The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence — including the widespread adoption of large language models, the maturation of multimodal AI, and the proliferation of human-machine collaboration — has not only reshaped how knowledge is produced and disseminated, but has posed fundamental challenges to the agency of artistic creation, the methodological foundations of scholarly research, and the ethical responsibilities of the digital age. Boundaries once taken for granted — between the real and the virtual, the original and the simulated, the humanistic and the computational, the local and the global, the creator and the tool — are being redrawn, and in some cases dissolved entirely.
In response, DADH 2026 takes "Reconsidering Boundaries: Knowledge, Creativity, Methods, and Responsibility in the Age of AI" as its theme, inviting scholars worldwide to examine the shifts, reconfiguration, and traversal of various boundaries in the age of AI. "Knowledge" interrogates the credibility and diversity of knowledge production chains after AI intervention. "Creativity" explores artistic generation and the dialectics of agency in human-machine collaboration. "Methods" reflects on the epistemological tensions between computational analysis and humanistic interpretation. "Responsibility" confronts the inescapable ethical dilemmas, ecological costs, educational imperatives, and urgent need for cross-cultural dialogue in the AI era. This year's conference theme resonates deeply with core concerns of the international digital humanities community in recent years: JADH 2025 addressed "Crossing the Divide: Rethinking Boundaries Between the Humanities and Information Sciences"; HKADH 2026 proposed "Distant Reading, Viewing, and Sensing in the Age of AI"; DHd 2026 emphasized "Not Just Text, Not Just Data"; the DH 2026 flagship conference focused on "Crossing the Digital Divide in Global Digital Humanities"; and Global DH 2026 attended to "Minimalism, Materiality, and Pathways toward Sustainability." DADH 2026 uses "boundary" as its central metaphor to encompass these themes, both continuing the existing concerns of Taiwan's digital humanities community and seeking more active dialogue with the international DH research community.
This conference welcomes submissions from scholars across the humanities, social sciences, information science, the arts, education, library and archival studies, environmental studies, and other fields — with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary, cross-linguistic, and cross-cultural research dialogue. The conference has established nine sub-themes:
Boundaries of Knowledge: Mechanisms of knowledge production, verification, and trust in the age of generative AI
Boundaries of Creativity: Artistic generation, stylistic computation, and the dialectics of agency in human-machine collaboration
Boundaries of Data: Corpus construction, digitization of cultural heritage, and the global circulation of local knowledge
Boundaries of Method: Cross-disciplinary dialogue between computational analysis and humanistic interpretation
Boundaries of Teaching and Discipline: Disciplinary transformation, curriculum restructuring, and literacy cultivation in the AI era
Boundaries of Medium: Cross-media translation, multimodal generation, and digital narrative
Boundaries of Ethics: Copyright, cultural representation, and humanistic values in the AI era
Boundaries of Ecology: Digital sustainability, the materiality of infrastructure, and environmental humanities
Boundaries of Territory: Cross-cultural, cross-linguistic, and cross-regional digital humanities practice