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The Synthetic Humanities?
The Digital Conference 2026, King's College London. Bush House Arcade.
The talk asks whether generative AI requires a new term for humanities method after digital humanities, and whether that rebranding also belongs to the institutional theater of making humanities work sound fundable, flashy, and new.
Biography
Doug Stark is a philosopher of technology, educator, and experimental research designer studying artificial intelligence, games, aesthetics, digital culture, and the future of knowledge work. He is Assistant Professor of Technology and Digital Media in the English Department at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he directs the Synthetic Humanities Lab. Doug received his PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, with certificates in Film Studies and Digital Humanities, and helped establish its Critical Game Studies program. Before entering academia, he competed for England in the decathlon and coached the event at an international level. That background in sport continues to inform a recurring question: how do we train for worlds still taking shape? You can see him working through this question in his writing, talks, design, and, perhaps most vividly, his social media.