DHKV – Digital Humanities Knowledge Visualisation

The Digital Humanities have moved beyond digitisation toward computational interpretation, data-intensive scholarship, and algorithmically mediated knowledge production. At the same time, visualisation has evolved from a representational technique into an epistemic practice — a way of thinking, modelling, and constructing meaning.

DHKV – Digital Humanities & Knowledge Visualisation examines the theoretical, methodological, and critical intersections between humanities inquiry and visual knowledge systems.

This symposium positions visualisation not merely as a communication layer, but as a form of epistemology:

• How does visual form structure interpretation?
• How do diagrams, networks, maps, and timelines encode assumptions about causality, scale, and agency?
• How does AI reshape the production and authority of humanities knowledge?

DHKV invites contributions that critically interrogate how knowledge is constructed, visualised, and legitimised in digital environments; and is interested in research and practice, and Theoretical Foci that include:

• Visualisation as Epistemic Infrastructure
  Exploring visualisation as a cognitive and interpretive framework in humanities research — from knowledge graphs to cultural analytics.
• Algorithmic Mediation & AI in the Humanities
  Generative AI, large language models, machine vision, and computational text analysis as emerging co-authors of interpretation. Questions of explainability, transparency, and epistemic accountability are central.
• Narrative, Power & Representation
  How visual systems shape historical memory, religious interpretation, political imaginaries, and cultural identity. Critical perspectives on bias, exclusion, and digital coloniality are particularly welcome.
• Knowledge Graphs, Networks & Cultural Complexity
  Network analysis of texts, actors, ideas, and institutions — and the theoretical implications of modelling culture as relational data.
• Embodiment, Interaction & Immersive Humanities
  AR/VR, interactive archives, and multimodal interfaces as new environments for experiencing and analysing cultural knowledge.
• Ethics & Responsible Visual Knowledge Systems
  Data governance, sensitive archives, sacred materials, and the responsibilities of visualising contested or marginalised histories.

DHKV encourages dialogue between scholars in literature, history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, art history, and political theology, alongside computer scientists, designers, AI researchers, and visual analytics specialists.

In an era where cultural interpretation is increasingly shaped by computational systems, DHKV asks a fundamental question:

How can we design visual and AI-driven knowledge systems that remain critically reflexive, human-centred, and intellectually accountable?

The symposium welcomes theoretical papers, methodological innovations, system designs, critical interventions, artistic research, and doctoral work that advance the conceptual foundations of digital humanities visualisation.

Please check the submission procedures @ the submission page.

General enquiries and submissions should be addressed to the Conference Co-ordinator

Symposium-specific enquiries should be addressed to: