Summer school digital humanities

Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Managing uses (and misuses) of AI

Unimore Doctoral Programme in Human Sciences – Summer School 2026

June 8^th – 12^th, 2026 | MODENA
Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali

The 2026 Summer School of the Unimore Doctoral Program in Human Sciences aims to provide PhD students and young researchers with with critical and methodological tools to study digital communication and digital humanities in the age of artificial intelligence.

The focus of this year’s edition is on the uses and misuses of AI in academic research, with particular attention to how AI-driven tools are reshaping data analysis, textual interpretation, teaching practices, and knowledge production in the humanities. While AI enables unprecedented speed, scale, and efficiency in research, it also raises substantial methodological, ethical, and epistemological concerns that cannot be ignored.

The 2026 Summer School explores the complementarity between human expertise and artificial intelligence. While AI and machine learning can support literature reviews, data processing, and pattern recognition, human judgment remains essential for interpretation, accountability, and ethical decision-making. Uncritical reliance on automated tools risks undermining academic rigour, fostering plagiarism, amplifying biases, and weakening critical thinking.

The programme combines lectures by invited speakers and workshops where young researchers can present their work and get feedback from the invited speakers.

Through discussions and hands-on activities, participants will engage with cutting-edge digital humanities tools while reflecting on their ethical and methodological implications.

The Summer School will be held in presence in Modena.

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