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Hi,
Apologies for cross-posting. Sharing the below call – even though the main work has to be based in the UK due to UKRI eligibility rules there is potential funding available through international collaboration with partners not based in the UK.
Kind regards,
Sam
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Subject: Funding call announcement: DisCouRSE Network+ Flexible Fund Round 1
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Dear all,
The DisCouRSE Network+ project<https://discourse-network.github.io/> aims to encourage and support the development of leaders of all kinds across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles, resulting in an empowered and connected community equipped to shape the future of digital research. We have a twin focus on leadership training and dRTP career pathways – preparing the next generation of leaders and ensuring roles exist for them to lead within.
We are delighted to announce the launch of our flexible fund which supports community-led projects aligned with this goal, enabling aspiring leaders to trial approaches to enhancing skills and career opportunities within their local contexts, build new connections through joint initiatives, and strategically assess options for future investment and activity.
This first call has no specific focus areas: any proposals relevant to DisCouRSE’s aims above are allowed. The intent is to be open to ideas from the community, enabling the Network to learn what is already happening and could be expanded with our support, and enabling you to do “proof of concept” work to support larger proposals in future rounds. We welcome applications that seek to expand on existing work, or to kick-start activities that you are already thinking about.
For more information and to apply visit https://discourse-network.github.io/funding/round-1.
If you decide not to apply in this round, we will need reviewers for applications, giving you an excellent insight into the process to inform a future application. Please volunteer at https://forms.office.com/e/KB10mVSAZZ. We are also using this form to collate details of those willing to review for other networks and similar projects<https://www.cake.ac.uk/landscape/rtp> within the UK Digital Research Infrastructure landscape.
Key information
* We anticipate funding 10-20 projects in this round of the flexible fund, led by digital Research Technical Professionals.
* Individual projects can budget up to £10k funding at 100% full economic cost (fEC) level. DisCouRSE will pay 80% fEC in most cases. Staff time and overheads can be requested.
* Projects should start between 01/01/2026 and 01/04/2026 and last no more than 12 months.
* Submission deadline: Friday 14th November 2025, 16:00 GMT
* Information webinar with Q&A: Monday 6th October 2025, 10:00 BST
* Full details: https://discourse-network.github.io/funding/round-1
Please do share this announcement with your wider communities, but we would be grateful if you could let us know where you are sharing it so we can track our reach.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On behalf of the DisCouRSE Network Management Board
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Call for Participation and late breaking submissions
DHASA Conference and RAIL workshop 2025
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.zahttps://sadilar.org/en/rail-2025/
Late breaking submissions deadline: 10 October 2025
DHASA conference dates: 11 November 2025-14 November 2025
RAIL workshop date: 10 November 2025
Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa
Registration: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/registration/
Late breaking submission Guidelines
* Late breaking submissions: Authors can submit a late breaking
submission, limited to 1 page. Late breaking submissions accepted for
the conference will be presented as a short presentation during a
dedicated late breaking submission presentation slot. The late breaking
submissions will be published in a book of abstracts before the
conference.
We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is
a student.
All submissions should adhere to the ACL style guide:
https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html
Submissions should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions that do not
adhere to the prescribed style guide will be rejected.
Follow this link to go to the submission platform:
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/
Authors are encouraged to upload their datasets to the SADiLaR
repository: https://repo.sadilar.org/. In case of difficulties
uploading the datasets, please reach out to Benito Trollip
(benito.trollip(a)nwu.ac.za).
Important dates for late breaking submissions
Submission deadline: 10 October 2025
Date of notification: 17 October 2025
Camera-ready copy deadline: 24 October 2025
Conference: 10 November 2025 – 14 November 2025
Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa
DHASA CONFERENCE
Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial
intelligence
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is
pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The
role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence.
In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively
underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster
growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an
opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the
broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the
conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-
the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa
region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities
research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research
focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense.
Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information
sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital
Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities
in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to
promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic
field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and
tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable
insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events
are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital
Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their
knowledge in the field.
The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from
researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but
not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and
theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology,
language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies,
software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an
inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities.
RAIL WORKSHOP
Theme: Language resources in the age of large language models
The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop
will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern
Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention
Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL
workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on
African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages
processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data
collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a scientific
community of practice that focuses on computational linguistic tools
and data that are designed for or applied to the indigenous languages
of Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are
considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share
interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different
from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective,
these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development
of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African
languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that
the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to
African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource
languages across the world. Because these languages share similar
challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to
work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and
learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
Organising Committees
DHASA conference
Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University
Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
RAIL workshop
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
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Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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Dear colleagues,
The 11th Global Digital Humanities Symposium call for proposals is open! For the first time, the Symposium is collaborating with multiple host institutions and taking place across three modalities: in-person at Michigan State University in the United States, virtually on Zoom, and in-person at Universidad de Monterrey in Mexico. This partnership represents a new era of international collaboration for the Symposium while maintaining the tradition of hosting both virtual and in-person events and the connection to our original home at Michigan State University.
The 2026 Symposium will take place 13-17 April. Michigan State University will begin the Symposium with an in-person day on Monday, 13 April. Tuesday and Wednesday, 14 April and 15th will be held virtually on Zoom. Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) will host an in-person Symposium on Friday, 17 April in conjunction with the INQUORUM conference<https://www.udem.edu.mx/es/INQUORUM>, which will take place the following week. All Global DH Symposium events will be livestreamed per presenter permission.
The CFP is available in English and Spanish (links below). Proposals and presentations are welcome in either English or Spanish for the virtual event, and in English for the in-person events. During the virtual Symposium, we will support live interpretation of presentations, as well as live English captions.
Application deadline: Wednesday, 15 October 2025, midnight in your timezone
Full CFP - English - https://msuglobaldh.org/call-for-proposals-english/
Full CFP - Español - https://msuglobaldh.org/call-for-proposals-espagnol/
This year, we especially anticipate and welcome presentations on the following topics, and we are especially interested in hearing about specific practical and theoretical examples from the Global Majority<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_majority> context:
* Minimal, material, and sustainable approaches to DH
* Global AI practices, opportunities, and challenges in DH
* Resilience and collaboration in the face of global crises
* Student-centered frameworks and practices in global digital pedagogy
Free registration for the Symposium will open in December 2025. Find out more, including information about past Symposia, at https://msuglobaldh.org/.
Sincerely,
The Global DH Symposium Planning Committee
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Estimados/as colegas:
El comité organizador del Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales tiene el placer de anunciar las fechas y sedes del 11º Simposio anual así como de abrir la convocatoria de propuestas. Por primera vez, el Simposio está formado por una colaboración de múltiples instituciones anfitrionas y será ofrecido en tres modalidades: Presencial en la Universidad Estatal de Michigan (MSU, Estados Unidos), virtualmente por Zoom y presencial en la Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM, México). Esta alianza marca una nueva etapa en la colaboración internacional para el Simposio, manteniendo la tradición de organizar eventos tanto virtuales como presenciales y en conexión con su sede original, la Universidad Estatal de Michigan.
El Simposio de 2026 se celebrará del 13 al 17 de abril. La Universidad Estatal de Michigan (MSU) comenzará el Simposio con una jornada presencial el lunes 13 de abril. El martes 14 y miércoles 15 de abril se celebrarán virtualmente por Zoom. La Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) organizará un Simposio presencial el viernes 17 de abril, junto con la conferencia INQUORUM<https://www.udem.edu.mx/es/INQUORUM>, que se llevará a cabo la semana siguiente. Todos los eventos del Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales se transmitirán en vivo con la autorización de los/las ponentes.
La convocatoria ya está disponible en inglés y español (enlaces a continuación). Se aceptan propuestas y presentaciones en inglés o español para el evento virtual y en inglés para los eventos presenciales. Durante el simposio virtual, se ofrecerá interpretación en vivo de las presentaciones, así como subtítulos en inglés.
Fecha límite para enviar su propuesta: miércoles 15 de octubre de 2025, a la medianoche de su zona horaria.
Convocatoria completa en inglés https://msuglobaldh.org/call-for-proposals-english/
Convocatoria completa en español https://msuglobaldh.org/call-for-proposals-espanol/
Este año, esperamos con interés presentaciones sobre los siguientes temas y nos interesa especialmente conocer ejemplos prácticos y teóricos específicos de la Mayoría Global:
* Acercamientos minimal, materiales y sostenibles a las HD
* Prácticas, oportunidades y desafíos globales de la IA en HD
* Resiliencia y colaboración frente a las crisis globales
* Marcos y prácticas centrados en los estudiantes en la pedagogía digital global
La inscripción gratuita para el Simposio se abrirá en diciembre de 2025. Para más información, incluyendo información sobre Simposios anteriores, visite https://msuglobaldh.org/
Un saludo cordial,
El Comité Organizador del Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales
Kristen Mapes
Global DH Sympoisum, Co-Chair
Interim Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
kmapes(a)msu.edu<mailto:kmapes@msu.edu>
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Join us for an engaging presentation with Vincent Hiribarren as he
explores "History 2.0," a new undergraduate History module introduced
at King’s College London in 2024/25.
The speaker will reflect on the challenges of teaching digital history
as a historian of Africa, where resources and projects are often
limited.
Register here: https://bit.ly/4p3Z3Xo
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Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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Call for Participation DHASA Conference and RAIL workshop 2025
https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.zahttps://sadilar.org/en/rail-2025/
DHASA conference dates: 11 November 2025-14 November 2025
RAIL workshop date: 10 November 2025
Conference venue: CSIR ICC, Pretoria, South Africa
Registration: https://dh2025.digitalhumanities.org.za/registration/
DHASA CONFERENCE
Theme: The role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial
intelligence
The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is
pleased to announce its fifth conference, focusing on the theme The
role of humanities in digital humanities and artificial intelligence.
In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively
underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster
growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an
opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the
broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the
conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-
the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa
region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities
research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research
focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa in the broad sense.
Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information
sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital
Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities
in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to
promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic
field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and
tutorials will be organised, providing researchers with valuable
insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events
are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital
Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their
knowledge in the field.
The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from
researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but
not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and
theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology,
language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies,
software and computation, AI, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an
inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities.
RAIL WORKSHOP
Them: Language resources in the age of large language models
The sixth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop
will be co-located with the Digital Humanities Association of Southern
Africa (DHASA) 2025 conference at the CSIR International Convention
Centre in Pretoria, South Africa, on 10 November 2025. The RAIL
workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on
African indigenous languages resources such as natural languages
processing (NLP) tools, Human Language Technologies (HLT), data
collections, and annotations. This workshop aims to foster a
scientific community of practice that focuses on computational
linguistic tools and data that are designed for or applied to the
indigenous languages of Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few are
considered to be somewhat better resourced. These languages often share
interesting properties such as writing systems, making them different
from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective,
these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development
of NLP and HLT tools, which in turn impedes the development of African
languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it was noted that
the problems and solutions presented were not only applicable to
African languages but were also relevant to many other low-resource
languages across the world. Because these languages share similar
challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to
work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and
learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
Organising Committees
DHASA conference
Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Avi Moodley, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franco Mak, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Franziska Pannach, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University
Juan Steyn, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Marissa Griesel, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Privolin Naidoo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
RAIL workshop
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
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Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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