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[1] From: g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: The Digital Conference CALL FOR PAPERS - King's College London, June 2026 (109)
[2] From: Tim Ireland <tireland@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: DPI2025 Updated Schedule now available and registration closes in less than a week! (45)
[3] From: Lise Jaillant <L.Jaillant@lboro.ac.uk>
Subject: 🚀 AI and Government Records: New Blog Post & Presentation Slides from the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop! 🧠📑 (38)
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Date: 2025-07-31 19:20:16+00:00
From: g. tavmen <mail2gunes@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: The Digital Conference CALL FOR PAPERS - King's College London, June 2026
KCL DDH The Digital Conference CALL FOR PAPERS
Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital
(23-26 June 2026)
From the 23rd to 26th June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities
at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring
the evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly shaped
by digital technologies. Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Centre
for Computing Humanities officially becoming a department of KCL, and
15th anniversary of being renamed as Department of Digital Humanities in
2011, we welcome scholars from around the world to critically reflect on
what ‘digital’ entails in today’s world.
Digital technologies have transformed the ways we live, work, create,
and connect. From online grassroots movements to open-source tools, from
digital archives to experimental art and music created with code, the
digital has become a vital part of how we express ourselves, tell
stories, and shape our futures. In our daily lives, the digital enables
new forms of community and care, especially for those historically
excluded from institutional or geographic centres of power.
But these same technologies have also raised urgent questions. There is
a growing concern across various disciplines and communities. Recent
political, environmental and technological developments have shown that
we cannot afford to treat “the digital” as neutral. It is shaped by
geographies, specificities, regulatory environments, sociocultural
contexts, and linguistic hierarchies, which condition how digital
technologies are produced, used, and experienced across the globe. From
the resurgence of extremist ideologies and algorithmic manipulation of
public discourse, to the exploitative dynamics of platform economies and
the environmental costs of large-scale computing, the digital now
permeates nearly every aspect of our lives. Artificial intelligence is
being used against workers, stealing their creative outputs and
triggering a race to the bottom of working conditions. In addition to
the socio-political impact of generative AI models, the deleterious
environmental effects are also becoming increasingly clear.
At the same time, computational and digital methods have enabled new
forms of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and public-facing humanities
research. They are reshaping not only our methodological choices but
also how we conceptualise methods themselves—prompting us to revisit
questions of reliability and reproducibility. These methods offer
powerful tools for analysis, visualisation, preservation, and
dissemination, while also enriching humanities scholarship by scaling up
our analyses and opening up new avenues of inquiry.
Unlike the underlying code, “the digital” is never binary. This is why,
more than ever, we need to come together to discuss and debate its
implications. There is a long tradition of critical research on digital
methods and other issues concerning “the digital” at King’s, dating back
to the early 1970s. The Department of Digital Humanities, established as
the Centre for Computing in the Humanities in 1992, has been a key site
for this work. Today it is home to a wide range of approaches to
developing and applying digital methods in the humanities, as well as to
interrogating the broader social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of
the digital. Building on over fifty years of innovation and critical
inquiry, this event invites scholars, practitioners, and communities to
reflect on the role of Digital Humanities as both a methodological
practice and a lens to understand and shape the digital world.
We invite proposals that explore (but are not limited to) the following
themes:
- Computational humanities and computing culture: computational
history, music computing, geoanalytics, digital classics, computational
linguistics, computational social science, cultural analytics,
computational literary studies
- Creative digital practice and the arts, music and the digital,
arts-based methods
- Design, Interfaces, and Interaction: UX/UI
- Digital ecologies, environmental justice and sustainable digital
futures
- Digital gaming and play
- Digital health, digital care, and transformation of the care industry
- Digital knowledge and epistemologies and critical technical
practices and digital methods
- Digital labour and economies, platform studies
- Digital media
- Digital Research Infrastructures and funding
- Embodiment and identity: the digital and the embodied, digital
childhood & youth
- Global and decolonial digital cultures, digital commons, digital
audiences, creator cultures
- Politics, power, and resistance in the digital age: digital
politics, deplatformisation, the digital university, engaged digital
research.
We welcome contributions from across the humanities and beyond, from
those who use and interrogate digital tools and those who develop them.
We invite proposals for paper presentations (max. 15 mins) and panels
(max. 4 x 15 mins) with a title and an abstract of no longer than 300
words, along with a short biography, no longer than 50 words.
You can submit proposals via THIS FORM until the deadline of 30/09/2025.
We aim to notify acceptance of abstracts by 15.11.2025.
Please note: The conference will be face-to-face only, with career
plenary sessions instead of keynotes (a panel consisting of academics
from every stage). We offer a limited number of conference fee waivers,
as well as limited numbers of partial bursaries for travel and
accommodation. We will provide more information on these and conference
fees after acceptance of abstracts have been sent out.
For any inquiries, please contact thedigitalconference@kcl.ac.uk.
Webpage: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digital-humanities-today-critical-
inquiry-with-and-about-the-digital
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Date: 2025-07-30 18:25:33+00:00
From: Tim Ireland <tireland@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: DPI2025 Updated Schedule now available and registration closes in less than a week!
REGISTRATION CLOSES NEXT TUESDAY AUGUST 5, 2025
Dear all,
The DPI 2025 Steering Committee is pleased to announce that our updated schedule
for the 11th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI)
<https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/about>
Is now available.
The DPI will take place August 12th to 14th, 2025. This year’s events will take
place virtually, via Zoom. Everyone is welcome to attend! Registration is
required and is free of charge. Please register through our
website
<https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/registration>.
Registration closes August 5, 2025.
DPI 2025 Short schedule (no abstract updated July 30,
2025)
<https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/sites/ca.digital-pedagogy-institute/files/uploads/files/2025_dpi_short_schedule_07_30_25.pdf>
DPI 2025 Full Schedule (updated July 30, 2025)
<https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/sites/ca.digital-pedagogy-institute/files/uploads/files/2025_dpi_full_schedule_07_30_25.pdf>
DPI2025 will provide live captioning for our Keynote Speaker sessions. The
concurrent sessions will have Zoom auto-captions with available transcripts. Our
keynote speaker<https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/> is Dr Tingting
Zhu. We have a wide range of sessions scheduled that include presentations,
short and long workshops, and software demos.
Looking forward to “seeing you” in August. Your DPI 2025 Steering Committee:
* Dr. Mohammed Estaiteyeh - Brock University
* Dr. David Hutchison - Brock University
* Timothy Ireland - University of Waterloo
* Cheryl Lepard - University of Toronto Scarborough
* Paulina Rousseau - University of Toronto Scarborough
* Nada Savicevic - Toronto Metropolitan University
* Michelle Schwartz - Toronto Metropolitan University
Tim Ireland (he/him)
Liaison Librarian,
Psychology & Anthropology
University of Waterloo
Attawandaron, Anishnawbe, and Haudenosaunee Territories
Waterloo, On
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Date: 2025-08-01 14:32:57+00:00
From: Lise Jaillant <L.Jaillant@lboro.ac.uk>
Subject: 🚀 AI and Government Records: New Blog Post & Presentation Slides from the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop! 🧠📑
Dear all,
I am excited to share the outcomes of the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop: Government
Records and AI, which brought together leading voices from across archives,
policy, and research to explore how AI is reshaping the landscape of public
records.
📘 Read the blog post summarising key discussions and insights:
👉 https://lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-workshop-report/
📊 Browse the presentation slides:
👉 https://lustre-network.net/event/lustre-glow-workshop-government-records-and-
ai/
Huge thanks to everyone who participated and helped make the workshop such a
success! 💡✨
💬 Keynote Speakers
🎤 Professor Victoria Lemieux – University of British Columbia, Canada
🎤 David Canning MBE – Cabinet Office, UK
🗣️ Invited Speakers
🔹 Dr James Lappin – Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK
🔹 Professor Georgina Cosma – Loughborough University, UK
🔹 Dr Adam Nix – University of Birmingham, UK
🔹 Lizzie Hatfield & Andrew Bonnie – Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK
🔹 Dr Katherine McDonough – Lancaster University, UK
🔹 Mahin Ali – SVGC, UK
Best wishes,
Lise
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Professor Lise Jaillant
School of Social Sciences and Humanities | Loughborough University, UK
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