Wednesday, 29 April 2026
Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13, University of Antwerp, City Campus
- 08:30 Registration
- 09:00 Opening remarks
- 09:15 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
Chair: Maarten Van Ginderachter, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Frédéric Clavert, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
The Archipelago and the Method: AI and Historical Practice
PANEL 1.1: Ai, ai, ai… wat willen we met AI in historisch onderzoek?
Hof van Liere, F. de Tassiszaal, Prinsstraat 13, 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, LRE Foundation, 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, Prentenkabinet, 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 & Henk Vanstappen, DATABLE, Belgium
MODAL -
Winne Gobyn, ADVN, Belgium & Ida De Boodt, ADVN, Belgium
Cartoons in context - Annelies De Mey, 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 ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ in Climate and Weather
​C³ó²¹¾±°ù:&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Eline Ceulemans, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
PANEL 2.3: Seeing the Past: AI Approaches to Visual and Spatial Historical Sources
Hof van Liere, Prentenkabinet, 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 [HYBRID]: Outsmarting the Machine: Critically Evaluating Automatic Data Enrichments in Text
Hof van Liere, Prentenkabinet, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
Presented by the GLOBALISE team: Stella Verkijk & Arlinde C.E. Vrooman, Huygens Institute, the Netherlands
Participants are expected to bring their own laptop for the workshop. Knowledge of (early modern) Dutch is recommended.
Closing Roundtable
Hof van Liere, F. de Tassiszaal, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
​C³ó²¹¾±°ù:&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Egon Bauwelinck, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Speakers TBC