Conference papers and presentations
(see also, Invited talks and keynotes)
Jiuzhen Zhang, Wenjie Zhou, Ning Wang, Simon Mahony, Ulrich Tiedau, Andreas Vlachidis, Pu Yan. (2026). iConference Workshop: 'North–South Dialogues for an Equitable and Sustainable Information Future'. Workshop PDF.
Simon Mahony (2026). 'Digital Humanities Pedagogy in the Age of Generative AI'. Presented at The Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities 2026 Conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (January 24, 2026). (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo).
Simon Mahony (2025). 'Classical Wisdom in the Age of AI: Bridging Cultures and Advancing Pedagogy through Digital Humanities.' Presented at The 2025 China Digital Humanities Annual Conference (CDH2025): "Humanities Transformation: The Intelligent Singularity of Digital Humanities" at Sun Yat-sen University (November 30, 2025). Forum: Digital Humanities Education Ecosystem and Global Construction. Roundtable Discussion: International Frontiers and Academic Dissemination of Digital Humanities Research. (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo).
Jin Gao & Simon Mahony (2025). 'Digital Practice and Pedagogy at UCLDH: Reflections on Collaboration across Boundaries'. Presented at the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association 2025 conference at the University of Glasgow (June 18, 2025). (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo).
Yaming Fu & Simon Mahony (2025). 'Beyond Boundaries: Integrating Humanities and Generative AI in Archival Resource Development'. Presented at the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association 2025 conference at the University of Glasgow (June 17, 2025). (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo).
Simon Mahony and Qing Chen (2025). 'AI ethics and governance for digital humanities pedagogy - UK and China. A comparative study'. Presented at the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities 2025 International Conference AI & the Digital Humanities at Hong Kong University (January 18, 2025) (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo).
Simon Mahony (2024). 'Building Bridges to achieve harmony and greater prosperity for all.' Presented at the UK-China Humanities Alliance Annual Conference: Worlds and World Views at University College London (November 16, 2024) (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Jin Gao, Simon Mahony (2024). 'Digitisation practices and pedagogy at UCL: Bridging the gap between academia and industry'. Presented at the China Digital Humanities Conference (CDH2024), "Integration of Arts and Sciences: Digital Humanities in the AGI Era", at Shanghai University. (November 10, 2024)
Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony (2024). 'Digital storytelling as a method to embed diversity and inclusion in GLAM structures.' Presented at: UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association 2024 Annual Event, Cork, Ireland. (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony, Wei Liu. (2023). DH2023 at Graz. 'Shanghai Memory as a case study of ideological impact on storytelling: the interplay between memory, language, and stories.' (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony, Wei Liu. (2023). DARIAH2023. 'Bridging the gap between cultural heritage and research--a case study of the Chinese Genealogy Knowledge Service platform.' (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Simon Mahony, Yaming Fu. (2023). CSDH/SCHN. 'Encouraging diverse voices as part of cultural heritage data collection.' (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony, Wei Liu. (2023). ACH2023. 'Genealogy as digital objects with stories to support research.' (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Simon Mahony, Yaming Fu. (2022). The 4th China Digital Humanities Conference, “Panorama and Vision: Digital Humanities and National Cultural Digital Strategy”. 'Localizing Chinese Digital Humanities within the Globalized Community.' (November 2022) (UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony, Bingjun Liu. Digital Humanities Congress 2022. 'Digital Humanities and the Library: research partners?' (September 2022) (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Liu, Bingjun; Duke-Williams, Oliver; Crymble, Adam; Mahony, Simon; (2023) Digital Initiatives in Online Service Delivery: Case Study of London Art Museums During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown. In: Dewar, Serena, (ed.) Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2022. The Digital Humanities Institute: Sheffield, UK.( UCL Discovery)
Simon Mahony, Yaming Fu, Bingjun Liu. Digital Humanities Congress 2022. 'Digital Humanities Curriculum Development: an iSchools Approach.' (September 2022) (Abstract and slides - UCL Discover) (Zenodo)
Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony, Wei Liu, DH2022 at Tokyo. Reconstruction of cultural memory through digital storytelling: a case study of Shanghai Memory project (July 2022) (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery)
Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony, Wei Liu, DARIAH-EU Digital Storytelling Annual Event2022. Digital storytelling in DH practice to encourage civil participation and reconstruction of the historical narrative (May-June 2022) (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (zenodo)
Yaming Fu, Simon Mahony, Wei Liu, DH UNBOUND 2022 (ACH & CSDH/SCHN annual conference). Digital storytelling in DH practice to encourage civil participation and reconstruction of the vernacular history of Shanghai (May 2022) (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery)
Simon Mahony & Yaming Fu, iConference 2021 ‘Diversity | Divergence | Dialog’, Renmin University, Beijing (online): ‘Encouraging Diversity of Dialogue as part of the iSchools Agenda’ (March 2021)
Walsh, J. A., Cobb, P. J., de Fremery, W., Golub, K., Keah, H., Kim, J., Kiplang'at, J., Liu, Y.-H., Mahony, S., Oh, S. G., Sula, C. A., Underwood, T., & Wang, X., iConference 2021 ‘Diversity | Divergence | Dialog’, Renmin University, Beijing (online): ‘Digital Humanities in the iSchool’ (March 2021)
Simon Mahony, Jin Gao: 'Linguistic and Cultural Hegemony in the Digital Humanities', Digital Humanities Congress 2018 (Abstract)
Jin Gao, Simon Mahony, Oliver Duke-Williams, Julianne Nyhan: 'What do we write about in the Digital Humanities? A comparative study of Chinese and English publications', Digital Humanities Congress 2018 (Abstract)
Simon Mahony Jin Gao: The 3rd Peking University Digital Humanities Forum: Incubation and Application: How Digital Humanities Projects Cater to Academic Needs. 'What do we write about in the Digital Humanities? a comparative study of Chinese and English publications' (2018)
University Town Library of Shenzhen / Shenzhen Science & Technology Library: International Conference on Library and Digital Humanities (2017) Digital Humanities pedagogy: digital Culture and education'.
Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences: Cross-cultural, Cross-group and Comparative Modernity Conference (2017) 'Cultural diversity and the Digital Humanities'.
Mahony S., Dahlan K., Hauswedell T., Tiedau U., 'Reflections on the development of an introductory MOOC for DH methodologies', Digital Humanities Congress 2016 University of Sheffield.
Garea Garcia, N., Welsh, A., Bikakis, A., Mahony, S., Inskip, C., & Vogel, M. (2015). Core Concepts for Future Cataloguers. Presented at: CILIP Conference 2015.
Mahony, Simon; Nyhan, Julianne; Terras, Melissa; Tiedau, Ulrich. 'Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Integrative Learning and New Ways of Thinking About Studying the Humanities', Digital Humanities Congress 2014 University of Sheffield. Abstracts.
Warwick, Claire; Mahony, Simon; Rayner, Samantha; Team, The INKE. 'The dog that didn't bark: A longitudinal study of reading behaviour in physical and digital environments', Digital Humanities 2014 (University of Lausanne) Abstracts
'Open Educational Resources and their place in teaching and research for Classics.' Classical Association Annual Conference 2014 (University of Nottingham) Programme
'Should the Digital Humanities be taking a lead in Open Access and Online Teaching Materials?', Digital Humanities 2013 (University of Lincoln Nebraska) Abstract
Campagnolo, A., Giacometti, A., MacDonald, L., Mahony, S., Terras, M., Robson, S., Weyrich, T., Gibson, A. (2013).
Cultural Heritage Destruction: Measuring Information Recovery from Multispectral Images of Deteriorated parchment. British Library, Topic Talk, Collections Care. 11th September 2013.
Campagnolo, A., Giacometti, A., MacDonald, L., Mahony, S., Terras, M., Robson, S., Gibson, A. (2013). Documenting and Interpreting Parchment Deterioration by Visual Analysis and Multispectral Imaging. In Icon
PF13, Positive Futures in an Uncertain World. Glasgow. April 2013.
Kamposiori, C., Warwick, C., & Mahony, S. (2013) 'Building Personal Collections: Supporting the Information Practices of Art Historians in the Digital Age.' Working paper presented at the Cultural Heritage, Creative Tools and Archives Workshop, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, 26-27 June 2013.
Alejandro Giacometti, Alberto Campagnolo, Lindsay MacDonald, Simon Mahony, Melissa Terras, Stuart Robson, Tim Weyrich and Adam Gibson (2012). "Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging" EVA (Electronic Visualisation in the Arts) London 2012. British Computer Society, London, July 2012. http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london
Alejandro Giacometti, Alberto Campagnolo, Lindsay MacDonald, Simon Mahony, Melissa Terras, Stuart Robson, Tim Weyrich, and Adam Gibson. "Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging". June 22ns 2012, Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, Summer 2012. Senate House, London.
Alejandro Giacometti, Lindsay MacDonald, Alberto Campagnolo, Melissa Terras, Simon Mahony, Tim Weyrich, Stuart Robson, Adam Gibson. (2012). "Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging" UCL Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory Work in Progress Seminar Series. UCL, May 2012.
Giacometti, A., Terras, M., Gibson, A., and Mahony, S. "Multi-Spectral Image Processing Methods For Analysing Ancient Documents". Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Fredericton.
'Digitizing and Enriching a Teaching Image Collection for Classics',
Classical Association Annual Conference 2011 (University of Durham)
Abstract
with U. Tiedau (2011). Open Educational Resources for the Digital Humanities. OER11. Open University (UK)
Warwick, C., Mahony, S., Nyhan, J., Ross, C., Terras, M., Tiedau, U., Welsh, A. (2011). UCLDH: Big Tent Digital Humanities in Practice. ( pp.387-389). Stanford, CA, US Stanford University Library.
'Using collaborative resources to develop a programme for teaching and supporting information literacy', Interface: 1st International Symposium for Humanities and Technology (University of Southampton July 2009)
Paper available here
'HumSlides 2.0: a second generation on-line collaborative image resource for teaching and learning',
Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts 2008 (University of Cambridge September 2008).
Abstract at: http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/speakerabs.aspx?absid=26
'An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Building Learning Communities within Digital Humanities',
Digital Humanities 2008 (University of Oulu - Finland, June 2008)
Abstract at: http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/Digital%20Humanities%202008%20Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf
'Using digital resources in building and sustaining learning communities'.
Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts 2007 (Dartington College September 2007) abstract
'New tools for learning and collaborative research: the Digital Classicist Wiki'.
Classical Association Annual Conference 2007 (Birmingham University April 2007)
Abstract at: http://www.ca2007.bham.ac.uk/CAProgramme.pdf
'Humslides: creating an on-line digital resource for teaching and learning'.
Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts 2006 (Dartington College September 2006). Programme at: http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/
'New Tools for Collaborative Research: the Example of the Digital Classicist Wiki'.
Computers Literature and Philology (King's College London, June 2006)
Abstract at: http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/redist/abstracts_pdf/paper31.pdf
With Martyn Jessop, 'The pedagogy of Humanities Computing',
Digital Resources for the Humanities 2005 (University of Lancaster September 2005)
Programme at: http://www.drh.org.uk/drh2005-programme.pdf