Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 39, No. 17.
Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
Hosted by DH-Cologne
www.dhhumanist.org
Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
[1] From: Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.com>
Subject: Event: Comics & AI. Critical Prompts (48)
[2] From: Vrikki, Photini <p.vrikki@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: UCL Information Studies Book Forum - 5th June (49)
[3] From: Christophe Roche <roche.university@gmail.com>
Subject: Conférence d'Ouverture TOTh 2025 - Vincent Nyckees - Nos langues nous trompent-elles ? (102)
[4] From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Second call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African (114)
[5] From: Tim Ireland <tireland@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: CLOSES TOMORROW (Friday May 15) - DPI 2025 Call for Proposals -Extended deadline (78)
[6] From: Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives (ISSA) <issa@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Computational Humanities Research Group, Department of Digital Humanities at King's: Spring 2024 Seminars (38)
[7] From: clarisse bardiot <clarisse.bardiot@univ-rennes2.fr>
Subject: Launch of Arvest – A Web Application for Interpreting Digital Cultural Heritage (42)
--[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 2025-05-20 10:49:32+00:00
From: Ernesto Priego <efpriego@gmail.com>
Subject: Event: Comics & AI. Critical Prompts
Dear all,
We cordially invite you to "Comics & AI: Critical Prompts", a one-day
multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and
creativity.
Proceedings will take place in person on Thursday 4 September 2025,
10am-6pm at City St George’s, University of London, Northampton Square
(Clerkenwell Campus), London, UK.
We are calling scholars, technologists, artists, writers, designers, and
practitioners to propose 20-minute papers, discussion panels, and artist’s
demos.
Abstracts (200 words) + bios (100 words) due: 10 July 2025
Full call for papers and details here
<https://comicsandai.org/call-for-papers-2025/>
Should folk prefer a PDF, it can be downloaded from
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29069522.v1
Accepted scholarly presentations will be considered for inclusion in an
academic collected edition.
We are hoping for a packed programme engaging with creative, technical,
theoretical, and practical questions around generative AI, including tools
like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL·E; copyright and law;
ethics, bias, and environmental concerns; as well as style, creativity, and
user experience.
Registration fee:
- £15 (academics/professionals)
- £5 (students/unwaged).
Registration deadline: 4 August 2025
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to rethink comics and AI with a
multidisciplinary community!
All the best,
Ernesto Priego
https://comicsandai.org/ <https://comicsandai.org/>
The City St George’s Interaction Lab and The Centre for Human-Computer
Interaction Design, City St George’s, University of London
--[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 2025-05-20 09:10:00+00:00
From: Vrikki, Photini <p.vrikki@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: UCL Information Studies Book Forum - 5th June
Dear all,
We’re pleased to invite you to the upcoming Information Studies Book Forum,
organised by the Department of Information Studies at UCL.
Please find details and the Eventbrite registration link below.
All the best,
Photini
Information Studies Book Forum
Please Register through Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/information-
studies-book-forum-tickets-1363395706259> to attend
The UCL Department of Information Studies (DIS) is a leader in interdisciplinary
and innovative research across Library, Archives and Record Management,
Publishing, Information Science, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities.
Join this event to discuss with our unique coalition of scholars their recent
achievements and book projects, and potential collaborations in common areas of
interest. The event will begin with a keynote from Professor Angus Philipps. It
will include panel discussions, Q&As, talks and presentations by DIS scholars,
publishers, research students, and a networking session. The talks are organised
in four themes:
· Communicating Information Studies through Books
· Pioneering Women in the information Professions
· Publishing Popular Books in Digital Humanities
Event Details:
🗓 Date: 5th June 2025
🕙 Time: 09:30 - 16:00
📍 Location: UCL IOE, Bedford Way (20), 103 - Jeffery Hall
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/information-studies-book-forum-
tickets-1363395706259
Please arrive from 9.30am for registration. Tea, coffee, pastries and lunch will
be available in the Jeffery Hall foyer.
Take this opportunity to connect, discuss, and share ideas with fellow
researchers, publishers, and academics. Whether you're a student, professional,
or simply passionate about the world of information studies, this forum offers
valuable insights and networking opportunities.
Dr Photini Vrikki (she/her)
Lecturer in Digital Methods in the Humanities
Department of Information Studies | Foster Court
University College London | Gower Street | WC1E 6BT
--[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 2025-05-19 13:36:22+00:00
From: Christophe Roche <roche.university@gmail.com>
Subject: Conférence d'Ouverture TOTh 2025 - Vincent Nyckees - Nos langues nous trompent-elles ?
19ème Conférence Internationale TOTh 2025 – en présentiel et à distance
TOTh 2025 - Terminologie & Ontologie: Théories et applications
Université Savoie Mont Blanc (France)
Conférence : 5 & 6 juin 2025
http://toth.fr.condillac.org/
Programme :
http://toth.fr.condillac.org/wp-
content/uploads/2025/04/TOTh_2025_Program_Francais.pdf
CONFÉRENCE D'OUVERTURE : https://toth.condillac.org/opening-talk
Titre : « Nos langues nous trompent-elles ? Du topos de l’imperfection
des langues aux concepts de « travail de langue » et de «
synchronisation » »
Vincent Nyckees
Professeur émérite de linguistique, Université Paris Cité & UMR 7597 «
Histoire des théories linguistiques » (France)
Résumé : Depuis les origines de la réflexion occidentale sur le
langage, les langues ont été très souvent dénoncées comme imparfaites,
voire comme trompeuses, au regard de la pensée humaine et des exigences
logiques élémentaires. Paradoxalement, puisque, en tant que
scientifiques, ils entendent se situer au-delà de tout jugement de
valeur sur leur objet, les linguistes réactivent de temps à autre ce
topos de la non fiabilité des langues, quoique sur un mode atténué et
sans en avoir une claire conscience, lorsqu’ils opposent langue et
connaissance et prétendent illustrer les discordances entre ces deux
ordres. Il est vrai qu’ils ne font par là que s’inscrire dans une
tendance ancienne de leur discipline, puisque, dans leur souci
d’affirmer la spécificité des systèmes linguistiques, nombre de
linguistes, depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, ont jugé nécessaire de les
affranchir de toute obligation de conformité avec les contenus de la
connaissance positive, celles de la science en particulier.
Parmi les différentes formes de ce que l’on pourra appeler le
/discordantisme/, je m’attacherai essentiellement dans cette conférence
au /discordantisme épistémique/, selon lequel la langue ou les langues
serai(en)t porteuse(s) /en tant que telle(s)/ de représentations
s’écartant des connaissances positives ou, à tout le moins, s’accordant
mal avec celles-ci. Mon objectif ne sera pas de retourner purement et
simplement les termes du débat en démontrant qu’en réalité les
représentations collectives dont seraient porteuses les langues
s’accorderaient avec la connaissance rationnelle. Je tenterai plutôt de
montrer que, si elle peut trouver une justification pratique au regard
des impératifs spécifiques des formalismes logiques, cette opposition –
ordinaire en linguistique, en logique et en philosophie – entre un ordre
des représentations portées par les langues et un ordre de la
connaissance rationnelle procède d’une méprise profonde sur le mode
d’existence des compétences linguistiques et des compétences
épistémiques et que, si on la replace à sa juste échelle, c’est-à-dire à
l’échelle individuelle, la question du rapport entre langue et
connaissance se présente sous un tout autre jour. Force sera ainsi de
constater qu’en réalité une /langue/ n’est jamais ni mieux ni moins bien
faite que la pensée des individus qui la parlent.
J’appuierai ma démonstration sur l’examen de deux textes représentatifs
du discordantisme épistémique, l’un dû à Benveniste (manuscrit cité par
Laplantine, 2020, p. 345-347), l’autre à Copley & Roy (2023). Les
analyses que je présenterai sont nées des besoins spécifiques de la
théorie « médiationniste » de la signification que je développe depuis
les années 2000, et c’est cette approche qui me permettra de reprendre
sur d’autres bases la question des relations entre langue et
connaissance. Il conviendra en particulier de distinguer nettement la
/langue empirique/ – le français d’aujourd’hui par exemple, au sens
ordinaire de cette expression – de ce que l’on peut appeler la /langue
individuelle/, c’est-à-dire la synthèse de la langue de son ou, plutôt,
de ses groupes que chaque sujet doit nécessairement élaborer à son
propre usage tout au long de sa vie aux fins de ses interactions avec
autrui et de sa compréhension du monde. Lieu de nos opérations
cognitives les plus structurées, la /langue individuelle/ apparaît ainsi
comme le plan même sur lequel, dès son plus jeune âge, chacun organise
son monde cognitif et se trouve de ce fait obligé de /mettre en
cohérence/ (de « synchroniser »), dans la mesure de ses moyens et de ses
besoins, sa propre compréhension (toujours lacunaire) de la langue de
son groupe avec sa propre expérience du monde (elle-même profondément
sémiotisée).
Biographie : Vincent Nyckees (vincent.nyckees@u-paris.fr) est
professeur émérite de linguistique à l’Université Paris Cité et membre
du laboratoire HTL (UMR 7597). Depuis La sémantique (Belin, 1998), ses
travaux s’inscrivent pour la plupart dans le cadre d’une approche
médiationniste de la signification qu’il a développée afin de résoudre
certains problèmes majeurs de théorie sémantique (sur cette approche,
cf. notamment « Sémantique médiationniste », dans A. Biglari & D. Ducard
(dirs.), 2022 et « Comprendre l’autre comme soi-même ? Pour un modèle
médiationniste de l’intercompréhension linguistique », Signifiances
(Signifying), 5(1), 2021). Vincent Nyckees s’est intéressé en
particulier aux relations entre langage et cognition, au changement
sémantique, à la catégorisation sémantique, au sens figuré et à la
polysémie, à la subjectivité langagière, à l’implicite, à
l’intercompréhension linguistique, à la sémantique cognitive et au
saussurisme. Il partage actuellement ses recherches entre des travaux
d’histoire des théories de la signification linguistique et la
préparation d’un ouvrage rassemblant et illustrant les propositions
médiationnistes.
===========
Prof Christophe Roche
University of Crete (Greece) - ERA Chair Holder
University Savoie Mont Blanc (France) - Emeritus
https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/
http://christophe-roche.fr/
roche.university@gmail.com
--[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 2025-05-19 13:28:24+00:00
From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Second call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African
Second call for papers Sixth Workshop on Resources for African
Indigenous Language (RAIL)
Co-located with DHASA 2025
https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/
RAIL Workshop date: 10 November 2025
DHASA Conference dates: 10-14 November 2025
Venue: CSIR International Convention Centre.
The sixth RAIL workshop website: https://sadilar.org/rail-2025/
DHASA website: https://digitalhumanities.org.za/
The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop
will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern
Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention
Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL
workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on
African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages
processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data
collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a
scientific community of practice that focuses on computational
linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the
indigenous languages of Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are
considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share
interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different
from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective,
these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development
of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African
languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that
the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to
African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource
languages across the world. Because these languages share similar
challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to
work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and
learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop has “Language resources in the age of large language
models” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to
properties of African indigenous languages (including related non-
African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are
not limited to) the following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up
to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The
final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one
additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback
can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the DHASA
style sheet which is provided on the Journal of the Digital Humanities
Association of Southern Africa website
(https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/about). Reviewing is
double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not
provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the
amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The
RAIL workshop follows the DHASA submission requirements.
Please submit papers in PDF format (the submission link will be
available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings
linked to the DHASA conference.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 14 July 2025
Date of notification: 16 September 2025
Camera ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025
Workshop: 10 November 2025
DHASA conference: 10 November 2025-14 November 2025
Organising Committee
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
--
Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za
Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
--[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 2025-05-15 19:35:20+00:00
From: Tim Ireland <tireland@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: CLOSES TOMORROW (Friday May 15) - DPI 2025 Call for Proposals -Extended deadline
Dear Colleagues,
DPI2025 will be taking place online August 12th - 14th, 2025.
https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/about
We will be online. There will be no registration fee this year.
https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/about
Our Keynote speaker is Dr. Tingting Zhu. https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-
institute/keynote .
Call for Proposal information.
https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/call-proposals
CfP extended closing date is May 16, 2025.
The Call for Proposals for DPI2025 is now open. At this year’s DPI, our goal is
to continue to create a virtual space that allows participants to explore
diverse approaches to digital pedagogy from a variety of perspectives, including
those of undergraduate/graduate students, faculty, librarians, educational
developers, and technologists.
Our streams for this year’s conference include:
1. Digital Pedagogy and Emerging Technologies: Higher education institutions
are navigating the intersection of pedagogy and emerging technologies. How are
these innovative technologies reshaping teaching and learning experiences? What
are the associated affordances, concerns, and implications?
1. Critical Digital Pedagogy and the Post-Truth society: It is becoming
increasingly difficult to tell what is real and what is true. How can Digital
Pedagogy help instructors and students to navigate issues related to digital
literacy, data ethics, social media influences, etc.? How do we question and
challenge dominant beliefs and practices in the field of Digital Pedagogy?
1. Digital (de)colonialism: How have digital pedagogy techniques and tools
helped instructors and students address anti-racist and decolonization practices
in their curriculum and research? What are the challenges and opportunities? Do
you have any best practices to share?
2. Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Digital Pedagogy: Issues related to
inclusivity and accessibility are at the forefront of Digital Pedagogy. What
barriers have you encountered in your research and practice? How have you
resolved them? What barriers remain? This is an opportunity to reflect on and
share frameworks and best practices that have helped to reduce pedagogical
barriers and integrate digital pedagogy approaches.
3. Sustainability, Renewability, and Environmental Costs in the digital
sphere: Digital pedagogy is not immune to environmental critique. There are
environmental impacts associated with generating the power and equipment needed
to support digital initiatives. How should we reconcile the benefits of digital
pedagogy with its environmental costs? Can digital pedagogy proponents be good
environmental stewards?
Formats
Presentations - 20 minute synchronous sessions presenting papers or
presentations on projects, initiatives, and/or case studies related to one of
the conference streams, with time for Q&A.
Tool demos/workshops - 20 minute demonstrations of innovative or new tools that
you have integrated or are thinking of integrating into your teaching purposes.
Hope to “see” you there!
Your 2025 Steering committee co-chairs:
Paulina Rousseau
paulina.rousseau@utoronto.ca<mailto:paulina.rousseau@utoronto.ca>
Tim Ireland tireland@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:tireland@uwaterloo.ca>
Cheryl Lepard, head of CfP committee
cheryl.lepard@utoronto.ca<mailto:cheryl.lepard@utoronto.ca>
Tim Ireland (he/him)
Liaison Librarian,
Psychology, Anthropology, & The Stratford School of Interaction Design and
Business
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, On
--[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 2025-05-15 11:52:21+00:00
From: Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives (ISSA) <issa@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Computational Humanities Research Group, Department of Digital Humanities at King's: Spring 2024 Seminars
Dear all,
We’re delighted to invite you to the next talk in our Spring 2025 Digital
Humanities Seminar Series:
Wednesday 28 May 2025, 12:00–2:00 PM (BST)
Dr Andrew Gilbert (University of Surrey)
Title: DANTE-AD: Dual-Vision Attention Network for Long-Term Audio Description
📍 Location: WC2R 2LS
Audio Description is a narrated commentary designed to aid vision-impaired
audiences in perceiving key visual elements in a video. While short-form video
understanding has advanced rapidly, maintaining coherent long-term visual
storytelling remains an unresolved challenge.
In this talk, Dr Gilbert will introduce DANTE-AD, a dual-vision Transformer-
based architecture that fuses both frame and scene-level embeddings to improve
contextual understanding across extended video sequences. The presentation will
cover how this model addresses current limitations in video description, its
evaluation across traditional NLP and LLM-based metrics, and the future
direction of AI-assisted audio description.
Dr Andrew Gilbert is an Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the
University of Surrey, where he co-leads the Centre for Creative Arts and
Technologies (C-CATS).
👉 Please register
here<https://www.tickettailor.com/events/digitalhumanitieskcl/1704633> to
attend.
Further details, including the abstract and speaker bio, are available on our
event page<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/series/computational-humanities-
research-group-seminar-series>.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Best regards,
Kirsty Warner
ISSA Project Coordinator
--[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 2025-05-15 10:25:26+00:00
From: clarisse bardiot <clarisse.bardiot@univ-rennes2.fr>
Subject: Launch of Arvest – A Web Application for Interpreting Digital Cultural Heritage
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce the launch of Arvest, a web application designed for
the consultation, annotation, interpretation, and dissemination of digital
traces of cultural heritage (texts, images, videos, and sounds).
Developed at the University of Rennes 2 as part of the ERC project From Stage to
Data, Arvest is intended for researchers in the humanities and social sciences,
archival and documentation professionals, and cultural institutions. The
application allows users to:
explore documents through close or distant reading approaches;
annotate them manually or with the help of artificial intelligence tools;
preserve their original context;
publish and share the outcomes of their research.
Based on IIIF standards and open-source architecture, Arvest offers a secure
workspace suited to both individual and collaborative use. The interface builds
on an extended version of the Mirador viewer, enriched with specific features
(audiovisual annotations, collaborative modes, etc.). Arvest is hosted by Huma-
Num.
To learn more:
Article in the Journal of Digital History
“Arvest: Towards Interpretative Interfaces for Digital Traces”
Read the article <https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/8X2RX68Qavxr>
Upcoming workshops:
IIIF Conference (June 2025): Programme
<https://iiif.io/event/2025/leeds/bof/#120>
DH2025 (July 2025): Programme <https://dh2025.adho.org/browse-the-program-
agenda/.
Access the application: https://arvest.app <https://arvest.app/>
Tutorials: https://arvest.app/fr/learn/tutorials
Source code: https://github.com/ARVEST-APP
Contact: contact@arvest.app <>
We welcome your feedback.
Best regards,
Clarisse Bardiot and Jacob Hart
_______________________________________________
Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted
List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org
Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/
Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php
