The Digital Humanities Conference 2026 in South Korea

Despite the hot and humid weather, the Trier team enjoyed an exciting conference week from July 27–31, 2026, in Daejeon, South Korea. The Digital Humanities Conference 2026 opened with the keynote "Teaching AI, Training Ourselves" by Prof. Kim Hyeon, who reflected on the role that fulfillment through knowledge and learning continues to play for human beings in the age of AI.

Following two intensive workshop days, which included presentations on pipelines for generierung von TEI/XML with LLMs and tools for creating Data Stories using knowledge graphs, the main conference days began with a diverse program of talks. During the conference, the mini-conference on the project playing heaven also took place, unfortunately without the planned contribution by Christof Schöch, who was unable to attend due to illness. Another highlight was the mini-conference digital and/or comparative literary studies today, which Christof Schöch helped organize.

The first presentation from Trier on Wednesday was ‘Who Voiced the Poems? A Large-Scale Analysis of Poetic Insertions in Chinese Vernacular Fiction’ by
Keli Du (Trier Center for Digital Humanities) and Rongqian Ma (Indiana University Bloomington).

During the poster session, the poster ‘Crowdsourcing the Digital Humanities, or: Join us in making the global DH community visible around the globe!’ (Trier Center for Digital Humanities) was presented and discussed.

On Friday, the ‚Beyond Words‘ project team presented a study on distinctive features of translated and non-translated corpora of French crime novels from the Le Masque, published between 1950 and 1999. 

During the closing ceremony, Christof Schöch, co-chair of the program committee for the Digital Humanities Conference 2027 (DH2027) in Galway, Ireland, presented some of the planned changes to the submission formats and submission process.

Before the conference, part of the team had already visited Seongnam for the workshop Knowledge Graphs of Literary Crossings at the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS).

The time spent in South Korea was characterized by intensive cultural, academic, and personal exchange. We returned to Trier with many new impressions, contacts, and sources of inspiration. We are already looking forward to welcoming our Korean project partners to the Trier Center for Digital Humanities in October 2026 and to the next DH conference in Galway in 2027.