CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: AI and History Conference 2026

The AI and History Conference 2026, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University, is a practitioner-focused convening for historians at all career stages who are working with, teaching, or trying to evaluate AI and computational methods in their research and institutions. This event is anchored squarely in historical practice: its organizing questions are what AI […]

Announcements, News

Weekly Highlight: HD Lab

HD LAB is a research space in Digital Humanities in Argentina that combines the organizational and collaborative model of a laboratory with the Humanities. Their projects are intended for multiple audiences, inside and outside academia, understanding Digital Humanities through Minimal Computing and the principles of Open Science. They offer courses on digital humanities methods, a […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: No More Muddling Through

Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author reflects on the current state of higher education pedagogy as LLMs become increasingly able to replicate the research process. In his words: “The automation of the research process and the resulting loss of the human skills those processes embody poses an existential threat to universities.” He notes how […]

News, Tools

Tool: WACZ to PDF

A WACZ is a good container for a web crawl. It plays back easily in open-source replay software like Browsertrix and ReplayWebPage. But it’s not always the most convenient format for a non-archivist who wants to read, annotate, print or file away a set of their articles. I worked with Claude to write a small […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Postdoctoral Digital Humanities Scholar, The University of Southern Mississippi

The Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub is seeking a post-doctoral scholar to support its mission to serve as a digital humanities resource for the state of Mississippi. This grant-funded position, potentially renewable for up to one year, will focus on planning a conference and summer workshop, preparing materials for secondary school instructors, and managing relationships with […]

Announcements, News

Weekly Highlight: TTHub or Hub of Text Technologies

TTHub or Hub of Text Technologies is a collaborative space for educational materials and research resources on text technologies and digital editing in Spanish, with special attention to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). They provide different tutorials on coding, editing and publishing texts with XML-TEI. The Resources section includes project repositories that use XML-TEI, repositories […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: AI coding without the vibes

Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author discusses the known issues with vibe coding from a pedagogical perspective, namely the lack of understanding of the code. He proposes to switch the roles when vibe coding and have the AI review code that is human written. The essay considers the potential benefits and challenges of this […]

Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, August 19, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include an essay proposing a different technique for vibe coding and a podcast with accompanying essay that attempts to critically discuss what it means when AI models “go rogue.” We have also included CFPs, […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Storytelling and Digital Media Job Details at Maastricht University

We are opening an Assistant Professor position in Storytelling and Digital Media. We are looking for a colleague with a background in literary or media studies whose research explores how storytelling is shaped by digital media and technologies, examining emerging narrative forms such as immersive media, data visualization, games, social media, and other digital platforms. […]

News, Reports

Report: DH2026 Video Archive

A record of DH2026: Engagement, the 36th annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, held 27–31 July 2026 at the Daejeon Convention Center. All videos are hosted on YouTube and open in a new tab. See full post.