Link: https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/call-for-papers-emerging-digital-methodologies-conference/
On 18th November 2025, the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub events programme will host the Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference. This in-person conference is now inviting presenters from any discipline to submit papers on new applications of digital methods; the use case and problems of any digital method; and how digital methodologies are changing their field.
Since the turn of the millennium digital and computational methodologies have become increasingly prolific at the cutting edge of language and humanities research. Utilising digital techniques from other disciplines has allowed historically qualitative fields to rethink key questions, bring new understandings to foundational sources, increase information accessibility, and lead to previously unexplored cross-disciplinary research. This conference invites graduate students and early career researchers applying new digital methodologies to the humanities and related fields to share that research. We are particularly interested in hearing about research involving digital methods being used to rethink established fields, new applications for conventional digital methods, and how digital methodologies are being translated in the cross-disciplinary space.
Presenters from any discipline are invited to submit papers on:
- New applications of digital methods
- The use case and problems of any digital method
- How digital methodologies are changing their field
Submissions can be in any of the following formats:
- 7-minute lightning talks (especially suitable for early findings or work-in-progress)
- 15-minute papers
- 30-minute roundtable conversations (minimum 3 participants)
The conference will capture a wide range of subject areas across the many communities of scholars utlising digital methods – both from novices and expert practitioners. Papers could include, for example, ‘Problems of LLM’s in the Humanities’, ‘ChatGPT and visual culture’, ‘A Network Analysis of 16c Europe’, ‘Crafting music in the age of AI’, ‘The problems of control-f in the modern age’, ‘Book culture and language models’, or ‘NLP processing of 20c films’.
To apply, please complete the following form with a max 200-word proposal for a paper and a 50-word biography by 5pm (UK British Summer Time) on Tuesday 12 August 2025.
The event is part of the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Programme with support from the Voltaire Foundation and Jesus College Oxford. Tickets for the conference will be £39 per person, including catering and a wine reception (subsidised tickets will be available). More information to follow.
