Our living calendar of events and conferences in the digital humanities, cultural, GIS and citizen science sectors.

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Calls for Participation

Social History Society Annual Conference 2026

📅 1st – 3rd July, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lancaster, England
✒️ Elites in society
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 16th January, 2026

Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present

📅 18th June, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Coventry, England
✒️ Health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry.
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 25th January, 2026

British & Irish Association for Jewish Studies

📅 13th  – 15th July, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London, England
✒️ Space and place
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 30th January, 2025

Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914.

📅 24th April, 2026
🇫🇷 Strasbourg, France
✒️ Communicating through objects and materiality
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 10th February, 2026

Baltic Connections 2026: A Conference in Social Science History

📅 10th – 12th June, 2026
🇫🇮 Jyväskylä, Finland 
✒️ Economic, social, and business history
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 15th February, 2026

2026

Data Matters 2026

📅 21st January, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Birmingham, England
✒️ Impactful change and long-term resilience

Museum Wellness Summit

📅 28th – 29th January, 2026
💻 Online
✒️ How can museums benefit the health of their communities?

Green Museums Summit

📅 25th – 26th February, 2026
💻 Online
✒️ How can museums protect the planet?

European Citizen Science Association

📅 3rd – 6th March, 2026
🇫🇮 Finland
✒️Citizen Science between Centre and Periphery

Digifest 2026

📅 10th – 11th March, 2026 
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Birmingham, England
✒️ Innovations in digital education

Museum Digital Summit

📅 25th – 26th March, 2026
💻 Online
✒️ Innovations within digital culture 

History and Archives in Practice, 2026

📅 16th April, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sheffield, England
✒️ Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research

Star Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance Imagination Popular Culture and the Deep Past 2026

📅 17th – 18th April, 2026
🇺🇸 Ohio, United States
✒️ Astrology and astronomy
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 19th December, 2025

TALKING STONES – OBJECT AND MATERIALITY IN EARLY MODERN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE International Conference

📅 17th – 18th April, 2026
🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia
✒️ Communicating through objects and materiality
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 7th January, 2026

Museum & Schools Summit

📅 29th – 30th April, 2026
💻 Online
✒️ Engaging with students and pupils

Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914.

📅 24th April, 2026
🇫🇷 Strasbourg, France
✒️ Communicating through objects and materiality
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 10th February, 2026

Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past

📅 11th – 12th May, 2026 
🇱🇺 Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
✒️ Participatory methods for historical research
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 20th December, 2025

DARIAH ANNUAL EVENT 2026: Digital Arts and Humanities With and For Society: Building Infrastructures of Engagement

📅 26th – 29th May, 2026
🇮🇹 Rome, Italy 
✒️Public and participatory digital research
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 22nd December, 2025

Museum AI Summit

📅 27th – 28th May, 2026
💻 Online
✒️ Methods and case studies of AI use in museums

Canadian Society of Medievalists 2026 Annual Conference 

📅 27th – 29th May, 2026
🇨🇦 Antigonish, Canada 
✒️ Medieval studies broadly
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 15th January, 2026

Baltic Connections 2026: A Conference in Social Science History

📅 10th – 12th June, 2026
🇫🇮 Jyväskylä, Finland 
✒️ Economic, social, and business history
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 15th February, 2026

Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present

📅 18th June, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Coventry, England
✒️ Health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry.
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 25th January, 2026

Doing Migration History with Digital Methods. Summer School 2026 at the German Historical Institute in Paris (DHI Paris)

📅 22nd – 26th June 2026
🇫🇷 Paris, France
✒️ Migration history in the digital age
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 15th January 2026

Museums & Public Programs Summit

📅 24th – 25th June, 2026
💻 Online
✒️ Engaging with the public

GLAM Labs Futures

📅 25th – 26th June, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh, Scotland 
✒️ The role of GLAM labs 

Social History Society Annual Conference 2026

📅 1st – 3rd July, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lancaster, England
✒️ Elites in society
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 16th January, 2026

British & Irish Association for Jewish Studies

📅 13th  – 15th July, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London, England
✒️ Space and place
📝 Call for Participation deadline: 30th January, 2025

DH2026

📅 27th – 31st July, 2026
🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea
✒️ Engagement

The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) International Conference 2026

📅 27th – 31st July, 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Birmingham, England
✒️ Romantic Retrospection

2027

DH2027

📅 29th – 31st July, 2027
🇮🇪 Galway, Ireland 
✒️ TBA