DH 2026

Daejeon, July 27–31

Wed, July 2909:00–10:30
Wed, July 2909:00–10:30S014105
Long Paper
Perplexity as a Measure of Cognitive Freedom: An LLM-Based Study of Defamiliarization in Modern Chinese
Maciej Kurzynski
Wed, July 2909:00–10:30S074104
Short Paper
What About the Minor Characters? Interpreting Incremental OCR Change in a Massive Digital Library
Daniel J. Evans, Sarah Griebel, Ryan Dubnicek, Glen Layne-Worthey, J. Stephen Downie
Wed, July 2911:00
Wed, July 2911:00Grand Ballroom
Keynote
Computational Stylistics in Action: From Research Infrastructures to DIY Tools
Maciej Eder
Wed, July 2914:00–15:30
Wed, July 2914:00–15:30S053101-102
Short Paper
“The Prophecy of Machine?”: Exploring Ethical Issues embedded in AI-Driven Social Simulacra Research
YiFan Zhao, Yang Tong
Wed, July 2916:30–18:00
Wed, July 2916:30–18:00S020105
Long Paper
Systematizing Linguistic Shifts with Aligned Meaning Segments: AI-Driven Analysis of Korean Literary Translation, 1963–2020
Donghoon Jung, Seohyon Jung
Wed, July 2916:30–18:00S100204-205
Long Paper
Losing Faith in the (Digital) Humanities
Florian Windhager
Thu, July 3009:00–10:30
Thu, July 3009:00–10:30S028103
Long Paper
A Discipline, Divided: On the Digital Humanities and Ideologies of Knowledge Work
Tessa Gengnagel, Sarah Lang
Thu, July 3011:00–12:30
Thu, July 3011:00–12:30S029104
Long Paper
Homo Calculans: The Comptuerisation of the Human Sciences, 1950s-60s
Michael Falk, Niles Zhao
Thu, July 3011:00–12:30S063106
Short Paper
Engagement at Scale: Integrating LLM-Assisted Annotation into TEI Workflows for Digital Cultural Heritage Projects
Joerg Wettlaufer
Thu, July 3011:00–12:30S079107
Short Paper
Decoding the "Visual Pun": A Knowledge Graph Interface for the Homophonic Rebus in Traditional Chinese Patterns
Shaojian LI
Thu, July 3013:40–15:10
Thu, July 3013:40–15:10S006104
Long Paper
Vector Poetics: Parallelism and Cognitive Geometry in Chinese Regulated Verse
Maciej Kurzynski, Xiaotong Xu, Yu Feng
Thu, July 3013:40–15:10S031103
Long Paper
Decoding Tupaia’s Chart: A 250-Year-Old Mystery Holding the Secret of Pre-Contract Polynesian Sea Networks
Rowan Hall Maudslay
Thu, July 3013:40–15:10S057209-211
Short Paper
Bones, Bytes, and Beyond: A Vocabulary for Digital Osteoarchaeology
Nina Richards, Stefan Eichert, Massimiliano Carloni, Bernhard Koschicek-Krombholz, Elias Grünbacher, Lisa Aldrian, Mária Vargha, Alexander Watzinger
Thu, July 3013:40–15:10S064106
Short Paper
Algorithmic Critique: Mapping the Distributional Contrast in LLM Citation Patterns and Semantic Interpretation
Donghoon Jung, Seohyon Jung
Thu, July 3015:20–16:20
Thu, July 3015:20–16:20S090101-102
Short Paper
If You Have Two Hammers, What Does EitherMake a Nail (and the Hammering) Look Like?
Joris J. Van Zundert, Elisa Cugliana, Nicolas Werner
Thu, July 3016:30–18:00
Thu, July 3016:30–18:00S069107
Short Paper
Insight or Misrepresentation? A case study on sentiment analysis of personal accounts of the Holocaust
Anna Neovesky, Nina Brolich, Helena Geibel, Anna Menny
Thu, July 3016:30–18:00S107204-205
Short Paper
FAIR Memories: A Workflow for the Preservation and Collaborative Reuse of Analog Oral History Collections
Laurent Fintoni, Nike del Quercio, Costanza Paolillo
Fri, July 3109:00–10:30
Fri, July 3109:00–10:30S038101-102
Long Paper
Contested Memories as Data: Digital Humanities and the Spanish Civil War
Gustavo Candela, Paul Joseph Spence
Fri, July 3109:00–10:30S104204-205
Short Paper
“Add Y% tbs. chopped pints of chicken stock.” A small data, low-tech approach to the computational analysis of labour in historical cooking recipes
Ginevra Sanvitale
Fri, July 3109:00–10:30S104204-205
Short Paper
From Publisher Intuition to Computational Patterns: Mapping the Global Dissemination of Czech Children’s Illustrated Non-Fiction
Ondrej Vimr
Fri, July 3114:00–15:30
Fri, July 3114:00–15:30S013104
Long Paper
Human-Centered Explainability in Vision–Language Models: A Case Study in Art-historical Interpretation
Stefanie Schneider
Fri, July 3114:00–15:30S061206-208
Short Paper
Sunrise, Saints and Stones - Digital Assessment of Church Axes and Patron Saints in Medieval East Central Europe
Stefan Eichert, Lisa Aldrian, Elias Grünbacher, Jona Hassenbach, Bernhard Koschicek-Krombholz, Melissa Lantzberg, Nina Richards, Mária Vargha
Long Paper
A Methodology for YouTube Comments Topic Modeling: Limitations of Topic Reduction and Considerations for Human InterpretationA Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Meditation Discourse
Jihyun Lee, Jieun Woo, Bong Gwan Jun
Workshop
Documenting Exhibition’s Display
Zoë Renaudie, David Valentine, Emmanuel Château-Dutier
Workshop
Leveraging Emerging Datasets for Critical Research on Books and Reader Communities
Yuerong Hu, Cici Ling, Kai Li, Andrew Zalot, Wenyi Shang, Micah Bateman, Peizhen Wu, Natasha Johnson
Mini-conference
Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI
Javier Cha, Yan Hon Michael Chung, Donghyeok Choi, Eric Chow, Yumeng Hou, Kit Shing Solmon Ho
Long Paper
Slowly Editing JinendrabuddhiReproducible software in open-ended editorial projects
Patrick McAllister
Workshop
The Culture Data Story Laboratory: Engaging Knowledge Graphs through Executable Narratives
Torsten Schrade, Linnaea Charlotte Soehn, Jonatan Jalle Steller, Alexandra Büttner, Tabea Tietz, Etienne Posthumus, Oleksandra Bruns, Heike Fliegl, Harald Sack
Poster
A Computational Approach to Gender and Ephemeral Print
Daniel J. Evans, Ryan Dubnicek, Kadin Henningsen, Glen Layne-Worthey
Poster
Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata
Till Grallert, Nicole Dresselhaus, Sophie Eckenstaler, Isabell Trilling, Sophie Stark
Poster
Reimagining an Abandoned Coastal Social Space Through Community-Driven Speculative Design and Digital Small-Data Methods: A Case Study of a Post-Tourist Hotel in Montenegro
Arina Lavrova
Poster
The Architecture of Fictional Conversation: Tracing Linguistic Alignment in Austen and Forster
Ioana-Roxana Boriceanu, Alina Iacob, Liviu P. Dinu
Poster
Two Ways of “Romance and Politics”: A Comparative Digital Study of Huan Sha Ji and Tao Hua Shan
Yufei Wang
Poster
VEGEST: Towards Fully Open and Reproducible TEI Workflows
Patrick McAllister