First Digital Humanities Conference in Brazil

The I International Congress on Digital Humanities – HDRio2018, held in Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, from April 9 to 13, 2018, initiated in Brazil a broad and international debate on this relevant and emerging field, constituting a timely opportunity for academics, scientists and technologists of Arts, Culture and Social Sciences, Humanities and Computation, to reflect, among other topics, the impact of information technologies, communication networks and the digitization of collections and processes in individuals’ daily lives and their effects on local and global institutions and societies, especially in Brazilian reality.

HDRio2018’s program included Opening and Closing Ceremony, 6 workshops, 8 panels, 8 paper sessions (featuring 181 presentations) and 1 poster session. Accepted papers can be found here.

Organizers: The Laboratory Of Digital Humanities – LHuD from Centre for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (CPDOC) at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and the Laboratory for Preservation and Management of Digital Collections (LABOGAD) at Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO).