Conference: AI meets Humanities & Social Sciences
When: Monday, 23 June - Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Where: Main Building of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Registration: Participation is free, however, for organisational reasons, binding registration via this link is required.
NB: If you register for visiting the conference on Wednesday, 25 June, you are not automatically registered for the panel discussion. Registration for the discussion has to be checked seperately. Please note that the panel discussion on Wednesday, 25 June, is in German.
Deadline: 15 June 2025
Organisation: The conference is transdisciplinary and therefore jointly organised by five institutes (Humanities & Social Sciences) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( ACDH-CH , OeAI , CMC , IMAFO , VID ) - together with the thematic platform “Machine Learning at the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( MLA2S )”.
The aim of the conference is to explore and reflect the current and future AI research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and at the same time the future of these paradigms in the age of AI.
During the conference, we want to discuss and reflect on the broad topic of AI research with a combination of academy and external (invited) experts exchange views on the changes, challenges and potentials of future research in the context of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The implications that AI will have for the future of our scientific disciplines and their scientific practices will also be critically examined.
Programme
The conference will begin in the early afternoon of Monday, 23rd June 2025, with the opening ceremony and the first plenary. The conference runs through Wednesday, 25th June 2025, ending with a panel discussion (open for general public) in the later afternoon.
The three-day conference combines different presentation and exchange formats, which are filled with internal OeAW contributions and inputs from invited speakers . The first two conference days are dedicated to the discussion of use cases on AI-supported basic research from the Humanities and Social Sciences, which concern different stages of a research cycle, from the formulation of a research question to the generation (“digitization”), processing and structuring of data to their analysis and finally to the presentation of results, visualizations or publications and making the data and results available.
In addition, there will be alternative conference formats in the form of posters and live demonstrations , which should contribute to more personal and interactive exchange based on exemplary use cases from ongoing or planned projects of the OeAW institutes and commissions.
The third day of the conference will be devoted to science policy reflection on the general impact of the AI age on science in general and the humanities and social sciences in particular. A final highlight will be the panel discussion “Humanities and Social Sciences in the Age of AI”, to which interested members of the public will also be invited.
Kindly note that registration for the panel discussion (in German) has to be checked separately!
More detailed information is available on the conference website:
AI meets Humanities & Social Sciences: Conference Website