Sustainability
15 – 16 June 2026
University of Southampton & Online
Programme
All of the sessions listed below labelled “Hybrid” will be available to view online. For those joining online, information about how to join the virtual sessions will be shared in advance of the conference.
Monday 15 June 2025 |
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| 09:00 – 10:00 | Registration & Coffee |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome Remarks |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Session 1A (Hybrid Talks) – Heritage Data Stewardship |
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Sustaining the Federated Knowledge Graph Ecosystem for Digital Cultural Heritage in the British–Irish Isles Florian Thiery |
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Legacy Digital and Digital Legacies: The Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land Natasha Hodgson |
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Beyond Infrastructure: Legal Sustainability and Digital Cultural Heritage Governance in Indonesia Desi Yunitasari and Devi Yusvitasari |
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| Session 1B (Talks) – AI, Institutions & Knowledge | |
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Comput(AI)titional visitor language analysis in GLAM: Constructing institutionally sustainable evaluation workflows Elena Trowsdale |
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AI-BRIDGES: A Sustainability Intervention for Institutional Open Knowledge in the Age of Generative AI Shani Evenstein Sigalov |
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Sustainable Frames, Custodial Labour: Perspectives on AI in Public Media and the Cultural Commons Giota Alevizou |
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DARIAH-Campus as a Sustainable Platform for Open Education Resources: How to Open, Access, and Reuse Training Materials Vicky Garnett |
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| 11:45 – 12:00 | Coffee Break |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Session 2A (Hybrid Talks) – Digitally Preserving Performance |
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Virtual Reality and Sustainable Cultural Heritage in the Digital Preservation Framework Eun Myung Moon |
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Sustaining Intangible Performance Heritage through Pedagogy-as-Infrastructure: A Clip-Based Annotation Workflow from “Digital Kunqu Lab” Ming Yang |
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| Session 2B (Talks): DH Lab Infrastructures and Estates | |
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Between Innovation and Sustainability: The AMP Lab at 10 Karis Shearer
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Designing for Sustainability: A Static‑First Development Approach to Managing Digital Estates Pamela Mellen, Stefan Meier and Samantha Callaghan |
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Developing a Competency Framework for DH Computing Education Anna Sollazzo
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| 13:00 – 14:30 |
Lunch (running concurrently with Poster & Demo Session) |
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Poster & Demo Session
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Crayons × Code – Re-Exploring Children’s Drawings with Multimodal AI and Dynamic Ethics Chen Qu |
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Sustaining Disappearing Spaces: Reconstructing Nangou’s Black Paper Cutting through Immersive Technologies Qiongpei Kong and Simon Mahony |
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The European Peatland Policy Portal: Facilitating Evidence-based Policy Analysis and Policymaking M.A Waskow, Niall Ó Brolcháin, Yasar Khan, Muhammad Waqas Shoukat, Sandra Riordan and Saeed Alsamhi |
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Ethical AI Governance as Sustainable DH Infrastructure Hudson Matthew |
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Triple Data Sustainability in Digital Cultural Heritage: Technical, Content, and Educational Dimensions of Graph Data with WissKI Mark Fichtner, Canan Hastik and Gudrun Schwenk |
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Small Data, Sustainable Futures: Lessons from the Journal of Open Humanities Data Andrea Farina, Barbara Mcgillivray and Youngim Jung |
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Sustainable Partnerships for Critical AI Literacy: Co-designing a Responsible AI Workshop with Young People Kunika Kono, Karol Sobolewski and Elena Zolotariof |
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Operationalising Federated Knowledge Graphs in QGIS and GitHub: The SPARQLing Unicorn Research Toolkit for Reproducible Mapping and HTML Documentation Florian Thiery |
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Mapping Culinary Memory: Digital Food Mapping as a Practice of Cultural Sustainability in Kolkata’s Literary Heritage Srabani Biswas |
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Building sustainable digital scholarship communities Katharine Dickinson |
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Mapping the Arts and Humanities: Sustaining Research Infrastructure through Community Engagement Elena Zolotariov |
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Parthenon Marbles Portable Escape Room Stephanie Barter |
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The Social History Archive – An Introduction Brian Donovan |
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| 14:30 – 16:00 |
Session 3A (Talks) – Institutional Data Governance
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Digital preservation of historical meteorological observations from Ireland Carla Mateus |
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From the ground up: sustainable preservation of digital archaeological data Burcu Aksahin and Ian Wyre |
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From ‘Ladies’ to ‘Women’: Computational Analysis of Institutional Identity at King’s College London, 1897-1914 Antonina Puchkovskaia |
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Session 3B (Hybrid Talks) – Preserving Arts and Cultures
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Digital practices in two regional theatres and arts centres, at the beginning of their sustainability journey Ben Mc Cabe |
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Between Miniature and Machine Time: Autopoietic Meaning in Algorithmic Visual Art Priyanka Das
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Saving the Unsavable? Meme Culture, Platform Dependency, and the Sustainability Crisis in Digital Humanities Jyoti Jyoti
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Session 3C – Workshop
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Building Sustainable Research Communities: Contributing to the Community Cookbook Oscar Seip, Michael Donnay and Anne Lee Steele |
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| 16:00 – 16:15 |
Coffee Break
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| 16:15 – 17:15 |
Session 4A (Hybrid Talks) – Disciplinary Interventions in DH
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Weaving the Common Tapestry: A Dual-Layer Study of Interdisciplinary Knowledge Production in the Digital Humanities Field Zhiwei Hu, Yingqun Li and Lei Pei
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Making Data Last: Data Papers as Sustainability Infrastructures Andrea Farina, Alessia Spadi, and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti
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Session 4B (Hybrid Talks) – Repairing Knowledge Infrastructures
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Digital Circular Heritage Economy: From War-Damaged Cultural Assets to Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures Anton Shynkaruk, Tetiana Samsoniuk and Dmytro Maslov
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Sustainable Synthetic Infrastructures: Computational Media Ecologies and Cultural Repair in India Mayankdutt Kaushik
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Session 4C – Workshop
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Five Years of the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition – Looking Back, Sustaining Our Future James Baker, Lisa Otty, Joseph Lindsay Walton and Christopher Ohge
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| 17:15 – 17:30 |
Break
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| 17:30 – 18:30 |
Hybrid Plenary Session
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We are pleased to announce that our plenary session for the Annual Event will be a roundtable on the topic of The Persistence of Infrastructure. Panellists will drawn on their own experience to talk around the theme of sustainability in DH. The roundtable will feature:
The plenary session will be followed by an in-person reception. |
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Tuesday 16 June 2026 |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 |
Registration & Coffee
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| 09:30 – 11:00 |
Session 5A (Talks) – AI and Historical Archives
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Recognising Text, Recognising Processes – eXplainable Automated Text Recognition for Scottish Spiritualist Newspapers Joseph Nockels and Sarah Ames
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Sustaining Ethical AI: Addressing Historical Toxicity in Medieval Open Data Delphine Demelas
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Sustaining Hidden Histories: Adapting AI Technologies for Colonial Paraguayan Archives Guillaume Candela
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Session 5B (Hybrid Talks) – Digital Tools and Workflows
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Engagement for Sustainability – The Research Sustainability Workflow for the Humanities Beth Knazook and Joan Murphy |
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The Kallol Era Poetry (1923–1930s): Digital Preservation and Community Engagement Ashutosh Sarkar and Dr Santanu Banerjee
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Automating the Boring Stuff: Sustainable Workflow Automation for Digital Scholarly Editions Dario Kampkaspar
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Session 5C (Workshop)
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DH Fail Club Michael Donnay, Anna-Maria Sichani, Anisa Hawes and Arianna Ciula
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| 11:00 – 11:15 |
Break
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| 11:15 – 12:45 |
Session 6A (Hybrid Talks) – DH Principles in Practice
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Teaching Digital Humanities in the Global South: A Minimal Computing Approach Richa Mishra
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From Code to Culture: Sustainable Explainability in Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Mika Jaeyun Noh
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Against Visibility: Design, Restraint, and Sustainability Tushar Kant
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Session 6B (Hybrid/Online Workshop)
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Working Sustainably with AI in Digital Heritage Research Larissa Terranova |
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Forensic Imaging for Legacy Media on a FRED Workstation Laura Isabel Sastoque Pabon, Ammandeep K Mahal and James Baker |
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| 12:45 – 14:15 |
Lunch (running concurrently with Pitches and Provocations Session) |
| 13:15 – 14:15 |
Pitches & Provocations
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| 14:15 – 15:45 |
Session 7A (Workshop)
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Developing Sustainable Federated Digital Research Infrastructures: a Community Driven Approach Karina Rodriguez Echavarria, Myrsini Samaroudi, Neil Jakeman, Arianna Ciula and Matt Pen |
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Session 7B (Hybrid Workshop)
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Designing Sustainable Digital Research Infrastructure: Community, Skills, and Portal Thinking in Data/Culture Giovanna Di Martino and Matilda Peruzzo
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Session 7C (Workshop)
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A Hands-On Workshop on Sustainable “Small Data” Mapping in Digital Humanities Gokcen Kavuk
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| 15:45 – 16:00 |
Closing Remarks
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