Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 39, No. 244.
Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
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[1] From: Brian Croxall <brian.croxall@byu.edu>
Subject: CFP for Pedagogy SIG workshop at DH 2026, proposals due 5 January 2026 (57)
[2] From: Róbert PÉTER <robert.peter@ieas-szeged.hu>
Subject: AVOBMAT webinar (8 December) and new Spanish novel database added (119)
[3] From: costas papadopoulos <cpapadopoulos84@gmail.com>
Subject: Extended Deadline - DH Benelux 2026 Call for Papers (New Deadline: 7 December) (36)
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Date: 2025-12-01 22:01:35+00:00
From: Brian Croxall <brian.croxall@byu.edu>
Subject: CFP for Pedagogy SIG workshop at DH 2026, proposals due 5 January 2026
Dear colleagues,
Following the discussion at our workshop in Lisbon about what the ADHO Pedagogy
and Training SIG should take on, the conveners have developed a plan for the
conference in South Korea.
Overview
The DH Pedagogy and Training SIG will hold a Pedagogy Poster Slam at the 2026 DH
Conference in Daejeon, South Korea. The Pedagogy Poster Slam will take place
during the SIG’s reserved slot during one of the conference’s two workshop days,
either Monday, 27 July 2026, or Tuesday, 28 July 2026.
Posters will either focus on a) a specific assignment for a DH or DH-inflected
course or b) an entire course. During the workshop, participants will first
participate in the Slam, where they will have a maximum of 120 seconds to
discuss one aspect of their assignment or course.
Once the participants have all spoken, the rest of the workshop will be devoted
to a conventional poster session, where attendees can engage with the presenters
at their posters. Presenters will be encouraged to bring print copies of their
assignment/syllabus to distribute to attendees.
All conference attendees will be welcome to attend the workshop and slam. (Plus,
there will be food!)
**Call for Proposals**
The SIG Conveners invite all members of the DH community to submit proposals for
the Pedagogy Poster Slam. Proposals will include
*
150 words or fewer about the context of the assignment, course, or workshop
*
200 words or fewer about the assignment, course, or workshop
*
An upload of either the assignment or the course syllabus
Proposals should be submitted via the following Google Form:
https://forms.gle/zdkNEHXPDppXQz3E6. Proposals are due by the end of **5
January 2026**. Accepted participants will be notified not later than 5 February
2026. Proposals will be peer reviewed by the SIG Conveners.
N.B. Please be aware that posters submitted to the pre-conference SIG Pedagogy
Poster Slam are distinct from the DH2026 poster submission category. The Program
Committee for DH2026 has indicated that you are welcome to submit posters to
both the main conference as well as to this SIG workshop, although the
submission format is significantly different.
**Depositing Posters**
Following the Conference, the SIG Conveners will create and curate a collection
of the posters and associated pedagogical documents.
**Questions**
Please contact the conveners with any questions you may have:
Brian Croxall (brian.croxall@byu.edu<mailto:brian.croxall@byu.edu>), Diane
Jakacki (dkj004@bucknell.edu<mailto:dkj004@bucknell.edu>) and Walter Scholger
(walter.scholger@uni-graz.at<mailto:walter.scholger@uni-graz.at>).
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Date: 2025-12-01 11:41:52+00:00
From: Róbert PÉTER <robert.peter@ieas-szeged.hu>
Subject: AVOBMAT webinar (8 December) and new Spanish novel database added
Dear All,
I would like to bring to your attention the details of the forthcoming
AVOBMAT <https://avobmat.hu/> (Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic
Metadata and Text) research tool webinar, hosted by GWDG, as well as the
recent addition of the ConSSA <https://github.com/cligs/conssa> database
(Corpus of Novels of the Spanish Silver Age) to the available collections,
alongside the ELTeC, DraCar and ECCO TCP databases.
Webinar details:
Time: Monday, 8 December, 15:00–16:30 CET
Registration: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1309/
AVOBMAT allows you to explore your own digital collections and is currently
used in 36 countries.
We greatly value your feedback, which helps us further develop AVOBMAT in
collaboration with the DH community. We would also be pleased to work
together on research or teaching projects in digital humanities.
Best regards,
Róbert Péter
On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 at 10:37, Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to draw your attention to the open beta launch of AVOBMAT
> <https://avobmat.hu/> (Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic
> Metadata and Text), a multilingual text and metadata mining platform
> developed for DH research and teaching.
>
> Designed in close collaboration with DH scholars, AVOBMAT supports
> transparent and reproducible workflows across a wide range of textual
> and bibliographic corpora. It handles large-scale datasets that are
> difficult or impossible to analyse with commercial LLMs. The service runs
> on an extensible, scalable, and modular cloud-based infrastructure hosted
> by the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen
> (GWDG). AVOBMAT is developed at the University of Szeged, Hungary.
>
> Key Features:
>
> - Multilingual preprocessing, analysis, and visualization in 24+
> languages
> - Bibliographic metadata analysis with network visualizations, gender
> analysis
> - Named entity recognition, disambiguation & linking
> - Topic modelling, POS tagging, N-gram viewer, corpus comparison,
> KWIC,
> lexical diversity
> - Export/import of configurations and results for reproducible
> workflows
> - Support for both public and private corpora
> - Integrated Help with interface overview, workflow, configuration
> settings, glossary and appendices
> - Upload templates, example corpora, and corrected/enriched metadata
> for
> ELTeC novel and DraCor drama collections are available on this GitHub
> repository <https://github.com/avobmat/general>
>
> Current content:
>
> - 1,708 novels in 15 languages (ELTeC)
> - 4,113 dramas in 12 languages (DraCor)
> - Upcoming: corrected/enriched corpora including CoNSSA (Spanish
> novels), ECCO TCP, EEBO TCP, and Early American Imprints TCP
>
> Free to use during the pilot phase with GWDG (until 25 March, 2026).
>
> Community & webinars:
>
> GWDG will host the first AVOBMAT webinar on 12 November (15.00-16.30,
> CET). For registration, please visit the event page
> <https://events.gwdg.de/event/1267/>. The second seminar will take place
> on
> 8 December (15.00-16.30, CET).
>
> Explore AVOBMAT: https://avobmat.hu
>
> Read our intro article
> <https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.175> in
> the Journal of Open Humanities Data.
>
> See AVOBMAT-related research projects and publications here
> <https://avobmat.hu/news/>.
>
> We warmly welcome your feedback, as we aim to continue refining and
> enhancing AVOBMAT in close dialogue with the DH community.
>
> We would also be grateful for your help in recommending curated,
> open-access text collections that we could process and make publicly
> available for teaching DH. Although AVOBMAT currently supports 24
> languages, we only have sample databases for 15. You can view the list
> of supported languages and available features in this chart
> <https://avobmat.hu/features/>. Please feel free to reply via private
> message.
>
> We’re also happy to collaborate on research and teaching projects related
> to (multilingual) DH.
>
> We would appreciate your sharing this information with interested parties.
>
> Thank you in advance for your support and suggestions.
>
> All the best,
>
> Róbert
>
>
> Róbert Péter, Ph.D.
> associate professor
> Institute of English and American Studies
> Head of Digital Humanities Laboratory
> University of Szeged
> Bluesky: @robertpeter.bsky.social
> Robert_Peter@Fedihum.org
> Researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Peter-3>,
> Academia.edu <https://u-szeged.academia.edu/RobertPeter>
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Date: 2025-12-01 11:03:57+00:00
From: costas papadopoulos <cpapadopoulos84@gmail.com>
Subject: Extended Deadline - DH Benelux 2026 Call for Papers (New Deadline: 7 December)
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for Digital Humanities
Benelux 2026 has been extended to Sunday, 7 December 2025, 23:59 CET.
We hope this extension gives everyone sufficient time to finalise their
proposals or even to start writing one! We look forward to reading your
submissions and welcoming you to Maastricht in June.
How to Submit
Submit your proposal via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhbenelux2026
Full submission guidelines are available on our website:
https://2026.dhbenelux.org<https://2026.dhbenelux.org/>
About the Conference
Digital Humanities Benelux 2026 explores how digital technologies are
transforming the ways we create, analyse, preserve, and share stories across
disciplines, cultures, and time. We invite submissions that address any aspect
of digital humanities research and practice, with particular interest in
contributions that engage with our theme of digital storytelling.
Conference Dates: 2-5 June 2026
Location: Maastricht University, Netherlands
Theme: Digital Storytelling
Conference website: https://2026.dhbenelux.org<https://2026.dhbenelux.org/>
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Costas Papadopoulos BA, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor in Digital Humanities & Culture Studies
Maastricht Young
Academy<https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/maastricht-young-academy>
Department of Literature & Art
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS)
Maastricht University
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