Digital Humanities Now

DHNow Newsletter, July 8, 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor, and Zhihui Zou and Mehul Desai, DHNow Guest Editors.

Our Editors’ Choices this week include a discussion of the methodologies in the field of AI in education, a critique of the implementations of AI in higher education, and a demonstration of an AI methodology for digital humanities. We have also included CFPs, projects, reports, and tools, including corpora of Australia literature and poetry.

Editors’ Choice: Most of the Renaissance Has Never Been Read. Source Library Is Opening It.

Beatrice Murch — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: This post shares the launch of the Source Library project earlier this month. Source Library, founded by Derek Lomas, digitizes Renaissance-era books originally written in Latin or other languages, translates them using AI translation tools, and presents them for free on their website. This project combines OCR and machine translation to increase accessibility of documents that used to require expert linguistic and historical knowledge to read. This project is a helpful reference for DH practitioners interested in presenting to the public a large dataset of textual documents. See Source Library here.

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Editors’ Choice: Conversations about conversational code: on the collaborative critical code studies reading of ELIZA

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: In “Conversations about conversational code,” Mark C. Marino and colleagues revisit Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA through the recovered original source code, showing how close, collaborative code reading can reshape software history. Based on four years of interdisciplinary work, the article uncovers discrepancies between Weizenbaum’s published accounts and the actual MAD-SLIP implementation, including undocumented features, edited canonical conversations, gendered histories around ELIZA’s unnamed users, and the program’s surprising theoretical depth. By treating ELIZA’s code as both a technical artifact and a cultural text, the authors offer a model for critical code studies that speaks directly to today’s debates about chatbots, conversational AI, and the ethics of human–machine interaction.

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CFP: CDH invites proposals for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

CDH — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) at the University of Cambridge is inviting proposals for the next round of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship offers outstanding early-career researchers the opportunity to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in an academic environment. This scheme aims to help develop the award-holder’s curriculum vitae and boost their prospects of obtaining a permanent academic post. The primary emphasis is on the completion of a significant piece of publishable research, and the integration of the award holder into the community of established scholars within their field.

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Tool: Australian National Corpus

Language Data Commons of Australia — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: The Australian National Corpus (AusNC) was a discovery service that collated and provided access to examples of Australian English text, transcriptions, audio and audio-visual materials. The service was managed by Griffith University beginning 2012 until mid-2023 when the site was decommissioned. From 2023, AusNC data was made available as individual collections (listed below) through the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) data portal. These datasets may be useful resources for readers of DHNow.

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CFP: DHQ institutional host and Editor in Chief

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). The new Editor in Chief will serve for a five-year renewable term. Collaborative multi-editor and multi-institution arrangements are welcome.

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Weekly Highlight: Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA)

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is the peer-reviewed open-access journal of the Digital Humanities Association of South Africa. DHASA is an important network for digital humanities scholars in Southern Africa. DHASA members come from a wide variety of fields in the humanities, social sciences, and computer sciences. The DHASA Journal makes visible the research output of its members and other interested scholars, making it a useful resource for readers of DHNow.

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CFP: Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities, AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa. Digital Humanities (DH) has evolved from an early emphasis on digitisation, text encoding, and computational assistance into a reflexive field concerned with epistemology, infrastructure, and the politics of knowledge production in digitally mediated societies (Burdick et al., 2016; Svensson, 2016). Contemporary DH scholarship increasingly interrogates not only what digital tools enable scholars to do, but how these tools shape disciplinary boundaries, scholarly labour, and claims to authority (Drucker, 2021). This shift has been accompanied by growing calls to provincialise Global North-centred DH narratives and to foreground regionally situated practices, particularly from the Global South (Risam, 2019).

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Report: To Go Far, Go Together: Lessons from FORCE2026 and DataCite Connect Singapore

Maria Levchenko — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Editors’ Summary: This article reviews the FORCE2026 conference held earlier this month at Singapore Management University. The conference focused on how to improve scholarly communications to encourage scholarly collaborations. A key component of the conference was engagement with DataCite, an organization, like Crossref, that provides persistent identifiers for research publications. This article recounts how various organizations and universities use DataCite to increase visibility through engaging with publication metadata, licensing, software reuse, and other topics. This article would be helpful for DH practitioners, especially those working in library science.

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DHNow Newsletter, July 1, 2026

Colleen Nugent — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:38:10 +0000

This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow’s Editor and Nico Larrondo, DHNow Guest Editor.

Our Editors’ Choices this week include a discussion of the methodologies in the field of AI in education, a critique of the implementations of AI in higher education, and a demonstration of an AI methodology for digital humanities. We have also included CFPs, job announcements, opportunities, and reports, including a visualization of the history of restaurant menus.