The workshop “AI-Based Methods for the Humanities: A Workshop for Scholars at the Intersection of Digital Humanities and Machine Learning” organized by BIFOLD will take place from September 23-24, 2025, at the ECDF.
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the humanities is an emerging frontier for research, promising transformative approaches to understanding and modeling historical, cultural, and linguistic phenomena. This workshop invites scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines to explore innovative AI-based methodologies that address core challenges in the humanities. The goal is to foster dialogue, share methodological developments, insights, and propose new paradigms for using AI in humanistic research, emphasizing both interpretability and application.
The workshop is organized around four thematic sessions, each focusing on specific methodological approaches and their potential applications to evolving processes. Particular emphasis is placed on the subject of time and temporality. By centering time as a key axis, the workshop seeks to encourage submissions that delve into not only static patterns but also processes, transformations, and trajectories, as well as the challenges associated with evaluating and verifying AI-based insights.
The four sessions are:
- Explainable AI (XAI) and Insights from Interpretability
- Historical Networks and Cultural Dynamics
- Modeling Language and Low-Resource Humanities Data
- Foundation Models for the Humanities
Venue:
Einstein Center Digital Future
Conference Hall, 1st Floor
Wilhelmstr. 67
10117 Berlin
The program can be found //here.
A few spots are still open. If you’re interested in joining, please send an //email to Laura Wollenweber.
The workshop organizers specifically invite people to join who are working with AI methods, in digital humanities or at the intersection of these fields.