DHC 2026

Programme

In Partnership with Gale

Wednesday — 2nd September 2026

09:30 - 10:30

Registration Reception

10:30 - 12:00

Introduction and Plenary 1 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
Collections Infrastructure, Cataloguing Labour, and the Foundations of Digital Humanities James Baker University of Southampton

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch Dining Room

13:00 - 14:30

Session 1 High Tor 2 Chair: Sophie Whittle	Session 2 High Tor 3 Chair: Guy Solomon	Session 3 High Tor 4 Chair: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Creating Bespoke HTR Solutions for Complex Historical Manuscripts with Generative AI Georgiana D. Hedesan (Dr) University of Oxford	Defining Digital Humanities via Employment Outcomes: A UK and Ireland Graduate Career Survey (2002-2025) Jin Gao, Melissa Terras University College London	Mapping gaps: a critical framework for visualizing bias in digital cultural heritage collections Roberta Pireddu KU Leuven
Marking Up Historical Texts Using Deep Learning Jamie McLaughlin University of Sheffield	From Peer to Peer: Pedagogical Advice and Practices in Early Digital Humanities Pedagogy Sofia Papastamkou University of Luxembourg	Small Models, Big Collections: Practical Integration of Language Models for Cultural Heritage William Thorne University of Sheffield
LLM-Assisted Person Identification in Historical Correspondence Martina Scholger, Sabrina Strutz University of Graz	AI Education Policy: A Comparative Thematic Analysis of K-12 Guidance in the United States and the United Kingdom Seul Lee, Sang Hoo Oh Florida State University	Digitising Culture or Digitising (Un)Pleasant Memories: Contextualising African Facial Tribal Marks in Digital Humanities Hakeem O. Ogunmuyiwa University of Sheffield

14:30 - 15:00

Tea Break Visit Our Sponsors Dining Room

15:00 - 16:30

Session 4 High Tor 2 Chair: James Chetwood	Session 5 High Tor 3 Chair: Guy Solomon	Session 6 High Tor 4 Chair: Isabella Magni
Tracing progress: A diachronic lexical semantic approach to conceptual change in eighteenth-century Britain Ángela María Gómez-Zuluaga, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman KU Leuven	From Paper to Pixels: A GIS-Based Solution for Visualising and Analysing Historical Evolution of Urban Form Diya Banerjee Queen's University Belfast	Will AI-Based Image Generators Shift the Balance Between Words and Images? An Examination of the Ability and Inability of Image Generators to Cope with Semantic Stylistic Devices Anna Folta-Rusin (Dr) Jagiellonian University
Underlying Dimensions in Semantic Change Bach Phan-Tat, Kris Heylen, Dirk Geeraerts, Stefano De Pascale, Dirk Speelman KU Leuven	Mining Patterns from Secondary Sources: Using Large Language Models for Structured Data Extraction in Comparative Historical Geography Sarat Chandran University of Hull	Spectral Analysis and the Recovery of Literary Manuscripts: Towards a New Digital School of Textual Criticism Michael J Sullivan (Dr) University of Oxford
Words For Membership And Belonging: Exploring Early Conceptualizations Of Citizenship Through Vecinos In Colonial Spain Maria Flores Alejo University of Sheffield	Archaeologists Only Need Small Maps: A Geometric Approach to Geoparsing Diana Maynard University of Sheffield	Enhancing the ARIADNE Portal through European collaboration Sarah Middle, Émilie Pagé-Perron, Julian Richards University of York

16:30 - 17:30

Presentation by Gale High Tor 2

17:30 - 19:00

Wine Reception Bar

Thursday — 3rd September 2026

09:30 - 11:00

Session 7 High Tor 2 Chair: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird	Session 8 High Tor 3 Chair: Sophie Whittle	Session 9 High Tor 4 Chair: Valeria Vitale
Incunabula and Sixteenth-Century Books at the ‘Accademia Pontaniana’: Digitization and Large-Scale Data Processing for the Study of Marginalia Marco Leone de Castris University of Naples	Evaluating Lexical Extraction in Hiberno-English: Rule-Based and LLM- Assisted Approaches Rasika Edirisinghe University College Cork	Reimagining Intangible Cultural Heritage through the Stories they Tell: A Digital Humanities Approach to Nangou’s Black Paper-Cutting Qiongpei Kong, Simon Mahony King’s College London
Early modern problems: creating a relational database from the List of Claims (1701) Frances Nolan University College Dublin	Addressing Pragmatics: Linguistic Signals of Literary Canonicity Rachel McCarthy, Sofía Aguilar-Valdez University College Cork	The Khipus Project. Digital Conservation, Accessibility, and the Democratisation of Andean Heritage Cecilia Pardo Grau Universidad del Pacífico
Enslavement, Resistance, and the Body in the Dutch East India Company Archive Bethany Warner International Institute of Social History	Queer Negativity Meets Vector Algebra: Using Word Embeddings to Explore the Abortion Metaphor in Literary Fiction Anouk Lang, Alisha Palmer University of Edinburgh	AIAI: Artificial Intelligence, Art and Indigeneity Thea Pitman (Professor), Andreas Rauh (Dr) University of Leeds

11:00 - 11:30

Tea Break Visit Our Sponsors Dining Room

11:30 - 13:00

Session 10 High Tor 2 Chair: Susan Fitzmaurice	Session 11 High Tor 3 Chair: Jamie McLaughlin	Session 12 High Tor 4 Chair: Isabella Magni
Infinite love and saving faith: the conceptual exploration of English religious vocabulary through digital resources Jeremy J. Smith University of Glasgow	Community Governance and Multilingualism in DH Infrastructure: Introducing the HSS Commons Hong Liu, Ray Siemens, Alan Colin-Arce University of Toronto	Modeling Theatrical Institutions: A Relational Digital Infrastructure for the Metastasio Theatre Archive (1827–1861) Matilde Innocenti Università degli Studi di Firenze
Beyond Lexical Reuse: Evaluating Semantic Search for 18th-Century Intellectual History through the Case of Locke Yu Wu University of Helsinki	Unpacking the DAIMS (Developing AI Metadata Standards) Cultural Collections Project Jane Gallagher, Claire Knowles, Simon Popple, Maeve Murphy Quinlan (Dr) University of Leeds	Matching Names in Composite Databases Mike Bowman Independent Researcher
Identifying essay-length reprinting across eighteenth-century books and newspapers: A case study of David Hume Ke Shu University of Helsinki	Distributed cataloguing, interoperability and reuse within and beyond the infrastructural setting of the Text+ Registry Daniela Schulz, Kilian Hensen, Tobias Gradl, Leon Fruth, Nils Geißler Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel	From Scholarly Edition to Digital Ecosystem: Sustaining and Reusing Founding Era Primary Sources in the Digital Humanities Erica Cavanaugh, Anneliese Dehner, Jennifer Stertzer University of Virginia

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Dining Room

14:00 - 15:30

Session 13 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd	Session 14 High Tor 3 Chair: James Chetwood	Session 15 High Tor 4 Chair: Valeria Vitale
Fragmented News Repertoires: How Social Media Reshape Youth Engagement with Information Catarina Feio, Lídia Oliveira University of Aveiro	A digital leap of faith? Approaching gaps and anomalies in historical and archaeological big data Petar Parvanov, Maria Vargha University of Vienna	Critical Georeferencing of the First Five Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa Using Artificial Intelligence Bruno Nassi Universidad del Pacífico
Interpretable Computational Approaches to Propaganda: Detecting Linguistic Divergence in Russian Online Discourse Anastasiia Vestel, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Saarland University	From Stone to Signal: Multimodal Retrieval as Method in Archaeological Research Larissa Terranova Centro Studi Americanistici	Testing The Teaching And Learning Value Of Collaborative 3D Environments For Digitized Heritage Collections Fred Truyen, Sofie Taes, Zoë Vandenhende KU Leuven
The “Spirit” in the Chamber: Capturing Zeitgeist in UK Parliamentary Debates Penelope Gia Bao Huu Nguyen University of Sheffield	Ecologies of the Ancient Mediterranean: Building an Evidence-Aware Spatial Graph RAG Platform for Environmental Knowledge in Texts and Landscapes (500 BCE–300 CE) Federico Di Pasqua University of Zurich	Operationalizing Virtual Reality-Mediation in Corpus-Based Cognitive Studies of Simulation and Preattentive Processing Abdulrahman A. A. Alsayed University of St Andrews

15:30 - 16:00

Tea Break Visit Our Sponsors Dining Room

16:00 - 17:30

Plenary 2 and Close High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
Between philosophy and operations without losing my North: Navigating Digital Humanities’ waterways Arianna Ciula King’s College London

19:00 - 23:00

Conference Dinner Inox Dine

Programme

In Partnership with Gale

University of Southampton

University of Oxford

University College London

KU Leuven

University of Sheffield

University of Luxembourg

University of Sheffield

University of Graz

Florida State University

University of Sheffield

KU Leuven

Queen's University Belfast

Jagiellonian University

KU Leuven

University of Hull

University of Oxford

University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield

University of York

University of Naples

University College Cork

King’s College London

University College Dublin

University College Cork

Universidad del Pacífico

International Institute of Social History

University of Edinburgh

University of Leeds

University of Glasgow

University of Toronto

Università degli Studi di Firenze

University of Helsinki

University of Leeds

Independent Researcher

University of Helsinki

Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

University of Virginia

University of Aveiro

University of Vienna

Universidad del Pacífico

Saarland University

Centro Studi Americanistici

KU Leuven

University of Sheffield

University of Zurich

University of St Andrews

King’s College London