CFP: Debates in the Digital Humanities 2028

The Debates in the Digital Humanities series invites 300 to 500 word abstracts for the upcoming 2028 volume. The call for proposals lists possible topics for submissions as:

• State of the field. What are the topics, methods, and other approaches that define the digital humanities? How do various sub-fields of DH relate to each other? What opportunities and/or challenges remain unaddressed?
• DH and the disciplines. How do (or might) allied fields such as STS, design, information science, media studies, computational social science, and the history of computing inform or be informed by the debates in the digital humanities? How are DH scholars contributing to conversations in disciplines traditionally outside of the humanities but that are now increasingly interested in “humanities” questions and topics?
• DH and artificial intelligence. How can DHers engage with AI from critical, historical, and/or technical perspectives? What is the role of DH in building better, more socially responsible, more ethically sound AI systems – or in not building them?
• DH pedagogy. How should – or shouldn’t – the digital humanities be taught? What role does DH have to play in various curricula and disciplines? What does DH look like at different educational levels and institutional types?
• DH and the academy. What is the role of DH in a moment defined by threats to academic freedom and other foundational values of higher education? How can DHers help to imagine and bring about a more just and equitable vision for higher education? How is DH practiced (or how should it be) when focused on publics outside the academy?
• DH in the present geopolitical moment. What is the role of the field in combating the racism, sexism, xenophobia, and other injustices promoted by nationalist political movements around the globe?
• DH and labor. Who does (and who is allowed to do) the work of DH? How does the inherently collaborative nature of DH help us to imagine work differently in, and between, a range of academic, cultural, and other organizations?
• DH and the world. What are the issues involved in the continued Anglocentrism of the field, as well as its focus on the Global North? What does DH look like in other locales?
• The institutionalization of DH. What is the role of DH in this moment of institutional instability? How do DHers maintain and support their work and the work of others alongside or outside of institutions? What does DH look like when focused on civic advocacy and action? What other formations are possible or already in place?
• Infrastructures of DH. How do uneven distributions of resources – on national, institutional, organizational, and cultural levels – impact and shape the field? What are the resources that make DH successful?

Abstracts should be sent to volume editors Kelly Baker Josephs (kbjosephs@miami.edu) and Lindsay Thomas (lthomas@cornell.edu) by May 25, 2025.