DH communities form at various institutional, regional, cultural, linguistic, and subject-specific levels, as well as through various types of academic events in which scholars participate. This submission examines how various DH communities are linked through an analysis of the speakers at annual conferences of the German-speaking countries (DHd conferences), on the one hand, and speakers in DH lecture series in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, which took place between 2016 and 2025. The analysis is based on existing data sets of the conferences and, in addition, on newly collected data on the lecture series. It turns out that the conferences are characterized by a higher number of multiple authors, whereas lecture series are dominated by individual speakers. Regarding the linkage between both groups, only 11 % of those participating in the conferences also gave lectures in the lecture series; conversely, 40 % of the lecture series speakers were also actively involved in the conferences. A calculated ‘linkage score’ shows that, on average, those scholars that present at both types of events are more concentrated at conferences. Overall, the combined evaluation of both types of DH events and their speakers provides new insights into the structure of the DH field. It can be assumed that lecture series, in particular, play an important role as bridging elements between DH as its own discipline and various humanities communities beyond that.