DHARTI2026 Conference: Decolonising the Digital: Social Justice, Inclusion and Equitable Knowledge Production

DHARTI2026 is the fourth conference in the continuing conference series that began with the DHAI2018 inaugural conference, followed by the DHARTI Twitter Conference 2020, DHARTI2022 and DHARTI2024. Themed, “Decolonising the Digital: Social Justice, Inclusion and Equitable Knowledge Production,” the 2026 edition will be hosted by Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, from 18–20 December 2026, with pre-conference workshops scheduled for 18 December.

The conference will provide a collaborative platform for examining the past, present and future of Digital Humanities in India, with multiple parallel sessions and accompanying workshops. DHARTI’s call for hosts describes the conference as a space intended to stimulate debate across the diverse configurations of Digital Humanities and to encourage interdisciplinary participation from fields including language and literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, methodologies, software and critical computational studies.

View the full CFP here.