The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has shared a call for submissions for its annual conference, DH2027, to be held at the University of Galway, Ireland, from June 28 to July 3, 2027. The conference will be partly hybrid, and accepted authors will be asked to identify their preference for in-person or online attendance.

From the call:

Conference Theme: “Creativity” 

Creativity has always been part of digital humanities. It is present in the works and practices we study as well as in the ways we build collections, design tools, model data, make comparisons, create editions, develop visualisations and interpret cultural materials. Digital humanities research often depends on finding new ways to work with materials that do not fit easily into existing categories or methods.

For DH2027, we invite the community to think about creativity in this broad sense. What does creativity mean when humanistic work is increasingly carried out with computational methods, digital media and artificial intelligence? How are new forms of cultural expression changing what we study and how we study it? And where does creativity lie in research practices that may appear, at first sight, to be mainly technical or analytical? Creativity also takes place under constraint. Languages, cultural traditions, datasets, standards, platforms, infrastructures, copyright, access, labour, institutional settings and environmental costs all influence what can be made, studied, represented and shared. Such constraints can limit creative possibilities, but they can also lead to new methods and different ways of seeing cultural materials.

Proposals are particularly invited that engage with one of the following areas:

• Computational creativity
• Creative methods and interpretation
• Creative engagements with cultural heritage
• Digital arts
• Creative technologies

Proposals may be submitted for long papers, short papers, posters, and pre-conference workshops. Details on session formats and special conference tracks are available in the CFP.

Deadline for submissions: November 20, 2026. Proposals must be submitted via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.pro/dh2027/.

Proposals are invited for Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, to be held February 19–20, 2027. From the call, the symposium focuses on how “researchers, archivists, students, community members, and others are using digital tools and methodologies to recover archival materials and make them available and accessible to expand our understanding of the past and reclaim and promote histories that have been overlooked, suppressed, or erased.” Organizers welcome individual 15-minute presentations and panels of three to four presentations. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Association for Documentary Editing, the Society for Textual Scholarship, Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities, African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum), and eLaboratories.

Proposals are due November 20, 2026.

The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) has shared a call for proposals for participation in its twenty-fifth annual meeting, which will be held fully online from June 3-5, 2027. Proposals on all topics relevant to cultural studies will be considered, with priority given to those that engage the conference’s theme of Thresholds.

From the call for proposals:

In more ways than one, we exist at the threshold: the resurgence of fascist governance; the potential elimination of Black studies, Ethnic studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies from the University; the tipping point of runaway climate change; mounting violations of privacy via AI and other technology. Yet, scholars push back against presentist conceptions of the threshold. Black, Indigenous, and Queer scholars, for example, have illustrated how their communities have long been impacted by colonial and environmental catastrophe. Our political rhetoric, our economic forecast, our climatological outlook, and our popular imagination calls attention incessantly to our “momentous moment”–perpetually on the brink, at the edge, at an inflection point. This rhetoric of impending catastrophe and permacrisis often serves to maintain the status quo, or obfuscate the actual sites of suffering and loci of power that perpetuate that physical, political, economic and environmental violence. Thus, scholars raise the question, who and what histories are left out by certain framings of the threshold? At the same time, this threshold does not only gesture to an impending doom, but possibilities for imagining otherwise: How might we detour away from the destinies prescribed by Western colonial regimes? How might we re-conceptualize our understanding of difference? The liminality of thresholds calls attention to the increasingly blurry boundaries between assumed oppositions: the human and the technological, the natural and the artificial, along with myriad taxonomies and categories of race, gender, sex, sexuality, ability, and identity. What new possibilities for subversive agency exist among those unruly bodies which exceed the limited categories placed upon them?

Submissions should be made by November 20, 2026, through the EasyChair link on the CFP webpage.

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium invites proposals for its 12th annual event, taking place both virtually and in person May 2027. The Call for Proposals is open until November 18th, 2026. The organizers especially welcome submissions on the following topics:

• Multilingualism and language justice in DH

• Indigenous led DH work and community engaged collaborations in DH

• Globally situated human-AI collaboration and critique in DH

• DH approaches to the study of the environment and considerations of environmental justice in DH infrastructure and practice

• Relational, distributed, and/or creative frameworks and practices in global digital pedagogy

• Public and community-engaged DH

• Digital historical research and archives

• Minimal, material, and sustainable approaches to DH

• Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in global contexts

• Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance

• Borders, migration, and diasporas with an emphasis on the effects of warfare and conflict

• Feminist and queer perspectives in DH

• Disability justice and accessibility

• DH methods in interdisciplinary and cross-regional research

• Digital storytelling and artistic representations in digital spaces

• Computational literary studies

The schedule of events will be as follows:

• 10 May (Monday) – In-Person Symposium at Michigan State University (in English)
• 12-13 May (Wednesday-Thursday) – Virtual Symposium (in English, Spanish, and French)
• 15 May (Saturday) – In-Person Symposium at the University of Guelph (in English and French)
• Mid-May, Post Symposium – DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

DH Benelux 2027 will be held July 7–9, 2027, at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, with pre-conference workshops on July 6. The theme, “Where Is Digital Humanities?”, asks where DH does its work after LLMs: with whom, on what terms, and at what cost. The call is organized around three axes: DH’s disciplinary identity, its credibility with publics such as citizen scientists and heritage volunteers, and its place in a research lifecycle shaped by generative AI, including that AI’s environmental costs. Several suggested topics speak directly to library and archives work. These include cultural heritage institutions as research partners, digital archives and long-term preservation, reproducibility and citation when models are versioned or deprecated, and crowdsourcing and participatory annotation. The conference accepts proposals in English for oral presentations, lightning talks, posters, demos, panels, and workshops. All submissions are anonymized and go through double-blind review. Presentations must be in person, since no online option is planned. Proposals are due December 7, 2026. Full details are in the call for papers.

Submissions are invited for the Critical Digital Archives: Travel, Translation, Transformation: A Hybrid Symposium on Archives in and from the SWANA Region, to take place January 21-22, 2027, at the Senate House in London. From the call:

This symposium aims to provide a forum for scholars, archivists, community and cultural organizations interested in critical approaches to digital archives containing materials from and about the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region, understood as a geographic, historical, and cultural space. In this space, archives have been historically imposed, looted, extracted, dispersed, destroyed, but also rescued, rebuilt and reinvented, pioneering practices of resistance, reparation and return that raise compelling ethical, theoretical and practical questions for scholars and stakeholders (Ghaddar, 2025). Building on Itza Carbajal and Michelle Caswell’s framework (2021), our approach seeks to advance a language-sensitive understanding of reparative archival practices that are attentive to and accountable for the technological, social, and environmental impacts of digital archives. We are interested in digitisation as a transformative process that reshapes archival practices, knowledge production, and power relations. Conceived as a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and horizontal forum, the symposium invites participants, both in person and online, to engage in discussion and exchange around three interconnected themes and interpretative lenses. Two keynote speakers – Sara Salem (LSE) and Amanda Egbe (UWE) – will act as discussants, facilitating collective reflection and dialogue around participants’ contributions. The three themes of the symposium are Travel,: Archives in Movement; Translation: Languages in the Archives; and Transformation: Digital Futures and Ethics of Dematerialization.

Abstracts of 300 words and short biographies are due by September 30, 2026, via email to b.spadaro[at]liverpool.ac.uk and v.vitale[at]sheffield.ac.uk.

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) has released a call for submissions for their 2027 conference in Šibenik, Croatia, from May 19-21, 2027. As the call explains,

The LIDA 2027 conference explores questions prompted by the major transformations of memory institutions in the age of artificial intelligence with two inter-related themes: “Artificial Intelligence and Ethical Institutional Response” and “Emotion and Creativity.” In the age of artificial intelligence, technological, philosophical, and humanistic values are becoming intertwined. This presents new opportunities and challenges for memory institutions while encouraging a deeper understanding of the role of emotion and creativity in designing spaces for reflection on, and even counter-response to, artificial intelligence.

Submissions are due October 10, 2026 via EasyChair.

The Undergraduate Journal of Digital Humanities has released a call for journal and blog submissions. According to their website, the journal is

the first digital humanities publication for undergraduates. Based at Yale University, we are dedicated to publishing student research in the field at a time when digital technologies are becoming increasingly important in society, academia, and global affairs.

Submissions may be written in English or Spanish. Journal submissions for the Fall 2026 issue are due October 1, 2026, whereas blog submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.

The 2027 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Online Meeting will be held January 26-28, 2027. The event organizers are looking for proposals that center around the theme, “Working and Learning,” as an opportunity to showcase new and innovative IIIF projects, implementations, developments, and tools, as well as to learn new skills. From the call:

Lightning Talks: We encourage showcasing developments in IIIF and in particular would welcome presentations in the following areas:

• IIIF implementations featuring unique or uncommon collections
• Using IIIF material for Machine Learning and AI
• Implementations of IIIF outside of North America/Europe
• IIIF in the classroom
• Annotation use cases

Tool Demos: Have a new IIIF tool? Have you built something for personal use that you want to share with the community? Looking for feedback on a project in progress? This is your opportunity to show off your work with a brief (5-7 minutes) demo.

Workshops: Workshop submissions must have an abstract, a proposed outline schedule, and desired outcomes (e.g., “at this end of this session, participants will be able to place IIIF manifests on a web map”, or “at the end of this session, participants will be able to use IIIF manifests to create guided storytelling exhibitions”). This year, we are seeking workshop proposals aimed at end users, researchers, and educators as well as workshops for experienced IIIF practitioners.

Proposal submissions will be accepted through November 3, 2026 via google form.

Complexhibit 2026 will be held on 30 June through 2 July 2026 in Málaga, Spain, under the theme, “Cultural Complexity and Computational Approaches: Toward a Systemic and Critical Understanding of Cultural Ecosystems.” Registration is free. The transdisciplinary event explores multiple themes, including cultural dynamic and historical change; cultural infrastructures, knowledge and evidence; and, responsibility, data governance and sustainability. From the announcement:

The conference is situated within a consolidated research landscape spanning (i) systems-oriented cultural theory and cultural sociology; (ii) the methodological and epistemic debates of Digital Humanities around scale, evidence, and interpretation; (iii) complexity science and network-based approaches to cultural history; and (iv) Semantic Web traditions in knowledge organization and cultural interoperability.

Computational approaches are central not as an end in themselves, but as a means to theorize, model, and evaluate cultural complexity with explicit assumptions and interpretive accountability. Therefore, “computational” designates more than a toolkit; it signals a methodological and epistemic orientation that foregrounds:

• Formal representation of cultural knowledge: conceptual modeling, ontologies, knowledge graphs, explicit source traceability (provenance), and qualified claims (uncertainty, disagreement, approximation).
• Computational modeling and analysis: network science, temporal dynamics, simulation, statistical inference, and—where appropriate—causal or counterfactual reasoning.
• NLP for cultural discourse: from criticism and catalogues to archives and platform communication, emphasizing rhetoric, valuation, and contestation.
• Cultural data science: grounded in evaluation, interpretability, bias analysis, and epistemic accountability.
• Reproducibility and governance: documentation, FAIR principles, licensing constraints, and infrastructural sustainability.

Proposals for paper presentations (20 minutes), panels/roundtables, and workshops, are currently being accepted through 15 May 2026 (23:59 CET), via email (digitalarthistory[at]uma.es).

Submissions for the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2027 are now open. The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on February 9-12, 2027, with the theme of FAIR DO’s: Centering People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects. For more information on the topic,  visit the Conference Theme webpage. Proposals for accepted formats include papers, lightening talks, posters, demonstrations, and workshops. Key dates for submissions and acceptance vary, but information for each format can be found in the call for proposals.