The Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (HKADH) is pleased to announce its second international conference, to be organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong on January 23 – 25, 2026.

Distant Reading | Viewing | Perceiving in the Age of AI

As the AI Revolution gains pace, practitioners in multiple fields are presented with an array of new opportunities and challenges. This includes ever easier and more powerful tools for analyzing large corpora of texts, images and other data. This has vastly expanded our ability to engage in distant reading, viewing and perceiving (to borrow and build on terms made famous by Franco Moretti, Lauren Tilton and Taylor Arnold). At the same time, there have emerged urgent ethical, epistemological and methodological questions about authorship, authenticity, bias, and the interpretive limits of machine-assisted analysis, some new, others longstanding. This conference will take a kaleidoscopic approach to these and other pressing questions in digital humanities, cultural analytics and related fields in Asia and globally.

The call for papers is now open! The deadline for submission is August 31, 2025

Visit the Conference website for more information https://2026.hkadh.org