Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2026 – Call for Applications
The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Tennessee, in partnership with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), is providing funding for a week-long course at the 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute, held at the Université de Montréal in Canada. The session dates are June 8-12 and 15-19, 2026. The Denbo Center will cover the course registration fees for 5 UT attendees (faculty and graduate students) and provide a stipend of $1500 per attendee to help cover their travel and lodging.
DHSI is the largest and longest running DH training event, offering a variety of foundational and advanced courses related to practical and theoretical topics in digital humanities, digital history, open-access publishing, digital pedagogy, game studies and design, digital exhibits, and other related areas. Courses run over the course of two weeks (only one course can be taken per week) and there are also various speakers throughout the two sessions and a colloquium. The tentative course list is pasted below.
To apply for funding, please submit a 250-word statement of interest and an updated CV to humanitiesctr@utk.edu by Monday, December 15, with your information, the two courses you are interested in, and how these courses would be relevant to your research. Be as specific as possible about how attending a course would help your current research productivity. Applications must include either a short note from your corresponding head or director of graduate studies confirming that your department can cover costs in excess of the $1,500 travel grant or a short note from the applicant themselves committing to paying the excess costs, even if internal applications to ORIED are not successful.
If you apply and are selected, you must commit to booking your registration through the Denbo Center at the start of the spring semester 2026 (January 2026) and to giving a short summary report about the course experience to the Denbo Center. UT faculty in the Arts and Humanities will be prioritized but faculty from the social sciences and advanced graduate students in all departments of the College of Arts and Sciences are also encouraged to apply.
If you have any questions about applying or which courses to take, please reach out to Hilary Havens, the chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in DH, (hhavens1@utk.edu) or UT’s Digital Scholarship Librarian, Dr. Joshua Ortiz Baco (jortizba@utk.edu). Please join us at the information session on Thursday, December 4 from 3-4 P.M. in the Denbo Center (2230 Sutherland Avenue) with light refreshments.
Week 1 (June 8th to June 12th)
Building Artificial Intelligence Agents for Digital Humanities
Instructor(s): Yadira Lizama-Mué
Constructing Liberatory and Feminist Frameworks in DH Experiential Learning Spaces
Instructor(s): Jacquelyne Thoni Howard
DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI
Instructor(s): Anastasia Salter and John T. Murray
Introduction to Computational Text Analysis
Instructor(s): Jacek Bąkowski and Wojciech Łukasik
Introduction to Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web
Instructor(s): Susan Brown, Kim Martin, and Alliyya Mo
Introduction to Project Planning and Management for DH: Issues and Approaches
Instructor(s): Lynne Siemens
Introduction to Web Archiving
Instructor(s): Alan Colin-Arce
L’IA décryptée : fondements techniques et enjeux en SHS
Instructor(s): Alexia Schneider, Yann Audin, William Bouchard, Marcello Vitali-Rosati
Nuts and Bolts of DH Project Development
Instructor(s): Kayla Abner and Lauren Cooper
Penser (avec) les Grands Modèles de Langage en Sciences Humaines et Sociales
Instructor(s): Jean-Philippe Magué
Podcasting from Scratch
Instructor(s): Robin Davies
Powering up Digital Editorial Production with LEAF Commons Tools
Instructor(s): Diane Jakacki
Practical JavaScript for Interactive Scholarship
Instructor(s): Stephen Zweibel and Zachary Lloyd
Queer(ing) DH
Instructor(s): Jason Boyd and Edmond Chang
Spatial Visualization in/for Digital Humanities Research
Instructor(s): Alex Alisauskas and Lily Demet
Teaching AI Literacy
Instructor(s): D.J. Hopkins
Wiki pour les universitaires : engagement critique, enseignement et diffusion des connaissances
Instructor(s): Pascale Dangiosse
[Foundations] Coding Fundamentals for Humanists
Instructor(s): Marie-Hélène Burle
[Foundations] DH Leadership
Instructor(s): Katherine D. Harris, Glen Layne-Worthey, and Ray Siemens
[Foundations] Intersectional Feminist Digital Humanities: Theoretical, Social, and Material Engagements
Instructor(s): Elizabeth Losh
[Foundations] Introduction to Digital Approaches in Music Research
Instructor(s): Tim Duguid
[Foundations] Introduction to Textual Analysis: A Course on Voyant and Spyral
Instructor(s): Ayushi Khemka and Andrew MacDonald
[Foundations] Text Encoding Fundamentals and Their Application
Instructor(s): Constance Crompton
Week 2 (June 15th to June 19th)
AVAnnotate Open Source Application for Audiovisual Digital Exhibits and Editions
Instructor(s): Jack DeVry Riordan
Agile Project Management for Humanities Research
Instructor(s): James Smith
Automatic Text Recognition of Historical Documents: Building Text Corpora and Datasets
Instructor(s): Alix Chagué
Convivial Machine Learning
Instructor(s): Gabrielle Benabdallah
Creating Digital Collections with Minimal Infrastructure: Hands On With CollectionBuilder for Teaching and Exhibits
Instructor(s): Olivia Wikle, Evan Williamson, and Devin Becker
DH for Librarians
Instructor(s): Leigh Bonds and John Russel
Digital Pedagogy and the Book: Tools, Methods, and Projects
Instructor(s): Andie Silva
Engaging Play
Instructor(s): Sean Smith and Jeff Lawler
Exploring the Field of Recovery and Its Role within the Classroom
Instructor(s): Katie Blizzard and Noelle Baker
Immersive Scholarship 101
Instructor(s): Matt Cook and Brian Leach
Introduction to Multimodal Time Series Analysis with Python for Humanists
Instructor(s): Gabor Mihaly Toth and Mohamed Laib
LLMs from Prompts to Pipelines for Text & Media Analysis & Creativity
Instructor(s): Chris Tănăsescu
Markup, Maps, and Multimedia: Building Digital Projects with COVE
Instructor(s): Kate Faber Oestreich
Multimodal Rhetorics, Digital Writing
Instructor(s): Denna Iammarino and Kristine Kelly
Processing Your XML/TEI with the XML Family of Languages
Instructor(s): Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David Birnbaum
Publier avec des limites
Instructor(s): Antoine Fauchié
Python Programming for Multilingual Texts
Instructor(s): Merve Tekgürler and Chloé Brault
Responsible Computing and the Climate Crisis: Tools, Principles, and Actions
Instructor(s): Christopher Ohge
Wiki for Academics: Critical Engagement, Teaching, and Knowledge Dissemination
Instructor(s): Pascale Dangiosse
[Foundations] DH Sample Platter
Instructor(s): Markus Wust
[Foundations] Intro to Spatial Humanities with GIS
Instructor(s): Amanda Madden
[Foundations] Outils numériques et études littéraires: vers de nouvelles perspectives critiques
Instructor(s): David Joseph Wrisley and Parham Aledavood
[Foundations] Race and Social Justice: Methods and Applications
Instructor(s): Dorothy Kim and Jordan Clapper