{"id":13312,"date":"2026-06-25T08:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=articles&p=13312"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:29:02","slug":"ai-through-history-history-through-ai","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/ai-through-history-history-through-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"AI through History, History through AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nReport of the 8th Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On 15\u201316 June 2026, the C\u00b2DH hosted AI for History, History for AI<\/a>, the eighth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History. The conference ran across two full days and was co-organised with the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), the Chair for Digital History at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin, and NFDI4Memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the title suggests, the conference was not only about what AI can do for history, but also about what historians can contribute to AI development and how their expertise can help advance a more critical and reflective approach to AI. The opening was led by Andreas Fickers<\/a>, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Clavert<\/a> and Sarah Oberbichler<\/a> (C\u00b2DH) together with Daniel Burckhardt (GHI Washington). As Sarah Oberbichler emphasized in her opening remarks, the conference was less concerned with whether we should use AI than with the recognition that AI is already part of our work<\/strong>: we are already in the middle of it. If AI has become unavoidable, the challenge is how to involve the humanities more directly in the processes through which AI is developed. The conference therefore sought to reflect on best practices and workflows for using AI in historical research, the infrastructures required to support such research, and the development of models tailored to historical inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n

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