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        Date: 2026-04-16 11:29:42+00:00
        From: Edward Ross <edward.ross@reading.ac.uk>
        Subject: [Final Reminder] CFP: AI Literacy for the Ancient World (1-3 July 2026)

Dear Colleagues,

There is one week left to submit a proposal for this upcoming conference event
at the University of Reading on 1-3 July 2026.

AI Literacy for the Ancient World
Second Meeting of the iGAIAS Network
1-3 July 2026 – Department of Classics, University of Reading, United Kingdom

This meeting aims to bring together teachers, researchers, and practitioners in
ancient world studies, broadly conceived, to address the issues related to the
use and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools across our
disciplines. We are aware that the use of AI models is increasing exponentially
across all areas of daily life, but recognition and understanding of the issues
related to AI models is not increasing at the same rate. This meeting will focus
on how best to promote AI literacy and current AI ethics issues among those in
our educational and work contexts.

The meeting will host a series of hands-on workshop sessions to demonstrate
methods for ethically using AI tools for supporting ancient world teaching,
learning, and research. We invite proposals for workshop sessions to add to the
current list of activities, which currently includes:

  *   Hands-on AI tool sandbox sessions, including Wayground, immersive
technologies, and personalized LLMs
  *   Applications for AI tools in poor internet connection environments
  *   AI as a research collaborator
  *   AI and assessment
  *   AI for humanities graduates in the workplace
  *   A discussion session to improve two educational toolkits: one on AI ethics
and the presentation of the ancient world in AI-generated images, and one on
ethical AI methods for teachers and students of ancient languages.

Intermixed between the workshops will be a series of networking events and
discussion sessions focusing on current ethical issues surrounding AI use in
ancient world studies. The proposed discussion themes include, but are not
limited to:

  *   How do we best educate students about AI ethics across educational levels,
and how do we make this engagement accessible to people who have no desire to
directly interact with AI models?
  *   How do we develop ethical, sustainable, and accessible training materials
for using AI models to support teaching and learning?
  *   How do we address the issues that AI summarization pose for the
preservation of history, including persistent omission and cultural context?
  *   How do agentic AI models use the ancient world in their reasoning? Does AI
reception of the ancient world reflect human receptions or is this a new form of
reception entirely?

We invite proposals for 30-minute workshop sessions, consisting of a 100-word
abstract and a short description of the proposed sandpit activity. We also
invite proposals for 20-minute conference papers, consisting of a 300-word
abstract. All submissions should include a 50-word short biography and a CV for
each presenter. Please send proposals to iGAIAS2026@reading.ac.uk by 24 April
2026.

We also intend to publish the proceedings of this conference in The Classics
Journal<https://cj.camws.org/> shortly after the conference to ensure we can
disseminate the outcomes of the event as quickly as possible in our rapidly
developing technological environment. If you are unable to participate in the
conference and would still like to submit your work for publication, please
submit your 300-word abstract and CV to iGAIAS2026@reading.ac.uk by 10 July
2026.

For more information, please take a look at the meeting landing page
here<https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/ai-literacy-for-the-ancient-
world/>.

Best wishes,

The iGAIAS 2026 Conference Committee


Dr. Edward A. S. Ross (he/him)
Lecturer in Classics
Department of Classics, University of Reading
BA (McGill University); MBuddhStud (University of Hong Kong); PhD (University of
Reading)
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Contributor for Central Asian Studies, The Digital
Orientalist<https://digitalorientalist.com/about-edward-a-s-ross/>
edward.ross@reading.ac.uk
Website<https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/> |



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