Volume 40.2/2026 [open]

Special issue – Humanities and Digital Transformation: Opportunities, Dialogues, and Challenges

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2025

(The journal welcomes submissions on a rolling basis for the “Varia,” “Review,” and “Interview” sections.)

Guest Editors: Adelina Castelo (Universidade Aberta – DH, Laboratório de Educação a Distância e eLearning & Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa), Antonio Chenoll (Universidade Aberta – DH, Laboratório de Educação a Distância e eLearning), Margarida Martins (Universidade Aberta – DH, Laboratório de Educação a Distância e eLearning & Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa).

 

This special issue follows the “II International Conference of Humanities UAb,” held in June 2025 at Universidade Aberta.

Digital transformation offers new possibilities and poses significant challenges, impacting all scientific fields and ushering us into a new era of civilizational paradigm shift. Consequently, it is urgent to reflect on the opportunities, dialogues, and challenges emerging from the relationship between the Humanities and the rapidly growing digital transformation. Therefore, this special issue invites researchers in the Humanities to submit contributions from various disciplines within the field (Literature, Cultural Studies, Languages, Linguistics, Language Didactics, among others), that critically engage with the following questions:

- Will digital transformation allow for a reinvention of the articulation of art, culture, science and technology?

- What interactions can be established between the Humanities and digital transformation?

- What is the long-term impact of digital transformation on the teaching-learning process within the Humanities?

Submissions will be accepted in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English. Authors must follow the submission and formatting guidelines of the journal: https://revistas.uminho.pt/index.php/diacritica/about/submissions.