Subject: News from ADHO: Conferences, Publication Opportunities, and More
We are delighted to share opportunities and updates from around ADHO.
The DH2026 team is thrilled to open registration for the conference, including options for in-person and virtual attendance. Early registration lasts until May 18, so make sure to register during that timeframe, if you can. Also keep in mind that the conference operates in a range of timezones, so it would be wise to register well before May 18 so you don’t miss out. There are discounted registration rates for members of Constituent Organizations (COs) of ADHO. Your CO will have communicated the discount code to its members. If you have questions, please contact your CO.
Thanks to all who expressed interest in putting together a bid to host DH2029 - we received several strong communications and the Constituent Organization Board (COB) looks forward to reviewing completed bids in a couple of months. It is exciting to see the robust DH community in action, in the short term and as we look years into the future.
Are you interested in getting involved in ADHO? Applications to join the Executive Board close on 1 May! We are seeking people 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.
ADHO is pleased to acknowledge scholarship in digital humanities in many ways, including through named awards. The call for nominations for the Roberto Busa Prize will be posted imminently, with a nomination deadline in mid-June. Keep an eye on the ADHO website and social media for further information.
Finally, many thanks to Deputy Communications Officer Dena Shamsizadeh for putting together this newsletter.
Best,
Kristen Mapes
ADHO Executive Board, Chair
Registration for DH2026 is now open. The conference will take place July 27–31, 2026, at the Daejeon Convention Center in South Korea.
For a full overview of registration categories and fees, please visit the Conference Registration page,
Early Bird registration is available until May 18, 2026. Standard registration begins May 19, 2026.
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is seeking expressions of interest for several positions, offering members an opportunity to contribute to and help shape the future of the field.
We are seeking applications for the following positions:
If you are interested in joining our team, please consider the positions and apply before 1 May 2026.
The "Gruppo Scuola AIUCD" has been providing free teacher training and consulting to six Italian high schools experimenting in the Digital Humanities (DH). The task force is also currently preparing a MOOC for school teachers. Attendance of the Cagliari AIUCD 2026 annual conference will be recognized by the Italian Ministry as certified professional training for teachers, as was the case with previous AIUCD conferences.
Umanistica Digitale is the diamond open access journal of the Italian Association of Digital Humanities (AIUCD). In keeping with the objectives of the Association, Umanistica Digitale serves as a discussion venue for topics pertaining to the Digital Humanities, ranging from the theoretical and methodological foundations of computational models in social science to the development and application of computational systems and digital tools in the humanities; from the study of new phenomena in internet cultures, to the analysis of changes happening in scientific communication and in research infrastructures. Umanistica Digitale is a scientific journal targeted at a specific community; nevertheless, it aspires to become an open space, one that is accessible to as wide and varied an audience as possible in order to enrich its primary audience.
Special Issue, “From Data to Heritage: Semantic Enrichment, Archives, and Digital Libraries,” edited by Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio and Marcella Cornia is now available.
More information and access to the journal
DHd20xx is the annual international conference of Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries (DHd) and the leading academic conference for Digital Humanities in the German-speaking world.
The German-speaking Digital Humanities Association is now accepting applications to host its fourteenth conference (DHd2028). As the association aims to alternate the conference between Germany and other countries, we are particularly interested in receiving applications from institutions in German-speaking countries located outside of Germany.
Applications will be accepted until May 31, 2026 (informally via email to the conference coordinator on the board of the professional association, Nils Reiter: nils.reiter@uni-koeln.de). Interested organizers are requested to contact Nils Reiter as early as possible, but in any case, before submitting their application. The application should ideally not exceed ten pages. The conference will be awarded by the board of the professional association no later than June 15, 2026.
The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (JADH) is pleased to announce its 15th annual conference, to be held at Kyushu University on September 11-13, 2026.
Under the theme “Whose World, Whose Data? Sustainability in Digital Umwelts,” this conference invites participants to rethink digital sustainability not simply as long-term preservation or technical endurance, but as a question of whose worlds are sustained, transformed, or allowed to fade through digital practices.
Abstracts submitted should be of 500-1000 words in length in English, including the title and authors’ names.
Please submit abstracts via the ConfTool website by 11:59 PM, 15 Apr 2026 (HAST). Presenters will be notified of acceptance on May 30, 2026.
The Humanistica association is launching a call for applications to host its 2027 symposium.
Establishments, laboratories, teams or consortia wishing to propose the organization of this next edition are invited to prepare an application file using the template document made available to them.
The deadline for submission is set for May 4, 2026.
More details and the template for the application
The first Open Maps working paper is now published, involving multiple members from the GeoHumSIG and synthesizing insights from 2024's first international Open Maps Meeting on methodological cartographic and historical mapping advancements.
In the context of the 2026 edition of the Digital Humanities Conference (DH2026) Conference in Daejeon, South Korea, the Special Interest Group Digital Literary Studies within ADHO (SIG-DLS) and the Digital Comparative Literature (DCL) research committee of ICLA jointly invite submissions for a mini-conference titled “Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today”.
Please submit a 300 to 500-word abstract (excluding references) describing your project, research idea, or theoretical contribution, by sending your abstract as one PDF file to Christof Schöch at schoech@uni-trier.de by April 30, 2026.
The 2023 edition of ADHO’s annual global conference ‘Digital Humanities’ took place in Graz under the theme of ‘Collaboration as Opportunity’. DH2023 showcased transdisciplinary and transnational collaboration, with a special focus on the thriving South-Eastern European Digital Humanities community. It explored how mutual empowerment and collaboration of neighbouring countries—regardless of continent and geopolitical placement—can transform regional hubs of expertise into international networks of excellent research, to the benefit of the global DH community.
All the papers of the DH2023 Conference Issue have been published in Advance Access
Check out the latest issues from other ADHO-supported journals.
The International Max Planck Research School for Multimodal Digital Humanities (IMPRS-MDH) is a new doctoral school jointly established by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (BHMPI) in Rome and the Faculty of Art and Social Sciences (PhF) of the University of Zurich (UZH), funded by the Max Planck Society (MPG) for six years. Building on pioneering research at the MPG-UZH Digital Visual Studies center (DVS), the IMPRS-MDH opens a new field at the crossroads of art and architectural history, linguistics, and multimodal artificial intelligence.
We seek candidates with strong academic preparation in one of the following fields: art history/visual studies, linguistics/history of literature, computer science, and related disciplines.
All materials should be submitted in English via the following recruitment platform by May 31, 2026.
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