Happy New Year! We are pleased to bring updates and announcements to the community about activities around ADHO in this quarterly newsletter. Below, there are opportunities in the form of conferences, publications, and connections from across ADHO.
DH2026 planning continues, with 813 submissions received. Thanks to the hundreds of reviewers who completed their reviews. The process of reviewing submissions is labor-intensive but extremely valuable for authors and the program committee. Thank you!
Looking further into the future, the DH2027 Program Committee is nearly formed and will begin its work soon - thanks to those stepping forward to serve in that role. Finally, the call for hosts for DH2029 is available! If you are interested in learning more about potentially hosting the DH conference, do not hesitate to fill out the expression of interest form and reach out to the AHDO Conference Officer, Walter Schloger.
The Constituent Organization Board (COB) has formed an Ad-hoc Peer Review Committee to determine how DH conferences will handle anonymity or openness in the peer review process consistently in future years. We appreciate the research, care, and discussion underway among representatives from a range of global, linguistic, and cultural contexts in determining the future norms for the conference.
Are you interested in getting involved in ADHO? In March, we will post calls for applications for 4 Executive Board positions: Chair-Elect, Deputy Treasurer, Deputy Secretary, and Deputy Conference Officer. These are 3-year positions, beginning in August 2026, with a year of mentorship to ensure an easy onramp into responsibility. If you are curious to learn more, please reach out to secretary@adho.org, and we will connect you with the person currently in the role.
Finally, we are incrementally updating the ADHO website, so please take note of any changes. Thanks to ADHO Communications Fellow, Ayushi Khemka, for taking on this project, and thanks to Deputy Communications Officer Dena Shamsizadeh for putting together this newsletter.
Best,
Kristen Mapes
ADHO Executive Board, Chair
We are pleased to announce that the submission period for DH2026 has now closed. Following the extended deadline of December 15, 2025 (23:59 KST), we received a total of 813 submissions.
We wish to express our sincere gratitude to all who submitted their work. The volume and breadth of proposals reflect the continued vitality of the digital humanities community and the strong interest in convening in South Korea this year.
The 15th AIUCD 2026 Conference explores how digital technologies enable new forms of active participation in humanities research. From co-creation with communities to collaborative processes for the documentation and valorization of cultural heritage, the conference focuses on practices, tools, and methodologies that make knowledge more open, shared, and inclusive.
3–5 June 2026, Cagliari, Italy
Extended submission deadline: 8 February 2026
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) | ACH 2026 CFP
ACH 2026 (June 24-26, virtual) invites paper submissions until February 23 on digital humanities topics, with a special focus on transnationalism and solidarity in the Americas. The conference welcomes bilingual participation in English and Spanish.
Since 2012, RedHD has organized a Digital Humanists Meeting every two years. The event explores advances in discussions, projects, and initiatives in Digital Humanities while fostering cooperation and dialogue. Interested RedHD-affiliated institutions or individuals must email their expression of interest and proof of eligibility to redhumanidadesdigitales@gmail.com by June 30, 2026; the RedHD Executive Committee will announce the selected host within one month after the call closes.
SIG DHTech | Submit Your Code for Review!
Code review is a widespread technique to improve software and reduce the number of flaws. In a code review, a programmer (other than the original code author(s)) reviews the source code. They ask questions and make suggestions for improving the software. In addition to identifying and eliminating errors, code review can improve overall quality by making the source code more readable and maintainable.
Many Digital Humanities projects are build by rather small teams which makes such reviews challenging. This working group has developed a community code review system for the digital humanities to enable external reviews by volunteers.
The next submission deadline for code review requests is coming up on March 31. You can submit a finished product or work in progress! All that we ask for is that you choose a reasonably-sized chunk of your code that can be reviewed in about an hour. A description of the process and what it takes to have your code reviewed can be found on the code review website.
SIG DHTech | Digital Humanities Tech Symposium 2025 Proceedings
We are pleased to announce that the proceedings from the Digital Humanities Tech Symposium 2025 have been published in the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities! The Digital Humanities Tech Symposium was a one-day workshop organized by DHTech and held at DH2025. These proceedings are the first-ever official publication from a DHTech event.
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