Workshop « Quid deinde? New Ideas and Approaches to AI & DH »

After two productive workshops in 2024-2025 (one at the Université de Montréal and the other at Concordia University), our center will organize a new workshop dedicated to discussing AI and DH under the title « Quid deinde? New Ideas and Approaches to AI & DH ». This workshop will bring together leading international scholars in digital humanities to examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping research methods, infrastructures, and forms of knowledge in the humanities. Across papers on design, knowledge graphs, mapping, archives, annotation, trust, and epistemology, the program foregrounds both the possibilities of AI and the critical, ethical, and interpretive questions it raises. Together, the sessions explore how humanities researchers can engage AI thoughtfully, experimentally, and responsibly.

Program

Monday 13 April 2026

• 9am-9.30am — Opening remarks by Dean Frédéric Bouchard et Michael Sinatra
• 9.30am-10.15am — Paper #1 — Sean Takats (U of Richmond and the Corporation for Digital Scholarship): « Intentional Seams: Friction in Design from National-Scale Heritage AI to Hands-On Probabilistic Interfaces »
• 10.15am-11am — Paper #2 — Laura Mandell (Texas A&M): « Deeper Learning: Knowledge Graphs and Humanities Data »
• 11am-11.15am — Coffee break
• 11.15am-12pm — Paper #3 — Marcello Vitali-Rosati (U de Montréal): « From Answers to Models: Rethinking AI through the Greek Anthology »
• 12pm-1pm — lunch break
• 1pm-1.45pm — Paper #4 — Katherine McDonough (Lancaster U): « Maps & AI: Opportunities and Problems for Humanities Research »
• 1.45pm-2.30pm — Paper #5 — Katherine Harris (San José State U): « Training Empire’s Archive: Generative AI and the Transnational Literary Annual of the 1820s »
• 2.30pm-2.45pm — Coffee break
• 2.45pm-3.30pm — Paper #6 — Matthew Gold (CUNY): « Building Open Infrastructures for AI Experimentation: Ethical and Community-Oriented Considerations »
• 3.30pm-4.15pm — Paper #7 — Geoffrey Rockwell (U of Alberta): “Thinking-Through Trust for AI”

Tuesday 14 April 2026

• 9am-9.30am — Welcome and coffee
• 9.30am-10.15am — Paper #8 — Rebecca Hicke (Cornell U): « Says Who? Effective Zero-Shot Annotation of Focalization »
• 10.15am-11am — Paper #9 — Philippe Langlais (U de Montréal): « Stop believing or promoting that AI will do all the work: and do yours! »
• 11am-11.15am — Coffee break
• 11.15am-12pm — Paper #10 — Adrian S. Wisnicki (U of Nebraska): « Living with Generative AI. »
• 12pm-12.15pm — Closing remarks

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