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Association for Computers and the Humanities 2026 Regional Hub
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will hold ACH 2026, a virtual conference, from June 24-26, 2026. The Penn Libraries will serve as a Regional Hub for the conference, providing a space for participants to watch the virtual conference sessions together as well as engage in complementary in-person events and opportunities for connection, to expand the network of DH work beyond the main conference.
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June 24 -
26, 2026
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Room 113: Collaborative Classroom, Room 114: Goldstein Electronic Classroom, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, First Floor
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Open to the Public
Hosted by: Research Data & Digital Scholarship
This event is free and open to all, but please note that all participants will be expected to adhere to the ACH Code of Conduct.
About the conference
Conference Focus: Emergence/ia
ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both "emergence" and "emergency." This dual meaning serves as our starting point. While emergence/ia speaks to growth, connection, and creation, emergency/ia signals moments of urgency that demand care, response, and transformation. ACH 2026 seeks to ask: What forms of knowledge creation in the digital humanities (broadly defined) are emerging from pressing challenges across the Americas? How do digital humanists respond to emergencies through knowledge creation, while being mindful of ramifications of computing for environmental crises? What insights do themes of transnationalism and solidarity reveal across the Americas about our work and communities, and the role of emerging technology in shaping both?
Regional Partners
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Duckworth Scholars Studio at Temple University
Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University
Price Lab for Digital Humanities at University of Pennsylvania
Research Data and Digital Scholarship at Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
Accessibility
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Van-Pelt Dietrich Library Center is a wheelchair-accessible building.
- If you have concerns or questions about presentation accessibility prior to the conference, contact Cynthia Heider at heider@upenn.edu.
What to bring
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For entry to the building: A valid PennCard or a current, valid government or school-issued photo ID that contains an expiration date
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To participate individually in virtual events (note: requires registration to the main conference): Headphones and a device that can run Zoom and/or WorkAdventure
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Stickers, zines, and other fun things to exchange!
Schedule
10:00am-6:30pm: Quiet room
Room 124
10:00-11:15am: Annual General Meeting
Room 113
11:30am-12:45pm: Keynote
Dr. Laura Gonzalez, "Community, Participation, and Transborder Technology Design" - Location TBD
1:00-2:15pm: Multiple
Media, Film, and Screenplay Analytics - Room 113
Multilingual DH and Transcription - Room 114
2:00-6:30pm: #DHMakes Crafting Space
RDDSx
2:30-3:45pm: Multiple
Accessibility and Sustainability in the Archive - Room 113
Data Sovereignty - Room 114
4:00-5:15pm: Multiple
Computational Textual Analysis - Room 113
Digital Mapping as Method and Practice - Room 114
5:30-6:45pm: Multiple
Archives, Memory, and Cultural Heritage - Room 113
Pedagogy, Methods, Politics, and Critical DH - Room 114
7:00pm: Philly DH Happy Hour
9:30-10:00am: Breakfast
10:00am-6:30pm: Quiet room
Room 124
10:00-11:15am: Multiple
New Directions in Global Humanities Research - Room 113
Digital Infrastructures - Room 114
11:30am-12:45pm: Multiple
Cross-Project Collaboration as Community Resilience: Northeastern’s Centers for Digital Scholarship - Room 113
Food, Place, and Cultural Identity in the Americas - Room 114
1:00-2:15pm: Keynote
Dr. Maria José Afanador-Llach, "Practices and Values in Digital Humanities: Perspectives from Latin America in a Global Context" - Room 113
2:30-3:45pm: Lightning Talks Session
Room 113
4:00-5:15pm: Multiple
Community-Engaged DH Practices - Room 113
Critiques and Uses of Generative AI - Room 114
5:30-6:45pm: Multiple
Reimagining Historical Datasets - Room 113
Preservation in Emergencia: Digital Infrastructures for Safeguarding US Latino Cultural Record - Room 114
9:30-10:00am: Breakfast
10:00am-6:30pm: Quiet Room
Room 124
10:00am-6:30pm: #DHMakes Crafting Space
RDDSx
10:00-11:15am: Multiple
Critical Methods for Digital Humanities in Transition - Room 113
Environmental DH and Ecological Modeling - Room 114
11:30am-12:45pm: Multiple
Surveillance, Law, and User Agency - Room 113
A Positive Agenda: A Legal Framework for AI in Digital Humanities and Open Scholarship - Room 114
1:00-2:00pm: Multiple
Building Community-Oriented Infrastructures for AI Experimentation - Room 113
Emergence and Emergency in Ukrainian Digital Humanities: Data, Poetry, Plants, and Periodicals - Room 114