Wednesday, 29 April 2026
Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13, University of Antwerp, City Campus
08:30 Registration,
09:00 Keynote lecture
10:30 Coffee break, A. Dürerzaal
11:00 First parallel panel sessions
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Second parallel panel sessions
15:00 Coffee break, A. Dürerzaal
15:30 Workshop sessions
17:15 Closing roundtable
18:00 Reception
Keynote
Hof van Liere, F. de Tassiszaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
Frédéric Clavert, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Title TBA
PANEL 1.1: Ai, ai, ai… wat willen we met AI in historisch onderzoek?
Hof van Liere, F. de Tassiszaal I Prinsstraat 13 I Antwerp
Tess Dejaeghere, Lise Foket, Fien Messens, Bas Vercruysse, Vincent Ducatteeuw
UGent – Universiteit Antwerpen – KBR, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Belgium
- AI, binnen welk kader?
- AI, met welke methode?
- AI, met welke impact?
Chair: Jasper Snoeys, KU Leuven, Belgium
PANEL 1.2: Infrastructures of Remembrance: AI, Archives & Heritage
Hof van Liere, Willem Elsschotzaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
- Loïc François, Liberation Route Europe, Belgium
Integrating AI Tools into a World War II Public History and Dissemination Project - Artsiom Kamovich, KU Leuven, Belgium
Born-Digital Cultural Heritage and AI: Optimistic and Pessimistic Perspectives - Gregory Verbaanderd, UCLouvain, Belgium
Fusion institutionnelle et défis archivistiques : Stratégies numériques pour la migration des données du Sénat de Belgique
Chair: Michèle Corthals, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
PANEL 1.3: Parsing the Past: AI, Semantics & Historical Interpretation
Hof van Liere, Thomas Greschamzaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
- Ellen Roelandts, KU Leuven,
Belgium Contesting wealth: the politics of wealth taxation in Belgium since 1880 - Matthias Van Laer De Gezelle, Universiteit Antwerpen,
Belgium Measuring 20th century income instability in the absence of income records: on the uses of AI in historical research and the potential of historical microsimulations
Chair: Charris De Smet, Universiteit Antwerpen
PANEL 2.1: Digiversiteit in het erfgoedlandschap: welke rol kan (en mag) AI spelen?
Hof van Liere, F. de Tassiszaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
- Eva Andersen, Boekentoren, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Glashelder - An De Ridder, ADVN, Belgium
MODAL -
Winne Gobyn, ADVN, Belgium
Cartoons in context - Olivier Van D'huynslager, Design Museum Ghent, Belgium
CHAI-T
Chair: Kas Swerts, KU Leuven, ADVN, Belgium
PANEL 2.2: AI, Methodology & the Transformation of Historical Interpretation
Hof van Liere, Willem Elsschotzaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
- Francesca Cadeddu, Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII (FSCIRE), Italy
The Digital Turn in Historical-Religious Studies - Gianluca Ratti, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium - Università di Bologna, Italy
The democratization of coding: LLMs and their use in accelerating historical research - Arlinde C.E. Vrooman, Huygens Institute, the Netherlands
Constructing Semantically Coherent and Interpretable Historical Vocabularies from Domain-Specific Corpora: An Early Modern Dutch Case Study in Climate and Weather
Chair tba
PANEL 2.3: Seeing the Past: AI Approaches to Visual and Spatial Historical Sources
Hof van Liere, Thomas Greschamzaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
- Sophie Barbaix, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium & Iason Jongepier, Universiteit Antwerpen,
Belgium Testing the Waters: An AI-based exploration of hand drawn Maps in the Artemis-UA project - Federico Ruozzi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Italy
RE-GAZE-IT/Religious Eye-tracking – Gaze Analysis of Zones and Experiences in Italy through Technology
Chair: Jasper Segerink, Universiteit Antwerpen
WORKSHOP A: Using AI to enrich data-driven workflows in Nodegoat
Hof van Liere, Willem Elsschotzaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
Presented by: Pim Van Bree & Geert Kessels, Nodegoat, Lab1100, the Netherlands
WORKSHOP B: Outsmarting the Machine: Critically Evaluating Automatic Data Enrichments in Text
Hof van Liere, Thomas Greschamzaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
Presented by the GLOBALISE team: Stella Verkijk & Arlinde C.E. Vrooman, Huygens Institute, the Netherlands
Closing Roundtable
Hof van Liere, F. de Tassiszaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
Speakers TBC