37.2197, Confs: Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa conference 2026 (Eswatini)

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Date: 26-Jun-2026
From: Menno van Zaanen [menno.vanzaanen at nwu.ac.za]
Subject: Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa conference 2026


Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa conference 2026
Short Title: DHASA 2026
Theme: Building the Methodological Commons: Plural Digital Humanities,
AI, and Socio-Technical Futures in Southern Africa

Date: 17-Nov-2026 - 20-Nov-2026
Location: Eswatini
Meeting URL: https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 20-Aug-2026

Important Dates:
 - Submission deadline: 20 August 2026
 - Date of notification: 21 September 2026
 - Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026
 - Conference: 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
 - Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of
Eswatini
Co-located Events:
Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including
workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference
website.
Submission Types:
Long papers — max 8 content pages (9 in final version), presented in
30-minute slots (incl. 10 min questions)
Short papers — max 5 content pages (6 in final version), presented in
15-minute slots (incl. 5 min questions)
Executive summaries — max 1 page, presented as posters
References and appendices are unlimited for long and short papers. All
submissions must be in PDF and follow the ACL style guide
(https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html). Submissions that
do not adhere to the style guide will be rejected. Submit via the
platform: https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/
Accepted long and short papers will be published in the JDHASA
journal; executive summaries will appear in a book of summaries before
the conference. We particularly encourage submissions where the first
author is a student. Authors are encouraged to upload datasets to the
SADiLaR repository (https://repo.sadilar.org/); for difficulties,
contact Benito Trollip (benito.trollip at nwu.ac.za).
About the Conference:
This conference foregrounds DH as method-making and
infrastructure-building — not only tool use. It invites scholarship
that advances shared practices (methods, standards, datasets,
workflows, pedagogies) while staying attentive to the politics of
computation, language, heritage, and knowledge-making in Southern
Africa. It also explicitly welcomes critical engagements with AI as an
epistemic and cultural force shaping humanities inquiry. Contributions
are welcome from across the humanities and allied fields, as well as
from computer scientists, data scientists, designers, librarians,
archivists, journalists, educators, and community practitioners.
The conference is highly relevant to the linguistics community through
its emphasis on computational linguistics, Southern African language
technologies, linguistic justice, AI, and the development of shared
language resources, methods, and infrastructure.
Subthemes (non-exclusive; interdisciplinary contributions encouraged):
 - AI in the humanities, responsibly
 - Southern African language technologies and linguistic justice
 - Decolonial, Indigenous, and community-engaged DH
 - Digital heritage, archives, history, and memory work
 - Critical platform studies, media, and computational publics
 - Pedagogy, curriculum, and capacity-building
 - Infrastructure, sustainability, and open scholarly ecosystems
The full call for papers, including detailed subtheme descriptions and
co-located events, is available at
https://dh2026.digitalhumanities.org.za



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