Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 39, No. 340.
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[1] From: Tim Ireland <tireland@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: DPI 2026 Save the date(s) (27)
[2] From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Final CfP and deadline extension Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC (120)
[3] From: Paul Barrett <barrettp@uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Registration open for DH@Guelph Summer Workshops, May 19th-22nd, 2026 (62)
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Date: 2026-02-24 15:02:47+00:00
From: Tim Ireland <tireland@uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: DPI 2026 Save the date(s)
Digital Pedagogy Institute
Transform undergraduate and graduate teaching
Dear Colleagues,
DPI2026<https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/about-dpi-conference>
will be taking place online August 18th - 20th, 2026.
We will be online. There will be no registration fee this year.
Hope to “see” you there!
Your 2026 Steering committee co-chairs:
Paulina Rousseau: email
paulina.rousseau@utoronto.ca
Tim Ireland: email tireland@uwaterloo.ca
Tim Ireland (he/him)
Liaison Librarian,
Psychology, Anthropology, Fine Arts, & Communication Arts
University of Waterloo
Attawandaron, Anishnawbe, and Haudenosaunee Territories
Waterloo, On
tireland@uwaterloo.ca
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Date: 2026-02-24 12:30:33+00:00
From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Final CfP and deadline extension Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)@LREC
Final Call for Papers and deadline extension!
Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)
Co-located with LREC 2026
RAIL Workshop date: 12 May 2026
RAIL website:
https://sadilar.org/en/seventh-workshop-on-resources-for-african-indigenous-
languages-rail-2026/
Submission link for the RAIL workshop:
https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/
LREC Conference dates: 11-16 May 2026
LREC website: https://www.elra.info/lrec2026/
Venue: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop provides
an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources such
as data collections and annotations, Human Language Technologies (HLT)
and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, and their applications,
specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In
particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a
scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as
computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to
indigenous languages found in Africa. The seventh Resources for African
Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with the
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026 in Palau de
Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca (Spain).
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are
considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share
interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different
from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective,
these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development
of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African
languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that
the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to
African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource
languages across the world. Because these languages share similar
challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to
work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and
learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop theme is “Creating resources for less-resourced African
languages”, but submissions on any topic related to properties of
African indigenous languages (including related non-African languages)
may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the
following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under-resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources
* Applications that make use of data collections of African indigenous
languages
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, should adhere to
the LREC conference requirements. These requirements are described in
LREC’s authors kit: https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/. The submission
should be double blind and each submission should be between four and
eight pages. Only oral papers should be submitted. The maximum number
of pages excludes a compulsory ethics statement, discussion on
limitations, and references and optional acknowledgements, as well as
data and code availability statements if applicable. Appendices or
supplementary material are allowed, but this information will not
necessarily be taken into account during the review process.
The submission link for the RAIL workshop:
https://softconf.com/lrec2026/RAIL2026/
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: 1 March 2026 AoE
Date of notification: 11 March 2026 AoE
Camera ready copy deadline: 30 March 2026 AoE
Workshop: 12 May 2026
Organising Committee:
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
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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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Date: 2026-02-23 13:52:39+00:00
From: Paul Barrett <barrettp@uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Registration open for DH@Guelph Summer Workshops, May 19th-22nd, 2026
DH@Guelph is thrilled to announce that registration is now open for our summer
workshops!
<https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/research/centres-institutes-and-labs/digital-
humanities-guelph/dh-events/summer-workshops>
The DH@Guelph Summer Workshops will be in-person and will
run over four days, May 19th-22nd, 2026. We hope you can join us for what
promises to be an exciting week!
The four-day workshops will run 9-4:30, Tuesday-Friday.
The 2026 workshops are:
1. Introduction to Database Design
2. UX for Digital Humanities: Designing Inclusive and Engaging User Experiences
3. TEI and Digital Edition Production with LEAF Commons
4. Rest as Resistance: Embodied Digital Humanities for Collective Liberation
5. Dead Media, Living Data: Hacking the Archive
6. Humanities Pedagogy in the Age of AI: Critical Frameworks & Practical Strategies
7. Making: A Feminist Praxis (Theme: Refusal and Complaint)
8. Building Multimodal Generative AI Agents for Humanities
9. Intro to Soundscapes: Listening, Scoring, Field Recording, and Remixing
Announcing our Keynote: TIKA
DH@Guelph is thrilled to welcome TIKA<https://withlovetika.com/> as our keynote
speaker for the 2026 Summer Workshops!
Rest as Resistance in Distressing Times:
Embodied Digital Humanities for Collective Liberation
Abstract: In an era defined by constant connectivity, crisis fatigue, and
emotional overload, rest has become both a personal necessity and a political
act. This keynote explores rest as a form of “emotional technology” — a set of
practices that support regulation, creativity, and collective resilience.
Drawing from film scoring, community facilitation, and healing-centered
pedagogy, TIKA examines how rest, creativity, and digital culture intersect. She
invites participants to consider how creative practice can move beyond
productivity and performance toward sustainability, nervous-system literacy, and
collective care. This talk offers a framework for understanding rest not as
disengagement, but as a tool for imagination, resistance, and future-building
within digital humanities and beyond.
TIKA’s keynote will take place the first evening of the workshops. All are
welcome to attend this free talk. Register for the keynote
here<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tika-rest-as-resistance-in-distressing-times-
dhguelph-summer-workshops-tickets-1983481106383>. Registering for the workshops
will automatically register you for this free, open talk.
You can find all workshop and keynote details on the DH@Guelph
website.<https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/centres-institutes-and-labs/digital-
humanities-guelph/dh-events/summer-workshops/2025-6>
You can register for the DH@Guelph Summer Workshops at this
link,<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dhguelph-summer-
workshops-2026-tickets-1983381240682?aff=oddtdtcreator> and please don't
hesitate to email dhguelph[@]uoguelph.ca with any questions or concerns.
We look forward to seeing you in May!
Warmly,
Kim Martin and Paul Barrett (Co-Directors), DH@Guelph
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