Workshop at ADHO DH 2026, Daejeon, South Korea

2026 marks the 10th iteration of AudioVisual & DH Special Interest Group (AVinDH SIG) events at the ADHO annual conference. Established in 2014, the SIG has now reached the point where it is timely to reflect on the developments in the field, and to jointly plan the future of our community.

The theme of the DH2026 emphasizes “Engagement.” Building on this idea, the AVinDH SIG invites all ADHO conference attendees to join this workshop to share work in progress and to discuss the present state and future avenues of research on AV materials within the Digital Humanities. You do not have to be a member of the AVinDH SIG to register, although we would be delighted to have you join our mailing list here!

Workshop Schedule

Time: Monday, July 27, 2026 (10:00-17:45) Place: Room 104, 1st floor

10:00 – 10:30 Welcome

Introduction to AVinDH.

10:30 – 11:30 Speed Dating

A structured networking activity.

11:30 – 12:00 Break

12:00 – 12:45 Panel

“AVinDH SIG turns 10! Reflecting on our past, present and future”

Discussants: Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond), Michaël Bourgatte (Université de Lorraine), and Yumeng Hou (National University of Singapore).

Moderator: Alison Langmead (University of Pittsburgh)

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 16:00 Lightning Talks

This session will focus on current research on AVinDH. Each participant will have 5 minutes to introduce their work.

  • Brenda Luies, University of Galway, “Untitled Presentation” - This lightning talk will be about audio recordings of late 15th and early 16th century printed texts in the English vernacular. The goal is for the recordings to act as an audio support for introducing the material to introductory level audiences with little to no experience in Middle English or Early Modern English.
  • Clarisse Bardiot, Université Rennes 2, “Arvest: A Playground for Your Cultural Collections” - Last year, we introduced the very first version of Arvest. Building on user feedback, we are now unveiling a redesigned interface which will be available in September. This talk will demo the new environment for annotating, remixing and publishing IIIF-based audiovisual collections, and share lessons learned along the way.
  • Giacomo Alliata, Université Rennes 2, “Reading the Stage at Scale” - As part of the ERC project From Stage to Data, this talk presents computational approaches to studying the visual traces of the Festival d’Avignon. Focusing on the interplay between bodies, scenographies, and venues, it explores how image analysis can reveal spatial, visual, and performative patterns across theatrical archives.
  • Anatole Grimaldi, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, “Celluloid”: An Open Source Online Video Annotation Tool - Celluloid is an open-source online video annotation tool designed for research and education (for individuals or groups). Users can take notes, add comments, or insert markers to the video; they can also use Celluloid’s built-in AI features to analyze the video’s structure (shot identification) or the audio (automatic speech transcription). All of the work can then be exported in various formats (txt, srt, etc.). Celluloid is integrated with the open-source Peertube platform to host and stream videos. Peertube is currently the most significant alternative to YouTube for digital humanists and the most effective way to envision a technological ecosystem.
  • Sophie Huang, ARTIFACT Futures & Vietnam Art Collection (VAC), “Untitled Presentation” - We are planning to build a digital archive based on our collection and field research in Vietnam and beyond, focusing on the history of modern and contemporary Vietnamese art and culture. Since we are currently at the planning stage, it would be great to learn about similar projects if possible.
  • Tillmann Ohm, Digital Humanities and Social Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, “EIDORA” - In this talk I want to introduce EIDORA, an open-source desktop application for the exploratory visual analysis of embedding spaces. EIDORA (work in progress) is primarily designed for researchers working with heterogeneous media, including art collections, historical objects, film footage, literary text corpora, and all types of cultural data, which is often accompanied by metadata and contextual information such as time.

16:00 – 16:15 Break

16:15 – 17:15 Tool Cavalcade

Presentations about AVinDH tools:

17:15 – 17:45 Wrap up

Final reflections on the future of AVinDH.

Conveners:

  • Mila Oiva, Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany
  • Justin Wigard, University of North Dakota, USA
  • Alison Langmead, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Juliette Bristault Canova, University of La Rochelle, France
  • Daniel Chávez Heras, King’s College London, UK
  • Erwin Feyersinger, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • Cécile Chantraine Braillon, University of La Rochelle, France
  • Katherine McDonough, Lancaster University, UK
  • Estelle Guéville, Yale University, USA
  • Lauren Tilton, University of Richmond, USA
  • Taylor Arnold, University of Richmond, USA

Learn more about the AvinDH SIG at https://avindh.org/

For questions, please email Mila Oiva at mila.oiva@fau.de.