EMERGING DIGITAL METHODOLOGIES CONFERENCE 2026

Emerging Digital Methodologies is an annual conference for early-career researchers and graduates exploring the use of digital methodologies across the humanities and related disciplines.

Following a highly successful and oversubscribed inaugural conference in 2025, which attracted more than 140 attendees, we are delighted to announce the return of Emerging Digital Methodologies for 2026. The conference will take place in person on 18 November 2026 at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub.

Since the turn of the millennium, digital and computational methodologies have become increasingly prolific at the cutting edge of language and humanities research. Utilising digital techniques from other disciplines has allowed historically qualitative fields to rethink key questions, bring new understandings to foundational sources, increase information accessibility, and lead to previously unexplored cross-disciplinary research.

The conference brings together researchers who are using digital methods to rethink established fields, explore new applications for conventional digital methods, and look at how digital methodologies are being translated in the cross-disciplinary space. Presentations will capture a wide range of subject areas across the many communities of scholars utilising digital methods – both from novices and expert practitioners.

The event is part of the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Programme with support from the Voltaire Foundation and Jesus College Oxford.

Tickets for the conference will be £38 pounds per-person, including tea breaks, lunch and a wine reception. More event details will follow soon.

The call for papers is now out for 2026.