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On June 17, 2025, members of Northeastern’s digital scholarship community gathered in the Centers for Digital Scholarship for the first CDS open house event. The gathering centered the CDS community who gathered over snacks to increase connections across the projects and to highlight the “neighborhood” of the CDS. After an initial informal gathering, the group…

The Caribbean Digital XII 4-5 December 2025 Northeastern University Boston, MA Deadline for proposals: June 30, 2025 Conference website: The Caribbean Digital  Beginning in 2014, The Caribbean Digital has sought to create a generative, multidisciplinary space within which to engage critically with the digital as practice and as a historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the…

The Centers for Digital Scholarship at the Northeastern University Library is now the home to the relaunched publication Digital Humanities Now! DHNow is an experimental, edited publication that highlights and distributes important digital humanities scholarship and news of interest to the DH community. Since its launch in 2009, DHNow has been experimenting with ways to…

We were delighted to host the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science’s panel on rethinking archival practices in our large presentation space on February 26, 2025 led by Professor Gordon Henry. The panel discussed how the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan set out on a project to ground archival knowledge in indigenous…

On April 29, 2025, the Digital Scholarship Group hosted a DH Open Office Hours event on digital accessibility in the presentation space within the Centers for Digital Scholarship. Digital accessibility is an important aspect of digital projects that helps keep research equitable and available to everyone. Chloe Lee, the DSG Accessibility Co-Op, provided an introduction…

On April 23, 2025, the Digital Scholarship Group hosted a DH Open Office Hours event on an introduction to digitization in the presentation space within the Centers for Digital Scholarship. For many digital scholarship research projects one of the first steps is digitizing analog and paper materials. Managing digitization well is crucial to a successful…

We were delighted to host the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science’s workshop on expressive art therapy in our Critical Making Lab on March 27, 2025. The event went great in our small-scale lab space, and to read more about it please see this NULab blog post.