DHARTI

DHARTI2026 Conference: Decolonising the Digital: Social Justice, Inclusion and Equitable Knowledge Production
2026-12-18 09:00 - 2026-12-20 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | KIIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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. Submissions for DHARTI2026 can be done here.

IIT Delhi DHWS3 (2027): Digital Storytelling
2027-01-04 09:00 - 2027-01-07 17:00 | IIT Delhi, India
The third Digital Humanities Winter School (DHWS3) will be organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) from 4–9 January 2027 at the IIT Delhi campus. Building on the previous editions of DHWS, the 2027 edition shifts its focus towards Digital Storytelling, Electronic Literature and Game Studies, combining conceptual discussions with practical training in digital tools and creative methods.
The programme will include an online pre-Winter School bootcamp on Python and Ren’Py, introducing programming concepts and their application to branching narratives and visual-novel design. The in-person programme will cover narrative prototyping, Electronic Literature and Twine, perspectives on data analysis in textual research, and narrative annotation and machine learning. The faculty listed for DHWS3 include Dr. Arjun Ghosh (IIT Delhi), Akash Johry (IIT Delhi), Dr. Shanmugapriya T [IIT (ISM) Dhanbad], Dr. Samya Brata Roy (GITAM, Hyderabad), Dr. Vinayak Das Gupta (Shiv Nadar University) and Dr. Sudeep Narayan Banerjee (IIT Delhi).
For more information about DHWS 3 (2027), visit its official webpage here.
