The DigHum Team of TU Wien had organised a conference shortly before our FIfFKon25 conference this November. Now, we can look at the publications. In particular, we want to highlight the recordings of the invited speeches by philosopher Nida-Rümelin and ex-dean of Informatics, Werthner. See here:

We are pleased to announce the publication of the proceedings of the first Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference on Digital Humanism, DIGHUM 2025, offering an exploration of how technology can be shaped in accordance with human values across computer science, ethics, law, politics, and beyond.

The proceedings can be downloaded at Springer Nature Link.

This open access volume constitutes the proceedings of First Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference on Digital Humanism, DIGHUM 2025, Vienna, Austria, during November 20–21, 2025.

The 30 full papers and 12 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:

1. Digital Humanism Reshaping Computer Science,
2. Digital Humanism: Ethical and Legal Aspects,
3. Digital Humanism in Political and Social Sciences, and
4. Breaking Interdisciplinary Silos: Digital Humanism Across Disciplines.

Also the following recordings of the conference are available:
Julian Nida-Rümelin “Philosophical Foundations of Digital Humanism”
Gry Hasselbalch “Human Power – A Politics for the AI Machine Age”
Hannes Werthner “The Role of Computer Science in the Age of AI (or Digital Humanism?)”
Marietje Schaake interview on “What can we concretely do?” and EU AI policy simplification

Announcment of our next events in 2026:
20.01.26 DigHum Lecture Iyad Rahwan: “The Science Fiction Science Method”
03.02.26 DigHum Lecture Dario Guarascio: “The Military-Digital Complex: Digital Technologies and the New World (dis)Ordert”
24.02.26 DigHum Lecture Sayeed Choudhury: “The Imperative of Openness in AI””

In case you missed the last lecture by Annabelle Gawer you can watch the recording of “Digital Power: Platforms and Ecosystems as the Dominant Organizational Form and New Social Institutions of the Digital Age”.

Read more on our GSIS conference here.