The University of Florida, the University of North Florida, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and the Transborder DH Center and Consortium (TBDH) at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) will host the fourth annual Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium from September 8-10, 2026, in person at UT San Antonio. The symposium will also offer virtual sessions the week of September 21, 2026.
We seek proposals for papers, pre-formed panels with 3-4 speakers, roundtables of up to 6 participants, and posters related to our conference theme, “Transfronteras: Third Spaces in Digital Humanities” focused on Latin American and Caribbean Transborder Digital Humanities, or topics related to Digital Humanities on Latin America and Caribbean Studies. We welcome proposals from higher education (students, faculty, staff, and independent scholars) and encourage projects from cultural institutions and organizations doing work in the digital humanities. We encourage proposals for projects at any stage of completion.
Proposals may be submitted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French by January 31, 2026 using the submission form. We are accepting submissions for papers, posters, pre-formed panels, and roundtables.
Participation limit: An individual may appear twice on the program, once as a presenter of a poster or paper (submitted individually or as part of a pre-formed panel) and once on a round table. Serving as moderator does not count toward participation limits.
Transborder Digital Humanities (TBDH) is a Center and Consortium focused on community-engaged digital research, teaching and collaboration about borderlands within transborder and transnational contexts. This is a Mellon Foundation–funded initiative housed in the Interdisciplinary School of Engagement in the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at UT San Antonio, in partnership with scholars and librarians in various centers and institutions across the Americas.
TBDH supports scholars at all levels through mentorship, training, digital resources, and collaborative exchange. The transdisciplinary group is grounded in multiple areas, including:
By bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, educators, librarians, archivists and community partners, TBDH advances ethical and responsible approaches to representing border stories in the digital cultural record. To learn more about TBDH visit us at: transborderdh.org
Building on these commitments and the need to continue and amplify the dialogue, the Latin American and Caribbean Digital Humanities (LACDH) and Transborder Digital Humanities (TBDH) 2026 Symposium—guided by the theme Transfronteras: Third Spaces in Digital Humanities—invites participants to reflect on and discuss digital humanities as terceros espacios / third spaces. Border feminist scholar Gloria Anzaldúa (1987) describes the borderlands as a liminal and hybrid space produced through the meeting of different cultures and identities—an in-between zone where new meanings emerge, where those living at the margins can find belonging, and where dominant narratives can be challenged and transformed. Similarly, her concept of nepantla, understood as a “lugar de en medio,” names a state of transition and ambiguity experienced at geographic, cultural, and identity borders. Rooted in a Náhuatl term, Anzaldúa reinterprets nepantla as a transformative liminal space crucial to the formation of new identities.
Understanding digital humanities as a third space—as nepantla—allows us to recognize a wide range of collaborative efforts across disciplines, cultures, skills and knowledges, languages, communities, and geographies. These efforts have created counter-spaces and alternative models: communities, teams, projects, and ideas within and beyond academia that respond to contest, and challenge dominant narratives. Attentive to local, transborder, transnational, and personal borders, we welcome reflections on work shaped by adversity, mistakes, failures, violence, rupture, and change, and on how such moments become sites for navigating borders through inquiry, creativity, transgression, and transformation.
We embrace the slow, the incomplete, and the pause as productive practices that connect, nourish, and cultivate workflows integrating the humanities and the digital in pursuit of more just and livable worlds. This year’s theme encourages contributors to share lessons learned about transborder digital humanities as commitment, as impact, and as ongoing collaboration with individuals, communities, and teams across borders in times of continual evolution.
For this symposium, we welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to:
La convocatoria también está disponible en español.
L'appel est également disponible en français.
A chamada também está disponível em português.
Please contact Sarah Tew (sarahetew@ufl.edu), Hélène Huet (hhuet@ufl.edu) or Sylvia Fernandez (sylvia.fernandez@utsa.edu) for any questions.
Standing Committee
Transborder DH Team
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