Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is not neutral; neither is it generative, nor intelligent. It is a colonial technology of extraction and replication, built on stolen data, racialized labor, and computational enclosures of language and image. It materializes what Ruha Benjamin (2019) calls “the New Jim Code” and what Safiya Noble (2018) has shown as the […]
The University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce that its two-day conference will be held in Sheffield on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd September 2026. This will be a physical conference only. Digital humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within arts, heritage and humanities research as both […]
The Faculty of Arts is in the process of establishing an MA Programme in AI Humanities, with two emphases or streams: AI and Creative Expression, AI and Language Innovation. “AI and Creative Expression” focuses on the intersection of AI and art tech, cultural production, and creative expression, enabling graduates to expand their engagement with AI […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice argues that generative AI has fundamentally shifted which disciplines are considered most valuable. The second selection considers the importance of making informed decisions when creating data visualizations. Our third selection features an oral history […]
The 5th Hundzula NLP and Linguistics Retreat took place from 3–7 February 2026 at North-West University’s Mahikeng Campus, South Africa. The retreat aims to establish a networking and collaboration platform for both humanities and computer science researchers and enthusiasts through learning, teaching and supporting each other. Computer scientists and linguists from various higher education institutions […]
The Data Visualization Librarian serves as an expert consultant and partner to UTA students, faculty, and staff regarding data analysis and visualization. This librarian will be responsible for providing public-facing services focused on data visualization via the Libraries DataCAVE, course-integrated instruction, workshops, and consultations. The Data Visualization Librarian must demonstrate a commitment to justice, equity, […]
The 9th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2026) will be held at University Paris Dauphine-PSL on November 16-18, 2026 Established in 2009, the ADT conferences usually take place every two years with the aim of gathering researchers interested in the algorithmic aspects of decision theory. ADT seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners […]
Are you a humanities or social sciences researcher who has started coding, but feels ready to move beyond Jupyter Notebooks? The Research Software Summer School: Going Beyond Notebooks (29 June-3 July, Utrecht) offers you the chance to take your programming to the next level and integrate software into your own research. Registration is open now! […]
The MultiClinAI Track is organized by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis group and promoted by European projects such as DataTools4Heart and AI4HF. MultiClinAI is a shared task focused on the creation of comparable multilingual corpora via annotation projection, as well as the multilingual extraction of clinical concepts. See full post.
In January 2026, Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) began serving as publisher of the Journal of Cultural Analytics (JCA), a leading open-access publication in computational approaches to culture. Today, CDH announces JCA’s vision for expanding cultural analytics scholarship amid rapid technological change and the launch of a new website, supported by Schmidt Sciences’ […]
