The NFCDS offers a number of larger opportunities for intellectual engagement, from visits and lectures, to special "signature events," to various awards and fellowships. For regular workshop programming and resources, see our the Workshops Page, and for awards and other opportunities, visit our Opportunities page. View past events on the Visits & Lectures archive. 

Upcoming Events

View all Hesburgh Libraries upcoming events.
 

Love Data Week, Feb. 9 - 13, 2026

1. Monday, February 9 - Friday, February 13, 2026

   1. Data Haiku Contest
2. Tuesday, February 10, 2026

   1. Workshop: Data Bytes—Where's the Data?
   2. Lecture: La sfera: Cosmology, Science, and Geography in the Fifteenth Century Mediterranean
3. Wednesday, February 11, 2026

   1. Workshop: R for Absolute Beginners
4. Thursday, February 12, 2026

   1. Workshop: Data Bytes—Where's the Data?
   2. Workshop: So, You Want to Write a Data Paper
   3. Workshop: From Paginā to Webpage: On Developing and Documenting a Digitized Latin Collection

Visiting Digital Humanities Workshop, Feb. 16 - 17, 2026

Scholars Giles Bergel, Guyda Armstrong, and Rebecca Bowen will join the NFCDS for several digital humanities events, including a hands-on workshop exploring the analysis of early printed books with computer vision based on their research in the Envisioning Dante project.

1. Monday, February 16, 2026 – Tuesday, February 17, 2026

   1. Meetings with graduate student and faculty groups.
2. Monday, Feb. 16, 2026

   1. Workshop: Envisioning Dante: How To See the Printed Page with Computer Vision
3. Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026

   1. Roundtable: Early Printing, the Digital, and the Future of Humanities Scholarship 

Signature Events

Fall

GIS Day: Join us annually on the third Wednesday of November for our annual salute to geospatial technology and its power to transform and better our lives and the lives of those around us. 

Critical Tech Cafe: Critical Tech Cafe is a reading club for students, faculty, and staff at Notre Dame. The book club is open to new participants each semester, who all receive free copies of our selected books.
 

Spring

Love Data Week: Love Data Week is dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of data management, sharing, preservation, and reuse. If you care about research, professional, community, and personal data, please join us annually for celebratory and learning events throughout Valentine’s week!
 

Critical Tech Cafe: Critical Tech Cafe is a reading club for students, faculty, and staff at Notre Dame. The book club is open to new participants each semester, who all receive free copies of our selected books.
 

Summer

Digital Humanities Research Institute: The Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI) South Bend is a core skills training workshop for faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate students of Michiana and the broader region.