Abstracts due: 21 November 2025 Conference: 12–13 March 2026 at Rutgers University–New Brunswick Download CFP as PDF On the afternoon/evening of Thursday 12 March and all day Friday 13 March 2026, the Department of Classics at Rutgers–New Brunswick will host a central Atlantic regional conference on developments in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the study of antiquity. The Rutgers–based journal Critical AI aptly explains the current meaning of “Artificial Intelligence” as “a computer model’s ability to ‘optimize’ for useful predictions while ‘training’ on data,” a process known in short as “deep learning.” The application of AI to the study of antiquity is still in its earliestRead More →

Overview Deadline: February 1, 2025 Award: up to $1,000 Funding/Project Period: April 1, 2025–March 31, 2026 Download CFP The Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) invites proposals from graduate students in any Rutgers–New Brunswick humanities department or program for seed grants of up to $1,000 to support digital humanities projects in research and/or public outreach. These projects may, but need not, be related to the applicant’s dissertation research. Grants will support projects conducted during the 12 months from the date of award (i.e. April 1, 2025–March 30, 2026). Digital humanities encompasses scholarship that applies computing technologies in humanistic inquiry or studies computing technology humanistically. Examples of digitalRead More →

Welcome to our Fall 2024 digital humanities programming! Details and registration links are posted below. Alternatively, please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to explore a wider range of offerings, including data science and qualitative data streams. Reserve your spot to receive Zoom links and do-ahead software downloads and workshop materials. Events RESEARCH IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI: A Public Symposium for Design Justice Thinkers Thursday, September 12, 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library Register (virtual attendance only) Join us in person or virtually for a one-day hybrid symposium on design justice and critical AI literacies perspectives on the future of research,Read More →

The Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative is pleased to announce the recipients of its graduate seed grants for 2023–2024: Laura De Moya-Guerra (History) The Community Archive of the Chinese in Barranquilla, Colombia: a digitized collection of records from a community archive at risk of loss and underrepresentation. Jeongeun Park (History) Archives II Record Group 242 “Records Captured in Korea” Item Locator: a searchable database of Korea-related records in Record Group 242 (National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized) at Archives II. The DH Initiative gratefully acknowledges the support of the School of Arts and Sciences for the seed grant program. Grant recipients will present their workRead More →

Submit by: February 1, 2023 DH Showcase to be held on March 23, 2023, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET (2023-01-24 edit: Register to attend) The interdisciplinary field of digital humanities (DH) aims to bring together humanistic inquiry and digital technologies, organizing new modes of archival research, developing computer-aided methodologies for answering humanistic questions, curating digitized archives of all kinds, bringing digital platforms into the classroom in creative ways, and engaging critically with the culture of new media. We are particularly interested in hearing from practitioners and scholars who are thinking about digital humanities pedagogy and teaching with DH projects in the classroom. In orderRead More →