2&3 September 2026 | The Edge at University of Sheffield
Review the full programme here.
Following the fourth ESR training event which took place in Sheffield on September 1st, the 2026 Digital Humanities Congress – hosted by CASCADE project partners in the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield – doubled as the second CASCADE research convention. All 10 CASCADE ESRs honed their presentation skills on a friendly but thoroughly engaged audience with whom they also had the opportunity to network and share ideas, comments and questions.
The purpose of the convention for CASCADE ESRs was to offer an expanded platform/ audience of peers and leaders in the DH field to whom they could present their work, while also affording them time to progress the research objectives of the group. Their combined presence at the DHC brought the work of the CASCADE project to a wider audience while also facilitating integration and cross-fertilisation between the individual CASCADE projects. It is through collective exposure to each other as well as leading DH scholars that all ESRs and partners gain a holistic understanding of the methods, challenges and value of longitudinal semantic analysis as a body of transdisciplinary methods.
CASCADE Presentations at DHC 2026
University College Cork:
Keynote: Literary Criticism after Large Language Models
- James O’Sullivan
Evaluating Lexical Extraction in Hiberno-English: Rule-Based and LLM- Assisted Approaches
- Rasika Edirisinghe
KU Leuven:
Tracing progress: A diachronic lexical semantic approach to conceptual change in eighteenth-century Britain
- Ángela María Gómez-Zuluaga, Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman
Underlying Dimensions in Semantic Change
- Bach Phan-Tat, Kris Heylen, Dirk Geeraerts, Stefano De Pascale, Dirk Speelman
University of Sheffield:
Words For Membership And Belonging: Exploring Early Conceptualizations Of Citizenship Through Vecinos In Colonial Spain
- Maria Flores Alejo
The “Spirit” in the Chamber: Capturing Zeitgeist in UK Parliamentary Debates
- Penelope Gia Bao Huu Nguyen
University of Helsinki
Beyond Lexical Reuse: Evaluating Semantic Search for 18th-Century Intellectual History through the Case of Locke
- Yu Wu
Identifying essay-length reprinting across eighteenth-century books and newspapers: A case study of David Hume
- Ke Shu
University of Saarland:
Interpretable Computational Approaches to Propaganda: Detecting Linguistic Divergence in Russian Online Discourse
- Anastasiia Vestel, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb
University College Cork & University of Saarland:
Addressing Pragmatics: Linguistic Signals of Literary Canonicity
- Rachel McCarthy UCC, Sofía Aguilar-Valdez USAAR.