The Black Communication and Technology Lab (BCaT) at the University of Maryland is hosting a speaker series entitled Automating Black Joy (ABJ). On March 27 from 10 AM to 12 PM eastern, the next talk in the series will take place both in person and via Zoom, with Dr. Julian Posada presenting a talk titled ...

Archiving the Black Web’s (ATBW) Freedom School 2026 Webinar Series: Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship is presenting three talks across the spring months. The webinars are free and serve ATBW’s mission to provide accessible training and “opportunities for archivists and other memory workers interested in documenting the contemporary Black experience” in web archiving practices. “Images ...

The University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Teaching and Learning Center, Libraries, and Digital Learning Center are hosting the 4th Annual Teaching and Learning with AI Conference. The conference “aims to discuss how AI tools continue to evolve and change the way educators instruct students, as well as how students can effectively use these tools in ...

The DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network will host “Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression” on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, from 4:00–5:30pm (ET), at the University of Michigan and on Zoom. Organized through the Digital Studies Institute and the DISCO Network, this public panel convenes activists, scholars, and writers ...

Several digital humanities institutes will be held in 2026, offering a wide variety of training opportunities for researchers, students, and GLAM workers. The Digital Humanities Summer Institute East (DHSI-East) will be held May 5-8, 2026, at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia (Canada). Three workshop options are available to participants this year: Project Management in the ...

On March 19-20, 2026, the Elihu Burritt Library at Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, CT) will host the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, a free, in-person conference aimed at bringing together digital humanities practitioners across the New England region of the U.S. The conference will feature a keynote by Roopika Risam (Dartmouth College) titled “Knowledge ...

The 11th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium will take place in-person and online via livestream April 13-17, 2026. Hosted jointly at Michigan State University (MSU) and the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) in Mexico, the conference is free to attend either in-person or virtually. The conference schedule is now available to view online and includes a ...

The University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute is hosting a hybrid talk by Dorothy Berry (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture), entitled “How Users Imagine Archival Research: JPCA Explore and Digital Curation at the Smithsonian National African American History and Culture Museum.” The free talk is December 10th, from 4:00 PM – ...

Douglass Day is an annual event centered around crowd-sourcing transcription efforts to increase access to online collections of Black history and culture. Named in honor of Frederick Douglass and held every year on or around his birthday, February 14, Douglass Day has its roots in Black History Month and was revived in 2017 by the ...