Call for Submissions

Huminfra Conference 2027 (HiC 2027)

18–19 August 2027 | Växjö, Sweden

Pre-conference event: DARIAH-SE, 17 August 2027

Huminfra is a Swedish national infrastructure supporting digital and experimental research in the Humanities by providing users with a single-entry point for finding existing Swedish materials and research tools, and by developing national method courses.

On 18–19 August 2027, Huminfra will hold its third conference in Växjö, Sweden, with the aim of showcasing resources and initiatives supporting digital and experimental research in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and related fields. The conference aims to follow a single-track format, bringing participants together for shared presentations and discussions.

Huminfra Conference (HiC) 2027 will be preceded by the affiliated DARIAH-SE event on 17 August 2027 (further details on pre-conference event will be announced later), offering additional opportunities for exchange and collaboration within the broader digital humanities community from across Europe.

Call for Submissions

We invite submissions that cover any aspect of research infrastructure components for digital or experimental human science. Submissions may be for full presentations, short presentations, posters, or demonstrations.

Submissions may represent various types of work and stages of maturity, such as blue-sky research, work in progress, finished digital resources (e.g., tools, datasets), hands-on demonstrations, methodological innovations, training initiatives, lessons learned, strategic perspectives, and critical reflections.

Themes for submissions should primarily focus on:

• Research infrastructures and resources: The development and use of infrastructures, platforms, tools, datasets, training materials, and collections for human sciences research.
• Uses and impacts of Huminfra/DARIAH-SE: Cases and reflections on Huminfra/DARIAH-SE resources, services, events and training.
• Research methods and technologies: Methods, tools and technologies for human sciences research, including innovative approaches and work with intermediality and multimodality.

We welcome contributions for full presentations, short presentations (research in progress), posters, and demonstrations. The submission requirements depend on the type of contribution:

• Full presentations: A conference paper of approximately 3–6 pages (excluding references), with the opportunity to submit an extended paper for the post-conference proceedings.
• Short presentations, posters, and demonstrations: An abstract of approximately 300 words.

Accepted conference papers and abstracts will be published electronically in DiVA by Linnaeus University Press (with an ISBN). Authors of accepted full presentations will also have the opportunity to submit extended papers for the post-conference proceedings (publisher to be confirmed).

If you wish to propose an alternative presentation format (e.g., a panel), please contact us at submissions.hic2027@lnu.se.

Review and Selection

All submissions will undergo peer review. Contributions will be evaluated based on their relevance to the conference themes, clarity of presentation, methodological soundness (where applicable), originality, practical contribution, and relevance to the research infrastructure community. The evaluation will take into account the nature and maturity of work being represented in the submission. Reports on the use of research infrastructure (esp. Huminfra/DARIAH-SE) will be valued for offering concrete use cases, documenting benefits and challenges, presenting lessons learned, and offering insights into how infrastructure supports research/teaching/collaboration (instead of primarily for methodological rigour or technological novelty).

Post-Proceedings

HiC 2027 intends to publish extended papers as open-access post-conference proceedings, following the model of HiC 2025. Authors of accepted papers for full presentations will be invited to submit revised versions following the peer review.

The final versions may be extended, allowing authors to develop their contributions further. As the proceedings will be published electronically, the final page limit will be determined by the Programme Co-Chairs and communicated to authors in the publication guidelines. The revised papers will be subject to an additional peer-review assessment to ensure that reviewer comments have been addressed.

Authors will be expected to follow the proceedings formatting guidelines from the initial submission stage. Requirements concerning declarations of AI use and accessibility of figures and other visual materials will be communicated in accordance with the publisher's policies.

Important Dates

For conference and proceedings:

• Deadline for submissions: 12 April 2027, 11:59 pm (CET)
• Notification of acceptance: 17 May 2027

Additional dates for post-conference proceedings:

• Deadline for selected full publications: 13 September 2027
• Reviews due: 18 October 2027
• Camera-ready publication: 15 November 2027

Author's Kit and Submission GuidelinesAuthor's Kit and Submission Guidelines

Both conference papers (for full presentations) and abstracts (for short presentations, posters, and demonstrations) should be formatted using the Microsoft Word (.docx), OpenDocument Text (.odt), or LaTeX templates.

Please submit all contributions as PDF files using EasyChair for HiC 2027 https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=hic2027.

All submissions should be written in English.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed but need not be anonymized.

Registration

• Registration fee: free for Huminfra nodes; 700 SEK for non-nodes
• Deadline to register: 14 June 2027

Conference Chairs

Programme Committee

• Koraljka Golub, Co-Chair
• Ahmad M. Kamal, Co-Chair
• Julia Kuhlin
• Daniel O. Ihrmark
• Others to be confirmed

Organising Committee

• Julia Kuhlin, Co-Chair
• Daniel O. Ihrmark, Co-Chair
• Anna Blåder
• Linnéa Tjernström

Conference Contacts

For questions specifically related to submissions: submissions.hic2027@lnu.se

For other questions, such as for registration and travel: hic2027@lnu.se

The offical webpage for this event can be found at: https://huminfra.ungapped.io/Events/f3d87e1c-4a08-427c-bc15-5eccbee32a38

We look forward to welcoming you to Växjö for HiC 2027