21-24 January
Submissions will be conducted through Microsoft CMT.
Model/Making: Toward Generative Humanities
HKADH 2027 welcomes submissions that explore how models and modelling shape digital humanities as analytical practice, cultural production, artistic experimentation, and applied public work.
21-24 January 2027 at The Education University of Hong Kong
Key Dates
Theme: Models as Methods, Media, and Engines of Cultural Production
The concept of the model has been core to digital humanities, in the form of standards, statistics, prototypes, and practices. Building on this longstanding tradition, HKADH 2027 explores how digital, computational, and analytical frameworks also become engines for cultural production.
Alongside established analytical practices, the event will highlight emerging horizons coming into view. The theme, Model/Making, expands the discipline by embracing the generative, artistic, and applied dimensions of models and modelling.
Call for Papers
We welcome submissions on all relevant topics and invite different kinds of contributions, including creative work, hands-on workshops, posters, papers, panels, and roundtables.
Areas of Particular Interest
- The use of models to create narratives, music, art, games, data modelling as artistic practice, algorithmic composition, and procedural rhetoric.
- Digital models and materialities, including printing, weaving, robotics, VR/AR environments, and storytelling forms.
- Simulations and performances of events, dynamics, and spaces; synthetic data in humanities contexts.
- Archive, heritage, and preservation implications of data models, corpus constructions, metadata standards, semantics, and ontologies.
- Collaboration between humans and AI in the production of cultural artifacts, and collaboration between DH practitioners and others within or beyond the academy.
- Theoretical lenses on the generative capacities of models, including philosophy of technology, media theory, and infrastructure studies.
- Authorship, ownership, intellectual property, societal impact of data, data modelling, and AI, including reliance or overreliance on generative media in DH contexts.
- Computational modelling and generative media in humanities curricula.
Posters
Ideal for presenting work-in-progress and receiving immediate feedback.
Papers
For sharing research results. Presentations will be 10 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Workshops
Hands-on demonstrations and exercises involving technology, software tools, and projects, in half- or full-day formats.
Roundtables
Expert discussion on a shared topic through a collective submission. Roundtables can be 60 or 90 minutes.
Organized Panels
Several papers focused on a joint theme through a collective submission. Panels can be 60 or 90 minutes.
Creative Work
Creative work engaging models, modelling, or digital humanities may be submitted in any medium.
Submission Guidelines
- Creative Work
- 500-word abstract, not including reference material, with access to at least part of the work, for example via a walkthrough video.
- Posters and Papers
- 750-word abstract, not including reference material. Full posters or full papers should not be submitted.
- Roundtables and Workshops
- 1000-word abstract, not including reference material, describing participant contributions and event components.
- Organized Panels
- 1500-word abstract, not including reference material, including component paper descriptions and an overall summary.
- Proceedings
- HKADH 2027 does not accept full-length paper submissions and will not publish proceedings. A book of abstracts will be prepared for participants before the event.
- Portal and Schedule
- Submissions will be conducted via Microsoft CMT. The portal, submission dates, and decision dates will be announced shortly.
Keynote Speakers
Maria Antoniak
University of Colorado Boulder
Research in natural language processing, cultural analytics, healthcare, online communities, and computational humanities.
Hilde De Weerdt
KU Leuven
Research in Chinese history, early modern global history, information history, and digital methods for East Asian texts.
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
National Central University / National Taiwan University / Academia Sinica
Research in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and computational language technologies.
Programme
The full programme will be available later.
Art Showcase
Featured artist: Hung Keung, The Education University of Hong Kong
The art showcase is planned as a conference event alongside the cultural tour. It will feature Hung Keung and may also include selected creative works submitted to the conference.