CFP: Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH 2025)

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will hold ACH 2025, a virtual conference, from June 11-13, 2025. From the call:

Conference Focus

Amid rapid societal and technological transformations and historic elections worldwide, ACH fosters dialogue, spaces, and solidarity on equity and justice across local, transborder, and global contexts. ACH 2025 underscores the importance of addressing societal challenges in the digital humanities and beyond, such as racial and gender discrimination, while also highlighting the ramifications of computing and environmental crises. Join us in navigating diverse political milieus and shaping a virtual conference that is just and inclusive.

ACH 2025 values process- and relationship-oriented modes of working over the end result, fostering hope-making, and we seek to prioritize proposals that focus on care, community, and collaboration in diverse contexts. We are especially interested in receiving proposals from participants with a range of expertise and a variety of roles, including 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.

Conference Scope

As a conference committed to cross-disciplinary engagement, ACH 2025 welcomes interdisciplinary proposals. Areas of digital humanities scholarship that are relevant to the conference include but are not limited to:

• Collaborations for Community
• Computational Creativity
• Critical Making
• Digital and computational approaches to humanistic research and pedagogy
• 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 & 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

Conference Submission Types and Languages

Papers and Panels will be presented through a video conferencing system; Creative Submissions may be presented through a video conferencing system or through Work Adventure.

We welcome the following submission types:

Creative Submissions:

Artwork, posters, data visualizations, installations, performances, demonstrations and other interventions that engage conference issues, methods, and themes on any relevant topic, project, or tool at any stage of development.

Papers (12-15 minutes):

Dynamic presentations that share experiments, works-in-progress, or sustained reflections on outcomes of more complete projects while engaging a range of participants and fostering connections and dialogue.

Panels (1 hour and 15 minutes):

Engaging sessions that facilitate dialogue between presentations, highlighting connections between projects, methods or themes and reserving a minimum of 15 minutes for discussion with the audience.

Submit a proposal at ACH 2025 Conftool by March 23, 2025, 11:59:59 PM in GMT-4 (EST).