We are excited to share the NULab’s Spring 2026 calendar, featuring an exciting lineup of talks, panels, workshops, and other events. As always, these events are free and open to the public, but most require registration. More details and registration information are available at the NULab events page. In addition to these events, there are many ways to get involved with the NULab’s interdisciplinary community; for more on these, please see the NULab welcome page.
These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required in some cases. Registration links are coming soon for some events, so please save these dates and check the events page for updates. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
We hope to see you this semester!
NULab Spring 2026 Calendar of Events
February 13: 12–1pm Boston / 9–10am Oakland / 5–6pm London, hybrid in the Centers for Digital Scholarship (360 Snell Library) or on Zoom
Douglass Day 2026
Transcribe-a-thon featuring the Colored Conventions Project, honoring the life and birthday of Frederick Douglass.
Co-hosted with the Digital Scholarship Group, Archives and Special Collections, and the Women Writers Project. This event is part of Black History Month and Love Data week.
February 18: 1–3pm Boston / 10am–12pm Oakland / 6–8pm London, virtual
Workshop: Weirding AI: Fine Tuning for Poets & Artists
Fine-tune a language model using your poems, rants, and texts to create an AI poetic persona.
Led by: Artist & technologist Halim Madi
Co-hosted with Creative Writing Now and NULab Oakland
February 19: 12–1pm Boston / 9–10am Oakland / 5–6pm London, hybrid in the Centers for Digital Scholarship or on Zoom
Critical Forum
Casual gatherings for conversation, brainstorming, and collegial feedback on research ideas, proposals, or emerging projects.
Featuring: The “Police Scanner Data Project” with Milo Trujillo, Network Science Institute, additional speakers to be announced soon
This is a recurring event series: more info on upcoming sessions coming soon!
March 24: 11am–1pm Boston / 8–10am Oakland / 3–5pm London, virtual
Workshop: AI for Text Analysis with Python Using BERT and TensorFlow
Led by: Sean P. Rogers, NULab Assistant Director
There will be an optional pre-workshop, an “Introduction to Python,” March 23: 11am–12:30pm Boston / 8–9:30am Oakland / 3–4:30pm London.
April 15: 10am–12:30pm Boston / 7–9:30am Oakland / 3–5:30pm London, hybrid in London in Devon House 104 or on Zoom
NULab Hosts the DISKAH Fellows
This hybrid event will bring together the five current Fellows of the UK-wide Digital Skills in the Arts and Humanities (DISKAH) network to present their projects.
Featuring: Brian Ball (Philosophy), Gabriel Egan (Humanities), Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja (Worlding Public Cultures), Jasper van der Klis (Music & Drama), and Jessica Witte (Literatures, Languages & Cultures).
Co-hosted with NULab London
May 1: 10:30am–3pm Boston / 7:30am–12pm Oakland / 3:30–8pm London, virtual
NULab Spring Conference 2026
Join us for the ninth annual NULab spring conference, featuring talks by Northeastern faculty, staff, and students about their work in computational social science and digital humanities.
Recurring Event Series, virtual
Community Pop-ups
Collaborate on a range of topics, including code and data work, research writing, grant writing, developing research projects, testing interfaces, making things, and targeted problem-solving.
- “Video Making in Canva” Led by: Zhen Guo, February 24: 12–1pm Boston / 9–10am Oakland / 5–6pm London
- “Code and Data Catch-up” Led by: Sarah Connell, April 1: 11am–12pm Boston / 8–9am Oakland / 4–5pm London
- “System Dynamics Modeling” Led by: Moira Zellner, April 29: 11am–12pm Boston / 8–9am Oakland / 4–5pm London
