Sources for DH News & Ideas
Knowledge Bases#
- DH Now, “an experimental, edited publication that highlights and distributes informally published digital humanities scholarship and resources from the open web.” Great place for CFPs, job calls, and recent research highlights.
- Notes in the Computational Humanities is a definitive resource for conferences, fellowships, prizes, journals, tutorials, and more, maintained by the Columbia Narrative Intelligence Lab.
Communities & Conferences#
- Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the US-based professional organization for DH. Offers professional development events and an annual conference (virtual, open registration).
- Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), the international umbrella organization that hosts the annual DH conference, each year on a new continent.
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), long-running, one- or two-week summer training program held in Montreal for newcomers and advanced scholars alike.
- Computational Humanities Research (CHR), annual conference on computational approaches to the humanities. Typically hosted in Europe.
Social Media#
- Bluesky, where most of the academic DH conversation now happens. See especially Amanda Visconti’s Bluesky Quickstart Guide, including its “starter packs” of DH scholars to follow. Pam Lach also has a starter pack of Bluesky users for DH in Libraries.
- Digital Humanities Slack, “a set of informal, connected chat rooms for the digital humanities and related interests, with over 50 “channels” (chat rooms) devoted to specific topics such as DH teaching, coding, library work, and conferences.”
Newsletters#
Academics#
- Humane Ingenuity, Dan Cohen
- Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network (AIAI)
- Generative History, Mark Humphries (Substack)
- Res Obscura, Ben Breen (Substack)
- Jason Heppler
- The Stone & the Shell, Ted Underwood
Tech Observers & Experimenters#
- Blood in the Machine, Brian Merchant (Substack)
- Cybernetic Forests, Eryk Salvaggio (Substack)
- Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing (Substack)
- Kyle Chayka (Substack)
- Maggie Appleton
- Gary Marcus (Substack)
- Wild Information, Claire L. Evans
- Astral Codex Ten