Subject: News from ADHO: Conferences, Publication Opportunities, and More
July ushers in an especially exciting stretch of time for ADHO, with the DH2026 conference a few weeks away, several Constituent Organizations (COs) coming out of the frenzy of running their annual conferences, and several Calls for Proposals and opportunities available, and announcements about new ADHO Executive Board (EB) elections.
The DH2026 conference program is available, so give it a look, and register if you have not done so. Registration for virtual attendance is open through 17 July, and many pre-conference workshops and sessions will be available hybrid. We hope to see as many members of the community engaged in the conference as possible!
At the conference, ADHO is pleased to support 24 scholars with the Conference Bursary Award, including 9 online participants and 9 participants traveling intercontinentally to attend in-person. The Awards Committee received 129 applications and had to make a number of difficult decisions. Many thanks to the committee members who took on the work to disburse this financial support: Keli Du, Stefano Morello, and Tianyi Kou-Herrema.
We are delighted to announce the election of four new members to the ADHO Executive Board: Eduard Arriaga-Arango (Chair-Elect), Silvia-Adriana Tomescu (Deputy Secretary), Bhuvaneshwari (Bhuvana) Ramaswamy (Deputy Treasurer), and Estelle Guéville (Deputy Conference Officer). Beginning after the DH2026 conference, these folks will serve the organization for three years, with a first year dedicated to learning the role. The EB is excited to grow the team and transition to the next generation of leadership over the coming year.
In the process of receiving applications, interviewing people, and working through a vote by the Constituent Organization Board (COB), we were humbled by the enthusiasm for ADHO shown by all the applicants. Thank you to all who applied for Executive Board positions.
The COB also sends its appreciation to the nominations received for the Roberto Busa Prize. The deadline for submitting nominations is now passed, and the Prize winner will be announced at the end of the DH2026 conference.
Finally, many thanks to Deputy Communications Officer Dena Shamsizadeh for creating this newsletter!
Best,
Kristen Mapes
ADHO Executive Board, Chair
The annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), DH2026: Engagement, will take place July 29-31, 2026, as a hybrid conference, bringing participants together both on-site and online from Daejeon, South Korea. The full program of the conference is now available on the Conference Program Agenda page. Standard registration is open for in-person attendance until July 6, 2026, and for virtual attendance until July 17, 2026, on the Conference Registration Page.
We are delighted to announce the following people will join the Executive Board (EB) of ADHO for three-year terms (2026-2029), beginning after the DH2026 conference. Thanks to everyone who applied for the positions.
Chair-Elect - Eduard Arriaga-Arango, Chair and Associate Professor, Language, Literature, and Culture, Clark University, USA
Deputy Secretary - Silvia-Adriana Tomescu, Research librarian, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Romania
Deputy Treasurer - Bhuvaneshwari (Bhuvana) Ramaswamy, Manager, Applied Data Fellowship, University of Chicago
Deputy Conference Officer - Estelle Guéville, Medieval Studies, Yale University
We are pleased to share the Book of Abstracts for the ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2025 (DH2025), which took place at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), Lisbon, Portugal, on July 14–18, 2025. The volume is now available online. This collection brings together a wide range of innovative research, projects, and discussions around the conference theme of “Building access and accessibility, open science to all citizens.”
You can read the full volume here.
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). The new Editor in Chief will serve for a five-year renewable term. Collaborative multi-editor and multi-institution arrangements are welcome.
Responsibilities include:
Initial expressions of interest are due by August 30, 2026.
The Annual Conference of the Association of Digital Humanities in German-speaking Countries will be hosted by the University of Marburg from 1-5 March 2027 in Marburg.
Gaps are constitutive of knowledge. They mark lacunas, raise new questions and drive cognitive processes. This is particularly true for the digital humanities: where knowledge is digitally encoded, modeled and made computer-readable, translations, reductions and interstices necessarily arise. The transformation of analogue objects into data, models or digital representations creates gaps, as does working with materials that have already been born digitally and must first be recorded, structured, archived or curated before they become scientifically accessible.
The DHd 2027 focuses on these productive, problematic and responsibility-related dimensions of gaps, uncertainties and differences. It asks how lacunas, practices, and procedures shape the digital humanities as an epistemic prerequisite, methodological challenge, ethical responsibility, and starting point for new interpretations. The focus is on material and historical absences as well as algorithmic non-transparency, data gaps, modelling decisions and unequal access to knowledge and infrastructure.
Contributions are invited from all areas of the digital humanities as well as related disciplines.
The deadline for submissions expires on August 1, 2026 (23:59, CEST). Please note: As in previous years, this deadline will not be extended.
The proceedings of the annual conference of L’association francophone des humanités numériques/digitales (Humanistica) are now published and available. The conference, themed “Humanités numériques/humanités computationnelles: perspectives croisées (Digital Humanities/Computational Humanities: Intersecting Perspectives),” was held in Paris at École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées (EPITA) from May 20 to 22, 2026.
The conference proceedings are available in Volume 4 of the open-access journal Anthology of Computers and the Humanities and can be accessed through the journal's website.
- Issue number 15 of the journal will be entitled “Ontologies et humanités numériques.” Its publication is scheduled for the summer of 2027.
The articles submitted may focus in particular on the following themes:
For this issue, in which all contributions will be evaluated in accordance with the journal's practices, under the responsibility of the guest editors, we ask you to submit your proposals in the form of full articles, written in French, by July 6, 2026, on the journal's OJS platform
Follow the link for more details.
- Issue number 16 of the journal will be entitled “Bricolages. Les effets heuristiques de l’édition numérique.” Its publication is scheduled for the end of 2027.
Do publishing practices carried out in a digital context produce new knowledge or skills for those who implement them? This call for papers invites researchers involved in digital publishing initiatives to explore this central question for the digital humanities.
This call for papers is open to the entire research community who identify as "digital publishing tinkerers," including both researchers and engineers. Articles may concern editorial work intended for digital or print publication, carried out individually or in teams, as long as it incorporates improvised digital elements into its editorial process. They should address the heuristic effects of these improvised editorial approaches, focusing on the lessons learned in this context.
You can submit your proposals in the form of full articles, written in French, by December 1, 2026, on the journal's OJS platform.
Follow the link for more details.
Registration is now open for the 2026 Conference of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH): Digital Humanities without Borders, which will take place at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, from September 15-19, 2026.
For registration, please visit the conference registration page.
For more details, please visit the conference page.
The 17th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities is set to be held from October 31 to November 1, 2026, at National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. With the theme “Reconsidering Boundaries: Knowledge, Creativity, Methods, and Responsibility in the Age of AI,” the conference explores how AI is reshaping the boundaries of knowledge production, creative practice, research methodologies, and ethical responsibility, while fostering interdisciplinary, multilingual, and cross-cultural dialogue within the global digital humanities community.
This conference welcomes submissions from scholars in the humanities, social sciences, information sciences, arts, education, library and archives, environmental studies, and other fields. Interdisciplinary, interlingual, and intercultural research dialogues are particularly welcomed.
The deadline for individual or group abstract submission is July 31, 2026.
Please visit the conference website for more information and abstract submission.
Dr. Yuan-ju Liu, Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, will assume office as TADH's fourth Chair in January 2026, marking the first time since the Association's founding in 2016 that TADH has elected both a woman and a scholar of classical Chinese literature as its Chair.
ADHO Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings will take place during the DH2026 pre-conference program on Monday, July 27 and Tuesday, July 28. SIG meetings are free of charge and open to all registered conference participants. Sessions are offered in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format, depending on the meeting.
The following SIG meetings are scheduled:
For the full schedule, meeting formats, and additional details, please visit the Pre-Conference Events page.
The Korean Journal of Digital Humanities (KJDH) is the open-access journal (E-ISSN 3058-311X) of the Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH). KJDH has released its latest issue (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2026) with four research articles and an interview.
Research spans "digital philology" in AI-era historical research (Soo Hur), modeling diagnostic algorithms in Joseon medicine (Jongwook Jeon & Intae Ryu), a computational analysis of two Pride and Prejudice adaptations (Yeseul Park), and a text-collection workflow for the Shun Pao database (Geonjoon Bae). The issue also features an interview with Prof. Ted Underwood on the digital humanities.
All articles are freely available through the KADH website.
DSH or Digital Scholarship in the Humanities is an international, peer reviewed journal which publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities including, but not limited to, the field of what is currently called the Digital Humanities. You can get access to the latest issue of the journal (Volume 41, Issue 2) through this link.
This issue features two research articles, one exploring Chinese classical literature and the other examining the use of AI and SVVR to support the interpretation and presentation of historical and cultural heritage. It also introduces a new tool developed for the DocuSky research platform that integrates the China Biographical Database (CBDB) and the DILA Person Authority Databases, enabling document post-classification through feature-based analysis and text mining across multiple documents. An opinion piece rounds out the issue, showcasing diverse perspectives and methodologies in digital humanities.
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The Transkribus User Conference is one of the premier Digital Humanities events in Europe. This year’s conference, scheduled on 21–23 September 2026 at the University of Passau, is centred around the theme of “Not all AI is created equal”, focusing on the balance between general-purpose and specialised AI in the digital humanities, and exploring how both approaches can be best utilised to achieve research goals.
Information about the conference: https://tuc.transkribus.org/
Program and registration: https://tuc.transkribus.org/programme
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