Events
Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media runs regular seminars and workshops over the academic year, as well as training courses and other events.
We also co-sponsor events and training with our partners.
Upcoming and past events
- Computational Humanities Research conference (5-8 January 2027)
- Digital Methods summer school (6-10 July 2026)
- Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar: Jim Clifford, Solving Optical Character Recognition(?): Using olmOCR to follow commodities through the British World System (11 March 2026)
- Environmental Digital Humanities Workshop at Lancaster University (27 February 2026)
- 'How do AI and digital innovation practices harm refugees and crisis-affected people', Professor Mirca Madianou. Co-sponsored with Digital Futures' Digital Cultures theme (4 February 2026)
- Training: 'Critical Data Visualisation', Dr Luca Scholz (3 February 2026)
- Claire Reddleman (Manchester), 'The blue dot and the GPS selfie: the critique of the cartographic self'. Co-sponsored with the Department of Art History and Cultural Practices (19 November 2025)
- Ed King (Bristol), 'Addressing Algorithmic Bias through Video Game Design in Brazil'. Co-sponsored with the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (12 November 2025)
- Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar: Elizabeth Hameeteman, Reimagining Desalination through Digital Archives (12 November 2025)
- Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar: Iason Jongepier & Vincent Ducatteeuw, 'Artemis - Advanced Research Tools for Environmental Studies for Historical Maps of the Scheldt Valley' (15 October 2025)
- Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media Inaugural Lecture (25 September 2025)
- Training: 'Creative AI Methods', Dr Sam Hind (17 September 2025)
- Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar: Catherine Porter, Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland: a Case Study of the First Ordnance Survey of Ireland (21 May 2025)
- Book launch: 'Theorising Drones in Visual Culture: Views from the Blue', Dr Elisa Serafinelli (26 March 2025)
- Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar: Wright Kennedy, Separate but Dead: Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915 (12 March 2025)
- Book launch: '(Not) Kidding: Politics in Online Tabloids', Dr Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer (5 March 2025)
- Yutaka Yoshida and Yoko Demelius, Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan. Co-sponsored with East Asian Studies seminar (14 February 2025)
- Environmental Digital Humanities Workshop at The University of Manchester (29 January 2025)
- Book Launch: Sam Hind, ‘Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World’, with Alex Gekker (21 November 2024)
- Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar: Anne Alexander, AI and Mapping as Interpretative Devices for Investigative Journalists (13 November 2024)
- Safer Sextech: Intimacy, Pleasure and Wellbeing, with Kath Albury and Yigit Aydinalp (25 October 2024)
- Special Issue launch, co-edited by Łukasz Szulc, on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’ in Communication, Culture & Critique (16 October 2024)
- Centre Annual Lecture: Jędrzej Niklas, Data Ecopolitics: How Technology Shapes Our Environmental Future (19 September 2024)
- Digital Methods: A methods@manchester Summer School Course (1-5 July 2024)
- Digital Humanities Seminar: Levi Westerveld, Mapmaking as a Method of Research (14 February 2024)
- Digital Humanities Seminar: James Baker, Data Environmentalism' (24 January 2024)
- Queering Big Data, Algorithms and AI (24 January 2024)
