AI & the Study of Antiquity Conference
(Hybrid Conference)
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Thursday, March 12, 2026 to Friday, March 13, 2026
Rutgers' Alexander Library (169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ)
4th floor Teleconference Lecture Hall
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC but registration is necessary.
Registration for in person attendance deadline: Monday, March 9th at 12 PM
Registration for remote attendance via Zoom: Thursday, March 12 at 10 AM
[Participants presenting in person are marked *]
Thursday 12 March | 4:00–6:00 pm
Jason Geary, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Rutgers–New Brunswick — Opening remarks
Serena Connolly* (Rutgers University) — Introduction and conference logistics
Kristina Chew* (Rutgers University) — AI, authenticity, and ancient Greek and Latin pedagogy
Ana Kotarcic (University of Zurich) — Cicero meets artificial intelligence: Automatic detection of semantic similarities
Greta Gualdi* (Columbia University) — Say what?! AI-assisted mapping of direct speech in ancient narratives
Friday 13 March | 9:00–10:30 am
Qinlin Wang (University of Cambridge) — Chronological drift: How generative AI misclassifies the future as antiquity and rewrites the temporal boundaries of the ancient world
André Rehbinder* (Université Paris Nanterre) — Studying Plato’s style with the help of AI
Tianrui Zhu*, Manolis Mavromatis & Stefano Aprà (ISAW / NYU) — Training models, training humans: Building an Egyptian hieroglyph recognition app through a student Hackathon
Friday 13 March | 11:00 am–12:30 pm
Anna Kouremenos* (Sacred Heart University) & Vyron Antoniadis (Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation) —
From text to terrain: Remote sensing and the deme of Besa in Attica
Ikko Tanaka* (J. F. Oberlin University), Jun Ogawa (University of Tokyo) & Naoya Iwata (Nagoya University; National Institute of Informatics) —
Reconstructing the fragmented past: Humanitext as an LLM-driven research platform for classical studies
Annie K. Lamar (University of California, Santa Barbara) — Predictive archaeology and the ancient world: Critical lessons from the 'OpenAI to Z’ AI archaeology challenge
Friday 13 March | 2:00–3:30 pm
Jacob Murel* (Princeton University) & Barbara Graziosi (Princeton University) — Logion: a no-code app for classical philology
Aaron Hershkowitz* (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) — Handcut text recognition: Squeeze, scans, and scene detection
Francesca Giannetti* (Rutgers University) — Reading the sky on AI and antiquity: An exploratory analysis of Bluesky posts
Friday 13 March | 4:00–5:30 pm
Patrick J. Burns* (ISAW / NYU) — Is agentic philology an oxymoron? Some thoughts on error, control, and disciplinary definition
Ethan Gruber (American Numismatic Society) — AI and numismatics: Latest advances in classification and accessibility
Akash Kapur* (Princeton University) — Looking ahead: What if AI works out?
Organizers: T. Corey Brennan, Kristina Chew, Serena Connolly, Christina Demitre (Rutgers Classics) and Francesca Giannetti (Rutgers University Libraries).
Coordination: K. Armbruster (Rutgers Classics)
With support from Rutgers SAS Division of Humanities and Rutgers University Libraries