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/.
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