The Conference of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) in Israel

Welcome to the Conference of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) in Israel!

Humanities and social sciences in Israel have been increasingly using computational methods. Gradually, they are organizing into a community that shares various methods used to investigate an increased variety of materials, including not only old and new texts but also images, sounds, and videos. However, much remains to be done to consolidate this community in order to develop tools and research collaboratively, especially beyond the Social Sciences/Humanities divide.

The first conference of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) in Israel aims to precisely work in this direction: stimulating innovations and collaborations while also collectively contemplating the larger epistemological implications of the shift to digital methods

The conference will be built around multidisciplinary panels presenting research, including work in progress and research projects, offering an opportunity to meet colleagues and introduce new researchers and graduate students to the field. The conference is designed to encompass as wide a range of disciplines as possible and explore a variety of research objects and, more broadly, what it means to conduct research in the social sciences and humanities in an increasingly digitized universe, within and beyond the academia.

The conference committee wishes to thank our main sponsors: Israel Data Science Initiative, the World Union of Jewish Studies, The Tel Aviv University Center for AI and Data Science (TAD)