The Information Science and Digital Humanities division at the Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information at Algiers, is delighted to announce the organization of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities: practices, challenges and future directions. This is an
interdisciplinary event that aims at bringing together researchers, scholars and practitioners from all related disciplines to share investigations and experiences in the transformative intersection of AI and DH.
Conference objectives:
The rise of AI is revolutionizing research, analysis, preservation, and mediation practices in the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, digital
humanities offer fertile ground for experimenting with new tools, methods, and critical perspectives on linguistic, historical, cultural, and heritage data.
However, in the Algerian context, as in many Arab, African and Mediterranean countries, local knowledge, heritage corpora, national languages, and forms of
thought stemming from the social sciences and humanities remain underrepresented in the major international dynamics of the digital humanities
and AI. This first edition of the conference, to be held in Algiers in October 2026, aims to raise awareness and give visibility to the research, practices, and issues specific to these regions. It offers a space for interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers, engineers, heritage professionals, artists, librarians, linguists, and computer scientists to explore together the critical, epistemological, and creative potential of AI applied to the humanities, with a particular focus on countries and communities that are underrepresented in these fields.