We are excited to announce that the 2027 edition of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) conference will be hosted by Umeå University, March 1–5, 2027.
The special theme of DHNB2027 is Human(ities) in the Loop and draws on the concept of “human in the loop”, that highlights the role of humans in the workflow of AI technologies, but broadens the perspective to better include the important role that the humanities play in understanding historical, contemporary technological and societal systems. With this theme, we encourage contributions that explore the role of the humanities and social sciences and place them at the center of technological development, rather than the other way around.
Conference dates: March 1–5, 2027 | Umeå, Sweden
CfP opens: August 21, 2026 | Submission deadline: October 16, 2026 |
The conference is organized by Humlab at Umeå University in collaboration with DIGSUM, Umeå University. For inquiries, please contact: dhnb2027.humlab@umu.se
For submission guidelines and full details:
Visit the DHNB Website: https://dhnb.eu/conferences/dhnb2027/
Read the full CfP here: https://dhnb.eu/conferences/dhnb2027/call-for-papers-dhnb-2027/
We warmly welcome researchers, developers, and institutions across the Nordic and Baltic regions who engage with digital methods in the humanities to join us in Umeå.
This year, Data School, the Data Management & Privacy team, ILS Labs, and several members of ArtLab are moving to Drift 10 in Utrecht, joining the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH), of which they are part.
The process of bringing more CDH teams together at Drift 10 is steadily taking shape. In recent weeks, Data School and the Data Management & Privacy team have begun settling into their new offices. Data School is moving to room 2.01 at Drift 10, while the Data Management & Privacy team will be based in room 3.10. Several members of ArtLab will also have workspaces at Drift 10.
They join the Research Software Lab, Humanities IT, and most of the CDH core team, who are already located at Drift 10.
The ILS Labs are also in the process of relocating to Drift 10. Once their move from Janskerkhof 13 is completed, the basement, ground floor, and first floor of Drift 10 will house two biolabs, two eye-tracking labs, three phonetics/general-purpose labs, an interaction lab, and a head-turn-preference lab.
The CDH is delighted that this development will bring more of its units together under one roof. While collaboration between the teams is already well established, sharing the same location will create even more opportunities for informal exchange and knowledge sharing.
With these moves, a long-held dream of the CDH is becoming a reality: bringing together most of its teams in a single location.
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Do you have a question related to digital humanities? The final Digital Humanities (DH) Walk-in Hour of Spring 2026 will take place on Thursday, 25 June, 2026. These weekly consultation sessions will resume on 17 September.
During the walk-in hour, our digital humanities specialist can advise you on topics such as data analysis using R or Python, creating datasets, the technical component of your research (funding) proposal, finding suitable existing research software, and optimising your self-written code, among others.
All teachers, researchers, staff and students at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University are welcome to drop by. No appointment is needed.
Every Thursday, 14:00 – 15:00.
Final Spring session: 25 June
First Autumn session:17 September
Room 0.32, University Library City Centre, Drift 27, Utrecht.
We look forward to assisting you with your DH needs!
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The Research Software Lab and the Portal Development team welcome developer Evania Fasya to their team. With her background in psychology and human-computer interaction, she brings fresh perspectives to the CDH.
Fasya holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Information Systems and Human-Media Interaction at the University of Indonesia and University of Twente. Through these studies, she gained experience in creating computer systems that support organisations, as well as designing technology that improves interaction between people and digital systems.
Recently, she defended her PhD thesis at the University of Twente, in collaboration with Leiden University. Her research focused on the social effects of behaviors conveyed in social interaction between humans and virtual humans. This research provided experience in experimental research, including data analysis and journal publications.
At the Centre for Digital Humanities, Fasya will work in both the Portal Development team and the Research Software Lab.
She can support you with:
Together with statistical advisor Kirsten Schutter, she can also assist with:
If you have any questions about any of the topics above that Evania can assist with, please contact cdh@uu.nl.
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Gaat jouw hart sneller kloppen van de combinatie van historisch onderzoek en digitalisering? En wil je bijdragen aan transparante verkiezingen? De Kiesraad (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koningsrelaties) zoekt een WO-student die wil meewerken aan de verdere ontwikkeling van de Databank verkiezingsuitslagen.
De Kiesraad ontwikkelt en beheert de Databank Verkiezingsuitslagen, waarmee verkiezingsuitslagen voor iedereen toegankelijk worden gemaakt. Tijdens deze stage ga je ontbrekende uitslagen uit het verleden verzamelen, digitaliseren en toevoegen aan de databank. Daarnaast onderzoek je hoe de databank gebruiksvriendelijker kan worden gemaakt en geef je hierover advies aan de Kiesraad.
De Kiesraad zoekt een WO-student in de laatste fase van de master, bij voorkeur met een achtergrond in Digital Humanities of Data Science. Het betreft een onderzoeksstage van 32 tot 40 uur per week in de tweede helft van 2026. De stagevergoeding bedraagt 800 euro per maand op basis van een 40-urige werkweek. Reageren kan tot en met 30 juni 2026.
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The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) is pleased to present its Autumn 2026 Training Programme. Join us this semester for a series of free workshops and lectures on digital methods, tools, and critical perspectives in the humanities.
We will kick off the Autumn semester on 17 September with a special online lecture by Julian Posada (Yale University) on Platform Extractivism – Data work and the people powering AI. Curated and hosted by Fabian Ferrari.
For anyone looking to create a good-looking thesis, article, or dissertation without spending hours on formatting, Xander Vertegaal returns with his Introduction to LaTeX workshop on 6 October.
We are also delighted to welcome back Hugo Schnack with Machine learning – principles and practices on 14 October. This workshop is now divided into two sessions that can be attended together or separately: an introductory session in the morning and a more in-depth session in the afternoon.
On 22 October, Lotje Siffels (Radboud University) will deliver an online lecture on the timely topic How the presence of Big Tech reshapes values in healthcare. This talk offers an excellent follow-up to this spring’s lecture on digital autonomy at Dutch universities.
Of course, our evergreen workshop Entry-level Python in four days is back on the menu. Hosted by the CDH Research Software Lab and starting on 18 November, it continues to be one of our most popular offerings.
We will conclude the programme on 20 November with a special workshop presented by the UU ArtLab: Capturing objects in 3D – Photogrammetry in heritage research. During this hands-on session, Sjors Nab and Sanne Frequin will guide participants through the process of transforming ordinary images into high-quality digital 3D representations of objects.
All staff members and students of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University (UU) are warmly invited to register for all our events. UU staff from other faculties are also welcome to participate in most activities. Parts of our programme – particularly the lecture series – are open to all who are interested. Please check the event-specific details in the training calendar to see what applies to each activity.
We look forward to welcoming you to one or more of our events!
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We are pleased to introduce three new CDH ambassadors, who will serve as liaisons between the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) and their respective departments. Starting in September 2026, they will join Annette Markham (Department of Media and Culture Studies) to form the new CDH Ambassador team.
With their combined expertise in digital humanities, the ambassador team is well equipped to support staff and students across the Faculty of Humanities with answers, ideas, or opportunities for collaborations. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with them!
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (F&R)
“I am looking forward to acting as a bridge between the F&R department and the CDH, exploring projects that enrich digital competencies and critical reflection on digital humanities and AI. Besides promoting digital humanities approaches in – often interdisciplinary – research, I look forward to addressing workload (‘regeldruk’) by identifying administrative burdens that can be responsibly automated using simple, open-source tools.”
Contact Hein at h.w.a.duijf@uu.nl.
Department of History and Art History (GKG)
“I aim to promote the use of digital humanities methods and tools within GKG, for instance by organising workshops and promoting AI literacy through educational games. My CDH project will address the ‘too much information’ challenge often experienced by historians. My project, related to magic and rituals, will show how a topic can be structured under one digital umbrella, which can greatly support historians in their research.”
Contact Ortal-Paz at o.p.saar@uu.nl.
Department of Languages and Communication (TLC)
“GenAI offers opportunities to better cater language and communication interfaces to both the general public and dedicated target groups – for example through automated text simplification in our in-house readability tool LiNT, or flexible formulations in a voice assistant. As CDH ambassador, I am excited to explore how to support research and education by gathering input, organising workshops and working on the technical infrastructure, with a focus on a secure and effective deployment of genAI.”
Contact Florian at f.a.kunneman@uu.nl.
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DARIAH is seeking a data steward and community manager to be involved in STARDAST, a project funded by the European Commission: “STewardship and Recognition for DAta Science Talent” led by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). The aim of this project is to design and implement a pan-European training ecosystem for data experts. This cross-sectoral programme will support professionals across the full data lifecycle – from stewardship and curation to analysis, AI, ethical and legal implications, and policy integration.
You will coordinate the research and analysis on data stewardship roles and workforce integration across institutions, focusing on identifying essential skills, responsibilities, and existing competence centers. You will contribute to the creation of a career development framework for data professionals working in the Digital Humanities sector in particular.
| Post Status | 100% Fixed-term contract until 31.12.2027 (incl. a 3 months probation period) |
| Location | Remote in Germany or France, with the option of office space in Berlin. |
| Closing date for applications | 12.06.2026 |
| Contract start | 01.09.2026 |
| Salary level | Will be determined based on the candidate’s geographical location and professional experience. In Germany for example, the level 12/13 of the “Tarifvertrag für den Öffentlichen Dienst der Länder 2025” would be used as reference. |
Analysis and process of complex information across institutions & policies
Implement and pilot professional ecosystems
Outreach and stakeholder engagement
Finally, you will help capture and share key findings and best practices through accessible formats such as reports, toolkits, and workshops, ensuring knowledge is widely disseminated to the broader research community.
The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.
DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 24 member countries and numerous cooperating partners.
If you are interested in applying for the position, please send your CV and a short cover letter by email to recruitment-data-steward@dariah.eu by 12.06.2026 at the latest.
For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.
The third call for contributions to Transformations invites researchers, educators, practitioners, and cultural heritage professionals to reflect on the theme of the DARIAH Annual Event 2026, Digital Arts and Humanities with and for Society.
Guest editors of this volume are Susan Schreibman and Edward Pinot Gray, co-chairs of the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 Programme Committee.
In keeping with the DARIAH Annual Event theme, we invite submissions that explore digitally-enabled research through a public and participatory lens. We welcome contributions that provide the theoretical grounding and case studies for research projects that engage public audiences, addressing questions such as: who is digital scholarship for, what are its social and public benefits, and how can research in the digital arts, humanities, and culture foster new forms of dialogue within the public sphere, including both formal and informal education.
We are particularly interested in reflections on how new technologies can create and mediate new forms of connection: between research or memory institutions and society; through collaborative and participatory engagement; or by creating alternative spaces in which people can interact and co-construct knowledge through hybrid networks of physical and technology-mediated encounters. We also invite contributions that focus on pedagogy and teaching practices that provide opportunities for students to engage in real-world projects through collaborative and participatory approaches.
Whether through research papers, data or workflow papers, we seek contributions that explore how digital, social and institutional infrastructures can support engaged research, while nurturing generosity, participation and shared creativity in the digital arts and humanities.
We welcome contributions on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:
When submitting your contribution, you must choose the right volume (vol. 3 ‘Infrastructures of Engagement’) and the appropriate section (research articles, data papers, workflows) corresponding to the type of submission.
transformations@episciences.org
Editorial Board of Transformations: A DARIAH Journal
Toma Tasovac, Editor-in-Chief
Françoise Gouzi, Managing Editor
Anne Baillot, Managing Editor
Megan Black, Managing Editor
Eliza Papaki, Outreach and Communications Officer
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) is an association for cross-border collaboration on digital scholarship within academia and cultural heritage institutions across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. We bring together a wide range of approaches — from interpretive and theoretical work to computational analysis and cultural analytics — within a shared regional community.
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, DHNB is introducing an annual best doctoral dissertation award. We invite our colleagues to nominate outstanding doctoral dissertations that reflect the organisation’s thematic and geographical scope. In addition to the main award, up to three honorary mentions will be granted.
The award committee, appointed by the DHNB Board, will consider all nominated dissertations. Selection will be based on the overall scientific quality of the dissertation and its innovativeness in combining humanities scholarship with digital methods, data, or research topics.
Eligible dissertations are those written in any Nordic or Baltic language, or in English, and defended in the given year. Nominations must be submitted to the DHNB Board no later than 15 December. At the time of nomination, the defence need not yet have taken place, but it must be completed by the end of the year.
The award committee will convene in early January and announce its decision by 15 January. The winning dissertation and any honorary mentions will be recognised at the subsequent DHNB conference in the spring. The recipient of the main award will receive a bursary to attend the conference and will be invited to present their work as an invited speaker in the doctoral consortium there.
We ask the proposals for the award to be submitted via the link below:
DARIAH-Campus Open Education Resources Showcase
Where: DARIAH Annual Event 2026, Rome, Italy
When: Tuesday 26th May from 2-3.30pm
Open to all upon registration!
The DARIAH-EU Community Engagement Working Group and the DARIAH-Campus Editorial Board invite participants to join us during the DARIAH Annual Event in Rome for a DARIAH-Campus Open Education Resource Showcase.
This event will take place on Tuesday 26th May from 2-3.30pm in the Aula Bisconti in the main conference venue.
Please register your intention to attend by completing this form by Friday 22nd May:
This event is targeted at early career researchers, practitioners and those who are currently engaged in training provision as educators (e.g. lecturers, academics, trainers) as well as postgraduate students and lifelong learners.
The session will showcase DARIAH-Campus resources through demonstrations from leading educators, using examples from their own teaching practices. Following the demonstrations a moderated discussion will afford the DARIAH-Campus team the opportunity to gain a deeper insight from the community in how they engage with Open Education Resources (OERs) such as those available on DARIAH-Campus. Potential topics of discussion will include:
Participants in the workshop will leave with a deeper understanding of using DARIAH-Campus as a resource for teaching, training and learning and will also have played an active role in informing and shaping the direction of DARIAH-Campus and the development of training materials in current and future projects (e.g. ATRIUM, ARTEMIS, ECHOES).
If you have any questions please contact Vicky Garnett, DARIAH’s Training and Education Officer and Joan Murphy, Community Engagement WG co-chair.
DARIAH ERIC is seeking a EU Projects & Policy Officer to assist with the day-to-day management of both internal DARIAH projects as well as externally grant-funded ones.
This successful candidate will also play a key role in developing policy, sustainability, and governance documentation, particularly for EU-funded projects in which DARIAH partners. The position holder will support DARIAH’s growth as a European Infrastructure and contribute on its behalf to European projects such as ECHOES, CHIRON and ECHOLOT.
The successful candidate will work in collaborative, international project environments, playing a central role in managing DARIAH projects as well as designing high-quality policy and governance documentation that promotes and sustains network collaboration across a wide European partnership.
The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources. By working with communities of practice, DARIAH brings together individual state-of-the-art digital Arts and Humanities activities and scales their results to a European level. It preserves, provides access to and disseminates research that stems from these collaborations and ensures that best practices, methodological and technical standards are followed.
DARIAH was established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in August 2014. Currently, DARIAH has 24 member countries and numerous cooperating partners.
If you are interested in applying for the position, please send your CV and a short cover letter by email to recruitment@dariah.eu by 29.05.2026 at the latest.
For more information and details on the application procedure, please download the full post description.
DARIAH is delighted to publish the latest Spotlight article #dariahTeach is Expanding its Remit: Teaching and Learning across the Digital Arts and Humanities. This article is part of the DARIAH Spotlight campaign, a monthly series that focuses on digital scholarship within the DARIAH network.
Written by Marianne Ping Huang, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Culture – Comparative Literature, Aarhus University and Monika Barget, Assistant Professor in the History Department, Maastricht University and co-chairs of the #dariahTeach Working Group (WG), this article presents the origins of the #dariahTeach WG, its development since its launch in 2017 and its current plans for expansion.
#dariahTeach has been a DARIAH WG since 2017 with a focus on the #dariahTeach project and platform, which hosts some 30 Open Educational Resources. The guiding principle behind the #dariahTeach platform is to create reusable teaching materials that could easily be integrated into university courses, or could be used by ‘lone learners’, meaning individuals who do not have access to digital humanities expertise. #dariahTeach has since diversified its content beyond the technical to provide courses in areas such as the integration of social justice into digital scholarship and taking a design thinking approach to project design.
The #dariahTeach WG is now expanding its focus beyond the #dariahTeach platform to embrace the wide range of teaching being undertaken by the DARIAH community, from traditional face-to-face teaching, to the development of open educational resources, to workshops, summer schools, and hackathons. The chairs are inviting anyone interested to join them in Rome for the WG meeting organised during the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 to discuss topics such as Research software and coding skills, Accessibility and inclusivity of DH teaching beyond higher education, Artificial intelligence as an opportunity and challenge in DH teaching.
This article is part of DARIAH’s latest outreach campaign, DARIAH Spotlight, which makes research within the DARIAH network more visible. This monthly series will showcase digital scholarship in the humanities, from both DARIAH Working Groups and DH projects within the DARIAH network. Follow this campaign for more Spotlight articles.
The ECHOLOT consortium – “European Cultural Heritage Optimised Linked Open Tools” – is proud to announce the launch of this innovative project, funded by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) under the powers delegated by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme.
ECHOLOT revolutionizes the provision and reuse of high-quality, interoperable Cultural Heritage data with AI-powered enrichment, integrating seamlessly in the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) and empowering the research and creative sectors. Bringing together major initiatives, such as Europeana and the Wikimedia movement, alongside key EU-infrastructure projects, including ECHOES, EOSC, and the Data Space for Cultural Heritage (DS4CH), ECHOLOT contributes innovative, easy-to-use and accessible technical solutions and collaboration models.
The activities and goals of ECHOLOT are based on four main pillars:
ECHOLOT is validated through five real-world case studies, each of which addresses a different cultural heritage-related challenge and demonstrates the project’s impact across the sector.
1. Basque Cultural Heritage Data: Establishing the first comprehensive collection of entity identifiers relevant in Basque cultural heritage and beyond. Enabling the creation, provision and reuse of high-quality, semantically
rich, interoperable cultural data
2. European Literary Bibliography: Transformation and enrichment of multilingual European literary bibliographic data through the use of relevant Linked Open Data resources.
3. Connecting Media Art Collections: Collaborative harmonisation and enrichment of diverse media art collections, connecting previously dispersed artworks and artists.
4. Flemish Fine Arts and Performing Arts Collections: Making the publication of museum data to Wikimedia Commons and Europeana more efficient through a single, integrated workflow, with a particular focus on the Flemish context.
5. Publishing and Round-Tripping GLAM data: Wikimedia Sweden, together with several Swedish GLAM partners, will test the enrichment and multi-output publishing modules of ECHOLOT, especially focusing on workflows for reintegrating (round-tripping) enriched data back into the source databases.
Although the ECHOLOT consortium has only been operational for three months, it has already held two meetings, demonstrating its enthusiasm for shaping the future of cultural heritage data in Europe. The kick-off meeting, which took place online in January, provided an opportunity to review all the work packages and draw up the project’s roadmap for its 36-month duration. The consortium’s second meeting was held in person in Bilbao, Spain, in early March. In addition to addressing all outstanding issues to enable effective work to begin, the meeting was conceived as a requirements gathering workshop co-organised and hosted by the University of the Basque Country. Focusing on gathering input from the case study third-party participants, the workshop included user-centered design activities such as co-designing user personas, user stories and journey maps.
ECHOLOT is a multidisciplinary project bringing together 15 partners from 12 countries who are experts in arts and culture, media studies, information and library science, knowledge engineering, computer science, design and prototyping, management and communication.
DARIAH participates in the project together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW). While OEAW will contribute to the requirements engineering and system design, DARIAH will oversee the evaluation phase ahead of the final release of the ECHOLOT software.
Learn more about ECHOLOT:
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