[Digital Literary Annotation Newslist] Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 91 (Half Year 1 2026)

Mon Jan 12 09:34:15 CET 2026

Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 91 (Half Year 1 2026)

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A happy New Year to readers of our newsletter! The first days of  
January find us here in southern Germany shovelling snow from  
driveways and ploughing through mail piled up in the break, making way  
for busy days ahead. 2026 brings opportunities aplenty in the field of  
digital editing and annotation; read on for what to look out for  
during the next six months.

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The Annotated Web Edition Directory[1] is looking forward to your  
suggestions. We are always on the look-out for new entries to add to  
the list. Feel free to recommend literary digital editions that  
include explanatory annotation (of the social or the editorial kind),  
web platforms, tools and applications that enable the user to  
(collaboratively) annotate texts. Please use the corresponding form on  
our webpage. We thank you for your help.

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CALLS FOR PAPERS

Proposals are invited for the 16. STUDIERENDENKONGRESS DER  
KOMPARATISTIK (SKK), taking place in Halle, Germany, from May 14 to  
16, 2026 (deadline JANUARY 18). The theme of the congress is  
“Literatur und Digitalität”; it is aimed at students of Comparative  
Literature, also other literary and linguistic disciplines, as well as  
Digital Humanities, Media Studies, and Computer Science, who would  
like to present their research in a paper or poster presentation. See  
the full call here[2].

The UK-IRELAND DIGITAL HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL EVENT is taking  
place in Southampton, UK (with selected sessions streamed online),  
from June 15 to 16, 2026. This year’s event invites contributors to  
reflect on the theme of “Sustainability”, in its broadest  
conceptualisation. The call for proposals[3] of talks, panel and  
roundtable sessions, posters and demos, workshops and tutorials,  
provocations and pitches, and ideas for other sessions is open until  
30 JANUARY.

The FIRST WORKSHOP ON CREATING INTEROPERABLE CORPORA OF HISTORICAL  
NEWSPAPERS (PRESSMINT-LREC2026), taking place in Palma de Mallorca,  
Spain, on 16 May, 2026, is accepting proposals of long, short, and  
demo papers until MARCH 1. The workshop aims to gather experts  
interested in creating, processing, and analysing interoperable  
corpora of historical data in general, but especially with a focus on  
newspapers, in order to exchange research ideas and start  
collaboration on this topic. The full call can be found here[4].

DARIAH-SE is organising the workshop “ANYTHING BUT TEXT”, taking place  
in Växjö, Sweden (and online), from March 4 to 5, 2026. This  
lunch-to-lunch workshop explores multimodal digital methods – from  
image, sound, and video – offering a mix of brief presentations,  
practical exercises, and reflective discussions. It is designed for  
researchers, teachers, and students in the humanities or social  
sciences who want to expand their digital research or teaching beyond  
text. No programming experience is required, just curiosity about  
multimodal work. See the webpage here[5] for more information and the  
registration link.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Registration for DHD 2026, the annual conference of the association of  
Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries, taking place in  
Vienna, Austria, from FEBRUARY 23 TO 27, is now open here[6]. The  
conference theme, “Not Only Text, Not Only Data”, responds to the  
expansion of digitisation and abstract information modelling beyond  
text and data, not excluding text- and data-centered approaches, but  
placing them within a broader context, with the aim to foster greater  
consideration of what diverse data mean for scholars. The full  
overview and programme can be found at the conference website  
following the link above.

On MARCH 5 TO 6, 2026, the Daidalos research project at Humboldt  
University Berlin will be hosting an international conference on  
“HISTORICAL LANGUAGES & AI”, aimed at literary scholars in classical  
philology and related disciplines. The programme and registration link  
can be found at the Daidalos website here[7].

The DIGITAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES  
(DARIAH) ANNUAL EVENT 2026 will take place in Rome, Italy, from MAY 26  
TO 29. The topic of this year’s event is “Digital Arts and Humanities  
with and for Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement”. Check  
the DARIAH website here[8] for release of the programme and  
registration details.

The 5TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR COMPUTATIONAL LITERARY STUDIES (CCLS)  
will take place in Potsdam, Germany, from MAY 28 TO 29, 2026.  
Organised by the open access journal of the same name, likely topics  
of the conference include building literary corpora, annotation of  
texts and identifying patterns, operationalisation of concepts,  
developing new methods for the analysis of literary texts, evaluation  
of algorithms and computational techniques, and interpretability and  
transparency of results; see further the journal website here[9].

The DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2026 CONFERENCE (DH2026) will take place in  
Daejeon, South Korea, from JULY 27 TO 31, under the theme  
“Engagement”. The event will be hosted by the Korean Association for  
Digital Humanities (KADH) in collaboration with Daejeon Metropolitan  
City. Check the conference website here[10] for release of the  
programme and registration details.

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WEBINARS

The EUROPEAN CLOUD FOR HERITAGE OPEN SCIENCE (ECHOES) is holding a  
WEBINAR FOR GERMAN-SPEAKING CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS on JANUARY  
14, 2026, from 10am to 12 noon (CET). The webinar will provide  
insights into ECHOES and the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural  
Heritage (ECCCH), present existing digital initiatives in  
German-speaking countries, and connect communities from Germany,  
Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland. The full  
programme and registration link can be found at the ECHOES website  
here[11].

The next AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES (ACDH) LECTURE takes  
place on JANUARY 20, 2026, at 4:45pm (CET). Katharina  
Zeppezauer-Wachauer and Julia Hintersteiner (both University of  
Salzburg) will be speaking on the topic “From Punch Cards to Prompt  
Engineering: The MHDBDB and the Future of Semantic Annotation with  
LLMs”. See the ACDH website here[12] for more information and  
registration.

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STUDY PROGRAMMES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS

The UNIVERSITY OF BERN has announced a new study programme, the  
MASTER’S IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES, commencing Spring 2026. The programme  
introduces students to digital methods as they are applied and further  
developed within the humanities, cultural studies, and social  
sciences. Students will learn to work with real-world datasets and  
projects – developing skills in data curation and analysis, digital  
publishing, and project management – while simultaneously building a  
critical foundation for careers in a range of professional fields  
including academia, cultural heritage institutions, and the public  
sector. Applications are open until JANUARY 31. More information can  
be found at the university website here[13].

The BAL-ADRIA SUMMER SCHOOL IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2026 will be held in  
Zadar, Croatia, from JUNE 15 TO 19. The programme covers a wide range  
of practical digital humanities methods and tools, including data  
organisation and cleaning, corpus and text analysis, network analysis,  
image processing, programming for the humanities, AI-supported  
methods, and more. Participants will work in groups under instructor  
supervision and collaborate on practical projects, culminating in  
group presentations at the end of the school. See the website here[14]  
for more information and registration.

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JOBS AND FUNDING

Submissions for the ECHOES CASCADING GRANTS PROGRAMME are open until  
JANUARY 30, 2026. Cultural heritage institutions across Europe,  
including museums, archives, libraries, researchers, and conservators,  
are invited to submit their proposals to engage with the Cultural  
Heritage Cloud and contribute to the digital transformation of  
cultural heritage. The call will support 20 projects, with up to  
€29,800 available per project. Further details of the programme and  
application process can be found in the call for proposals here[15].

SCHMIDT SCIENCES requests proposals to the HUMANITIES AND AI VIRTUAL  
INSTITUTE (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital  
humanities, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence  
(deadline MARCH 13, 2026). Ideal projects will have co-PIs with  
expertises from both the humanities and AI and will address research  
questions from both domains. Current projects span disciplines such as  
Archaeology, History, Literature, Linguistics, Art History, Music,  
Law, and Film/Media Studies. An overview of HAVI and the full call for  
proposals can be found at the Schmidt Sciences website here[16]. You  
can also join the HAVI mailing list[17].

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

/Hybrid Humanities: Das Handwerk der Geisteswissenschaften im  
Digitalzeitalter/[18], edited by Daniel Ehrmann, will be published by  
transcript in February 2026. This volume, which explores the  
relationship between digital and ‘traditional’ humanities from  
philosophical, media studies, sociological, historical, and literary  
perspectives, includes a chapter by researchers from the Annotating  
Literature project: Matthias Bauer, Michael Göggelman, Sara Rogalski,  
and Angelika Zirker, “Digitale Annotation als Instrument der  
Theoriebildung: Die Erschließung des Konzepts der Co-Kreativität in  
der englischen Literatur der frühen Neuzeit”.

The /Huminfra Handbook: Empowering Digital and Experimental  
Humanities/, edited by Gerlof Bouma, Dana Dannélls, Dimitrios  
Kokkinakis and Elena Volodina, and published by Språkbanken Text in  
November 2025, is now freely available in digital format from the  
University of Tartu Library[19]. Huminfra is the Swedish national  
infrastructure supporting digital and experimental research in the  
humanities; this volume represents a selection of its research in the  
past two years, demonstrating how existing digital tools, research  
methodologies, and innovative infrastructural components can support  
the field through concrete examples and step-by-step guidelines.

Scholars working on the presentation of digitised texts and / or  
images for literary research may be interested in “Kofler Aural”[20],  
a digital genetic edition of all textual evidence relating to the  
genesis of a single prose work at the Robert Musil Institute for  
Literary Research / Carinthian Literary Archive (University of  
Klagenfurt). The edition, which focuses on the analysis of auditory  
and aural phenomena in the writing process, is the outcome of an FWF  
project led by Helmut Wener Klug (University of Graz). Using eleven  
case studies (text passages), the auditory traces of voices, sounds,  
and music can be followed through the layers of the archival material,  
from notes to the printed manuscript.

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Links:
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[1] http://www.annotation.es.uni-tuebingen.de/?page_id=215
[2] https://blogs.urz.uni-halle.de/komparatistikkongress2026/
[3]  
https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-event/2026-call-for-proposals/
[4] https://www.clarin.eu/PressMint-LREC2026
[5]  
https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2026/2026-03-04-anything-but-text/
[6] https://dhd2026.digitalhumanities.de/
[7] https://daidalos-projekt.de/conference/cfp/
[8] https://www.dariah.eu/
[9] https://jcls.io/site/conference/
[10] https://dh2026.adho.org/
[11]  
https://www.echoes-eccch.eu/save-the-date-webinar-for-german-speaking-communities/
[12] https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/newsevents/event-series/acdh-lecture-121
[13]  
https://www.philhist.unibe.ch/studies/study_programs/master_s_in_digital_humanities/index_eng.html
[14]  
file:///C:/Users/lauri/Documents/Postdoc/T%C3%BCbingen/Annotating%20Literature/conference.unizd.hr
[15] https://www.echoes-eccch.eu/second-call/
[16] https://www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-and-ai-virtual-institute/
[17] https://airtable.com/appcMA8UvrekUnJAU/paguMysLhdfaHyCou/form
[18]  
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6674-8/hybrid-humanities/?c=311022564
[19] https://dspace.ut.ee/collections/88109573-8850-48f9-92d1-e18d42029533
[20] https://gams.uni-graz.at/kofleraural
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