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Hypertext 2026 explores 'hypertext as method' in an era where AI-generated content impacts storytelling, argumentation, and sense-making. The conference continues a 36-year tradition of combining applied science, liberal arts, and next-generation system development to investigate how hypertext can enhance human-machine collaboration and knowledge distribution.

Important Dates

Fri, Feb 27, 2026
Workshops Submission deadline
Fri, Mar 20, 2026
Workshops Notification date
Fri, Mar 27, 2026
Research tracks Submission deadline
Fri, May 22, 2026
Research tracks Notification date
Fri, May 29, 2026
Practitioner tracks, Late Breaking, Blue Sky & Provocations Submission deadline
Fri, Jun 19, 2026
Practitioner tracks, Late Breaking, Blue Sky & Provocations Notification date
Fri, Jun 26, 2026
Student travel awards Submission deadline
Mon, Jul 6, 2026
Student travel awards Notification date
Mon, Aug 3, 2026
Camera ready submission
Fri, Jul 24, 2026
Early bird registration rate
Tue, Sep 8, 2026
Regular registration rates until

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Hybrid systems
Social Media
Legacy Systems
Digital humanities
Human computer interaction (hci)
Electronic literature
Hypertext in AI interfaces
Augmentation
Hypertext models
Generative Engine Optimisation
Agentic narratives
Computational cognitive models of narratives
Authorship models
AI, Readers and Authorship
Book history
Publishing workflows
Scholarly editions and adaptations
Rhetorics and poetics
Text, paratext, and multimodality
The future of reading
Large-scale knowledge systems
Dataset curation
Semantic ontologies
XR/VR/AR
Philosophical foundations
New directions
Future of text
Hypertext pioneers
Culture, memory, and cognition
History of hypertext
Frameworks for preserving human interpretive agency
Research Communities
Link analysis and networked discourse
Community knowledge systems
Transparency and interpretability
Visual and big-data
Decentralised, grass-root and alternative community infrastructures
Hypertext as resistance

Call for Papers Description

We aim to discuss, reflect on and investigate hypertext as method. We welcome submissions in Agentic Media, Authorship/Readership/Publishing, Technical Applications, Principles/Directions/Reflections, and Communities/Digital Practice tracks.

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