CFP: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium

The University of Florida, the University of North Florida, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and the Transborder DH Center and Consortium (TBDH) at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) seek proposals for the fourth annual Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium from September 8-10, 2026, in-person at UT San Antonio. The symposium will also offer virtual sessions the week of September 21, 2026. From the call for proposals:

[T]he Latin American and Caribbean Digital Humanities (LACDH) and Transborder Digital Humanities (TBDH) 2026 Symposium—guided by the theme Transfronteras: Third Spaces in Digital Humanities—invites participants to reflect on and discuss digital humanities as terceros espacios / third spaces. 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.

For this symposium, we welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to:

• Multilingual-Translingual work
• Multicultural-intersectional representations
• Counter-narratives/data/archives/mapping
• Technology disobedience-sovereignity
• Responsible computing, ethics and policy
• Human-computer interactions
• Digital-political-social threats
• Resourcefulness, creativity and ingenuity practices and methods (rasquachismos/border rasquache)
• Collaborations across nations, communities, individuals
• Transnational solidarities
• Feminist digital resistances
• Shared, connected, dispersed, relational digital structures
• Acts of care, healing, justice, repair, slowing down, revising
• Transdisciplinary-Interdisciplinary pedagogies
• Memory-work
• Local cultural heritages
• Fluidity, mobility, transitions, displacement, migration, division scenarios
• Personal, geopolitical, natural borders

Proposals for papers and posters, pre-formed panels (3-4 speakers), and roundtables (up to 6 participants) are welcome in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French. Students, faculty, staff, and independent scholars, as well as cultural institutions and organizations engaging in digital humanities work are invited to apply. Proposals should be submitted by February 13, 2026.