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CFP: CDH invites proposals for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) at the University of Cambridge is inviting proposals for the next round of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship offers outstanding early-career researchers the opportunity to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in an academic environment. This scheme aims to help develop the award-holder’s curriculum vitae and…
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CFP: DHQ institutional host and Editor in Chief
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). The new Editor in Chief will serve for a five-year renewable term. Collaborative multi-editor and multi-institution arrangements are welcome. See full post.
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CFP: Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa. Digital Humanities (DH) has evolved from an early emphasis on digitisation, text encoding, and computational assistance into a reflexive field concerned with…
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DHNow Newsletter, July 8, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Zhihui Zou and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editors. Our Editors’ Choices this week include a discussion of the methodologies in the field of AI in education, a critique of the implementations of AI in higher education, and a demonstration of an AI methodology for…
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Weekly Highlight: Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA)
The Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is the peer-reviewed open-access journal of the Digital Humanities Association of South Africa. DHASA is an important network for digital humanities scholars in Southern Africa. DHASA members come from a wide variety of fields in the humanities, social sciences, and computer sciences. The DHASA…
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Editors’ Choice: Most of the Renaissance Has Never Been Read. Source Library Is Opening It.
Editors’ Summary: This post shares the launch of the Source Library project earlier this month. Source Library, founded by Derek Lomas, digitizes Renaissance-era books originally written in Latin or other languages, translates them using AI translation tools, and presents them for free on their website. This project combines OCR and machine translation to increase accessibility…
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Tool: Australian National Corpus
Editors’ Summary: The Australian National Corpus (AusNC) was a discovery service that collated and provided access to examples of Australian English text, transcriptions, audio and audio-visual materials. The service was managed by Griffith University beginning 2012 until mid-2023 when the site was decommissioned. From 2023, AusNC data was made available as individual collections (listed below)…
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Report: To Go Far, Go Together: Lessons from FORCE2026 and DataCite Connect Singapore
Editors’ Summary: This article reviews the FORCE2026 conference held earlier this month at Singapore Management University. The conference focused on how to improve scholarly communications to encourage scholarly collaborations. A key component of the conference was engagement with DataCite, an organization, like Crossref, that provides persistent identifiers for research publications. This article recounts how various…
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Editors’ Choice: Conversations about conversational code: on the collaborative critical code studies reading of ELIZA
Editors’ Summary: In “Conversations about conversational code,” Mark C. Marino and colleagues revisit Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA through the recovered original source code, showing how close, collaborative code reading can reshape software history. Based on four years of interdisciplinary work, the article uncovers discrepancies between Weizenbaum’s published accounts and the actual MAD-SLIP implementation, including undocumented features,…
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DHNow Newsletter, July 1, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor. Our Editors’ Choices this week include a discussion of the methodologies in the field of AI in education, a critique of the implementations of AI in higher education, and a demonstration of an AI methodology for digital humanities. We…
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Weekly Highlight: Create Caribbean
The Caribbean’s first digital humanities center, housed at Dominica State College. Create Caribbean provides academic research support, courses, internships, and consultancy services to faculty, students, scholars, public and private sector institutions, and community organizations. Their newsletter provides updates on the activities of the Create Caribbean Research Institute. See source.
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Review: The Sounds of Emergency in Amberspire
Editors’ Summary: In this review, Brandon Walsh explores how the sci-fi city builder Amberspire subverts traditional gaming tropes to reflect on the ongoing climate crisis. Unlike typical genre entries that favor endless growth and high-tension soundtracks, Amberspire pairs a brutal mechanics-of-decay system with a calm, ambient score composed by Paul Kilduff-Taylor. Walsh argues that this…
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Editors’ Choice: the friction embedded in AI educational designs
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Alex Reid critiques the reliance on instructional design and “design thinking” to counter the frictionless nature of AI in higher education. Challenging the popular notion of “engineering friction” into curriculum, he argues that reducing learning to predictable outcomes merely creates automated “work” that AI easily replicates. Reid contends that AI…
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Editors’ Choice: Speculative Recommendation: Reframing AI for Interpretive Practice in the Digital Humanities
Editors’ Summary: In this paper, River Rain and Houda Lamqaddam consider how recommender systems can be reframed as speculative tools for humanistic inquiry rather than commercial personalization. By demonstrating how a fine-tuned computer vision pipeline maps visual similarities across 2,341 animated films, they highlight how algorithmic proximity can trace artistic influence and macro-level aesthetic shifts.…
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Report: 5,000 Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920
Editors’ Summary: In this interactive visualization, the project team considers how a curated archive of 5,000 historic menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880–1920) can reveal the early evolution of the modern restaurant. By demonstrating how visual data mapping allows users to pan, zoom, and explore individual artifacts like an 1897 menu…