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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 […]

Call for Journal of Digital History – due May 31

I am writing to announce the CFP for a special issue of the Journal of Digital History focused on how AI reshapes historical research. The CFP is below and submissions should be submitted via the JDH website no later than May 31, 2025: https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/cfp/ai With the emergence of large language models predicated upon transformer architecture (2017) […]

Call for nominations of the Zampolli Prize – due June 1, 2025

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Awards Committee is seeking nominations for the 2026 Antonio Zampolli Prize. The Zampolli Prize is a triennial award that recognizes a single output in the field of Digital Humanities by any scholar or scholars at any stage of their career(s). As such, it offers a unique opportunity to reward […]

Job Opportunity: Digital Scholarship in the Arts (DiSA) Digital Scholarship Fellow, Applications due March 26

Digital Scholarship in the Arts (DiSA) Summer 2025 Digital Scholarship Fellow UBC CareersOnline Job ID #985672 (1 opening) UBC Department- Digital Scholarship in the Arts (DiSA) Hours Per Week – 20 Salary / Wage – $26.02 Preferred Degrees/Disciplines – Computer Science/IT, Library, Archival & Information Studies, Arts/Social Sciences Additional Documents – Cover Letter Anticipated Start […]

Award for Doctoral Research in Digital Art & Art History – Due April 21

The School of Art History at the University of St Andrews is offering a scholarship for doctoral research in digital art history and digital-born art for starting in September 2025. We welcome research proposals that employ or critically examine the applications of digital practices, methodologies, and tools in the fields of art history, museum and […]

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 […]