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[1] From: Btissam Er-Rahmadi <btissam.errahmadi@gmail.com>
Subject: 2nd CFP of the 3rd NORA Workshop @AACL-IJCNLP 2026 (79)
[2] From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Call for hosts DHASA 2027 conference (61)
[3] From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: DH Colloquium From Children's Words to Digital Resources: Studying Language Development in South Africa 15 July 2026 @ 10:00 (SAST) (24)
[4] From: CLAPP, Jeffrey Michael [LCS] <jmclapp@eduhk.hk>
Subject: A Digital Humanities Conference at EdUHK (21-24 January 2026) (56)
[5] From: Ferdaous AFFAN <ferdaous.affan@uni.lu>
Subject: CfP: Beyond Borders. Futures of Digitised Historical Media Collections for Research and Teaching Lausanne 28 & 29 Jan 2027 (266)
[6] From: Lingjia Zhao <L.Zhao6@lboro.ac.uk>
Subject: 🚀 GLOW-Ready Workshops: Getting Government Archives GenAI-Ready – Report, Slides & Recordings (53)
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Date: 2026-07-14 18:22:08+00:00
From: Btissam Er-Rahmadi <btissam.errahmadi@gmail.com>
Subject: 2nd CFP of the 3rd NORA Workshop @AACL-IJCNLP 2026
Call for papers
3rd Workshop on KNOwledge GRaphs & Agentic Systems Interplay (NORA)
10 November 2026, Hengqin, China
Web: https://nora-workshop.github.io/AACL2026/
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/nora-knowledge-graphs-agentic-systems-interplay
In conjunction with AACL-IJCNLP 2026, November 6-10
Workshop Overview
Agents have experienced significant growth in recent years, largely due to
the rapid technological advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs).
Although these agents benefit from LLMs’ advanced generation proficiency,
they still suffer from catastrophic forgetting and a limited context window
size compared to the agents’ needs in terms of contextual information.
Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are a powerful paradigm for structuring and managing
connected pieces of information while unlocking deeper insights than
traditional methods. Their value is immense for tasks that require context,
integration, inter-linking, and reasoning. However, this power comes at the
cost of significant upfront and ongoing investment in construction,
curation, and specialised expertise. The NORA workshop aims at analysing
and discussing emerging and novel practices, ongoing research efforts and
validated or deployed innovative solutions that showcase the growing
synergy between LLMs agents and KGs.
Topics of Interest
We welcome submissions and participation from intradisciplinary,
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary researchers and industry & public
sector practitioners in the areas of Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge
Engineering and Reasoning, Advanced NLP, GenAI, and AI Agents. We
especially welcome contributions that provide theoretical insights, propose
new approaches, or introduce new grounded solutions in real-world
applications such as enterprise, smart assistance & chat, healthcare,
finance, tourism, etc.
We invite submissions in this non-exhaustive list of topics of interest,
including, but not limited to:
- Agents for Complex Reasoning over KGs
- Agents and KGs for private and proactive personal assistants &
Personalisation
- Architectures for Persistent Agent Memory
- Benchmarking Agent Memory Performance
- Collaborative & Shared Agent Memories
- Context Engineering enhanced by KGs
- Domain-Specific Memory Architectures
- From Unstructured Experience to Structured and Graph-Based Memory
- KGs serving agents' memories: Episodic (experiences, events, etc.),
Semantic (facts, concepts, etc.), and Procedural (skills, tasks, etc.)
- Memory Grounding & Hallucination Mitigation
- Memory Indexing & Retrieval for Agents
- Multi-Lingual & Multi-modal integrations
- Personalization vs. Generalization in Memory
Important Dates Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
- Regular Submissions Deadline: September 9th, 2026
- ARR Commitment Deadline: September 14th, 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2026
- Camera-Ready Papers Due: October 12, 2026
- Workshop date: November 10th, 2026
Submissions Guidelines, Policies, and Awards are available on the website.
Organization
- Btissam Er-Rahmadi, Independent Researcher, UK
- Sebastien Montella, Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd, UK
- Damien Graux, EcoVadis, UK
- Andre Melo, Huawei Technologies R&D UK Ltd, UK
- Hajira Jabeen, University Hospital Cologne, Germany
Best,
Btissam Er-Rahmadi
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Date: 2026-07-09 13:49:44+00:00
From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Call for hosts DHASA 2027 conference
Call for hosts DHASA 2027 conference
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) Executive
committee (Exco) invites proposals to host the next DHASA conference in
2027.
The DHASA conference so far has been organized in 2017, 2019, 2021,
2023, and 2025. We are currently moving from a biennial meeting to an
annual meeting, so the next DHASA conference will take place in 2026.
Information of the previous and current conferences can be found here:
https://dh2017.digitalhumanities.org.za
https://dh2019.digitalhumanities.org.za
https://dh2021.digitalhumanities.org.za
https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za
https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za
The call for hosts is open, meaning that we invited bids from academic
institutions in Southern Africa. The organization of the conference
typically occurs in collaboration with the DHASA Exco.
Conference information
The conference attracts approximately 100 attendees. It consists of a
number of days, typically a week which includes panels, tutorials, and
presentations of (peer-reviewed) articles. The articles are published
in the JDHASA journal (https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa).
Local organizers' responsibilities
Local Organizers are responsible for developing the contents of the
conference website, providing facilities, organizing a conference
banquet, and coordinating any other social events that the local hosts
think appropriate. The conference is entirely self-financed through
conference fees and any other financial contributions that DHASA or the
local organizer is able to arrange. DHASA provides partial financial
underwriting of the conference (and can, in certain circumstances,
advance small amounts of funds for expenses that need to be prepaid)
and works together with the local organizers to ensure that
registration fees and other income will support all conference
expenditures. Plenary speakers are selected by the local organizers in
consultation with the DHASA Exco, and associated costs are funded from
the conference budget. Participants of the conference will be
registered as members of DHASA. Overall, the DHASA Exco will provide
guidance and advice.
Proposal process
Parties interested in organizing the next DHASA conference should
contact Menno van Zaanen <menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za> to express
interest and request support as soon as possible. A brief proposal
will be requested; a format for this will be provided.
--
Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za
Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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Date: 2026-07-07 12:42:28+00:00
From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: DH Colloquium From Children's Words to Digital Resources: Studying Language Development in South Africa 15 July 2026 @ 10:00 (SAST)
DH Colloquium From Children's Words to Digital Resources: Studying
Language Development in South Africa 15 July 2026 @ 10:00 (SAST)
You've all been waiting for the next DH Colloquium and here it is:
Michelle White will be presenting:
From Children's Words to Digital Resources: Studying Language
Development in South Africa
You can register here: https://bit.ly/4viShPj
Registration and attendance is free, the DH colloquium takes place
online
You can find out more about the DH Colloquia here:
https://sadilar.org/en/dh-colloquium/
including recordings of previous colloquia.
Please share this with your colleagues, friends, family, ...
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Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za
Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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Date: 2026-07-06 15:42:45+00:00
From: CLAPP, Jeffrey Michael [LCS] <jmclapp@eduhk.hk>
Subject: A Digital Humanities Conference at EdUHK (21-24 January 2026)
Greetings—
List members may be interested in the following event, organized by colleagues
at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Submissions are open. Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Jeff Clapp
Associate Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
Model/Making: Toward Generative Humanities<https://2027.hkadh.org>
3rd Hong Kong Association of Digital Humanities Conference
21-24 January 2027
The concept of the model has been core to digital humanities, in the form of
standards, statistics, prototypes, and practices. Building on this longstanding
tradition, HKADH2027 explores how digital, computational, and analytical
frameworks also become engines for cultural production. Alongside established
analytical practices, the event will highlight the emerging horizons coming into
view. Our theme, Model/Making, expands the discipline by embracing generative,
artistic, and applied dimensions of models and modelling. The following areas
are of particular interest.
The use of models to create narratives, music, art, games; data modelling as
artistic practice; algorithmic composition and procedural rhetoric
Digital models and materialities, including printing, weaving, robotics, VR/AR
environments, and storytelling forms
Simulations and performances of events, dynamics, spaces; synthetic data in
humanities contexts
Archive, heritage, preservation implications of data models, corpus
constructions, metadata standards, semantics and ontologies
Collaboration between humans and AI in the production of cultural artifacts;
collaboration between DH practitioners and others within or beyond the academy
Theoretical lenses on generative capacities of models, including philosophy of
technology, media theory, and infrastructure studies.
Authorship, ownership, intellectual property; societal impact of data, data
modelling, and AI; analysis on reliance or overreliance on generative media in
various DH contexts
Computational modelling and generative media in humanities curricula.
We welcome submissions on all relevant topics, and we welcome applications to
make different kinds of contributions to the conference, including creative
work, hands-on workshops, posters, papers, panels, and roundtables.
https://2027.hkadh.org/
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Date: 2026-07-06 13:53:36+00:00
From: Ferdaous AFFAN <ferdaous.affan@uni.lu>
Subject: CfP: Beyond Borders. Futures of Digitised Historical Media Collections for Research and Teaching Lausanne 28 & 29 Jan 2027
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the third and final Impresso
conference "Beyond Borders. Futures of Digitised Historical Media Collections
for Research and Teaching", to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 28 & 29
January 2027.
Please find all details below.
With best regards,
Ferdaous Affan
Call for Papers:
Beyond Borders. Futures of Digitised Historical Media Collections for Research
and Teaching
Lausanne, Switzerland | 28 & 29 January 2027 | Hybrid conference
Organised by the <https://impresso-project.ch/> Impresso
Project<https://impresso-project.ch/> with support from the University of
Lausanne History Department
________________________________
Historical media do not merely reflect the norms, ideas, and knowledge horizons
of past societies — they actively shaped them. Historians of media have long
aspired to study more than single institutions or single media types. Recent
scholarship emphasises the dense relations between media — between newspapers
and radio, for instance, marked by rivalry as much as by mutual learning,
appropriation, and collaboration. More broadly, recent research focuses on the
media ecosystems in which individual actors, institutions, infrastructures, and
politics together shaped how media developed and functioned. The opportunities
and challenges inherent in research using digitised collections are a meeting
ground for both the historical and the digital humanities research communities.
For decades, the practical and methodological boundaries of research — between
languages, source types, collections, and disciplines — kept such ambitions
largely out of reach for empirical, source-driven work at scale. These
boundaries are now in motion. Document processing that once demanded substantial
expertise and resources has become widely accessible: text recognition, audio
transcription, annotation, and classification no longer pose the barriers they
once did. Even experimental techniques such as alignment across languages or
source types, such as text, image or audio, are rapidly gaining traction. The
obstacles have not disappeared — quality, coverage, and access remain uneven —
but new techniques to work around them have emerged and with them the questions
we can ask.
Beyond Borders invites researchers, cultural heritage professionals, and
collection holders to reflect critically on the status quo and to think ahead:
How should we conduct our research on and teaching with historical media
collections in a time in which it has become easier than ever to connect them?
We invite submissions of original research, experimental methods, reusable
resources (e.g. datasets, models, teaching materials) but also critical
reflections and desiderata. We explicitly welcome contributions from scholars
who do not themselves work computationally but whose work can constructively
critique, inspire and inform the further advancement of data-driven approaches
to the study of historical media.
The conference is organised around four themes:
1. Studying Historical Media Ecosystems
The field of media history is widening its perspective beyond single media
institutions and single media types, towards intermedial relations and entire
media ecosystems. Computational research on historical collections is only
beginning to catch up with these historiographical ambitions. We invite
contributions which address these challenges in research and teaching:
Case studies which analyse historical media ecosystems using traditional and
computational methods
Reflections on the critical analysis of different source types and their
idiosyncratic logic
Analyses of the differences and parallels in the evolution of historical media
Methods to bridge the gap between non-digital, digitised and digital sources and
research practices
Best practices to teach (digital) research methods with digitised media
collections
2. Embracing Source Heterogeneity
Historical research strives to weave together a narrative informed by the
critical study of different source types. The goal is to produce comprehensive
and carefully compiled analyses, which are based on relevant and available
sources, take into account the positionality of the researcher and reflect the
multiperspectivity and complexity of the historical record.
We observe different strategies to achieve this goal. Traditional historical
research practices analyse highly diverse sources on a small scale at the
expense of scale and breadth. This offers rich insights, for example, into the
histories of single institutions, the impact of individual actors or evolving
media formats.
Data-driven approaches typically centre on the analysis of a single source type
at large scale at the expense of diversity and depth. Research focuses on
identifying patterns within large, homogeneous datasets. This has widened the
gaze, revealing patterns unobservable through close reading alone, but it has
also significantly narrowed it, excluding relevant sources for lack of
digitisation or incompatible data models. There remains a considerable gap
between the traditional way of conducting research and what data-driven methods
have so far made feasible.
One way to bridge this gap is the principle of scalable reading (shifting
between close and distant reading) that has become a near-commonplace for
homogeneous collections (books, newspapers, etc) but not yet for collections
consisting of different modalities (e.g. text, audio, image).
Recently, advances in multilingual and multimodal modelling demonstrate that the
border between close and distant reading can also be crossed computationally.
Models for images, audio, and video have shown that meaningful connections can
be drawn across modalities. Embedding-based search – search based on vector
representations of documents – offers a genuine alternative to reductionist
keyword queries as it promises search for meaning rather than surface form.
We invite contributions which address these challenges, demonstrate best
practices or challenge the status quo inspired by the following topics:
Balancing the breadth in the study of historical media ecosystems demands with
the depth that case studies require
Methodological frameworks which enable comparative perspectives across national,
linguistic, temporal or institutional borders
Opportunities and challenges offered by generative AI, and more specifically,
cross-lingual and multimodal embeddings for the presentation of empirical
findings in historical narratives
3. Exploring Human-Machine Interpretation
Distinct from, though related to, multimodal embeddings is the integration of
large language models (LLMs) into historical media research. Here lies obvious
potential to scale up practices traditionally associated with qualitative
analysis: the careful, interpretation-heavy annotation and classification of
sources. This shift — from probabilistic word counting to machine interpretation
— sees computational tools taking on intellectually demanding tasks that were
until recently the exclusive domain of the human researcher. LLMs also show a
degree of robustness to poor OCR quality and offer workarounds for the
persistent absence of optical layout recognition, two long-standing constraints
on data-driven work with historical collections. The opportunities for
efficiency are evident, and many experiments are ongoing, but many challenges
remain:
Integration of machines in research workflows in light of epistemological,
methodological, ethical, technical, and legal challenges
Impact of machines on human research designs
Consistency, transparency, reproducibility and reliability of AI-assisted output
Evaluation and human-gold standards to evaluate machine interpretation
Reuse of models trained on historical media collections and insights gained from
their creation
4. Connecting Heritage Collections
Historical media collections remain dispersed across institutions with diverse
and evolving archival principles, metadata standards, and legal frameworks.
Crossing these borders is as much an organisational and legal challenge as a
technical one — and one that researchers and collection holders can only address
together. The Collections as Data movement has achieved a paradigm shift in
recent years, but important challenges and open questions remain:
Connecting sources at scale across languages and modalities such as text, image,
sound, and objects
Evolving user needs and expectations
Management of imperfection and critical assessment of the value and limitations
of heterogeneous, unevenly documented collections, which are subject to
divergent and constantly evolving archival policies
Raising awareness of the significance of these challenges and sharing best
practices to overcome them in teaching of digital literacy and digital source
criticism
About the Impresso Project
This is the third and final conference organised by the Impresso project
(Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past II. Beyond Borders: Connecting
Historical Newspapers and Radio”, https://impresso-project.ch/). It follows two
preceding conferences organised by the project with focus on transmedia
relations (2025) and on integrated History of Radio and Newspapers (2026).
Since 2017, Impresso has developed tools and infrastructure for the
computational analysis of historical newspaper collections across languages and
institutions. Impresso has worked directly on many of the challenges this
conference addresses — linking heterogeneous sources, scaling NLP enrichments to
large multilingual corpora, and designing interfaces that reflect the actual
research practices of historians rather than the affordances of the tools. But
these questions are not unique to Impresso, and the project's experience is one
contribution among many. The goal of this conference is to bring together
researchers, academic teachers, developers, and collection holders who have been
working on related problems from different angles — to take stock of what has
been learned, to identify where the field stands, and to work collectively
toward research workflows that better serve the needs of humanities scholarship
in an era of rapidly changing computational possibilities.
Practical Information
Conference dates: 28 + 29 January 2027, Lausanne, Switzerland, with online
participation available for all sessions.
Venue: EPFL campus and University of Lausanne campus
Submission Guidelines
We welcome the following formats:
Long papers (abstract of 1500 words) — original and completed or substantially
advanced work
Short papers (abstract of 750 words) — work in progress
Posters (abstract of 500 words) — includes tool, infrastructure, dataset, and
model presentations
Note: All submissions require a minimum of 5 academic references.
Language: English
Submission portal: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bb2026
Papers will undergo double-blind peer review by at least two members of the
programme committee.
Timeline
Submission deadline: 30 September 2026
Author notification: 31 October 2026
Camera-ready abstracts deadline: 15 December 2026
Conference: 28+29 January 2027
Presentation Format
Accepted papers will be presented in 20-minute slots (long papers) and 15-minute
slots (short papers), including time for discussion. All sessions will be
livestreamed. Remote presenters may present live via video link; recordings will
be made available to registered participants after the conference.
Publication
Selected papers will be invited for publication in a peer-reviewed venue.
Further details on the publication venue will be confirmed by 31st October 2026.
Registration
Registration details and fees (including reduced rates for early-career
researchers and participants with limited travel budget will be announced by 31
October. Remote participation will be available.
Organisers
On behalf of the Impresso Project: Marten DĂĽring, Cao Vy, Caio Mello, Ferdaous
Affan, Maud Ehrmann, Raphaelle Ruppen Coutaz, Kaspar Beelen
Contact
For enquiries: info@impresso-project.ch<mailto:info@impresso-project.ch>
--
Ferdaous Affan
Doctoral Researcher
Luxembourg Centre For Contemporary and Digital History​​
UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
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Date: 2026-07-03 10:46:39+00:00
From: Lingjia Zhao <L.Zhao6@lboro.ac.uk>
Subject: 🚀 GLOW-Ready Workshops: Getting Government Archives GenAI-Ready – Report, Slides & Recordings
Dear all,
We are delighted to share the outcomes of the GLOW-Ready online workshop series:
Getting Government Archives GenAI-Ready, held on 18 and 25 June 2026.
Read the workshop report summarising key discussions and insights:
https://lustre-network.net/2026/07/02/glow-ready-workshops-report/
Browse the presentation slides and recordings:
Workshop 1: https://lustre-network.net/event/glow-ready-getting-government-
archives-genai-ready-workshop-1/
Workshop 2: https://lustre-network.net/event/glow-ready-getting-government-
archives-genai-ready-workshop-2/
Across the two workshops, speakers and participants explored how generative AI
might support the discovery and use of government archives from a user
perspective, with particular attention to how AI-assisted systems can remain
grounded in evidence, transparent in their limits, and responsive to the needs
of users.
Huge thanks to everyone who participated and helped make the workshops such rich
and thoughtful discussions!
Keynote Speakers
Prof Paul Gooding – University of Glasgow
Prof Ian Milligan – University of Waterloo
Workshop Speakers
Prof Giovanni Colavizza – University of Copenhagen / University of Bologna
Dr Frédéric Clavert – University of Luxembourg
Glen Layne-Worthey – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Prof Tim Hitchcock – University of Sussex
Dr Christopher R. Roast – Sheffield Hallam University
Prof Claire Warwick – Durham University
Prof Glen O’Hara – Oxford Brookes University
Neil Jakeman – King’s College London
Dr Trevor Owens – American Institute of Physics
Prof Leif Isaksen – University of Exeter
We are also very grateful to our roundtable contributors: Dr Kelcey Swain,
Nicholas Smith, Dr Cai Parry-Jones, Matthew Beavis, Prof Helen McCarthy, Dr
Trevor Owens, Patrick Fleming, Prof Leif Isaksen, Dr James Lappin, and Piers
Walker. Their reflections enriched the discussions and helped keep the workshops
grounded in the real-world use and management of government records and
archives.
We hope these materials will support further discussion and collaboration.
Best wishes,
GLOW-Ready Research Team
NEW output of the LUSTRE/GLOW project:
Jaillant, L., Kidd, M., & Zhao, L. (2026). Sifting the Digital Heap: A Scoping
Study of AI for Government Archives — Access, Backlogs, and Responsible
Practice. Zenodo.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18935870
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