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Author: Universität Tübingen

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, 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.

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, Projects

Project: THANADOS

THANADOS is a Digital Humanities web portal for archaeologically and anthropologically investigated burials and their digital dissemination. It is a platform for hosting any thematically relevant datasets that the authors want to offer as Open Data in a standardised form. The basic dataset consists of the results of the THANADOS project Several other projects that […]

Announcements, News

DHNow Newsletter, August 5, 2026

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Mehul Desai and Monica Storss, DHNow Guest Editors. Our Editors’ Choice selections this week include a discussion of how the internet and AI have reshaped literature and the act of writing, and a six-part series that defines the digital humanities before providing practical suggestions […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities Part 1: What Are the Digital Humanities?

Editors’ Summary: This six-part series by Adam DJ Brett on the digital humanities seeks to provide a starting point for newcomers to DH, practical approaches to undertaking digital humanities, and an argument for the importance of data preservation and resilience. Part one asks what the digital humanities are. The second part surveys tools for dissertation […]

News, Resources

Resource: How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe […]

Announcements, News

Weekly Highlight: Digital Library of the Caribbean: A Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library

Digital Library of the Caribbean has over one hundred partners and over forty associate partners, who are based in the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. dLOC posts updates on their news page. This multi-institutional library is a rich resource that provides users free and open access to Caribbean cultural, historical, scientific and research […]