DARIAH Annual Event 2026: Digital Arts and Humanities with and for Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement (call for papers)

The DARIAH Annual Event 2026 will take place from May 26th to 29th in Rome, Italy, hosted by the CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

This year’s theme is Digital Arts and Humanities with and for Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement.

Save the date and stay tuned, a call for papers will be announced in the coming weeks!

More information: Save the date for the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 | DARIAH

The call for papers is open

Contributions on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Infrastructures of engagement: designing open, inclusive, collaborative, and sustainable platforms
  • New models of collaboration across academia, memory institutions, and society
  • Pedagogies of engagement and public-facing (digital) humanities education
  • Mapping engagement: Evaluating and evidencing public value and impact in digital research
  • Preservation, stewardship, and resilience in digital knowledge infrastructures
  • Co-creation, citizen science, public and participatory humanities, and community-driven, engaged scholarship
  • Policy and governance frameworks for sustaining participatory infrastructures
  • Creative and artistic practices as forms of public engagement and dialogue
  • The role of digital archives and participatory practices in shaping collective memory and identity
  • Ethical and sustainable approaches to participatory digital-enabled research
  • Implementing CARE: Designing digital infrastructures that foster trust, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
  • Intercultural and transnational perspectives on public digital humanities
  • Research infrastructure as critical Infrastructure – strategies to build resilient infrastructure for engagement and public good
  • Policy and governance frameworks for sustaining participatory infrastructures

Read more: https://annualevent.dariah.eu/call-for-papers/