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Call for Papers: KCL DDH The Digital Conference
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 […]
Dr. Bowers publishes article on computational analysis of a Dostoevsky novella
Together with Dr. Kate Holland, Dr. Katherine Bowers has published an article called “The Failure of Form: Reading Liminality Computationally in Dostoevskii’s The Double” in the most recent issue of Slavic Review.
Multilingual Digital Humanities Course @ UBC-V
Scheduled for 2025 Winter T2, IEST_V 505A -201 is open to anyone with an interest in DH who has research questions or a corpora they’d like to address working in any language (including English).
Remembering Tadmor: Exploring the Use of Digital Conservation After Destruction
Can we build a digital defense against the erasure of culture? Let’s explore together. Across the globe, the material remains of cultural heritage, some dating back millennia, face innumerable threats. In Syria, the ancient ruins of Tadmor, known to much of the world as Palmyra, have endured everything from colonial theft and neglect to military […]
Call for 2025-2026 CCSS Undergraduate and Graduate Student Fellows
The Centre for Computational Social Science (CCSS) is excited to announce a call for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year. About CCSS: Based in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia, CCSS serves as a vibrant hub for interdisciplinary scholarship. Our focus is on understanding the intersection of […]
Join the TEI Summer Sessions
Have you ever considered creating a digital edition? Do you want to learn more about how TEI-XML can be used for digital humanities research? Do you want to practice editing-as-analysis with onsite support? The SFU’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, UBC Digital Scholarship in the Arts, Adaptive TEI Network, and UBC Library Research Commons are co-hosting […]
Analyzing Text Data with DiscoverText
In this hands-on workshop led by founder Stuart Shulman, participants will learn to use DiscoverText, a multilingual-capable web-based platform for categorizing text data. DiscoverText runs through a graphical user interface, so no statistical or software programming (e.g., R, Python) is required. The workshop will teach participants how to use DiscoverText to label data to build custom […]
Text Data Analysis Workshop with Stuart Shulman
In this hands-on workshop led by founder Stuart Shulman, participants will learn to use DiscoverText, a multilingual-capable web-based platform for categorizing text data. DiscoverText runs through a graphical user interface, so no statistical or software programming (e.g., R, Python) is required. The workshop will teach participants how to use DiscoverText to label data to build custom […]
Meet the Faculty of Arts PhD students decolonizing the future of digital humanities across disciplines
Digital Humanities is an emerging research area that combines the expansiveness of computing with traditional humanities methods. Text encoding technologies offer new ways of analyzing texts. Whether it’s a medieval manuscript or graphic novel, when rendered machine-readable and encoded in extensible markup language, the large quantities of data generated in the process provides researchers with […]