Pre-Conference Events
DH2026 offers a range of pre-conference events on Monday, July 27 and Tuesday, July 28, including Mini-Conferences, Workshops, and SIG Meetings. All pre-conference events are free of charge and open to registered participants.
📌 How to Register
Pre-conference events are selected during the ConfTool registration process (Step 2: Event and Item Selection). You may choose one event per half-day time slot. Mini-conferences are full-day events — if you select one, do not register for half-day workshops or SIGs on the same day. Each session is offered in a specific format — in-person, virtual, or both. Please check the format badge on each session below.
🌐 AI Translation: Selected sessions offer real-time AI-powered translation support, indicated by the 🌐 AI Translation badge.
📢 Call for Papers: Some mini-conferences and SIGs have their own calls for papers. Sessions currently accepting submissions are marked with the 📢 CFP Open badge — click the session title to visit the CFP page.
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Pre-conference events are selected during the ConfTool registration process (Step 2: Event and Item Selection). You may choose one event per half-day time slot. Mini-conferences are full-day events — if you select one, do not register for half-day workshops or SIGs on the same day. Each session is offered in a specific format — in-person, virtual, or both. Please check the format badge on each session below.
🌐 AI Translation: Selected sessions offer real-time AI-powered translation support, indicated by the 🌐 AI Translation badge.
📢 Call for Papers: Some mini-conferences and SIGs have their own calls for papers. Sessions currently accepting submissions are marked with the 📢 CFP Open badge — click the session title to visit the CFP page.
Schedule at a Glance
| Monday, July 27 | Tuesday, July 28 | |
|---|---|---|
| Full Day | Mini-Conferences6 sessions (In-Person + Virtual) | Mini-Conferences6 sessions (In-Person + Virtual) |
| AM | Workshops + SIGs4 workshops · 2 SIGs | Workshops + SIGs4 workshops · 2 SIGs |
| PM | Workshops6 workshops | Workshops + SIG4 workshops · 1 SIG |
Mini-Conference (Full-Day)
Workshop (Half-Day)
SIG Meeting (Half-Day)
CFP Open
Mini-conferences are full-day events. Each session is offered in a specific format—in-person, virtual, or both, with on-site viewing available for virtual-only sessions. Please check the format badge for details. If you register for a mini-conference, do not select any half-day workshops or SIGs on the same day.
Monday, July 27 — Full Day (6 sessions)
Building South Asia Digital Humanities: Historical Knowledge, Languages, and Infrastructures
Murali, Deepthi; Karajgikar, Jajwalya; Ghosh, Arjun; T, Shanmugapriya
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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This mini-conference convenes historians, linguists, and digital humanists to build a shared South Asia Digital Humanities ecosystem. Through lightning talks, collaborative working sessions, and design sprints, participants address multilingual data, historical infrastructures, and decolonial methods while seeding a sustained, transnational SA-DH network.
AVinDH: Past, Present, the Future
Oiva, Mila; Wigard, Justin; Langmead, Alison; Chávez Heras, Daniel; Bristault, Juliette; Feyersinger, Erwin; Chantraine Braillon, Cécile
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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The aim of the mini-conference is to consolidate the AVinDH community by providing a space for joint reflections on the developments of the past decade, for planning for the future steps, and by strengthening the mutual networks within the community.
Salvador, Chiara; Lo Duca, Angelica; Gordin, Shai; Marchetti, Andrea; Miyagawa, So; Nehrdich, Sebastian
📢 CFP Open Virtual + On-Site Viewing English 🌐 AI Translation
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This mini-conference explores tensions between accessibility and rigor, bringing together specialists of ancient non-alphabetic languages to assess how AI may obscure uncertainty, homogenise variants, and impose coherence on fragmentary evidence. These risks are treated not as objections to AI, but as prompts for critically engaged scholarship and responsible, community-driven guidelines.
Impresso Datalab: Embedding Newspapers and Radio Archives for Multimodal and Multilingual Data Analysis
Cao, Vy; Mello, Caio; Düring, Marten
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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The workshop is organised by the project Impresso Media Monitoring of the Past. It centers, first, on the embedding-based interlinking of newspaper and radio collections across modalities, languages, and time periods. Second, it will experiment with the linking of external research datasets to the Impresso corpus.
Between Interpretation and Implementation: Humanities-Technician Dialogues on East Asian Cultural Data
Lee, Seung-eun; Kwon, Boduerae; Jung, Byeong-Ho; Lyu, Hohyun; Chung, Eugene; Chung, Hye-yoon; Ryu, Intae
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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This mini-conference examines data-making as interpretive practice requiring negotiation between humanistic and technical perspectives. Focusing on East Asian cultural materials, it explores how data formats function as epistemic frames, critically examines AI-assisted tools, and fosters productive dialogue between humanities scholars and technical practitioners in digital humanities contexts.
The Study of Classic Hanmun Texts in the Era of Digital Transformation
Kim, Wanho; Lee, Haeyoon; Tharsen, Jeffrey; Jung, Sunghoon; Shin, Woongchul; Shin, Yunsoo; Hwang, Jiyoung; Kim, Minseok; Kwan, Yujin
In-Person + Virtual Korean 🌐 AI Translation
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The Institute for Research in Hanmun Education at Dankook University has carried out long-term research projects centered on applying digital methodologies to the study of hanmun texts. Digital approaches have expanded the scope and substance of traditional scholarship on hanmun texts through new modes of analysis.
Tuesday, July 28 — Full Day (6 sessions)
#DHMakes: Embodied Craft as Critical Engagement
Karajgikar, Jajwalya; Visconti, Amanda; Wernimont, Jacqueline; Karlin, Jojo; Arribas-Colmenar, Sara; McDivitt, Anne Ladyem; Nomura, Nichole; Evergreen, Gabriella; Berger, Claudia; Dombrowski, Quinn; Cordell, Ryan
In-Person + Virtual English
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We propose an event that combines the best of THATCamp inclusivity and spontaneity with the depth of expertise of a MakerFaire. It will begin and end with a series of lightning talks where participants share how they engage with historical and craft technology in their teaching, research, and personal praxes.
Distant Past(s) – Current Future(s): Digitization, Digital Objects and Datafication Approaches in Ancient and Medieval Studies
Landau, Victoria Gioia Désirée; Sartori, Marina
In-Person + Virtual English
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This event offers an exchange platform for ancient civilizations and medieval studies scholars venturing into DH practices and tools, those with experience bridging historical evidence and technical approaches, and technical experts contributing to ancient and medieval projects.
Cooperative Knowledge Graph Integration: A Hands-On Workshop for Designing a Federated Wikibase Ecosystem
Uematsu, Hiroki
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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This workshop introduces a Federated Wikibase Ecosystem for DH collaborative projects. Moving beyond technical linking, we focus on semantic modeling and governance to ensure integrated knowledge graphs preserve scholarly interpretation and reliability.
Visualization & the Humanities: Engagement and Community Futures
Lamqaddam, Houda; Windhager, Florian; Freyberg, Linda
In-Person + Virtual English
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This half-day mini-conference convenes DH, visualization, and design communities to shape a shared VIS*H agenda. Through participatory formats, it foregrounds engagement as method, addressing visualization's role in translation, interpretation, AI, and cultural memory while advancing a prospective ADHO SIG.
Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI
Cha, Javier; Chung, Yan Hon Michael; Choi, Donghyeok; Chow, Eric; Hou, Yumeng; Ho, Kit Shing Solmon
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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"Playing Heaven" uses AI to reframe early modern East Asian intellectual worlds by treating lineages and movements as historical formations rather than fixed categories. Modelling textual corpora, bibliographic data, and somatic traditions, the project employs AI as a heuristic device to widen interpretation and reveal patterns otherwise difficult to discern.
From Palm Leaves to Neural Networks: Fully Engaging in the Study of Buddhist Texts
Ham, Hyoung Seok; McAllister, Patrick; Nehrdich, Sebastian; Nagasaki, Kiyonori
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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We propose a mini-conference on integrating machine learning (ML) with Buddhist textual scholarship. It addresses challenges in multilingual research across large text collections, discusses how ML and digital encoding can benefit scholarly editors and ML researchers, and features talks on TEI encoding, network analysis, multilingual search, and sustainable digital scholarship.
Workshops are half-day events (morning / afternoon). You may register for one workshop per time slot. Each workshop is offered in a designated format (in-person, virtual, or both, with on-site viewing available for virtual-only sessions) — please check the format badge. Some workshops have limited capacity — register early to secure your spot.
Monday, July 27 — Morning
Translating Digital Humanities Methods: Approaches from the Programming Historian
Isasi, Jennifer; Wermer-Colan, Alex; Chapot, Laura Alice; Mello, Caio
🌐 Virtual + On-Site Viewing English
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This collaborative workshop teaches participants to use the Programming Historian's translation approaches to create culturally situated and effective digital humanities pedagogical materials for global audiences.
LEAF-Writer Commons: An Introduction to a Lightweight Web-Based Tags-Off TEI+RDF Editor
Cummings, James; Jakacki, Diane; Brown, Susan; Ilovan, Mihaela; Frizzera, Luciano
🤝 In-Person English 🌐 AI Translation
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This half-day workshop introduces the lightweight web-based editor 'LEAF-Writer', part of the LEAF Commons suite of tools. This easy, free, and open-source tool enables TEI+RDF encoding in the user's browser without installing any software.
Build a Working RAG in Half a Day: UN Policy Reports with LangChain
KIM, Kunha; Byun, Hyejin; Sim, Yeonwoo; Kim, Juhee
🤝 In-Person Korean 🌐 AI Translation
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A hands-on workshop for building a citation-grounded RAG system for long-form UN policy reports using LangChain. Participants learn robust chunking, metadata-aware retrieval, provenance-first prompting, and lightweight evaluation.
DH Tools for Working with IIIF Enabled Collections
Robson, Glen; Kalfatovic, Martin
🤝 In-Person English 🌐 AI Translation
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This workshop introduces a selection of DH tools that work with IIIF collections, including tools to gather distributed material for review, publishing research images through IIIF, working with annotations, geo-locating maps, and working with LLMs for transcription and translation.
Monday, July 27 — Afternoon
Bringing Humanist Practices into AI – Establishing and Maintaining Sovereignty When Working with LLMs
Kim-Baumann, Noah Jefferson; Hiltmann, Torsten
🤝 In-Person English
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This workshop develops critical AI literacy by teaching digital humanists to maintain scholarly sovereignty with Large Language Models. Through hands-on work with a custom RAG system indexing the UN General Debate Corpus (1946-2024), participants learn to critically direct AI-augmented research.
Multilingual Skins for Digital Humanities Tools: Translating Voyant and Beyond
Khemka, Ayushi; Rockwell, Geoffrey; Ghosh, Arjun
🤝 In-Person English 🌐 AI Translation
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This workshop invites participants to collaboratively translate sections of Voyant Tool's interface into multiple languages. Participants will learn a broader translation workflow and tool management workflow, and be introduced to version control mechanisms using GitHub.
Engaging 'Difficult' Audiences: Designing Games for Bored Students, Visitors, and DH Scholars
Booij, Sophia; Seale, Nellie
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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An introduction to prototyping a game that engages an audience you, or a potential collaborator, find it difficult to reach — using low-tech and low-cost techniques.
The Culture Data Story Laboratory: Engaging Knowledge Graphs through Executable Narratives
Schrade, Torsten; Soehn, Linnaea Charlotte; Steller, Jonatan Jalle; Büttner, Alexandra; Tietz, Tabea; Posthumus, Etienne; Bruns, Oleksandra; Fliegl, Heike; Sack, Harald
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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This workshop introduces The Culture Data Story Laboratory, a format developed within NFDI4Culture. Participants learn to engage knowledge graphs through interactive narratives using live queries to explore, visualise and interpret cultural data.
Crash Course in Digital Scholarly Editions – Learning What to Do and How to Do It with Open Source and Semi-Automatic Tools
Chiffoleau, Floriane
🤝 In-Person English 🌐 AI Translation
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A hands-on introduction to digital scholarly editions, guiding participants through digitization, transcription, encoding, and publication using open-source tools — no programming knowledge required.
Building a Unified Open-Source Pipeline for Archival Data Analysis
Racyn, Michal
🤝 In-Person English 🌐 AI Translation
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An intensive, hands-on session focused on constructing a unified, open-source pipeline for archival data analysis, utilizing OwnCloud, Zotero, Arkindex, Nodegoat, and Logseq.
Tuesday, July 28 — Morning
Building a Korean Literature TEI/XML Database: From Data Acquisition to AI-Enhanced Reading
Kim, Byungjun; Ji, Haein; Kim, Gayeon; Jeong, Chaeyeon; Lee, Hagyeong; Park, Seonyeong
🤝 In-Person Korean/English 🌐 AI Translation
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A complete pipeline for building TEI/XML databases of Korean literature, demonstrated through a corpus of 30 works from the 1910s–1940s. Participants will learn text harvesting from Korean Wikisource, LLM-based auto-tagging, collaborative encoding practices, and RAG-enhanced literary analysis.
Analyzing Printed Books with Computer Vision
Bergel, Giles Edward
🌐 Virtual + On-Site Viewing English
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An introductory workshop providing a practical understanding of computer vision applied to the illustrated printed book. Participants will learn how to make image collections searchable using a modular image processing pipeline composed of free and open-source tools.
AI Essentials: Critical Literacy and Ethical Practice in Libraries and Alt-Ac
Karajgikar, Jajwalya
🤝 In-Person English
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Active-learning, small-group, minimal computing, tactile and critical making-oriented activities to teach Critical AI Literacy to library patrons and alt-ac professionals.
Leveraging Emerging Datasets for Critical Research on Books and Reader Communities
Hu, Yuerong; Ling, Cici; Li, Kai; Zalot, Andrew; Shang, Wenyi; Bateman, Micah; Wu, Peizhen; Johnson, Natasha
🤝 In-Person English 🌐 AI Translation
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Critical frameworks and approaches for using emerging datasets to study contemporary book culture and reader communities, including digital library metadata, online book reviews, and fanfiction datasets.
Tuesday, July 28 — Afternoon
Documenting Exhibition's Display
Renaudie, Zoë; Valentine, David; Château-Dutier, Emmanuel
In-Person + Virtual English 🌐 AI Translation
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This workshop introduces Display, an open-source Semantic Web tool for documenting exhibition displays, combining an ontology-based model with a user-friendly interface to represent layouts, relationships, and uncertainty.
Hands-On Workshop: Interactive Collation of Multiple Text Witnesses with LERA
Pöckelmann, Marcus; Dähne, Janis
🤝 In-Person English 🌐 AI Translation
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The collation software LERA — a web-based tool for the semi-automatic comparison and analysis of different witnesses of a text in the context of digital editions — will be demonstrated and can be tried out in a guided hands-on session.
Working with Small Data: AI, Ethics, and Community Engagement in Public Digital Humanities
Murali, Deepthi; Fretwell, Laura; McGee, Marion
🤝 In-Person English 🌐 AI Translation
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Community-engaged digital public humanities methods for working with small data and AI, including a Smithsonian African-American digital public history project case study.
Scalable Data Labelling for the Digital Humanities
Escobar Varela, Miguel; Shrestha, Alvin
🤝 In-Person English
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Exploring annotation as an intellectual practice while demonstrating how researchers can implement sophisticated annotation workflows using accessible, notebook-based tools.
ADHO Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings are open to all registered conference attendees. Each session is offered in a designated format (in-person, virtual, or both) — please check the format badge.
Monday, July 27 — Morning
SIG: Libraries & DH
Convener: Glen Layne-Worthey
In-Person + Virtual
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Join the Special Interest Group meeting for Libraries & Digital Humanities. All conference attendees interested in this topic are welcome.
🔗 ADHO SIG Page
🔗 ADHO SIG Page
SIG: DH Pedagogy and Training
Convener: Walter Scholger
In-Person + Virtual
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Join the Special Interest Group meeting for DH Pedagogy and Training. All conference attendees interested in this topic are welcome.
🔗 ADHO SIG Page
🔗 ADHO SIG Page
Tuesday, July 28 — Morning
SIG: Multilingual DH
Convener: Till Grallert
In-Person + Virtual
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Join the Special Interest Group meeting for Multilingual DH. All conference attendees interested in this topic are welcome.
🔗 ADHO SIG Page
🔗 ADHO SIG Page
SIG: DH-WoGeM (Women & Gender Minorities)
Convener: Hannah Jacobs
In-Person + Virtual
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Join the Special Interest Group meeting for DH-WoGeM (Women & Gender Minorities). All conference attendees interested in this topic are welcome.
🔗 ADHO SIG Page
🔗 ADHO SIG Page
Tuesday, July 28 — Afternoon
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Join the Special Interest Group meeting for DLS (Digital Literary Studies). All conference attendees interested in this topic are welcome.
🔗 ADHO SIG Page · 📢 Call for Papers
🔗 ADHO SIG Page · 📢 Call for Papers
All room assignments are TBA and will be announced closer to the conference date.
Questions? Contact us at kadh2026@gmail.com