Official event website: https://dh2025.adho.org

DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2025 Building access and accessibility, open science to all citizens Lisbon, July 14-18, 2025.

Building access and accessibility, open science to all citizens

In 2002, the Budapest Open Access Declaration amplified the need to make research more widely available and free to anyone with internet access. Lately, Open Science or Open Scholarship have reframed concepts such as openness, access and accessibility from a technical and ethical perspective, taking into consideration data, infrastructure, and/or collaboration. National, international, or organizational manifestos, statements, declarations, principles, and policies related to scholarly objects, practices or methods are being formulated to improve and accelerate research through increased transparency, collaboration, and a more inclusive access to scientific knowledge of our societies.

By leveraging digital tools and methodologies, the digital humanities have been aiming at democratizing access to knowledge, fostering community engagement, and addressing contemporary societal needs and challenges in several meaningful ways.

We encourage submissions from all who work in all digital humanities disciplines, methodologies, and pedagogies, including students and early career scholars. We particularly invite proposals that relate to the theme, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Open, Public, Participatory Humanities
• Crowdsourcing Initiatives
• Citizen Science/Citizen Humanities
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) Framework
• Digital Multilingual Practices
• Technology to Improve Accessibility
• Inclusive Platforms
• Digital Archives & Collections  
• Cultural Preservation
• FAIR and CARE principles
• Ethics of AI in the Humanities
• Situated Approaches to Digital Humanities Teaching and Pedagogy
• Critical Digital Literacy
• Interface and Enunciation
• Innovations in Free/Libre and Open-Source Software or Hardware adapted to DH projects
• Environmental Sustainability in Digital Humanities
• Advocacy and Social Impact

Conference Formats

1.     Poster proposals present work on any relevant topic or offer projects, tools, artwork, creative visualization, and software demonstrations in early or later stages of development. Abstracts should be 500-750 words.

2.     Short paper proposals are appropriate for reporting on experiments, work in progress, and newly conceived tools or software in early stages of development. Short paper presentations last 10 minutes. Short-paper sessions last 90 minutes and involve five short papers. Abstracts should be 750-1000 words.

3.     Long papers are appropriate for substantial, completed, and previously unpublished research; reports on developing significant new methodologies or digital resources; and/or rigorous theoretical, speculative, or critical discussions. Long paper presentations last 20 minutes. Long-paper sessions last 90 minutes and involve three long papers. Abstracts should be 1250-1500 words.

4.     Panel sessions focus on a single topic and consist of a) one 90-minute panel of four to six speakers or b) three long presentations. Panel proposers should consider issues of diversity in a regional context as they choose panelists. The abstract should be 300-500 words for overviewing the panel topic, as well as 250 words describing each paper.