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                Dear colleagues,Due to demand, we have extended the deadline of abstract
submission to 12th October, midnight, UK time.Please submit your abstract
here: https://airtable.com/appMKXTaROaUV7FZh/pag4TJRiA6HYq7sCf/form


Best wishes,

Güneş

 

Dr Güneş Tavmen

Lecturer in Digital Infrastructures and Sustainability

Department of Digital Humanities

King’s College London

 


KCL DDH The Digital Conference CALL FOR PAPERS
 

Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital (23-26
June 2026)

 

>From the 23rd to 26th June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at
King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the
evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly shaped by digital
technologies. Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Centre for Computing
Humanities officially becoming a department of KCL, and 15th anniversary of
being renamed as Department of Digital Humanities in 2011, we welcome scholars
from around the world to critically reflect on what ‘digital’ entails in
today’s world.

 

Digital technologies have transformed the ways we live, work, create, and
connect. From online grassroots movements to open-source tools, from digital
archives to experimental art and music created with code, the digital has
become a vital part of how we express ourselves, tell stories, and shape our
futures. In our daily lives, the digital enables new forms of community and
care, especially for those historically excluded from institutional or
geographic centres of power.

 

But these same technologies have also raised urgent questions. There is a
growing concern across various disciplines and communities. Recent political,
environmental and technological developments have shown that we cannot afford
to treat “the digital” as neutral. It is shaped by geographies,
specificities, regulatory environments, sociocultural contexts, and linguistic
hierarchies, which condition how digital technologies are produced, used, and
experienced across the globe. From the resurgence of extremist ideologies and
algorithmic manipulation of public discourse, to the exploitative dynamics of
platform economies and the environmental costs of large-scale computing, the
digital now permeates nearly every aspect of our lives. Artificial
intelligence is being used against workers, stealing their creative outputs
and triggering a race to the bottom of working conditions. In addition to the
socio-political impact of generative AI models, the deleterious environmental
effects are also becoming increasingly clear. 

 

At the same time, computational and digital methods have enabled new forms of
collaborative, interdisciplinary, and public-facing humanities research. They
are reshaping not only our methodological choices but also how we
conceptualise methods themselves—prompting us to revisit questions of
reliability and reproducibility. These methods offer powerful tools for
analysis, visualisation, preservation, and dissemination, while also enriching
humanities scholarship by scaling up our analyses and opening up new avenues
of inquiry.

 

Unlike the underlying code, “the digital” is never binary. This is why,
more than ever, we need to come together to discuss and debate its
implications. There is a long tradition of critical research on digital
methods and other issues concerning “the digital” at King’s, dating back
to the early 1970s. The Department of Digital Humanities, established as the
Centre for Computing in the Humanities in 1992, has been a key site for this
work. Today it is home to a wide range of approaches to developing and
applying digital methods in the humanities, as well as to interrogating the
broader social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of the digital. Building on
over fifty years of innovation and critical inquiry, this event invites
scholars, practitioners, and communities to reflect on the role of Digital
Humanities as both a methodological practice and a lens to understand and
shape the digital world.

 

We invite proposals that explore (but are not limited to) the following
themes:

 

   - Computational humanities and computing culture: computational history,
music computing, geoanalytics, digital classics, computational linguistics,
computational social science, cultural analytics, computational literary
studies
   - Creative digital practice and the arts, music and the digital, arts-based
methods
   - Design, Interfaces, and Interaction: UX/UI
   - Digital ecologies, environmental justice and sustainable digital futures
   - Digital gaming and play
   - Digital health, digital care, and transformation of the care industry
   - Digital knowledge and epistemologies and critical technical practices and
digital methods
   - Digital labour and economies, platform studies
   - Digital media
   - Digital Research Infrastructures and funding
   - Embodiment and identity: the digital and the embodied, digital childhood
& youth
   - Global and decolonial digital cultures, digital commons, digital
audiences, creator cultures
   - Politics, power, and resistance in the digital age: digital politics,
deplatformisation, the digital university, engaged digital research

 

We welcome contributions from across the humanities and beyond, from those who
use and interrogate digital tools and those who develop them. We invite
proposals for paper presentations (max. 15 mins) and panels (max. 4 x 15 mins)
with a title and an abstract of no longer than 300 words, along with a short
biography, no longer than 50 words.

 

You can submit proposals via THIS FORM until the deadline of 12/10/2025
till midnight UK time. We aim to notify acceptance of abstracts by
15.11.2025.

 

Please note: The conference will be face-to-face only, with career plenary
sessions instead of keynotes (a panel consisting of academics from every
stage). We offer a limited number of  conference fee waivers, as well as
limited numbers of partial bursaries for travel and accommodation. We will
provide more information on these and conference fees after acceptance of
abstracts have been sent out.

 

For any inquiries, please contact thedigitalconference@kcl.ac.uk.
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