humanities computing and the internet

Inclusive teaching and digital accessibility are two important concepts that align with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles; they move away from "retrofitting" (i.e., fixing a problem after a student struggles) toward a "proactive” design (e.g., building a system that works for everyone from the start). Inclusive teaching is a pedagogical framework that focuses on designing a learning environment where every student (regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or learning style) feels valued and has an equal opportunity to succeed. Whereas digital accessibility is a technical standard that ensures that digital tools, documents, and platforms are usable by everyone, regardless of ability.

As Artificial Intelligence becomes an integral part of higher education, AI literacy is increasingly recognized as a foundational competency for students, educators, researchers, and institutions. This seminar explores the knowledge, skills, values, and ethical considerations required for responsible and effective engagement with AI in academic contexts.

Guided by the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Teachers and informed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this seminar invites proposals addressing topics including, but not limited to:

The Teaching with Media and Technology session welcomes proposals on any topic related to the use of media and technology in any modern language, composition, or literature classroom. Papers that engage with this year’s conference theme, "Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict," are welcome but not required.  PAMLA's annual conference is being held in Seattle, WA, 12-15 November 2026. 

 For submissions and more information, please visit https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20030

In Africa and the African diaspora, knowledge is often produced, circulated, and critiqued in “minor forms”—small-scale oral, visual, material, and digital ephemera such as proverbs, folktales, rites, images, social media, and other non-canonical modes of expression that structure everyday cultural life but are frequently marginalized within dominant academic and cultural hierarchies. While “major forms” such as the literary canon, the national archive, and peer-reviewed scholarship obscure the complexity and vitality of African cultural production, minor forms interact with, resist, coexist alongside, and reshape those dominant modes.

This roundtable discusses the convergence of literary expression and digital activism as means of empowering a community. The shift of passive representation to active agency in the 21st century can be common in the digital space where the local knowledge is stored and disseminated. We discuss how marginalized groups, namely Dalit writers and activists, have used digital humanities to evade authoritarian gatekeepers and develop transnational solidarities. This session welcomes people to talk about how online spaces can be seen as a form of regenerative space where the testimonios of Dalit can be heard, transforming the world into a supportive space of collective action and literary insurgency.

NeMLA

58th Annual Convention, Newport, RI March 6-9 2027

CALL FOR PAPERS

Jokes in Dark Times: Humor, Crisis, and the Postdigital Public Sphere

Panel Chair: Ana León-Távora

Virtual session

Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the Czech Academy of Sciences invites prospective participants to submit abstracts for presentation at the international research symposium Novelty and Inequalities in Science, to be held in Prague, Czechia, on October 8-9, 2026.

Novelty and Inequalities in Science

International Research Symposium on Recognizing and Rewarding Novelty in Science

October 8-9, 2026 Prague, Czechia

Submit abstract of 150-300 words or find more information here:

https://stss.flu.cas.cz/novelty2026

Call for Abstracts

International Conference

The Artificial Mind: Art and Philosophy after AI

24-25 September 2026

National Gallery of Art

22 Konstitucijos Ave. 

Vilnius, Lithuania

The title “Artificial Mind” references Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Savage Mind (La Pensée sauvage (1962), a foundational work in anthropology, in which he argues that “savage” and “civilized” thought share the same epistemological architecture – differing not in structure but in mode of operations. While the “civilized” engineer works with purpose-built concepts and tools toward a specific end, the “savage” bricoleur thinks with whatever is at hand, constructing new meanings from fragments.

Brief Synopsis: 

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed profound political, social, and cultural transformations across Asia. This edited volume, Emergence of New World Imagination in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Asia: Understanding Asian Colonial Countries through Travelogues, Memoirs, Testimonies and Archival Documents, seeks to examine how autobiographical narratives, letters, memoirs, travelogues, oral narratives, and archival documents written in various Indian languages engage with the colonial and postcolonial histories of East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, and South Asia.

CFP, Special Issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (Vol. 52.2 [2028])

Child’s Play:

Representation and Games in Children’s Media and Culture

(guest editor, Gretchen Papazian)

Deadline for 18-20-page/3,500-4,000-word submission: March 31, 2027

Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy

Special Issue: 'Media Reform in Post-Conflict Societies: AI Governance, Digital Resilience, and Democratic Transformation'

(Volume 19.1 – March 2028)

#JDMPJournal

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers

For more information on the CHMK Forum click here>>

https://forum.chmk.org/

Guest Editorial Team

Technological futures are not given. They are made, and they can be made differently. EMERGE 2026: Contested Futures takes place at a moment when AI systems have become central to the organization of economic power, political control, and social sorting, while democratic institutions struggle to keep pace and ecological costs mount. Rather than treating technological change as inevitable or neutral, the conference invites critical reflection on how emerging technologies are developed, governed, narrated, and contested.

In keeping with the presidential theme of the 2026 MMLA Conference, “After the Archives,” to be held in Chicago from November 12-14, 2026, papers that incorporate and/or interrogate the archives are welcomed for this year’s panel on American Literature before 1870.

Workshop at the Renaissaince Society of America's annual meeting (Philadelphia. March 11-13, 2027)