AI and History
AI and history is an international seminar cycle that aims to offer insights and reflections on the use of AI for the discipline of history, from broader reflections to smaller case studies on tools and practices.
2026
March – July | Full program available here
ISIG is an accredited or qualified entity to carry out training activities for the staff of Trentino schools.
- 5 March 2026 | 17h-18h30 | online | Frédéric Clavert (Université du Luxembourg)
Towards cyborg historians? AI and history in practice - 13 April 2026 | 16h-17h30 | online | Ella Howard (Wentworth Institute of Technology)
Reconstructing the past with generative AI - 22 June 2026 | 15h-16h30 | Doris Gruber (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Image classification, object detection and early modern prints: Possibilities and challenges of AI - 6 July 2026 | 15h-16h30 | Leonardo Impett (Bibliotheca Hertziana)
Truth, a million frames a second: Towards a critique of World Models in AI
2025
September-December | Full program available here
ISIG is an accredited or qualified entity to carry out training activities for the staff of Trentino schools.
- 18 September 2025 | 15h-16h30 | Fabio De Ninno (Università degli Studi di Siena) / Michele Lacriola (Università degli Studi di Siena)
IA e storia: Problemi epistemologici e l’esperienza italiana
- 6 October 2025 | 11h-12h30 | Federico Nanni (Turing Institute, London)
Distant reading the Industrial Age: Natural language processing research in ‘Living with Machines’
- 30 October 2025 | 11h-12h30 | Chiara Piccoli (University of Amsterdam) / Jip Greven (3DUniversum) / Sezer Karaoğlu (Unıversity of Amsterdam, 3DUniversum) / Theo Gevers (Unıversity of Amsterdam, 3DUniversum)
Visualizing absence: 3D reconstructions of vanished buildings from historical images. Reflections on the preliminary findings from the AI-PastScapes project
- 15 December 2025 | 15h-16h30 | Martina Heßler (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Experts in malfunctioning? Historical reflections on digital errors and contemporary AI flaws
February-June | Full program available here
- 3 February 2025 | 10h30-12h | Andy Stauder (Transkribus – READ-COOP SCE
READ-COOP e Transkribus: innovazione tecnologica e sociale per il patrimonio storico - 17 March 2025 | 9h30-11h (online) | Marnie Hughes-Warrington (University of South Australia)
AI safety with histories - 29 April 2025 | 11h-12h30 | Drew Thomas (University College Dublin)
From text to image: Visual and multimodal AI in the Digital Humanities - 12 May 2025 | 11h-12h30 | Federico Mazzini (Università di Padova)
Esperimenti di creazione di un assistente IA per la ricerca storica - 13 June 2025 | 11h-12h30 | Jo Guldi (Emory University)
The problem of historical objectivity with AI
All seminars will take place in person at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento, with the possibility to attend also online. In order to attend online, please sign up via the website: https://isig.fbk.eu/en/events/
Organization:
Federico Mazzini (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Andrea Pojer (Università di Trento / FBK-ISIG)
Massimo Rospocher (FBK-ISIG)
Sandra Toffolo (FBK-ISIG)
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