Conference Report: DH2025 Lisbon - Building Access and Accessibility

[AI-Generated Summary]: Brazilian researcher Fernanda Alvares Freire reports on the DH2025 conference held in Lisbon under the theme “Accessibility & Citizenship,” highlighting the event’s focus on democratizing knowledge access, multilingual presentations, and the continued prominence of Large Language Models in Digital Humanities research. The conference featured hybrid participation with sign language interpretation, presentations from 45 countries, welcomed Italy’s AIUCD as a new ADHO member, and awarded the Antonio Zampolli Prize to the Computational Stylistics Group for their Stylo tool, while keynote speaker Javier Cha emphasized using AI to enhance rather than replace traditional historical reading methods.

  • Author: Fernanda Alvares Freire
  • Date: August 28, 2025
  • Language: German
  • Conference: DH2025 Digital Humanities Conference
  • Location: Lisbon, Portugal
  • Theme: Accessibility & Citizenship