#CfP: EADH Conference 2026 – “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”

The EADH 2026 conference will take place from 15 to 19 September 2026 at Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), and is co-organized by the Digital Humanities Lab of the Jagiellonian University, the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences,  and the University of Wrocław.

Under the theme “Linking Europe: Digital Humanities Without Borders”, the event invites the international Digital Humanities community to reflect on technological transformations, including artificial intelligence, multilingual infrastructures, sustainability, and responsible data governance.

Submissions are open for posters, short papers, long papers, and workshops.
The thematic areas include: data and methods, AI and ethics, infrastructure and open science, cultural heritage and diversity, communities and futures of DH.

All conference venues are fully accessible, and online participation is available for presenters.

The deadline for all types of submissions is 23:59 GMT on Sunday, 8 February 2026.

Further information and the submission link are available here.

#CfP: Comics and Machines - Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden (22-23 April, 2026)

Call for Papers and Talks

Comics and Machines

Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden

22-23 April, 2026

Steering committee

Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle Gribomont, Andre Holzapfel, Per Israelson, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Ilan Manouach, Pedro Moura, Everardo Reyes, Keith Tillford, Ray Whitcher

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Today, the field of comics is undergoing a profound transformation marked by a growing heterogeneity of forms, formats, and production processes. From synthetic comics, operational images, data-driven visualization to embodied, non-visual comics, comics are expanding beyond the conceptual and historical frameworks that have traditionally defined it. Existing models in research— grounded in the artisanal craft traditions, narratology, text-image correlation, and human-centered authorship— are struggling to account for this rapidly diversifying landscape. Craft-based approaches might appear resistant or inadequate in the face of new technological practices that recombine production, circulation, and reception through computational logics.The current moment compels a broader redefinition of comics as fundamentally technical objects. The boundaries that once separated comics from technical and operational systems are dissolving. To grasp the full scope of these developments, we must account for comics as sites where technological processes are not external influences but internal engines — where creation is entangled with computation, standardization, and new modes of mediation. As computational processes— from machine learning to synthetic image generation and communication systems powered by computer vision— increasingly shape the creation, distribution, and experience of comics, it is no longer sufficient to understand the medium solely through the lenses of narrative, visual storytelling, or artisanal craft. Recognizing comics as engineered configurations of information, relational diagrams, and experimental knowledge structures is not a speculative gesture; it is a necessary step for understanding the profound transformation underway in the medium’s ontology, practice, and future potential.

Within this expanded computational landscape, comics increasingly function as sites of artistic research— experimental configurations that generate knowledge through making rather than merely representing it. As comics engage with computational systems, they become laboratories for investigating the material conditions of contemporary media production. These research-oriented practices extend beyond traditional academic boundaries. Rather than simply illustrating research findings, comics-as-research deploys their unique capacity for relational thinking— the medium’s inherent ability to orchestrate temporal, spatial, and conceptual relationships — to investigate how technical systems reshape creative labor, audience relations, and the very possibility of narrative meaning. This artistic research dimension positions comics not as objects of study but as active investigative tools, capable of generating insights about computational culture that emerge specifically through the medium’s hybrid technical-aesthetic operations.

We are pleased to announce a two-day international conference on April 22-23, 2026 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and at Uppsala University dedicated to examining the rapidly evolving landscape of comics. Rather than framing this transformation solely as a rupture, the conference seeks to situate it within a longer history of computational rationality— a lineage in which the medium has continuously negotiated the demands of efficiency, scalability, and technical constraint. Our aim is to critically rethink comics not as passive recipients of technological change, but as active computational configurations: media fundamentally entangled with systems of automation, standardization, and information processing.

We welcome submissions addressing the following areas (among others):

1. Histories of automation and engineering in comics production and distribution
2. Transformations in formats and workflows driven by technological change
3. Comics as data: informatization, discretization, and database design
4. Human-machine collaborations in past, present, and speculative comics practice
5. Audience and user labor in automated platforms and circulation systems
6. Data-mining and recirculation techniques in digital comics ecologies
7. Machine subjectivities: authorship, intention, and expression in machinic agents
8. Computational archiving practices: scraping, clustering, and vectorization
9. Speculative and critical practices addressing automation and machinic mediation
10. Industrial logics in comics: international and comparative perspectives
11. Resistance to automation: sabotage, slow media, and disobedient design
12. Operational aesthetics: the visual and affective languages of automation
13. Speculative histories and alternative futures of comics as technical media
14. Comics as simulations: diagrams, blueprints, and procedural environments
15. Comics as artistic research methodologies: practice-based inquiry and knowledge production where comics are used to interrogate emerging technologies and social systems

We invite submissions for the following presentation formats:​

1. Research Papers (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion): Traditional academic presentations suitable for theoretical, historical, or analytical work
2. Practice-Based Presentations (15 minutes + 15 minutes discussion): Presentations by creators, artists, and practitioners demonstrating work and reflecting on process
3. Interactive Demonstrations (30 minutes): Hands-on sessions showcasing new tools, platforms, or methodologies
4. Panel Discussions (90 minutes): Collaborative sessions bringing together multiple perspectives on specific themes
5. Lightning Talks (5 minutes): Brief presentations ideal for work-in-progress, provocations, or preliminary findings
6. Workshop Sessions (3 hours): Extended collaborative sessions for skill-sharing and collective exploration of tools and methods

Submission instructions:

1. Abstract length: 250 words
2. Short bio: 150 words
3. Deadline for abstracts: 1st December 2025
4. Notifications of acceptance: 30th December 2025
5. Send to conference@echochamber.be

Info: https://www.uu.se/en/centre/digital-humanities-and-social-sciences/event...

With production support by [Src Material](https://www.srcmaterial.org/), a non-profit organization supporting artists and researchers at the vanguard of new media.

#CfP: Pittsburgh Graduate Music Conference 2026, "Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength"

The Music Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes proposals for 20 minute paper presentations, performance demonstrations, or work that integrates research and practice for its 2026 conference, “Sonic Power: Speculation, Surveillance, and Strength.” We invite students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to consider how sound organizes power and how people reorganize power through sound. Sonic life shapes worlds, whether in the hush of archival erasure, the loudness of protest, or the sorting of listening within media infrastructures. We seek work that brings speculation into the present tense, that treats sound as a way to model futures otherwise, and that interrogates strength as more than endurance, for example as collective capacity, infrastructures of care, and techniques of shelter and repair.

We take sound as method, material, and metaphor, and we aim to deepen the conversation across critical theory, ethnographic research, and creative practice. Contributors might map the infrastructures of listening that underpin surveillance capitalism, examine algorithmic recommendation and moderation as acoustic governance, or analyze sonic policing, border acoustics, and the evidentiary life of audio in courts, platforms, and public inquiries. Mixed methods are welcome, including multi-sited ethnography, media archaeology, critical interface studies, participatory action research, and practice based research that treats making as thinking.

We invite contributors to ponder speculative imagination as a political and methodological resource. How might speculative sound worlds model care, refusal, or repair within extractive listening economies? What forms of resonance enable collective strength when visibility is risky, and what kinds of quiet enable survival without disappearance? How does sonic harm reduction operate in protest, incarceration, and migration? Where do acoustic leakages, glitches, or mishearings open cracks in systems that promise total capture? We welcome work that links concrete cases to conceptual stakes, that moves from situated scenes to larger abstractions of power and perception, and that treats sound not only as an object of study but as a way to think about our present and to rehearse futures otherwise.

Possible topics include:

• Archives
• Silences
• Listening infrastructures
• Platform economies and politics
• Protest and resilience
• Mutual aid and care
• Labor
• Pedagogy and institutions of musical knowledge
• Access and disability
• Sonic ecologies and the environment
• Ethics of fieldwork, consent, and community
• AI voice cloning, authorship, and consent
• Voice biometrics
• Codec politics, compression artifacts, and cultural loss
• Noise ordinances, zoning, and urban governance
• Acoustic environmental justice
• Sounded surveillance
• Diasporic telepresence and distant togetherness
• Queer timbres and trans futures
• Sonic branding and behavioral nudges
• Crowd sounds
• Audibility and public legibility
• ASMR economies
• Vibrotactile media and haptics
• Data sonification

Formats we welcome

• Individual papers (20 minutes)
• Performances and soundworks (up to 15 minutes; lecture recitals with live or pre-recorded materials welcome)
• Combinations of research and performance are encouraged.

Submission and contact

Individual Papers: Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words.

Performance demonstrations: Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words that describes your performance and its relevance to the conference theme. Performance and soundwork proposals should also include a link to a streaming sample of up to three minutes (audio or video) or a score excerpt

Please use the following form to submit your abstract with five keywords and a short bio of no more than 100 words. There will be a space to include other technical needs you may have. For questions, please contact us at MGSOinfo@gmail.com 

Form

Important dates

Submission deadline: December 1, 2025, 11.59 pm EST

Notifications: by January 12, 2026, 11.59 pm EST

Confirmation of participation needed: by January 30, 2026, 11.59 pm EST

Program posted: February 10, 2026 11.59 pm EST

Call for EADH Small Grants (2025-2026)

We are delighted to announce that the European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH)  is launching a new Small Grants funding round. All current EADH members, including members of our Associate Organizations (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale [AIUCD]; the Czech Association for Digital Humanities [CzADH]; the Association for Digital Humanities in the German Speaking Areas [DHd]; Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries [DHNB]) are invited to apply for financial support for initiatives consistent with the scope of EADH's activities, as stated in the Article 2 of our Constitution:

The objectives of the Association are to promote the advancement of education in the digital humanities, through the development and use of computational methods in research and teaching in the Humanities and related educational disciplines.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is 23:59 (CET) of 16 November 2025 and a maximum of five grants of 1,000 Euros each will be awarded during this call. To submit a proposal, please download and fill the application template in all its parts and send all requested documentation in ONE email to grants@eadh.org. The results will be communicated to the participants and publicly announced by 02 February 2026. Awardees will also have the opportunity to present their work-in-progress at the next EADH conference, should they wish to do so.

Who can apply?

The call is open to all practitioners working in all Humanities disciplines who can demonstrate proof of direct membership to EADH or direct membership to one of our Associate Organizations (AIUCD, CzADH, DHd, DHNB). Early-career researchers (from graduate students to postdoctoral researchers up to and including the fifth year after completion of the PhD) are especially encouraged to apply. Applications must come from intended beneficiaries directly: it is not possible to redistribute the grants (for example in the form of bursary schemes) to other recipients under the terms of this call. The application must have a single lead applicant (even if they are representing a team) and that person must be an EADH member (or relevant AO member, see below) at the time of sending in the application (by 23.59 CET on 16 November 2025). Proof of membership varies across our AOs, but usually consists of a membership number provided by the relevant organization and/or proof of bank transfer with the date when the membership fee was paid and the name of the member. EADH members can be the lead applicant of only one application per funding round, and can be included  as team members in a maximum of two applications per funding round.

How can I become a direct member of EADH or the Associate Organizations?

• Become a direct member of EADH

• Become a member of the Italian DH Associate Organization AIUCD

• Become a member of the Czech DH Associate Organization CzADH

• Become a member of the German-speaking DH Associate Organization DHd

• Become a member of the DH Nordic & Baltic Associate Organization DHNB

What are EADH Small Grants for? 

EADH Small Grants might cover:

• organization of a research-related event such as a seminar or workshop;

• travel expenses to work collaboratively;

• travel expenses  to visit a gallery/library/archive/museum to work with collections;

• research time for a new or ongoing project;

• purchase of equipment/software license for a specific project.

(See below for some examples of projects that we funded during the last round of Small Grants.)

What are EADH Small Grants not for? 

EADH Small Grants cannot cover:

• hiring third parties (such as developers, consultants, digitisation firms);

• compensation for crowdsourcing projects or other volunteer contributions;

How to apply?

Please submit:

• An application template presenting your proposal (1,000 to 1,500 words excluding bibliography, keywords and data management plan). If the proposal is for a group project, please list all names of the associated group. The template must be complete in all its sections. Sections include  state of the art of the appropriate field, methodology, aims and objectives of the project, a data management plan and a detailed timeline (please note that the goals should be achieved within one year from the public announcement on 2 February 2026). 

• An itemized budget breakdown, for up to 1000 € per grant.

• A CV from the person applying for the grant evidencing experience, skills, and knowledge relevant to the field of the proposed project. The CV should not exceed 2 pages.

• An AI statement, declaring if (and to what extent) you have made any use of AI tools in the preparation of your application. Please list the tools used and their purpose.

• (Only if your project deals with personal data) A GDPR statement explaining how personal information will be handled. You should include references to any institutional requirements that must be met, such as university archiving and/or ethics officers who must be consulted directly, or relevant national/disciplinary ethical guidelines (e.g. the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity).

• When submitting your proposal to grants@eadh.org, please use the email subject line “EADH SMALL GRANTS 2025 - [YOUR NAME].” If there is more than one applicant, please only use the lead applicant’s name in the subject line.

Which are the evaluation criteria?

Each application will be reviewed and evaluated by at least two EADH Executive Committee members; the evaluators may also request the pro veritate opinion of an external expert. 

Proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Completeness of application (Please note that due to the expected volume of applications, incomplete applications and/or those that do not provide proof of EADH/AO membership will be immediately rejected) 

• Scientific soundness of application (methodology, clarity, originality, feasibility in a one year period);

• Applicant's CV (competence, previous experience in the field according to career stage);

• Career stage of the applicant (note that priority will be given to early-career members);

• Access of the applicant to other funding (e.g., working as part of a large funded project or not. Priority will be given to applicants who have no access to other sources of funding);

• Sustainability of the project (if for example the funding request involves working on a digital project/tool/infrastructure);

• Benefit for the wider EADH community (e.g., reusability and openness of the outputs, and data compliance with FAIR or CARE guidelines, where relevant).

What happens if you obtain a grant?

EADH Small Grants awardees will  sign an agreement with EADH, wherein they commit to accomplishing the goals outlined in their proposal within one year from the public announcement of the EADH Small Grant Scheme results. Grant holders will also agree to submit a report at the end of this one year period. The report (1,000 to 1,500 words) should address the goals listed in the original proposal as well as present the scientific outcomes. If the grant has been awarded to support an event or purchase equipment/software, original receipts should be attached and itemized. The grant recipients’ reports will be published on the EADH website. EADH support must be acknowledged on scientific products co-financed through this scheme, in an Acknowledgements section of publications and/or by using the EADH logo (this includes slide presentations, posters, and any marketing materials used to promote an event/project) In turn, EADH commits to paying the grant after the report and receipts have been submitted. EADH Small Grant recipients will not be able to participate in future calls for three years. 

What have EADH Small Grants funded in the past?

Some projects that were funded during the last round (2020) include:

1. Soviet Yiddish press digitization start-up project: (Lead Applicant: Ilia Uchitel)
   The project aimed to collect, unify, and build a database of the Soviet Yiddish Periodicals (SYP) held in four major libraries in Russia and Ukraine, as well as to develop an online application visualizing the collected data. The application is publicly available at https://parasolcorpus.org/syp/.
   EADH Small Grant funded the development of the web application, digitization of the paper library cards costs as well as a 4 day field trip to Kyiv.

2. A digital exploration of spatial movements in Amsterdam at Premodern Times (Lead Applicant: Gamze Saygi).
   Saygi hypothesized everyday mobility in 18th century Amsterdam through space-time mapping. She discovered premodern commuting patterns in the city, through combining methods of automatic text extraction, geocoding and mapping. Interactive visualisation can be accessed at: https://www.freedomofthestreets.org/visualisation/mobility
   EADH Small Grant funded the applicant’s research time.

3. Romans 1 by 1. Augusta Traiana et territorium (Lead applicant: Annamária-Izabella Pázsint)
   The project aimed to expand the open access database Romans 1 by 1 through the ingestion of the epigraphical data corresponding to Augusta Traiana and its territory, thus contributing to promoting the use of computational methods in the study and teaching of ancient history.
   EADH Small Grant funded the applicant’s research time to work on an ongoing project

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with us by emailing grants@eadh.or

Call for Nominations: Join the EADH Executive Committee (2025–2028)

The EADH is excited to open nominations for four (4) new members to join its Executive Committee for the 2025–2028 term. As we move forward with the relaunch of EADH, this is a unique opportunity to contribute to shaping the direction of the Association and promoting the growth of Digital Humanities across Europe and beyond.

The nomination period will open on 1 May 2025 and close on 28 May 2025, with elections taking place from 5 June to 2 July 2025. Results will be announced shortly afterward, during the EADH General Meeting at the DH2025 Conference in Lisbon this July (more info here)

Eligibility Requirements

We warmly welcome candidates from all areas of the Digital Humanities—whether you work in archives, galleries, libraries, museums, universities, as an independent scholar, or within any public or private organization dedicated to advancing DH activities across Europe. What matters most is a spirit of collaboration and a genuine commitment to the community. EADH values diverse perspectives and experiences, and we are especially keen to hear from individuals who are eager to contribute their time and ideas.

To stand for election or vote, candidates must be members in good standing of EADH by 25 April 2025. If you're not yet a member, or if your membership has lapsed, you can easily join or renew it here.

How to nominate

Nominations are open to all eligible members and can be self-submitted. Each candidate must provide a short statement (max. 200 words) and indicate the names of two current EADH members who support their nomination (proposers).

Each proposer must submit a statement with the name of the person they wish to nominate (the nominee).

All materials should be sent to Ulrike Wuttke, Chair of the Elections Committee, at elections@eadh.org, by 28 May 2025.

If you're unsure about how to find supporters or have any other questions, don’t hesitate to reach out—we’re here to help.

Contact

For queries about the elections, contact Ulrike Wuttke at elections@eadh.org. For membership questions, reach out to Jan Rybicki at membership@eadh.org.

We look forward to hearing from you and hope you'll consider bringing your voice and perspective to the EADH Executive Committee!

Stay updated by following our social media channels: Linkedin  ♦  Fedihum  ♦   Bluesky

Meet the Candidates
Curious about who's standing for election? You can find the candidate statements on our dedicated page here!

EADH Online Community Meeting - 11 April 2025 10:00 BST/11:00 CEST/12:00 EEST

The EADH is back! After a short period of hibernation, the Association is back to action and is delighted to share some good news and hear your feedback and comments. Join us during this online community meeting on Friday, 11 April, at 10:00 BST/11:00 CEST/12:00 EEST to be part of the conversation. We will present EADH's new strategy and announce the upcoming elections for new executive members. We have been working on reviving the small grant scheme and improving our infrastructure and communications, and we look forward to telling you all about it.

The meeting will be an informal chat with plenty of space for questions and suggestions from all participants. If you would like to join us, please fill in this short registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMo0UBcGCoslRQse6WUM5InknGvhKMU9-aPtP9_JovB5SuQQ/viewform

The link to the Zoom call will be emailed to all registered attendees before the meeting.

We hope to see many of you there,

The EADH executive committee

CfP: Thematic Track AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo) @ FedCSIS 2025

Location: Kraków, Poland

Date: 14-17 September 2025 

Submission deadline: 25 May 2025

https://2025.fedcsis.org/thematic/ai-huso

This thematic session is dedicated to the computational study of Social Sciences, Economics and Humanities, including all subjects like, for example, education, labour market, history, religious studies, theology, cultural heritage, and informative predictions for decision-making and behavioural-science perspectives. While digital methods, intelligence systems, and AI have been emerging topics in these fields for several decades, this thematic session is not only limited to discoveries in these domains, but also dedicated to the reflections of these methods and results within the field of computer science. Thus, we are in particular interested in interdisciplinary exchange and dissemination with a clear focus on computational and AI methods for intelligence systems.

Since there is a clear methodological overlap between these three domains and often similar algorithms and AI approaches are considered, we see this thematic session as place for interdisciplinary learning, discussing a joint toolbox as a support for scholars from these field with human and context-aware agents.

The aim of this thematic session is thus to bridge the gap between scientific domains, foster interdisciplinary exchange and discuss how research questions from other domains challenge current computer science. In particular, we are interested in communications between researchers from different fields of computer science, social sciences, economics, humanities, and practitioners from different fields.

Topics

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

• AI and computational approaches for the interdisciplinary work of the social sciences, economics, and humanities: report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research.
• AI and computational approaches for linking data from different digital resources, including online social networks, web and data mining, Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies.
• AI and computational methods for text mining and textual analysis, for example texts within social sciences, digital literary studies, computational stylistics and stylometry.
• Text encoding, computational linguistics, annotation guidelines, OCR for humanities, economics, and social sciences.
• Network analysis, including social and historical network analysis.
• Ethical and philosophical considerations of AI in society, education and humanties research.

In general, the applications of interest are included in the list below, but are not limited to:

• Labour market research and qualification, including behavioral-science perspectives.
• Education: Digital methods and systems, e-learning, adult education, etc.
• Contributions to the application of technology to culture, history, and societal issues: For example, computational text analysis, analytical and visualization, databases, etc.
• In particular, we welcome submissions which focus on a critical reflection of digital methods in the humanities, economics and social sciences within computer science.
• Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data, anonymization and data protection.

Contact: ai-huso@fedcsis.org

Submission rules

• Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
• The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). More pages can be added, for an additional fee. IEEE style templates are available here.
• Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Topical Area.
• Preprints containing accepted papers will be published online.
• Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.
• Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
• Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to information here.
• Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS Sessions.

Extended versions of selected papers presented at the conference will be published in a volume entitled "Advances in Computational Social Sciences: AI, Computational Methods and Applications for the Study of Society" from Springer.