AVinDH Online Workshop Series 2026
The AVinDH Online Workshop Series explores the latest developments in Audiovisual and Digital Humanities, bringing together scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in innovative approaches to audiovisual media. Through a programme of online workshops, the series highlights cutting-edge tools for analysing audio and visual data, emerging methodologies, exciting datasets, and critical questions shaping the field today.
Designed as an open and collaborative forum, the series creates opportunities for participants to learn, exchange ideas, and discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of audiovisuality in Digital Humanities. Each workshop showcases new perspectives and practical approaches, fostering dialogue across disciplines and research communities.
The online workshop series extends the conversations and collaborations that emerge from annual in-person conference meetings, making them accessible throughout the year. Thanks to its online format, participants from around the world can join regardless of location, contributing to the international community of practice. To ensure continued access and engagement, recordings of all events are also made available for later viewing.
If you would like to present a tool, share a dataset or method, or discuss a pressing topic with us, please contact: mila.oiva@fau.de, estelle.gueville@yale.edu, and erwin.feyersinger@uni-tuebingen.de.
Datascene (VAA1)
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 3:00-4:00 p.m. CEST
Datascene (VAA1) is a research-led multimodal intelligence platform that transforms audiovisual material into structured, searchable, and traceable knowledge. Designed for archives, research institutions, media organizations, and the creative sector, Datascene helps to unlock the analytical, cultural, and strategic value of video by turning recordings, broadcasts, interviews, performances, and audiovisual collections into reusable institutional intelligence. Rather than replacing human interpretation, Datascene strengthens it through evidence-linked analysis, semantic metadata, and research-grade traceability.
Team: Social Data Sciences PhD Researcher Petteri Laine; Docent of History of Social Sciences, Jukka Kortti; Social Psychology PhD researcher Reko Elovainio.
Canevas: an open ecosystem for archiving and analysing audiovisual corpora
Friday, October 2, 2026, 4:00 p.m. CEST
Celluloid is a free and open-source collaborative video annotation tool designed for research and teaching in the humanities and social sciences. It forms part of an ecosystem of online interoperable apps that enables researchers to manage every stage of their project: hosting the video corpora, analysis, sharing and, finally, publishing of results. In this workshop, we will present the structure of this ecosystem, within the framework of the CANEVAS consortium, and offer participants the opportunity to test these tools in practice.
What the Synthetic Image Generators Can Contribute to Humanities Research
Friday, November 13, 2026, 4:00-5:50 p.m. CEST; 10:00-11:30 a.m. ET
In this workshop, we will learn some of the technical specifics of the Synthetic Image Generators, including an investigation of the current implementations of the rule-based governors on prompt input. We will then ask together what the design of these systems has to say about technologically-driven, popular desire for visual imagery in 2026.