshops, and mini-conferences.

Please visit the Call for Proposals on the conference website for more details: https://dh2026.adho.org.

The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities [Nov 17, online, @17:00 CET]

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Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities

The Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam cordially invites you to the next lecture in the ‘Code & Culture’ talk series.

Our first guest is Manuel Burghardt (University of Leipzig), with a talk titled “Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale: The Case for Computational Environmental Humanities“ (full abstract here). The lecture will take place on Monday 17 November 2025, 17:00 (CET), online via Zoom. 

Please register here to get the Zoom link: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/code-culture-lecture-series/registration.

This semester, we will have a special focus on digital environmental humanities, preparing the ground for our “Environments in and as Networks” Hackathon (Potsdam, 15-17.04.2026; more details and registration: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/events/environmental-digital-humanities-hackathon).