Committees and organizing team
This webpage will present the various teams behind this 2026 edition of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities. Besançon and the university Marie and Louis Pasteur have been awarded the organization of the ESU 2026 by the Steering Committee of the ESU created in 2024. A “local team” is dealing with all the organizational aspects of the ESU in Besançon. A scientific committee, combining members of the “local team” as well as workshop instructors will be dealing with the evaluation of all received applications.
ESU Steering Committee
Alejandro Bia (Miguel Hernández University, Spain)
Elisabeth Burr (honorary member; Em. prof. University of Leipzig, founder of the ESU)
Alexandra Cotoc (Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania)
Anna Kryvenko (Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia)
Yael Netzer (Hebrew University, Israel)
Jeremi Ochab (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Artjoms Šeļa (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Frédéric Spagnoli (University Marie et Louis Pasteur, France)
Giovanni Pietro Vitali (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)
Local organizing team
Rudy Chaulet
Benjamin Goldlust
Dulce Yocelin Moreno Hernandez
Myriam Schoen
Frédéric Spagnoli
Scientific Committee
Alejandro Bia (Miguel Hernández University, Spain)
Christian Casey (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Carol Chiodo (The Claremont Colleges, USA)
Katarzyna Foremniak (Roche, Poland)
Anna Kryvenko (Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia)
Anouk Lang (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Yael Netzer (Hebrew University, Israel)
Jeremi Ochab (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Voica Pușcașiu (Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Simone Rebora (University of Verona, Italy)
Mariusz Sozański (Polish Air Navigation Services Agency, Poland)
Giovanni Pietro Vitali (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)
David Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)