Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 470.
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[1] From: marijn Koolen <marijn.koolen@gmail.com>
Subject: Registration for DHBenelux 2025 is now open! (21)
[2] From: lustre network <lustre.network@mailbox.lboro.ac.uk>
Subject: Workshop – GENIAC: Generative AI for Colonial Archival Images (13 May, IWM London) (53)
[3] From: Yang, Tianling <tianling.yang@tu-berlin.de>
Subject: CfP: Workshop "AI x Crisis: Tracing New Directions Beyond Deployment and Use" (deadline May 30) | Aarhus Conference 2025 (65)
[4] From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: First call for papers DHASA Conference 2025 (161)
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Date: 2025-04-16 15:35:15+00:00
From: marijn Koolen <marijn.koolen@gmail.com>
Subject: Registration for DHBenelux 2025 is now open!
Dear DHers,
We are excited to announce that *registration for DHBenelux 2025 is now
open*! Join us in Amsterdam from *3–6 June 2025* for our traditional annual
conference that brings together the vibrant Digital Humanities community
across the Benelux region and beyond.
🎟️ *Early bird tickets are available until 7 May 2025* (or until sold
out), so make sure to register in time to secure your spot! Authors are
required to register.
🔗 Register here: https://2025.dhbenelux.org/registration/
Whether you are a presenter or participant, we look forward to welcoming
you to DHBenelux 2025 for four days of research exchange, collaboration,
and community building.
Please help us spread the word by sharing this announcement within your
networks.
Looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam!
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Date: 2025-04-16 15:07:06+00:00
From: lustre network <lustre.network@mailbox.lboro.ac.uk>
Subject: Workshop – GENIAC: Generative AI for Colonial Archival Images (13 May, IWM London)
Dear all,
As part of the project “GENIAC: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Archival
Images of the Colonial Period,” we are organising a one-day international
workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on Tuesday 13th May, from
approximately 9:15 to 16:00.
This not-to-be missed event brings together leading professionals from the GLAM
sector, AI researchers, historians and digital humanists to explore the ethical
and technical challenges of applying AI to colonial-era photographic archives.
Colonial historical records are often very sensitive, for example when they show
violence and humiliation of colonised populations. Even when collections have
been digitised, they are not always easily discoverable, for instance in the
case of missing or problematic metadata containing racist or outdated language.
Making archival records more accessible, in a responsible way, is a key
priority.
The GENIAC project, funded by the British Academy, will harness AI to enable
responsible access to colonial images from the late nineteenth century to the
early twentieth century. Co-designed with source communities from formerly
colonised countries, the project will lead to a series of outputs—such as
datasets and AI-powered tools, including a chat box that will allow users to ask
questions using natural language.
Our speakers include representatives from prominent cultural institutions such
as the Imperial War Museums, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Musée de l’Armée
(France), Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium), The National Archives UK,
ECPAD, and the Digital Benin project. We will also welcome academic contributors
from top universities and research groups across the UK and Europe, including
King’s College London, Queen’s University Belfast, University of Oxford, KU
Leuven, University of Amsterdam, and CNRS/INHA (France).
A collaborative session will focus on preparing a Horizon Europe collaborative
proposal (2 to 3 million euros) for a future project on ethical access to
colonial archival images.
To express your interest in participating, please email the following to
L.zhao6@lboro.ac.uk<mailto:L.zhao6@lboro.ac.uk> and
l.jaillant@lboro.ac.uk<mailto:l.jaillant@lboro.ac.uk> by 29th April:
* A short bio (maximum 100 words)
* An Expression of Interest (maximum 100 words) explaining your expertise
and your interest in this topic.
There is a limited number of places for this event. We will contact you in early
May to let you know if you have been selected.
We hope you can join us for what promises to be a rich and timely conversation.
Warm regards,
Professor Lise Jaillant, GENIAC PI
Dr Lingjia Zhao, GENIAC research associate
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Date: 2025-04-16 13:56:49+00:00
From: Yang, Tianling <tianling.yang@tu-berlin.de>
Subject: CfP: Workshop "AI x Crisis: Tracing New Directions Beyond Deployment and Use" (deadline May 30) | Aarhus Conference 2025
Dear colleagues,
We are excited to invite you to join our 1-day and in-person workshop
"AI x Crisis: Tracing New Directions Beyond Deployment and Use", which
will be held at Aarhus Conference 2025 and will take place on either
August 18 or 19, 2025.
This workshop focuses on the costs of AI, referring to the human and
natural toll of AI systems, such as labor exploitation, environmental
degradation, and perpetuated social inequality. Costs acknowledge the
inherent and inevitable trade-offs in the development and use of AI
systems, emphasizing the disproportionate burdens experienced in
infrastructuring, improving, and maintaining AI and the need to account
for and engage with various actors, especially those from the Majority
World that tend to be overlooked in WEIRD (i.e. Western, Educated,
Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) conceptions of AI ethics. We
invite position papers (2-4 pages, excluding references) on various
forms of AI-related costs, and critical engagement with methods to
approach and address these costs. Please see below for workshop themes
and topics.
Important details
- Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/ai-x-crisis-new-directions/home
- Date & Location: August 18 or 19, 2025, in Aarhus, Denmark
- Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025 (AoE)
- Submission Form:
https://airtable.com/appfFR3NOD1StylcL/pag9zGOv8bZiEiGl8/form
- Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2025 (AoE)
We are looking forward to your submissions! If you have any questions,
please do not hesitate to contact me at tianling.yang@tu-berlin.de. We
would also appreciate it if you could share this invite with interested
colleagues and networks.
Best Regards,
Tianling Yang (along with workshop co-organizers Srravya
Chandhiramowuli, Jana Pannier, Camilla Salim Wagner, Julian Posada, Alex
Taylor, Rafael Grohmann, and Milagros Miceli)
Themes and Topics
We invite position papers (2-4 pages, excluding references) that engage
with the guiding questions and topics below and welcome further
perspectives.
Guiding questions:
- What different types of costs of AI are there?
- How can research communities meaningfully engage with AI-related costs?
Topics of Interest
- Human labor in AI production and use: What types of labor are integral
to AI pipelines? What are their contexts, conditions, and
characteristics? What types of costs arise from these labor practices?
- Infrastructures of computing: What are the consequences of the
increasing and structural dependence on AI-related infrastructure
controlled by tech giants?
- Environmental costs of AI: How can we measure, quantify, track, and
visualize the environmental impacts the AI sector brings? How can we
conceive of climate justice given the uneven distribution of benefits
and environmental impacts in AI development and use?
- Alternative methods to engage with AI-related costs: What are the
theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and empirical cases to strengthen
negotiation, resistance, and re-imagining of AI costs and futures?
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Date: 2025-04-16 12:32:50+00:00
From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: First call for papers DHASA Conference 2025
First call for papers DHASA Conference 2025
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za
Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial
intelligence
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is
pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The
role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence.
In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively
underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster
growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an
opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the
broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the
conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-
the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa
region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities
research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research
focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense.
Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information
sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital
Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities
in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to
promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic
field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and
tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable
insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events
are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital
Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their
knowledge in the field.
The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from
researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but
not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and
theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology,
language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies,
software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an
inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities.
Suggested topics include the following:
* The role of AI in digital humanities, the role of Digital Humanities
in shaping AI, and the broader role of the humanities in both AI and DH
projects;
* Digital archives and the preservation of marginalised voices;
* Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the
intersections of race, gender, sexuality, culture, and class in digital
research and activism;
* Activism and social change through digital media: how digital
humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion;
* Engaging marginalised communities in the creation and use of digital
tools, resources, and AI;
* Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonising knowledge
and promoting indigenous perspectives;
* The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities and
AI research;
* The role of digital humanities and AI in promoting inclusive and
equitable pedagogy;
* Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of African and global
perspectives and international collaborations;
* Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining
the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in
promoting inclusion; and
* Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit
organisations, community groups, and cultural institutions;
* Development of digital and AI tools for supporting digital
humanities;
* Novel utilisation of digital and AI tools for performing digital
humanities research;
* The role of digital humanities in the classroom: reimagining literacy
and AI fluency
* Digital humanities data and project management;
* The role of librarians in the digital humanities project;
* Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern
African community.
Submission Guidelines
The DHASA conference 2025 asks for three types of submissions:
* Long papers: Authors may submit long papers with a maximum of 8
content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The
final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional
page (leading to a total of up to 9 content pages) to incorporate
reviewers' comments. Long papers accepted for the conference will be
presented in 30-minute time slots (which includes 10 minutes for
questions).
* Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5
content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendices. The
final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page
(leading to a total of up to 6 content pages) to accommodate reviewers'
comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented in
15-minute time slots (which includes 5 minutes for questions).
* Executive summaries: Authors can submit an executive summary for work
in progress, limited to 1 page. Executive summaries accepted for the
conference will be presented as posters during a dedicated poster
presentation slot.
All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the
conference will be published in the JDHASA journal, see
https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the executive
summaries for the poster presentations will be published in a book of
executive summaries before the conference.
We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is
a student.
All submissions should adhere to the ACL style guide:
https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html
Submissions should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions that do not
adhere to the prescribed style guide will be rejected.
Follow this link to go to the submission platform:
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/
Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR
repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties
uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip
(benito.trollip@nwu.ac.za).
Important dates
Submission deadline: 14 July 2025
Date of notification: 16 September 2025
Camera-ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025
Conference: 10 November 2025 – 14 November 2025
Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa
Co-located events
Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including
workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference
website.
Organising Committee
Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Avi Moodley, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University
Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
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Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za
Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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