We’re delighted to announce details of the first webinar of the Autumn/Winter 2026 series of Friday Frontiers. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Emma Clarke and Paula Kelly to present on two case studies from the #DiscussAI project. 

The Friday Frontiers webinars allow researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from across the broad DARIAH community, and now beyond, to learn about current research, best practice and social impact, and different tools and methods in digital humanities scholarly practice.

The webinar sessions are all free to attend, but registration is required.  Presentations are all recorded and published at a later date on DARIAH-Campus. 

The details of the upcoming talk, along with the registration details is below:

Friday 2nd October, 10.30 WEST / 11.30 CEST / 12.30 EEST

Title: Case Studies from #DiscussAI: A National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence in Ireland
Speakers: Dr Emma Clarke (Dublin City University) & Paula Kelly (Technical University of Dublin)
Registration Link: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSQOL_dAQWCujoTv3jqy7A 

Description

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in everyday life, decisions about its development and deployment are often made without meaningful input from the people it affects. Ireland’s national AI strategy, AI – Here for Good, places strong emphasis on citizen involvement. However, public understanding of AI and its societal impact lags behind the pace of technological advances. Many communities, particularly those traditionally underserved by science and technology engagement, remain excluded from the conversation, therefore, AI literacy is essential to enhance inclusion. 

The Research Ireland ADAPT Centre launched #DiscussAI in September 2021, establishing a national conversation on AI that equips people across Ireland with the knowledge and skills to critically engage with AI-driven systems and make informed choices. Co-creating dialogue is at the heart of #DiscussAI. This session introduces that approach through two case studies, and explores why participatory, co-created dialogue matters for research and practice on the societal impact of AI. 

Case Study 1: Age-Friendly AI 

Age-Friendly AI places older adults at the centre of the conversation on AI. The AI training programme builds on dialogue with older people, ensuring that content reflects their real-life experiences and needs. 

Case Study 2: The Bigger Picture 

An art-science initiative designed to explore public perceptions and misconceptions of AI. Combining public workshops, critical analysis and artist submissions, The Bigger Picture uses creative practice as a route into critical dialogue about AI. 

Speaker Biographies 

Dr Emma Clarke – Age-Friendly AI Co-Lead 

Dr Emma Clarke is the Engaged Research Lead at the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre, based at Dublin City University where she works on ADAPT’s #DiscussAI initiative – a National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence that has engaged over 85,000 citizens in conversations about the societal impact of AI in Ireland since 2021. Emma’s work centres on citizen science, participatory dialogue and multi-stakeholder engagement. She is co-lead of Age-Friendly AI – Ireland’s National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative for Older Adults. Emma has presented her research at international forums including PCST and ECSA. She holds a PhD from the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, specialising in cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer. 

Paula Kelly – Age-Friendly AI Lead 

Paula is a lecturer and a member of the tPOT research group in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at TU Dublin. She is the team lead on the Research Ireland funded Age-Friendly AI: Ireland’s National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative. Over two years this initiative is fostering a national dialogue on AI with older adults across Ireland, and co-creating and delivering a comprehensive, accessible, and inclusive national AI literacy programme tailored specifically with and for this demographic. Paula is also involved as a volunteer tutor and facilitator in a number of public engagement STEM activities hosted by tPOT and WITU.

Friday, April 17, 2026 | 7:00 PM IST | Virtual

The DHARTI Governing Body invites scholars, faculty, and practitioners to a strategic conversation on India’s evolving role in the international DH community and how DHARTI can deepen digital humanities work across India.

The recent ADHO decision to adopt double-blind review for DH2026 has sparked essential global discussions about fairness, inclusion, and review practices. This is our moment to articulate Indian perspectives on:

• What unique contributions can India bring to global DH from the Global South?
• How do multilingualism, decolonial approaches, infrastructure needs, and interdisciplinary networks shape our work?
• What role can DHARTI play in mentoring, networking, and amplifying Indian DH internationally?

Who should join: Leaders from humanities, social sciences, libraries, and technology shaping DH ecosystems in India.

Register here to receive meeting link.

Concept Note Undergraduate humanities education in India has historically trained students within single-disciplinary silos. The engagement in the field of humanities has transformed with the advent of the digital tools and the interlinked spaces, breaking disciplinary boundaries and connecting, overlapping teaching-learning and research. This summer school proposes to address the possibilities of the ever expanding […]

DHARTI is pleased to announce that the DHARTI2026 Biennial Digital Humanities Conference will be hosted by Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, in December 2026.

Join us for the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026—an opportunity to collaborate and innovate in an interdisciplinary setting. The application period is open (until 14 April 2026) – apply now to be part of this year’s cohort.

People talk about hackathons, but there is only one Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon. #DHH26 is the 11th iteration of our international summer school (aimed primarily at master’s students and beyond), which brings together diverse participants from Finland and across Europe. 

In the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon, you will experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.  For everyone, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish. Working together, they formulate research questions with respect to particular data sets, develop and apply methods and tools to address them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon. 

Participation in #DHH26 is free for all accepted participants. This year, we also expect to sponsor a limited number of participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (decisions on this to be made after the application period). 

The event is organised by FIN-CLARIAH—particularly its DARIAH-FI component—in collaboration with HELDIG and the Department of Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki, as well as Aalto University. We are supported by CLARIN-EU, HIIT, the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History, and Marie Curie Training Networks CASCADE & MECANO. 5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students, and it also functions as a staff training event for leadership and collaboration across disciplinary borders.

For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see #DHH25, #DHH24, #DHH23,#DHH22, #DHH21, #DHH19, #DHH18, #DHH17, #DHH16 and #DHH15.

Themes

This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following five themes:

• Parliaments Beyond Borders: Exploring the Role of Foreign Nations in National Policy Debates
• Crimes and Punishments: “True Crime” in Britain during the 19th century
• The Language of Profits: A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration of Corporate and Legal Rhetoric
• Large-Scale Patterns of Knowledge Production Through the Lens of 200 Million Books Across 600 Years
• Decoding the System of Finnic Oral Poetry

See further information on the #DHH26 themes.

Ap­plic­a­tion sched­ule for #DH­H26

17.3.2026 This year’s themes are unveiled, and the application period starts
14.4.2026 Application period ends
27.4.2026 Registration period ends for #DHH26 for accepted participants
4.5. & 11.5.2026 Two #DHH26 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions
20.–29.5.2026 #DHH26 hackathon in Helsinki

Please note that we can only accept participants who are able to commit to the full week of intensive work (not just a couple of hours here and there), as well as the preparatory sessions. Thus, if you know that you have other commitments during the hackathon, please consider applying next time when you can make a full commitment.

Venue

Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A (see on mapOpens in a new tab)
University of Helsinki
Finland

Prac­tic­al­it­ies and Timetable

The hackathon will take place between 20.–29.5.2026. The participants are expected to commit to the hackathon for the whole period; work takes place mainly between 10 AM and 5 PM on weekdays (the weekend is free!). In addition, there are two online pre-sessions on Mondays 4.5. and 11.5., between 2 – 4 PM UTC+03:00 for orientation, group formation and preparation for the intensive hackathon period. The participants are expected to attend also these pre-sessions.

Public presentations of the projects:
29.5.2026 13:00–16:00, Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A, room K226.
The event will be streamed at https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l5

Or­gan­isa­tion

General organisers:

• Mikko TolonenOpens in a new tab, professor in computational history at the University of Helsinki
• Eetu MäkeläOpens in a new tab, professor in human sciences – computing interaction at the University of Helsinki
• Jukka SuomelaOpens in a new tab, associate professor in distributed algorithms, logic and complexityOpens in a new tab at Aalto University
• Jouni TuominenOpens in a new tab, university researcher at HSSHOpens in a new tab, University of Helsinki

You can contact the organisers via email: dhh-hackathon@helsinki.fi.

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) presents Digital Humanities on the Edge. To kickstart 2026, we bring together four speakers to examine topics core to the future directions of DH: Infrastructure, Surveillance, Platforms, and Artificial Intelligence. The panel will consider how these four domains are reshaping not only DH tools, but also the ethical and political conditions under which DH work now takes place. At a moment of considerable disciplinary inflection, aaDH invites you to a discussion on the edge – of methods, histories, theories, and time.

Register via Humanitix

Speakers:

• Professor James Smithies
• Dr Tyne Daile Sumner
• Dr Alex Shermon
• Dr Leah Henrickson

Moderated by Associate Professor Tully Barnett

Register via Humanitix

We’re delighted to announce that the registration for the Spring 2026 series of Friday Frontiers is now open. The Friday Frontiers webinars allow researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from across the broad DARIAH community, and now beyond, to learn about current research, best practice and social impact, and different tools and methods in digital humanities scholarly practice.

The webinar sessions are all free to attend, but registration is required.  Presentations are all recorded and published at a later date on DARIAH-Campus. 

The details of the upcoming talks, along with their registration links are below:

Friday 6th March 2026, 11.30am CET

Title: “Can this be done?” New research tools for studying human interaction 

Speakers: Stefan Lindgren & Carolina Larsson, Lund University

Registration: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/OTW1rrYUQpSE9cb2GLauig

This presentation aims to demonstrate a new workflow for using motion capture to study human movement and interaction. The workflow arose from a collaboration with Riksteatern Crea, a theatre group in Sweden that creates stage productions in sign language designed for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing audiences alike. They asked whether it is possible to transfer the complex movements of a sign-language performer to a digital avatar that could be projected onto a stage and interact in real time with both the audience and live actors. The answer was yes. Here we outline the development of a simplified, more efficient workflow for researchers studying human interaction through body movement and gesture using motion capture devices of different kinds and a free game developing software called Unreal Engine.

About the speakers:

Stefan Lindgren

Stefan Lindgren is a research engineer at Lund University Humanities lab, a multiuser research infrastructure that provides tools and knowledge to conduct research about human behavior, communication, cognition and culture. He is acting technical manager for the lab and has a background in computer technology with a special interest in 3d-data and 3d-visualisations. He has been involved in a large number of research projects helping out with 3d-documenation all over the world. His expertise includes 3d-scanning, photogrammetry, motion capture and 3d-visualisations.

Carolina Larsson

Carolina Larsson is a systems developer at Lund University Humanities lab, a multiuser research infrastructure that provides tools and knowledge to conduct research about human behavior, communication, cognition and culture. Carolina is an expert in 3d-modelling and is proficient in Blender, a 3d-software that covers most aspects of 3d-modelling. She has a solid experience in working with and manipulating 3d-data from any kind of 3d-acquisition.  She has been working with 3d-documentation, motion capture and animations in research projects in areas such as medicine, archaeology, linguistics, historical reconstructions and museology. 

Friday 10th April 2026, 11.30am CEST

Title: Mytholudics: Games and Myth

Speakers: Dom Ford, University of Bergen

Registration: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/829zNVouQZKUG0zr7wQmpA

Abstract

Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and folklore. Myth is understood not as an object or a kind of story, but as a way of expressing meaning, a way in which we produce a model for understanding the world and things in it. This talk lays out this approach and how it can help you analyse and conceptualise gameworlds. The framework helps to see games and their worlds in the whole. Stories, gameplay, systems, rules, spatial configurations and art styles can all be considered together as contributing to the meaning of the game.

About the speaker:

Dom Ford is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, as part of the LEAD AI programme. His current project looks at nonplayer characters in games with AI-generated dialogue, how players respond to the use of this technology and how this use may challenge ideas in the philosophy of fiction like intentionality. He is also an editor for Eludamos. Previously he was a postdoc at the University of Bremen, part of the Media and Religion lab in the ZeMKI Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, where he was also the managing editor for gamevironments.

His first book, Mytholudics: Games and Myth, proposes a method for analysing games both as conduits of mythologies within society and as mythological structures in themselves. It’s out now and published by De Gruyter.

He wrote his PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Center for Digital Play between 2019 and 2022, supervised by Hans-Joachim Backe.

Friday 8th May 2026, 11.30am CEST

Title: Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice

Speakers: Monika Barget (University of Maastricht), Jenny Bergenmar (University of Gothenburg), & Susan Schreibman (University of Maastricht)

Registration: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/1Rib0DoaQaKSYM8nwOvOiw

Abstract

In April 2025 Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice was published by The University of Illinois Press. It is an edited collection (which is available open access and can be downloaded here) divided into three main sections: Readings, Infrastructures and Pedagogies. The thread that runs through this collection is a theorisation of feminist DH practice as sites of possibility for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge production through new modes and processes of meaning making. Each chapter also reflects on what it means to be a feminist and a technologist through definitions of feminisms that are brought into conversation with DH scholarship. Feminist DH practices are presented as sites of possibility for exploring, exposing, and revaluing marginalized forms of knowledge production by enacting new modes and processes of meaning making. An overriding focus of the collection is to demonstrate how feminist lenses attuned to issues of intersectionality and gender can uncover structural inequities and present opportunities for social and intellectual change.

This talk will have a three-part focus. The first part will reflect on the collection as a whole, and how it intersects with current feminist thought and DH practice. The second part will explore the Readings section through the chapter Feminist DH: A Historical Perspective Excavating the Lives of Women of the Past by Monika Barget and Susan Schreibman which explores how the Irish digital humanities project Letters 1916–1923 adopted a feminist approach to surface marginalized women’s voices in a heterogeneous historical collection of letters dominated by male voices. The third part will focus on Jenny Bergenmar’s co-authored chapter Infrastructures for Diversity: Feminist and Queer Interventions in Nordic Digital Humanities from the Infrastructures Section, which explores how DH infrastructures in institutional frameworks can make space for feminist, queer, and activist perspectives, methods, and collaborations.

About the speakers:

Monika Barget is an early modern historian and digital humanist specializing in the political history of the eighteenth century, visual cultures, and spatial history. From 2017 to 2018, she contributed to the Letters 1916–1923 and Ignite projects at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Following postdoctoral work in Mainz, she joined the History Department of Maastricht University as an assistant professor in August 2021.

Jenny Bergenmar is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a literary history scholar who has previously worked with digital scholarly editing and archival materials through digitization and crowdsourcing. She is currently principal investigator of the research infrastructure project QUEERLIT database: Metadata Development and Searchability for LGBTQI Literary Heritage (2021–2023).

Susan Schreibman is a professor of digital arts and culture at Maastricht University and a Co-Director of DARIAH. Her current research projects include: PURE3D2.0 and Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge.

The SSH Open Marketplace Editorial Board is happy to invite you to a series of 8 hands-on workshops to strengthen FAIR and digital research skills.

Click here to see the flyer for the events. | Save the dates and register here!

The Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.

The Marketplace highlights and showcases solutions and research practices for every step of the SSH research data life cycle.

Training Series Learning objectives 

1. Understand Open Science, FAIR and CARE principles in practice
   Participants will be able to explain the Open Science paradigm and the FAIR and CARE principles, and assess their implications for responsible research data management across the full data lifecycle in the arts and humanities, social sciences, language sciences, and GLAM-related research.
2. Navigate and critically use the SSH Open Marketplace
   Participants will be able to confidently navigate the SSH Open Marketplace to discover, evaluate, and select relevant tools, services, datasets, workflows, and training materials for their research needs.
3. Integrate digital resources into research workflows
   Participants will be able to incorporate SSH Open Marketplace resources into discipline-specific research workflows, enhancing transparency, reproducibility, and efficiency in arts and humanities, social sciences, language sciences, and GLAM-related research.
4. Contribute to and curate resources
   Participants will be able to contribute their own communities’ high-quality resources to the SSH Open Marketplace by applying editorial guidelines, metadata standards, and best practices for documentation, interoperability, and reuse, as well as reuse Marketplace resources to support reproducible and transparent research practices.
5. Apply domain-specific standards, resources and research practices
   Participants will be able to document, share, and reuse domain-specific research workflows, data, and tools within arts and humanities (DARIAH), social sciences (CESSDA), language sciences (CLARIN), cultural heritage contexts, thereby fostering interoperability, FAIR compliance, and sustainable knowledge exchange within national and European research infrastructures
6. Leverage the SSH Open Marketplace for community-specific applications
   Participants will be able to design and implement customized application scenarios by utilizing the SSH Open Marketplace to create, curate, and disseminate tailored resource lists or complex catalogs that meet the specific needs and standards of their respective research communities.

Overview of sessions and learning objectives per session

FAIR-by-design learning materials

The training series are conceptualised following the FAIR-by-design methodology developed in skills4EOSC (Filiposka et al. 2024), which consists in taking a systematic approach for conceptualizing each training session, e.g. defining the target audience, the learning objectives and the means to achieve them in each training session, publishing the materials and guides about how to use them, among others. FAIR learning materials enable the reuse of the materials both by learners and by trainers.

Target audience

The workshop series is aimed at a broad audience with links to the social sciences and humanities – from beginners to experienced researchers and practitioners who want to contribute their perspectives or benefit from the experiences of others.

More about the SSH Open Marketplace

The SSH Open Marketplace is:

• a discovery portal, to foster serendipity in digital methods
• an aggregator of useful and well curated resources
• a catalogue, contextualising resources
• an entry point in the EOSC for the Social Sciences and Humanities researchers

The SSH Open Marketplace is not:

• a repository. Nothing is hosted in the SSH Open Marketplace. Workflow content type can be hosted, but this is an exception.
• a data catalogue. The goal is not to collect all the SSH datasets, but selected datasets are indexed to support the contextualisation (dataset mentioned in a publication or used in a training material for example).
• a commercial Marketplace. There is nothing to sell in the SSH Open Marketplace. Commercial software/services can be referenced

The DARIAH Annual Event 2026 will take place on May 26th to May 29th in Rome, Italy. Our host for this year’s event is CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. May 26th will be a day for DARIAH internal meetings, followed by the main conference on May 27th to May 29th.

This year’s event will explore the topic of Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement.

Venue

Università degli Studi Roma Tre – Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Via Ostiense, 234, 00146 Roma RM
More information on how to reach the venue and a list of suggested hotels will be published on the annual event website soon.

Call for Papers

The theme of DARIAH’s 2026 Annual Event is to explore digitally-enabled research through a public and participatory lens, focusing on who our research is for, what are its social and public benefits, and how research can serve to create new dialogues within the public sphere. We seek to foster exchanges on how digital infrastructures, networks and collaborative methods can enable and sustain forms of scholarship that are open, flexible and socially responsive. A way to frame this is through the concept of hybridity: an intermingling of ‘disciplines, technological and cultural practices’ which embed within them the goal of connectivity. This may be connectivity of the university or memory institutions with society through collaborative and joint engagements, or it might be providing alternative spaces for/where people can connect and interact through a hybrid network of physical and technology-mediated encounters to co-construct knowledge.’

Whether through scholarly reflections, concrete case studies, theoretical contributions, or policy considerations, this year we seek to explore how digital, social and institutional infrastructures can support engaged research, and nurture generosity, participation and shared creativity in the digital arts and humanities.

We welcome contributions on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:

• Infrastructures of engagement: designing open, inclusive, collaborative, and sustainable platforms
• New models of collaboration across academia, memory institutions, and society
• Pedagogies of engagement and public-facing (digital) humanities education
• Mapping engagement: Evaluating and evidencing public value and impact in digital research
• Preservation, stewardship, and resilience in digital knowledge infrastructures
• Co-creation, citizen science, public and participatory humanities, and community-driven, engaged scholarship
• Policy and governance frameworks for sustaining participatory infrastructures
• Creative and artistic practices as forms of public engagement and dialogue
• The role of digital archives and participatory practices in shaping collective memory and identity
• Ethical and sustainable approaches to participatory digital-enabled  research
• Implementing CARE: Designing digital infrastructures that foster trust, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
• Intercultural and transnational perspectives on public digital humanities
• Research infrastructure as critical Infrastructure – strategies to build resilient infrastructure for engagement and public good
• Policy and governance frameworks for sustaining participatory infrastructures

Keynote speaker

We are happy to announce that Andreas Fickers, director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), 3rd Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Luxembourg and head of its Digital History Lab, will give a keynote speech on “Multimodality as a means for multivocality? Transmedia storytelling and the challenges of shared authority in digital public humanities” at the DARIAH Annual Event 2026.

Important dates

(Extended) Deadline for Call for Papers: December 22, 2025 January 8, 2026
Registration opens: February 15, 2026
Notification of acceptance: Late February, 2026

Visit the Annual Event website for more information on the event.

DARIAH-EU is proud to announce a new initiative titled “DARIAH Beyond Europe”, a curated series of online presentations aimed at highlighting the work of our valued extra-European Cooperating Partners and fostering new synergies within the DARIAH community. The series will take place throughout the academic year 2025-2026, with each session dedicated to a current extra-European Cooperating Partner. 

DARIAH Beyond Europe: Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Thursday, October 30 at 14:00-15:30 CET

Our first session, highlighting our longstanding partnership with the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University, will be held on October 30th from 14:00 Central European Time (9:00 Eastern Daylight Savings Time). It will be presented by the Center’s Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Ermolaev and Dr. Bryan Winston, Digital Scholarship expert at the Princeton University Library. The CDH has been a DARIAH Cooperating Partner since January 2021, and since 2023 has been co-organising a series of summer workshops with DARIAH-EU and Athens University of Economics and Business.

Sessions will last 90 minutes, with time for an introduction from DARIAH, a presentation from our Cooperating Partner, followed by discussion and questions. The Cooperating Partner will have the opportunity to introduce their institution and research activities, particularly its work in the field of digital arts and humanities, and lay out how they are already collaborating, or hope to collaborate more deeply, with DARIAH members and stakeholders. Future sessions are in the process of being scheduled and will be announced in the coming weeks. 

The goal of the “DARIAH Beyond Europe” series is to provide a platform for mutual exchange and to enhance the visibility and integration of our non-European collaborators within the broader DARIAH family.

Please register to join our meeting and learn more about our extra-European Partners, and how DARIAH can help build meaningful scientific collaboration across borders!

We’re delighted to announce that the registration for the Autumn 2025 series of Friday Frontiers is now open. The Friday Frontiers webinars allow researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from across the broad DARIAH community, and now beyond, to learn about current research, best practice and social impact, and different tools and methods in digital humanities scholarly practice.

The webinar sessions are all free to attend, but registration is required.  Presentations are all recorded and published at a later date on DARIAH-Campus. 

The details of the upcoming talks, along with their registration links are below:

Friday 3rd October 2025, 10.30am WEST / 11.30am CEST / 12.30pm EEST

Title: Fostering Data Sharing in the Humanities with Open-source software: archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal for Spatial and Statistical Exploration of Archaeological Data 

Speakers: Sébastien Plutniak, (CNRS, CITERES Lab., Tours, France), Élisa Caron-Laviolette (UMR 8068 TEMPS, Nanterre, France)

Registration details: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/9USkeTqXRweUn45I_IG1SQ

Abstract

 Incentives and advocacy of open science principles have spread for more than two decades in the social sciences and humanities. Although there have been obvious improvements during this period, the current situation is far from satisfying. In archaeology, for example, despite the long-standing interest in this field for database-systems, recent literature highlights several barriers to the availability of field data: 1) the absence of user-friendly tools, 2) a lack of data management training, 3) limited time to prepare data for publication, and 4) insufficient recognition of data publishing efforts. To address these issues, the “archeoViz” application offers a solution as an open-source stand-alone application for visualising and statistically exploring spatialised archaeological data. It is complemented by the “archeoViz Portal”, an interactive catalogue of “archeoViz” use-cases (https://analytics.huma-num.fr/archeoviz/home). Ultimately, the “archeoViz” ecosystem facilitates data sharing and the visual restitution of archaeological findings, benefiting scientists and the general public alike. 

In this presentation, taking archaeology as a case study, the underlying principles of the “archeoViz” ecosystem will be presented and illustrated, to fuel a more general discussion about the advocacy of open science principles in the social sciences and humanities. 

About the speakers

 Sébastien Plutniak (PhD in sociology, Master in archaeology) is a full-time research scientist at the CITERES lab (Tours, France) and a former member of the French School in Rome. His research revolves around computational methods in the humanities and the social sciences, which he investigates: 1) in a sociohistorical perspective, 2) in a practical way, developing methods and software tools for archaeological research. 

Élisa Caron-Laviolette is a postdoctoral researcher in archaeology at the TEMPS lab (Nanterre, France), specialising in the spatial analysis of prehistoric domestic spaces. Her work combines field recording, GIS, and other digital and computational tools to investigate the organisation and use of space in hunter-gatherer campsites, with particular attention to material culture such as stone tools. She also engages with comparative perspectives, including occasional studies of sedentary groups. 

Friday 7th November 2025, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET 

Title: AI-Human Synergy: Enhancing Cultural Knowledge Through Ethical and Inclusive use of Large Language Models (LLMs) 

Speaker: Dr. Jenny Kwok, University of Hong Kong 

Registration details: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/BvhAgdWHTh2eA0xODMpVnQ 

Abstract

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), offer exciting possibilities for digital humanities research, specifically within computational literary studies. However, integrating these technologies responsibly and inclusively remains a critical challenge. This seminar introduces projects on Irish literature where the implementation of technical methods and discussions, in particular Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI workflow, can expand the scope of literary historiography and enhance close reading by introducing a machine-human synergy. 

The talk will detail how RAG can contribute to existing trauma literature theories, reshape literary historiography, and engage in the discussion of digital hermeneutics by interacting with archival information. By examining poetry from Northern Ireland’s Troubles, this session also explores how LLMs enhance rather than replace traditional close reading methods, informed by Josephine Miles’ early quantitative literary critical approaches. 

Last but not least, central to this exploration is the ethical dimension of AI, notably in relation to indigenous languages and cultures. Using examples from Indigenous Gaelic languages, the presentation highlights critical considerations including epistemological diversity in AI training, preserving endangered languages, and respecting data sovereignty. 

About the speaker

Dr. Jenny Kwok is Research Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong, where she also serves as the Lab Coordinator of the Arts Technology Lab. Dr. Kwok’s research advances AI workflows for literary analysis, focusing on Irish conflict literature. She develops retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to contextualise the ambiguity of Troubles-era poetry within historical archives, and fine-tunes LLMs for semantic analysis of Irish literary corpuses. Her methods prioritise sociopolitical sensitivity and literary nuances, countering AI’s tendency to flatten contested narratives. 

Her forthcoming work proposes frameworks for democratising AI in the humanities, emphasising explainable AI (XAI) tools. This aligns with her reinterpretation of pre-digital methodologies (e.g., Josephine Miles’ concordance work) as blueprints for hybrid human-machine interpretation. 

Dr. Kwok holds fellowship at the Cambridge Digital Humanities (2025) and is Gale Scholar Asia Pacific, Digital Humanities Oxford (2026). 

Friday 5th December 2025, 10.30 WET / 11.30 CET / 12.30 EET 

Title: Building corpora of digital early music editions: challenges and opportunities. 

Speakers: Esperanza Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Frans Wiering (Utrecht University), David Lewis (University of Oxford), Anna Plaksin (Paderborn University). 

Registration details: https://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/oCEylbMgSPW4yMEF5qezCw 

Abstract 

This presentation shows results from the project CORSICA (Creation of Early Music Corpora). This initiative, growing from the COST action EarlyMuse, is directed by Frans Wiering (Universiteit Utrecht), with the participation of researchers from Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Austria, and Sweden. The project sprang from the need to create a large corpus of early music data, coherently encoded and curated data that could be used for computer analysis, facilitating big-data studies. Hence, the research aims to improve the number of available corpora of Renaissance music by devising protocols to create collections of digital editions and, equally important, to facilitate the reuse of a sizable number of editions produced by a myriad of “citizen scientists” without much systematisation. 

About the speakers 

Esperanza Rodríguez is a “Ramón y Cajal” researcher at the Music Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She received a PhD at The University of Manchester (2010). Since then, she has worked at research institutions in the UK, Portugal, and France. Primarily a cultural musicologist specialising in Renaissance music, she has added an interest in digital musicology, especially in the field of musical analysis (CRIM-Project) and the recreation and dissemination of musical heritage (project ‘Experiencing Historical Soundscapes: the Royal Entries of Emperor Charles V in Iberian Cities’). 

Frans Wiering is an Associate Professor at the Music Information Computing group of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University (Netherlands). He received a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 1995 for his dissertation “The Language of the Modes” on the richness and variety of modality in 16th- and 17th-century music. The three main areas of his current research are music information retrieval, computational musicology, and interactive technologies, which he combines in his ongoing work on the use and acceptance of new technologies in musicological research. He is the founder of the Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum, a corpus of online music treatises by Gioseffo Zarlino and his contemporaries (https://tmiweb.science.uu.nl/). He co-chairs the International Musicological Society’s Study Group on Digital Musicology. 

David Lewis is a researcher at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre in Oxford and Lecturer in Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he teaches Digital Humanities. He studied historical musicology at King’s College London and has since worked on a wide range of digital musicology and digital humanities projects, including lute tablatures, medieval and early modern music treatises, arrangements of concert works for domestic settings, and composer work catalogues. 

Anna Plaksin is currently a professor of Digital Methods in Music and Media Editing at KreativInstitut.OWL (Paderborn University). After studying musicology, media education, and philosophy in Mainz (Germany), was awarded her PhD in 2020 by the Technical University of Darmstadt for her dissertation “Models for the computational analysis of mensural music traditions. Empirical text studies in the context of phylogenetic methods”. She worked previously on the research projects “Interpreting the Mensural Notation of Music” (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University), “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae” (Max Weber Foundation, Bonn), and “Virtual Research Infrastructure for the Humanities” (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). Her research focuses on music encoding, corpus building, the development of software tools for interactive music scores, and the development of analytical methods for musical corpora. 

Call for Papers: 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference
Digital Humanities & Heritage
Theme: Rethinking Heritage across STEM, Humanities, and Arts
Date: 22–24 October 2025
Location: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek – Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek and Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 5th DARIAH-HR International Conference Digital Humanities & Heritage, which will take place from 22 to 24 October 2025 in Osijek, Croatia.

Organisers:

Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research / DARIAH-HR,
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek – Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek and Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek

The aim of the conference is to foster collaboration across science, technology, the humanities, and the arts, and to create space for critical reflection on digital technologies in the context of cultural heritage, research, and artistic practice.

Main thematic areas include:

· STEM + Humanities: New Interdisciplinary Solutions
· Creative Synergies: Art and Technology
· Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
· Cultural and Creative Industries as a Bridge between Science and Art

For more information about the conference and the submission process, please refer to the full Call for Papers.

How to participate?

We invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation or poster (up to 500 words), accompanied by a short biography (up to 200 words) and a photo, no later than 15 June 2025 via the online form: https://forms.gle/Eyt3N3iy5o9ikiXv6

Authors of selected contributions will be invited to publish in a peer-reviewed conference proceedings volume.

Presentations and posters will be delivered on-site only.

Participation in the conference is free of charge.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2025
Notification of acceptance: 27 June 2025

Submit your abstract and join us in Osijek!

This post is republished from the DARIAH-HR website.

Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the award-winning Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2025—an exciting chance to collaborate, innovate and push your own boundaries. Apply and be part of this milestone event!

As a CLARIN and DARIAH summer school, Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH25 is truly international, welcoming applications from all over Europe and beyond! This year we are prepared to sponsor a dozen or more participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (see Practicalities for details). Participation in #DHH25 is free to all accepted participants.

The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. For researchers and students from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems. For people from the humanities and social sciences, it shows what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.
 
For both, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish. Working together, they formulate research questions with respect to particular data sets, develop and apply methods and tools to answer them, and present the work at the end of the hackathon. For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see #DHH24, #DHH23, #DHH22, #DHH21, #DHH19, #DHH18, #DHH17, #DHH16 and #DHH15.

5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities.

Themes

This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following four themes:

• Parliaments and legislation
• Holocaust oral history
• Social media
• Early modern newspapers

Ap­plic­a­tion sched­ule for #DH­H25

13.3.–12.4.2025 Application period
16.4.2025 Applicants informed of acceptance
16.–23.4.2025 Registration to #DHH25 for accepted participants
29.4. & 6.5.2025 Two #DHH25 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions
14.–23.5.2025 #DHH25 hackathon in Helsinki

Please note that we can only accept participants who are able to commit to the full week of intensive work (not just a couple of hours here and there), as well as the preparatory sessions. Thus, if you know that you have other commitments during the hackathon, please consider applying next time when you can make a full commitment.

Venue

Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A (see on map)
University of Helsinki
Finland

Prac­tic­al­it­ies and Timetable

The hackathon will take place between 14.–23.5.2025. The participants are expected to commit to the hackathon for the whole period; work takes place mainly between 10 AM and 5 PM on weekdays (the weekend is free!). In addition, there are two online pre-sessions on Tuesdays 29.4. and 6.5., between 2 – 4 PM UTC+03:00 for orientation, group formation and preparation for the intensive hackathon period. The participants are expected to attend also these pre-sessions. For more details, see the detailed timetable and further information on practicalities (including prerequisites and credits for students, spon­sor­ship of travel and ac­com­mod­a­tion for international participants).

23.5.2025 13:00–16:00, Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5 A, room K226
Public presentations of the projects.
The event will be streamed at https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l5

Or­gan­isa­tion

General organisers:

• Mikko Tolonen, professor in computational history at the University of Helsinki
• Eetu Mäkelä, professor in human sciences – computing interaction at the University of Helsinki
• Jukka Suomela, associate professor in distributed algorithms, logic and complexity at Aalto University
• Jouni Tuominen, university researcher at HSSH, University of Helsinki
   

You can contact the organisers via email: dhh-hackathon@helsinki.fi.

* This post is republished from the #DHH25 web page.