Digital Humanities and Global Inequalities: Digital Return, Digital Orientalism, and the Potential of Collaborative Multimodal Online Research Outputs2026.8.16 {en}

Recent years have seen a marked increase in theoretical and empirical work from the intersections between digital humanities, ethnography, religious studies, and ethnomusicology. Virtual archives, websites, experimental modes of publication and social media presences are increasingly developed to digitally bridge what physically could only be reached by a select few. Yet, a broader implementation of this interdisciplinary scholarship and its collective potential for fostering epistemic justice and decolonization remains underexplored: How do digital outputs claiming to be collaborative and participatory actually consider global inequalities of digital access and literacy? How can they move from digital spaces towards actual societal change?

With this workshop, we will draw diverse communities of knowledge producers into conversation, locally in Tübingen and internationally, who are at the cutting edge of fostering digital epistemic justice but who are rarely able to share the same spaces of scholarly discussion. We will find synergies and strengthen the ties between collaborative digital archiving, arts-based research and technical infrastructures to examine concrete examples of digital outputs in different stages of completion and thus provide a dedicated, much needed space to exchange best-practices on how to navigate the complex terrains of meaningful engagement with (non-)academic communities of data providers, co-producers and reusers, especially in the Global South.

8-9 October 2026 9 am – 5:30 pm CEST
Theologicum (seminar room 8)

Participation is free of charge and open to all. To participate (online & in person), please register until 30 September 2026 via email to souraja.chakraborty[at]uni-tuebingen.de

Further information at https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/excellence-strategy/research/platforms/global-encounters/funded-workshops/#c2571606.

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