Call for Papers
The Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (HKADH) is pleased to announce its second international conference, to be organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong on January 23 – 25, 2026.
Additionally, the New Horizons for AI Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities Conference will be organised by the University of Chicago on January 26 – 27, 2026, at the University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong. Participants are recommended to attend both events.
HKADH 2026 Call for Papers
Distant Reading | Viewing | Perceiving in the Age of AI
As the AI Revolution gains pace, practitioners in multiple fields are presented with an array of new opportunities and challenges. This includes ever easier and more powerful tools for analyzing large corpora of texts, images and other data. This has vastly expanded our ability to engage in distant reading, viewing and perceiving (to borrow and build on terms made famous by Franco Moretti, Lauren Tilton and Taylor Arnold). At the same time, there have emerged urgent ethical, epistemological and methodological questions about authorship, authenticity, bias, and the interpretive limits of machine-assisted analysis, some new, others longstanding. This conference will take a kaleidoscopic approach to these and other pressing questions in digital humanities, cultural analytics and related fields in Asia and globally.
Abstracts submitted should be 500 – 1000 words in length in English. Please submit abstracts via the COMS website. Submissions are peer-reviewed on a continuous basis.
Abstract Due Date: 31 August 2025