IIT Delhi DHWS2 (2026): Geo-Spatial and Network Analysis

The second Digital Humanities Winter School (DHWS2) was organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) and held from 12–17 January 2026 at the IIT Delhi campus. Building on the inaugural DHWS held in 2025, this edition focused on spatial and network approaches, particularly mapping, connecting and visualising humanities data to uncover relationships across places, people and texts. DHWS 2026 was supported by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Savex Technologies.

The programme combined a pre-Winter School online bootcamp in Python and R with hands-on training in Spatial Humanities, GIS, computational text analysis, network analysis, AI and machine learning. Participants worked with tools and platforms including Recogito, QGIS, qgis2web, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Google Colab and JupyterHub. The faculty included David Joseph Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE), Dr. Arjun Ghosh (IIT Delhi, India), Dr. Sudeep Narayan Banerjee (IIT Delhi, India), Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta (IIT Delhi, India) and Dr. Vinayak Dasgupta (Shiv Nadar University, India). The Winter School also moved beyond conventional classroom instruction. Participants visited the Humayun’s Tomb Museum and undertook collaborative activities connecting material, spatial and digital forms of knowledge. The programme concluded with participant presentations and a valedictory session, including a collaborative cross-stitch map of India marking the places from which participants had travelled to attend the Winter School.

For more information, visit the official webpage of DHWS 2026 here.