DH Benelux Conference 2027

The annual DH Benelux Conference serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects.

The 14th edition of the DH Benelux Conference will take place in Brussels at Université libre de Bruxelles from 6 to 9 July 2027.

Digital Humanities has always defined itself in relation to its tools and to its conditions of work. In 2027, both have changed. Large Language Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Agentic Systems are mainstream and that has shifted what counts as a method, a contribution, and a reliable scholarly claim; while the material costs of these systems — manufacturing, water use, carbon emissions — have made visible what was previously easy to ignore: that digital scholarship is positioned not only in disciplines and institutions, but has a tangible ecological footprint. With the theme Where Is Digital Humanities?, DH Benelux 2027 invites the community to ask where — with whom, on what terms, and at what cost — DH does its work in the post-LLM moment.