The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks proposals for ACH 2026, a fully virtual conference to be held June 22-24, 2026. The conference theme is Emergence/ia. From the call for proposals:
ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both “emergence” and “emergency.” This dual meaning serves as our starting point. While emergence/ia speaks to growth, connection, and creation, emergency/ia signals moments of urgency that demand care, response, and transformation. ACH 2026 seeks to ask: What forms of knowledge creation in the digital humanities (broadly defined) are emerging from pressing challenges across the Americas? How do digital humanists respond to emergencies through knowledge creation, while being mindful of ramifications of computing for environmental crises? What insights do themes of transnationalism and solidarity reveal across the Americas about our work and communities, and the role of emerging technology in shaping both?
ACH fosters dialogue and solidarity on equity and justice across local, transborder, and global contexts in an inclusive space. As a bilingual conference, ACH 2026 welcomes proposals and presentations in Spanish and English; we encourage presenters to decenter, complicate, and resituate the United States in their approach to the Americas. We are interested in receiving proposals from participants with a range of expertise and roles, including international workers and students, alt-ac positions, employment outside of higher education, and graduate and undergraduate students. We further invite proposals from participants who are newcomers to digital humanities.
Submission types include Creative Presentations (3-5 minute lightning talk and poster session), Papers (12-15 minutes), and Panels (1 hour and 15 minutes). Possible “areas of digital humanities scholarship that are relevant to the conference include but are not limited to” include:
- Collaborations for community
- Computational creativity
- Critical making
- Digital cultural heritage
- Digital surveillance
- Digital humanities tools and infrastructures
- Digital librarianship
- Digital media, art, literature, history, music, film, and games
- Digital public humanities
- Environmental humanities and climate justice
- Humanistic and ethical approaches to data science and data visualization
- Humanistic research on digital objects and cultures
- Humanities knowledge infrastructures
- Union, labor and organization in digital humanities
- Machine learning, including AI and LLMs and their implications
- Multilingualism in digital humanities
- Multimodal scholarship
- Resource creation, curation, and engagement
- Use of digital technologies to write, publish, and review scholarship
Proposals should be submitted to ConfTool by February 23, 2026, 11:59:59 PM in Central Time (GMT-4).
The conference committee also welcomes applications for Regional Hubs, in-person gatherings to bring people together during/around the online conference. Those interested in proposing a regional hub should submit the host interest form to be considered.
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