CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium invites proposals for the 2026 conference, to be held April 13-17 virtually and in-person at Michigan State University. This year’s conference is co-organized with the Universidad de Monterrey in México (UDEM).

From the call for proposals:

We invite work at the intersections of critical DH, that engages with anti-colonial and post-colonial frameworks, that supports feminist and anti-racist praxis, and that crosses political and disciplinary borders. We define the term “humanities” expansively to open up space for a range of issues that encourages interdisciplinary understandings of the humanities

*The in-person symposium at MSU 13 April and at UDEM 17 April will be in English. The virtual symposium 14-15 April supports presentation and attendance in English and Spanish through live interpretation.

This Symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types, welcomes proposals by the end of the day Wednesday, 15 October 2025 midnight in your timezone.

This year, we especially anticipate and welcome presentations on the following topics, and we are especially interested in hearing about specific practical and theoretical examples from the Global Majority context:

• Minimal, material, and sustainable approaches to DH
• Global AI practices, opportunities, and challenges in DH
• Resilience and collaboration in the face of global crises
• Student-centered frameworks and practices in global digital pedagogy

We are always interested to hear about the following topics, and their connections to the digital, as reflected in global research conversations and ethical DH practices across disciplines:

• Public and community-engaged digital humanities
• Indigeneity, anti-colonialism, and digital cultural heritage
• Digital humanities approaches to climate and healthcare
• Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in a global context
• Disability justice and accessibility
• Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance
• Feminist and queer perspectives in DH
• Borders, migration, and diasporas with an emphasis on the effects of warfare and conflict
• Multilingualism and language justice
• DH methods in interdisciplinary and cross-regional research

Virtual presentations can be in either Spanish or English in the following formats:

• 7-min lightning talk
• 15-min presentation
• 60-min panel
• Project showcase

In-person presentations should be in English, though posters at UDEM are welcome in English or Spanish in the following formats:

• 7-min lightning talk
• 15-min presentation
• 60-min panel
• Posters

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium will conduct an open review process. Names and institutional affiliations of submitters will be shared with reviewers, and names and affiliations of reviewers will be shared with submitters along with a comment on their submission.