For many commentators, user-friendly generative AI technologies, such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, herald an onslaught of unreal, informatic simulacra. Media theorist Matthew Kirschenbaum, for example, has predicted a “textpocalypse” in which human-authored texts will be lost in a sea of machine-generated facsimiles. But is the situation really so simple and well-defined, such that we can speak of an inhuman informatic that stands opposite the supposed agency, originality, and critical spirit of human readers and writers?

In Code, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray.

Cross-Cultural Harlem reveals a dynamic of exchange that provokes a rethinking of spaces such as Black Harlem, El Barrio, and Italian Harlem. Cross-cultural encounters among African Americans, West Indians, Puerto Ricans, Jews, and Italians provide a story of multiplicity that challenges the framework of territorial enclaves. Shukla illuminates the historical processes that have shaped the diversity of Harlem, examining the many dimensions of its Blackness—Southern, African, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and more—as well as how white ethnicities have been constructed.

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 they are prepared to sponsor a dozen or more participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (see Practicalities for details).

The conference will feature keynote addresses, presentations, workshops, and digital tool training in support of undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning.

There will be no charghttps://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/e for registration for DPI 2025.

Join in for a lively discussion on Digitising the Colonised Cultural Heritage of Early Christian Egypt with guest speaker Carrie Schroeder

This talk will focus on harnessing digital technologies to enhance access to colonised heritage materials, with a particular emphasis on low-resourced languages. The speaker will examine the technical challenges, collaborative strategies, and labour considerations involved in making these valuable resources more widely available.

DHSI-East 2025 will take place at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia with an aligned event on 9-10 May. Faculty, staff, students, and all interested are welcome.

There will be two concurrent workshops this year: 

"Digital Sustainability and Preservation in Digital Archives Projects,” led by Dr. Constance Crompton (Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, University of Ottawa) and Meghan Landry (ACENET); and

The ADHO organizes and sponsors an annual conference under the leadership of the Conference Coordinating Committee.

Early Bird Registration: Until May 4, 2025
Standard Registration: Begins May 5, 2025
Final Registration Deadline: June 2, 2025

Amid rapid societal and technological transformations and historic elections worldwide, ACH fosters dialogue, spaces, and solidarity on equity and justice across local, transborder, and global contexts. ACH 2025 underscores the importance of addressing societal challenges in the digital humanities and beyond, such as racial and gender discrimination, while also highlighting the ramifications of computing and environmental crises. Join us in navigating diverse political milieus and shaping a virtual conference that is just and inclusive.

The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. 

ISWC2025 will bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry specialists to discuss, advance, and shape the future of semantic technologies. ISWC offers five exciting and fruitful days you don’t want to miss every year!
 

Join the Scholars' Lab & the Digital Humanities Center for an event celebrating the launch of Digital Futures of Graduate Studies, a new edited collection from the University of Minnesota Press that describes itself as a “resource for planning, reimagining, and participating in the digital transformation of graduate study in the humanities.” This roundtable will feature opening provocations and discussions by editor Gabriel Hankins (Clemson University) as well as contributors Alison Booth (UVA English) and Brandon Walsh (UVA Library). Refreshments will be provided.

Join the IHGC's Games Lab for a talk by Rachel Hutchinson!

This talk considers the role of the university library in teaching with videogames, focusing on access and logistics through case studies of class assignments. The talk will examine a range of topics for research and how even short blocks of time in the library can be used effectively for student success in game studies. Examples of faculty and student research include identity studies, colonialism, narrative structures in Japanese media, and player-character identification. 

Prior to Dr. Hashmi's public lecture on March 27th, graduate students with an interest in the digital humanities will have the opportunity to discuss her research and seek advice for emerging scholars.

This event is by invitation as space is limited. Lunch will be provided.

Join the IHGC's Games Lab for a talk by Rachel Hutchinson!

Presented by the IHGC Personhoods Lab, this talk examines how and why Pakistan’s national biometric-based identification regime came to use an individual’s blood relations to construct and track uniquely identified persons.

Join the IHGC's Digital Humanities Initiative for a workshop led by Tim Tangherlini!

Join the US Latino Digital Humanities Center for the virtual workshop, “Book, Number, Graph: Getting Started with Text Analysis” with Brandon Walsh, PhD (University of Virginia Library) on March 31, from 10:00–11:30 AM CDT.