Conference Theme
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The DHARTI 2026 Biennial Conference seeks to foreground Digital Humanities as a critical site for interrogating questions of social justice, digital inclusion, digital justice, infrastructural access, representation, and epistemic inequality in and with the majority world.

As digital and algorithmic technologies increasingly shape contemporary modes of knowledge production, pedagogy, archives, media circulation, and cultural participation, it becomes necessary to critically examine the uneven structures through which digitality operates. The conference aims to explore how Digital Humanities can move beyond techno-deterministic frameworks toward more inclusive, multilingual, community-oriented, and socially grounded practices.

The conference welcomes scholars, researchers, educators, artists, archivists, technologists, activists, community practitioners, students, and engaged stakeholders across and beyond disciplines.

Select papers will be published in a Scopus-Indexed Volume.
The conference invites contributions on, but not limited to, the following areas, with a particular focus on Global Majority spaces and contexts:

Decolonial tools and Decolonising Practices in Digital Humanities
Digital Justice, Infrastructural Inequalities and Digital Futures
Digital Justice and Literary and Cultural Expressions
Collaborative Knowledge Production and Digital Space
Archives, Memory, and Digital Preservation
Language Technologies and Multilingual Futures
Digital Pedagogy and Curricular Practices
Visual Cultures and Media Ecologies
Platform Studies and Algorithmic Cultures
Digital Archives, Marginalized Communities, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Digital Humanities, Urban Studies, Mapping and Spatiality
Accessibility and Inclusive Digital Practices
Digital Labour and Data Politics
Responsible Computing, Data Ethics, and AI Governance
Participatory/Relational ML/AI practices/projects in India/Global South
Ethics, Surveillance, and Digital Citizenship
Race/ Class/ Caste/ Religion/ Gender and Digital Humanities
Black Digital Humanities and Afrofuturism
Digital Humanities and Dalit Futurism
Environmental Humanities and Digital Ecologies
Digital Storytelling, Creative Practice, and Interactive Media
Public Digital Humanities and Community Engagement

Modes of Participation
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Modes of Participation:

Academic Papers: 15-minute presentation followed by discussion.
Panel Proposals: 3–4 papers around a common theme with a focus on ensuring plurality of representation and perspectives.
In-person Poster Presentations: For emerging projects and research initiatives.
Proposals for Workshops: The conference will be preceded by a set of pre-conference workshops. DHARTI members can propose workshops. Workshops will be scheduled on 18 Dec 2026 (Fri.).

No participant shall serve as a lead presenter in more than one presentation. In the event that a presenter is shortlisted as a lead presenter for two or more papers after the review process, the Programme Committee will ask the participant to withdraw one of the papers. This rule shall not apply to workshops.

Abstracts in Indian languages are encouraged. Posters may also be submitted in any Indian language. However, where an abstract or poster is submitted in an Indian language, an English version must also be provided to ensure that the content is accessible to the larger conference audience.

All participants are required to be members of DHARTI (Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovation). To encourage wider participation, undergraduate students may avail of a complimentary six-month membership, granted by DHARTI upon request. Those who wish to continue their membership beyond that period may register according to the prescribed membership criteria.

Selected papers, following peer review and editorial evaluation, will be considered for publication in an edited conference proceedings volume.

KIIT has secured a Letter of Intent from Peter Lang, an internationally reputed academic publisher, indicating its willingness to consider a select number of conference papers for publication. The proposed volume will subsequently be submitted for indexing in Scopus, subject to the publisher’s review and indexing requirements.