DHARTI2024 Conference: Digital Subject/ivities in the Global South
2024-12-10 09:00 - 2024-12-13 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | IIT Jodhpur, IIT Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
The Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI) successfully hosted its DHARTI 2024 biennial conference themed ‘Digital Subject/ivities in the Global South‘ with the Interdisciplinary Research Platform for Digital Humanities (IDRP-DH) at Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (IIT-J) on December 10-13, 2024.
Please visit the conference website for further details. The sessions’ details can be found on the website under the ‘Highlights’ section.
The theme builds upon DHARTI’s last conference in 2022, which explored ‘digital divides’ in DH spaces across India and the globe. In the process, it hopes to create a platform for crucial dialogue between the scientific-technological discourses, and humanities and sociological research so that they may act together, in complementary ways, affecting timely interventions. Because of, or even despite the digital divide we witness, it is important, to not just study digitality in Global South societies, but also how cultural meaning- making play a key role in negotiations of agency and accessibility of resources across social networks within the Global South, and vis-a-vis the Global North.

IIT Delhi DHWS1 (2025): Computational Analysis of Texts
2025-02-17 09:00 - 2025-02-22 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | IIT Delhi, India
The Digital Humanities Winter School (DHWS) 2025, held between 17-22 February 2025, was an initiative of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), designed to provide humanities and social-science scholars with an accessible introduction to computational methods and digital scholarship. The inaugural edition was held from 17–22 February 2025 at the IIT Delhi campus and focused particularly on the computational analysis of texts, including text mining, sentiment analysis, topic modelling, data visualisation, data acquisition, cleaning and wrangling.
The Winter School combined an online Python Bootcamp with six days of in-person workshops, lectures and discussions. Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada) and Dr. Shanmugapriya T (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad) led sessions on computational text analysis, while other sessions covered data science and libraries, digital art and data aggregation, OpenRefine, and OCR technologies for Indian-language scripts. Faculty also included Dr. Arjun Ghosh, Sanil V., Naveen Thayyil and Dr. Vinayak Dasgupta from IIT Delhi, Jajwalya Karajgikar from the University of Pennsylvania, and Rohan Chauhan from the University of Delhi
The Winter School received more than 550 applications, with a cohort of 25 participants representing different disciplines, academic levels, Indian states and languages. It concluded with participant presentations and a roundtable on “Digital Humanities@India: Opportunity and Challenges in the Time of AI”, led by Santanu Chaudhury. The programme also marked World Mother Language Day, foregrounding computational approaches to Indian-language texts and the use of IIT Delhi’s Lipikar OCR technology.
Detailed information about DHWS 2025 can be found here.

DHARTI Speaks! #3 (2025): DH and AI Futures: Pathways, Possibilities, and Perils
2025-08-02 19:00 - 20:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Event, India
As the third session of the DHARTI Speaks! series, DH and AI Futures: Pathways, Possibilities, and Perils was held on 2 August 2025, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM (IST). The panel brought together Dr. Dibyadyuti Roy (University of Leeds, UK), Dr. Soni Wadhwa (SRM Univerity), Vasundhra Dahiya (IIT Jodhpur), Dr. Vinayak Dasgupta (Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, India), Himanshu Sihag (IIT Jodhpur), and Steven S. George (Jamia Millia Islamia, India) to discuss the emerging relationship between Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence. The discussion explored the pathways, possibilities, and potential perils of AI in humanities research and practice, considering both the opportunities offered by emerging technologies and the methodological, ethical and disciplinary questions they raise.

DHARTI Speaks! #4 (2025): E-Literature: Modes, Cultures and Contours
2025-09-06 19:00 - 20:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Event, India
As the fourth session of the DHARTI Speaks! series, E-Literature: Modes, Cultures, and Contours was held on 8 August 2025, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM (IST). The panel brought together Dr. Samya Brata Roy (GITAM, Hyderabad), Dr. Arjun Ghosh (IIT Delhi), Dr. Shanmugapriya T. (IIT Dhanbad), Dr. Natasha Thoudam (IIT Jodhpur), and Steven S. George (Jamia Millia Islamia) to explore the diverse modes through which literature is created, circulated and experienced in digital environments, while considering the cultural contexts and evolving contours of E-Literature as a field of Digital Humanities research and practice.

IIT Delhi DHWS2 (2026): Geo-Spatial and Network Analysis
2026-01-12 09:00 - 2026-01-17 17:00 UTC | IIT Delhi, India
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.

DHARTI Speaks! #5 (2026): My Dilemmas, as a Curator: Research, Writing, or Coding
2026-03-31 19:30 - 20:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Event, India
As the fifth session of the DHARTI Speaks! series, My Dilemmas, as a Curator: Research, Writing, or Coding was held on 31 March 2026, at 7:30 PM (IST). The session featured Ishita Shah, curator, designer and historian, and founder of Curating for Culture (India). The talk examined the evolving landscape of Digital Humanities through the intersections of design, historiography and digital archiving, with Shah reflecting on the challenges and choices involved in contemporary curatorial practice, particularly the relationship between research, writing and coding. The event was held exclusively for DHARTI members.

DHARTI Roundtable: India’s Space in Global Digital Humanities
2026-04-17 19:00 - 20:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Event, India
The DHARTI Governing Body organised a virtual roundtable on India’s evolving role in the international DH community, discussing how DHARTI can deepen digital humanities work across India.
The organisation of the roundtable was greatly influenced by the then-recent ADHO decision to adopt double-blind review for DH2026, which sparked essential global discussions about fairness, inclusion, and review practices. This led to the need for a common forum to articulate Indian perspectives on:

What unique contributions can India bring to global DH from the Global South?
How do multilingualism, decolonial approaches, infrastructure needs, and interdisciplinary networks shape our work?
What role can DHARTI play in mentoring, networking, and amplifying Indian DH internationally?

Registration link can be found here.

DHARTI Speaks! #6 (2026): Unlocking 500 Years of Real Data in Historical Spanish with AI
2026-05-14 20:30 - 21:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Event, India
As the sixth session of the DHARTI Speaks! series, Unlocking 500 Years of Real Data in Historical Spanish with AI was held on 14 May 2026 at 8:30 PM (IST). The session featured Prof. Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence at Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) and Chair in Digital Humanities at Lancaster University (United Kingdom). The talk explored how Artificial Intelligence can be used to unlock and analyse five centuries of historical Spanish-language data, highlighting the possibilities of AI and computational methods for working with large-scale historical records and opening new avenues for research in the Digital Humanities.

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 (Asia/Kolkata) | 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.
