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Please see below for information on the call for submissions for the next general volume of Debates in Digital Humanities. The deadline for abstracts is May 25, 2025. We hope you’ll submit and/or share the information with interested DHers.

CFP: Debates in the Digital Humanities 2028

Kelly Baker Josephs and Lindsay Thomas, Editors
Deadline for 300-500 word abstracts: May 25, 2025

Part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series
A book series from the University of Minnesota Press
Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Series Editors
Debates in the Digital Humanities seeks to publish the best new work in the digital humanities (DH). Possible topics for the 2028 volume include but are not limited to:
State of the field. What are the topics, methods, and other approaches that define the digital humanities? How do various sub-fields of DH relate to each other? What opportunities and/or challenges remain unaddressed?

DH and the disciplines. How do (or might) allied fields such as STS, design, information science, media studies, computational social science, and the history of computing inform or be informed by the debates in the digital humanities? How are DH scholars contributing to conversations in disciplines traditionally outside of the humanities but that are now increasingly interested in “humanities” questions and topics?
DH and artificial intelligence. How can DHers engage with AI from critical, historical, and/or technical perspectives? What is the role of DH in building better, more socially responsible, more ethically sound AI systems – or in not building them?
DH pedagogy. How should – or shouldn’t – the digital humanities be taught? What role does DH have to play in various curricula and disciplines? What does DH look like at different educational levels and institutional types?
DH and the academy. What is the role of DH in a moment defined by threats to academic freedom and other foundational values of higher education? How can DHers help to imagine and bring about a more just and equitable vision for higher education? How is DH practiced (or how should it be) when focused on publics outside the academy?
DH in the present geopolitical moment. What is the role of the field in combating the racism, sexism, xenophobia, and other injustices promoted by nationalist political movements around the globe?
DH and labor. Who does (and who is allowed to do) the work of DH? How does the inherently collaborative nature of DH help us to imagine work differently in, and between, a range of academic, cultural, and other organizations?
DH and the world. What are the issues involved in the continued Anglocentrism of the field, as well as its focus on the Global North? What does DH look like in other locales?
The institutionalization of DH. What is the role of DH in this moment of institutional instability? How do DHers maintain and support their work and the work of others alongside or outside of institutions? What does DH look like when focused on civic advocacy and action? What other formations are possible or already in place?
Infrastructures of DH. How do uneven distributions of resources – on national, institutional, organizational, and cultural levels – impact and shape the field? What are the resources that make DH successful?

In addressing these and other debates, submissions should take an argumentative stance, advocating clearly and explicitly from a particular point of view. DDH does not publish case studies. Scholars and practitioners from across the disciplines (regardless of rank, position, or institutional affiliation) are invited to submit abstracts (300-500 words) on these or other topics by May 25, 2025, to Kelly Baker Josephs (kbjosephs@miami.edu) and Lindsay Thomas (lthomas@cornell.edu). Collaboratively authored submissions are welcome.

The Debates in the Digital Humanities editorial team will review all abstracts, and authors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit full essays by October 1, 2025. The team will consult with the authors of selected abstracts about the length of their contributions, which will range from 2000 to 5000 words.
We also welcome nominations of blog posts or other short-form pieces that address the above and related issues.

As the series aims to introduce fully conceived scholarship on issues of pressing importance to the field, this volume will operate on a compressed production schedule. Contributors will be expected to participate in peer-to-peer and editorial review in October 2025; revised essays will be due in early Spring 2026. The volume will be published in print and online in an open-access edition through the Manifold platform by 2028.

Debates in the Digital Humanities is a hybrid print/digital publication stream that explores new debates in the field as they emerge. The most recent book in this series is Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities.