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: 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 […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The System From Nowhere

Editors’ Summary: This post includes a podcast episode and an accompanying essay summarizing the conversation. The conversation is focused on the way the media reports about AI and its own so-called agency. The recent headlines about an OpenAI model “hacking” another AI company, Hugging Face, is an example of the rhetorical strategy. The author notes […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Professor of Computational Literary Studies with a Focus on the Intersection of Research and Research Infrastructure at Universität Tübingen

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen invites applications for a position as a Professor (W2) of Computational Literary Studies with a focus on the intersection of research and research infrastructure (m/f/d) to commence as soon as possible in an employment relationship. Employment will take place in collaboration with the DLA (German Literature […]

News, Projects

Project: Faces of Dura-Europos

Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the most extensively excavated Roman-period archaeological sites of the Middle East. For more than a decade an American-led team revealed the ancient site, taking thousands of photographs in the process. Among images of artefacts and buildings are many which incidentally recorded images of the people who did […]

Announcements, News

Weekly Highlight: Digital Humanities Monthly

Digital Humanities Monthly is a Japanese-language monthly email magazine published by the International Institute for Digital Humanities. Each month they publish the ‘Monthly Report on Humanities and Information Studies’, which introduces various research that can be positioned as human informatics, with up-and-coming experts from Japan and the world. The magazine contains original research, reports on […]

News, Projects

Project: Babel Nexus

The Babel Nexus Index is a free, visual way to explore the great public-domain books — the classics whose copyright has expired, so anyone can read them. Instead of a search box and a flat list, it lays knowledge out as a map of connected rooms: each room is a subject, each book sits on […]

News, Reports

Report: Conference Musings on ACH and DH 2026

The summer conference season is over, and this year marked a return for me to both the international DH conference (held in Daejeon, South Korea for 2026) and the ACH conference (held, as usual, anywhere you are / virtually). They’re always different experiences, but the distinction felt particularly acute this year. See full post.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South: Infrastructures, Analytics, and Epistemic Justice

Editors’ Summary: This introduction to the Journal of Cultural Analytics special issue redefines what cultural analytics means from the perspective of the Global South. Rather than viewing digital humanities as the application of computational tools to ready-made datasets, the authors argue that building archives, designing metadata, negotiating community governance, and preserving Indigenous knowledge are themselves […]