DARIAH Annual Event 2026: All information

The DARIAH Annual Event 2026 will take place on May 26th to May 29th in Rome, Italy. Our host for this year’s event is CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. May 26th will be a day for DARIAH internal meetings, followed by the main conference on May 27th to May 29th.

This year’s event will explore the topic of Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement.

Venue

Università degli Studi Roma Tre – Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Via Ostiense, 234, 00146 Roma RM
More information on how to reach the venue and a list of suggested hotels can be found on the annual event website.

Call for Papers

The theme of DARIAH’s 2026 Annual Event is to explore digitally-enabled research through a public and participatory lens, focusing on who our research is for, what are its social and public benefits, and how research can serve to create new dialogues within the public sphere. We seek to foster exchanges on how digital infrastructures, networks and collaborative methods can enable and sustain forms of scholarship that are open, flexible and socially responsive. A way to frame this is through the concept of hybridity: an intermingling of ‘disciplines, technological and cultural practices’ which embed within them the goal of connectivity. This may be connectivity of the university or memory institutions with society through collaborative and joint engagements, or it might be providing alternative spaces for/where people can connect and interact through a hybrid network of physical and technology-mediated encounters to co-construct knowledge.’

Whether through scholarly reflections, concrete case studies, theoretical contributions, or policy considerations, this year we seek to explore how digital, social and institutional infrastructures can support engaged research, and nurture generosity, participation and shared creativity in the digital arts and humanities.

We welcome 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

Opening RoundTable

We are happy to announce an Opening Round Table on the Annual Event’s Theme “Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement” that will take place on Tuesday, May 26 at 16:00 CEST. This Round Table will be chaired by Susan Schreibman, DARIAH-EU Director and Chair of the Programme Committee (Maastricht University) with participations from Jenny Bergenmar (University of Gothenburg), Marianne Huang (Aarhus University) and Sanita Reinsone (University of Latvia).

The panel will explore how the digital has created a new public sphere: how researchers, projects, professionals, and institutions have built into their digital scholarship new dialogues with and for the public. It will focus on connectivity: how the digital can foster public humanities and engaged research, and the value and rewards of nurturing generosity, participation and shared creativity in the digital arts, heritage and humanities.

Keynote speaker

We are happy to announce that Andreas Fickers, director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), 3rd Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Luxembourg and head of its Digital History Lab, will give a keynote speech on “Multimodality as a means for multivocality? Transmedia storytelling and the challenges of shared authority in digital public humanities” at the DARIAH Annual Event 2026.

Important dates

(Extended) Deadline for Call for Papers: December 22, 2025 January 8, 2026
Notification of acceptance: Late February, 2026
Registration opens: Early March, 2026
Deadline for early-bird registration: April 7, 2026
Registration closes: May 11, 2026

Programme

The conference programme is now available on ConfTool.

Registration

Registration for the in-person Annual Event is open, please make sure you register until 11 May.

This year the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 will charge a registration fee of 100 euros for all participants, including presenting authors. An early bird rate of 85 euros is available for registrations completed by 7 April 2026.

You can now register to attend the event

Visit the Annual Event website for more information on the event.