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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
