Program 2026

Please find the program of the 5th TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium below. Times are CEST.

Thursday 2 July 2026 (MindLabs)

1000-1100Keynote address by Francien Dechesne
Title: Should we count on LLMs in Mathematics?
1100-1130Coffee Break
1130-1200Towards a Constructivist AI Pedagogy for Critical Thinking
Speaker: Luke Kersten
1200-1230LLMs and Epistemological Alienation in Academic Knowledge Production
Speaker:Thomas Decreus
1230-1300Why Philosophers Should Use LLMs
Speaker: Stefaan Blancke
1300-1400Lunch Break
1400-1430Using LLMs to Simulate Human Behavior for Testing and Improving Study Materials
Speaker: Jan de Wit
1430-1500Understanding Disinformation in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Zuzana Rybaříková
1500-1530LLMs as Unreliable Narrators: Toward a Postdigital Literacy
Speakers: Inge van de Ven & Siebe Bluijs
1530-1600Coffee Break
1600-1630LLMs & Visual Monolingualism
Speaker: Afra Willems
1630-1700LLMs as Annotator-Colleagues: Constrained Collaboration for Frame Detection in News Headlines
Speaker: Juan Sebastián Olier
1700-1730Intralinguistic concerns and LLMs
Speaker: Seunghyun Song
1830-?Conference Dinner

Friday 3 July 2026 (Online)

1130-1200Mirror Mirror: Unmet Presuppositions in LLM Collaborator Language
Speaker: Eugene Philalithis
1200-1230Through the AI Looking-Glass: LLMs as Mirror, Window, and Lens in Philosophical Research
Speaker: Giacomo Pezzano
1230-1300LLMs as Mirror of Ignorance
Speaker: Shaoyu Han
1300-1400Lunch Break
1400-1430Mirror, Colleague, Rival: LLMs and the Reconfiguration of Epistemic Agency
Speaker: Riccardo Valenti
1430-1500LLMs and Cognitive Deskilling
Speaker: Richard Heersmink
1500-1530Human-AI Double Anchoring
Speaker: Mariela Destéfano
1530-1600Coffee Break
1600-1630Normative Influence and Epistemic Injustice Through AI-Generated Over-Idealized Bodies
Speaker: Paula Muhr
1630-1700Lost – or Filtered – in Translation: Machine Translation, LLMs, and the Challenge of Hate Speech
Speakers: Lorenzo Costabile & Maria Eleonora Sciubba
1700-1730Editorial Judgment and Machine Reasoning: A Longitudinal Case Study in Human-AI Collaboration on a Digital Edition
Speaker: Silvia Stoyanova
1730-1800Refreshment Break
1800-1900Keynote address by Duncan Pritchard
Title: The AI Revolution in Education

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