From the event description:

Transitions of Leadership: Succession, Stewardship, and Sustainability in the Digital Humanities (online conference, 16 November, 2026)

Many larger digital humanities initiatives now span multiple generations of scholars, infrastructures, and institutions. As these projects, platforms, and partnerships mature and continue over time, questions of leadership and succession have become increasingly central to their future—and, by extension in some cases, to the future of the field. Even so, while many project founders and leaders have devoted considerable time, energy, and intellectual engagement ensuring that their initiatives survive technological shifts and endure as key scholarly infrastructures, often less attention is devoted to facilitating successful transition and succession of their own leadership roles, and those of others who are central to these initiatives, as they retire, change institutions, pursue new research projects, or step back for other reasons. Further, at present there is very little available in our field’s professional literature offering guidance about this; much of what exists is via occasional, and often sad, anecdotes of situations in which succession has gone wrong or occurred unexpectedly.

Through a series of pre-recorded videos and two discussion sessions, this conference considers transitions of leadership in this context, exploring success stories in which those involved in ongoing digital humanities initiatives have navigated leadership transition effectively. Questions to be explored include:

• What lessons can be learned from the lived experience of digital humanities researchers, librarians, innovators and others who have managed a project transition from their leadership to someone else?
• What are the challenges associated with transition and succession?
• What are some best practices to make these transitions successful?

Panel speakers and their videos can be found at: https://hsscommons.ca/en/groups/dhtransitions/collections/panel-talks. (You will need to be a member of this group to view the videos.)

Schedule:

Online: Monday, 16 November, 2026 (Tuesday, 17 November, 2026 Australia)

• Panel 1: 9:00am–10:00am (Victoria) = 5:00pm Europe = 4:00pm UK = 11:00am EST [=3:00am, 17 November Sydney AUS]
• Panel 2: 3:00pm–4:00pm (Victoria) = 5:00pm EST = 9:00am Tues 17 November Sydney AUS [=11:00pm Europe = 10:00pm UK]

Conference Format:

The talks are pre-recorded and available on HSS Commons (https://hsscommons.ca/en/groups/dhtransitions/collections/panel-talks). We encourage participants to view the videos in advance. The discussions will involve questions and answers about the presentations with the panel members.

Registration:

• Registration, before 10 November, 2026 (free, but necessary): https://forms.gle/q17agG4scBTjk6An9
• A link for online discussion will be distributed 1-2 days before the event to those who have registered

Charis Books & More will host a hybrid panel discussion, in person in Decatur, Georgia, and online via Crowdcast, of Lauren Klein’s Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science (MIT Press) on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 7:30pm ET, the same day the book is published. The book traces how data visualization has been used both to consolidate knowledge and power and to expose oppression and bring about change. Its examples include a diagram of captives in the hold of a slave ship made by British antislavery activists, and a map a Ñudzahui (Mixtec) painter created to document his people’s claims to their land. The book also includes new visualizations by Klein and her research team, which can be explored on an accompanying interactive website.

Klein, Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and English at Emory University and director of its Digital Humanities Lab, will be joined by contributors Margy Adams, Shiyao Li, Tanvi Sharma, and Jay Varner of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Catherine D’Ignazio, Klein’s co-author on Data Feminism and director of MIT’s Data + Feminism Lab, will moderate. The event is free, with registration required for virtual attendance.

An online conference on November 16, 2026, hosted by Canadian HSS Commons, will discuss how digital humanities projects that “span multiple generations of scholars, infrastructures, and institutions” can teach future scholars about project management, transitions, and tools. The format of the conference will be pre-recorded videos, accompanied by live conversation.

Registration is free, but required by November 10, 2026. Registrants must be members of the Canadian HSS Commons group to participate.

SWIB26, the 18th Semantic Web in Libraries conference, will take place online November 16–18, 2026. Organized by ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), SWIB brings together practitioners working on linked open data in libraries, along with participants from scholarly communications, museums, archives, and related fields. This year’s keynote is Mark Dingemanse on the interactional foundations of critical AI literacies. The program also includes 13 presentations, five hands-on workshops, and a community session on SWIB’s AI policy. The conference is free, and the livestream is open to all. Workshops run on Monday, November 16, and require a free SWIB forum account to register. Sessions are scheduled on Central European Time. Details are on the SWIB26 program announcement and the registration page.

The fourth annual Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium took place from September 8-10, 2026, in person at UT San Antonio, with the virtual symposium taking place next week, September 21-23, 2026. The symposium is guided by the theme “Transfronteras: Third Spaces in Digital Humanities,” which invites participants to reflect on and discuss digital humanities as terceros espacios / third spaces. From the virtual program:

Border feminist scholar Gloria Anzaldúa (1987) describes the borderlands as a liminal and hybrid space produced through the meeting of different cultures and identities—an in-between zone where new meanings emerge, where those
living at the margins can find belonging, and where dominant narratives can be challenged and transformed. Similarly, her concept of nepantla, understood as a “lugar de en medio,” names a state of transition and ambiguity experienced at geographic, cultural, and identity borders. Rooted in a Náhuatl term, Anzaldúa reinterprets nepantla as a transformative liminal space crucial to the formation of new identities.

Understanding digital humanities as a third space—as nepantla—allows us to recognize a wide range of collaborative efforts across disciplines, cultures, skills and knowledges, languages, communities, and geographies. These efforts have created counter-spaces and alternative models: communities, teams, projects, and ideas within and beyond academia that respond to contest, and challenge dominant narratives. Attentive to local, transborder, transnational, and personal borders, we welcome reflections on work shaped by adversity, mistakes, failures, violence, rupture, and change, and on how such moments become sites for navigating borders through inquiry, creativity, transgression, and transformation.

We embrace the slow, the incomplete, and the pause as productive practices that connect, nourish, and cultivate workflows integrating the humanities and the digital in pursuit of more just and livable worlds. This year’s theme encourages contributors to share lessons learned about transborder digital humanities as commitment, as impact, and as ongoing collaboration with individuals, communities, and teams across borders in times of continual evolution.

View the virtual program and registration information at https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-symposium.

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) has announced a series of eleven online training opportunities that explore fundamental data management and computational methods in digital humanities: Building Digital Skills for the Arts and Humanities. The series is aimed at researchers of all types who are new to the field, and it is free and open to all. Each training takes place between 1:30-3:00 PM CEST (7:30-9:00 AM EST), with recordings and materials provided after each session.

Remaining topics include:

Registration is open until May 2027.

The National Humanities and Social Sciences Team at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada has launched a training series. According to the series’ site, the workshops

are designed to take researchers and students in the humanities and social sciences through the different stages of the research process, introducing them to digital tools and research approaches relevant to each stage. The training series includes workshops on digital longevity, cloud computing, programming in R and python, data cleaning and analysis software, and data repositories. Most workshops are open to participants of all skill levels; where there are prerequisites, these will be listed in the workshop description.

The workshop series is online and free to attend. The series begins in September 22, 2026 and runs through March 16, 2027.

On June 22 and 23, 2026, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will be offering a series of workshops in advance of the ACH 2026 conference. As the pre-conference workshop page explains, this workshop series is a pilot project, aimed at “offering low-cost opportunities for teaching and learning on digital humanities topics that matter to the community.”

The three workshops are:

• DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design
• Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data
• Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution

Workshops will be taught in English. Those interested in attending a workshop should complete the pre-registration form by May 22, 2026.

The Archival & Digital Media Lab (ADML) and Nasawiyyah: Arab Media History are cohosting Beyond Extraction: Memory in Revolt, a free online seminar series that is

committed to confronting and dismantling the colonial and white supremacist logics that continue to structure archives, media infrastructures, and heritage institutions. Moving beyond extraction as both method and metaphor, the series insists that memory is not a resource to be mined, catalogued, or commodified—but a living terrain of struggle. It spotlights the incredible intergenerational work of students, scholars and practitioners to preserve resistant histories and alternative knowledge in the present and for the future.

Beyond Extraction: Memory in Revolt is part of the Pedagogy for Archival Liberation Project, led by Dr. Jamila Ghaddar (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Mariam Karim (Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar), Rose Miyonga (University of Warwick), and Krystal Payne (University of Manitoba). The Pedagogy for Archival Liberation Project “advances South–South and South–North exchanges that reject extractive knowledge economies and instead cultivate solidarities grounded in accountability, reciprocity, and return.”

The series’ upcoming event is a talk by Dr. Myriam Dalal (Goldsmiths, University of London) on May 6, 2026. Entitled “Guerrilla Public History: Applying a Radical Methodology of Reclaiming History(ies), Stripped Away Through Violence,” those interested in attending can register here.

The National Summit on Local News Preservation is a free event being hosted by the Internet Archive, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and the Poynter Institute in National Harbor, Maryland on June 17, 2026 in advance of the IRE 2026 conference. As the event site, explains “This event will bring together the producers, preservers, and users of local news to develop collaborative, scalable solutions to address the urgent preservation challenges presented by the rapidly changing local news landscape.” The in-person full day event is free, and there is limited funding for travel expenses. Those interested in attending should register here.

The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) University Libraries Section’s (ULS) Professional Development Committee has organized a free online presentation, entitled “Embedding Data Services within a Digital Scholarship Lab.” Speakers Eli Wachter, Jonathan Barber, and Justin Wadland (all Michigan State University) will explore “how to effectively incorporate data services into existing digital scholarship services at an academic library.” From the program description:

An early-career Data Visualization Librarian will begin the program by presenting their experiences joining a new position for a university library’s Digital Scholarship Lab. They will share their strategies of surveying needs with subject liaisons and building relationships with other educational units on campus to inform their priorities in developing data visualization resources and services. To expand beyond individual actions to improve services, an established Data Services Librarian within the same unit will describe his efforts re-establishing a Research Facilitation Network, which highlights and connects the research support services provided throughout the university. In re-establishing this Network, the team adapted the Campus Research Computing Consortium’s Capabilities Model to assess the research computing and data landscape at the university. In addition to building a sense of community among researchers and service providers, the Network provides regular events that address gaps in research support on campus. The unit lead will provide context for the intersection of data services and digital scholarship within academic libraries, using the Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries as a subset model. He will also illustrate how he has used appreciative inquiry to facilitate unit-level strategic planning as an active and ongoing conversation with team members, affiliate faculty, and constituents. In his presentation around strategic planning, he will share approaches for advocating for new positions, refining existing positions to meet emergent needs, and planning within the context of budget reductions.

The presentation will take place April 22, 2026, starting at 1:00 PM Central Time. Registration can be found here.