The “Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence” Winter School 2026 offers an interdisciplinary immersion at the crossroads of the humanities and AI technologies. Designed in priority for PhD's student, (post-doc and master’s students are also welcomed) in the Humanities and Social Sciences, this intensive program combines hands-on workshops, collaborative projects, and lectures led by researchers from diverse fields — literature, art history, data analysis, visualization, and algorithmic ethics. Through the exploration of cultural and literary corpora (Balzac, Delacroix, Musiconis, among others), participants will engage with contemporary tools for text processing, digital mapping, and AI modeling, while reflecting on new modes of interpretation, creation, and knowledge transmission. Over ten days, project groups will develop concrete experiments in digital humanities, culminating in a final collective presentation that showcases the richness of dialogue between the humanities and artificial intelligence.
Application deadline: Dec. 12 2026
Program (in progress)
Tuesday, January 6 – Opening and Basic Tools
9:30 – Introduction & organization of project groups
10:00 – Basic concepts in Python
11:00 – Hands-on workshop
14:00 – Balzac Project + presentation of project themes
15:00 – Group work
Wednesday, January 7 – Text Analysis and Bias
9:30 – Data Mining & Text Analysis
11:00 – Algorithmic bias and discrimination
14:00 – Group work
Thursday, January 8 – Visualization and Humanities Projects
9:30 – Visualization of literary networks
11:00 – Delacroix Project
Afternoon: TBA
Friday, January 9 – Heritage and AI/HSS Infrastructures
9:30 – Byzantine seals and AI
11:00 – Musiconis
Afternoon: Group work
Monday, January 12 – Mapping and Multimodal Tools
9:30 – pictorIA (IR Huma-Num Consortium)
11:00 – Democratic Commons
Afternoon: Automatic comparison and alignment of texts (Balzac corpus)
Group work
Tuesday, January 13 – ERC/ANR and Digital Humanities Programs
9:30 – ERC Project PALAI
11:00 – ERC & ANR Projects ALFA and EIDA
Afternoon: TBA
Wednesday, January 14 – Interdisciplinary Projects
9:30 – BnF AI Projects
11:00 – MOLIÈRE Ex Machina
Afternoon: Final group sprint
Thursday, January 15 – Final Presentations
9:30 – Postdoctoral presentation
11:00 – LaCAS
14:00–16:30 – Final project presentations by the groups
Debriefing, closing session, and certificate ceremony.