This lecture series interrogates how artificial intelligence and digital technologies transform the ways we understand evidence, interpretation, and authorship. It brings artificial intelligence tools into dialogue with hermeneutic traditions and explores the politics of knowledge production in activism and archives, asking how scholarship and different disciplines are reshaped through the rise of nonhuman actors in the digital era.
GlobeColloquium: Epistemic Challenges to the Humanities in the Age of AI
This lecture series interrogates how artificial intelligence and digital technologies transform the ways we understand evidence, interpretation, and authorship. It brings artificial intelligence tools into dialogue with hermeneutic traditions and explores the politics of knowledge production in activism and archives, asking how scholarship and different disciplines are reshaped through the rise of nonhuman actors in the digital era.
The lecture series is part of the GlobeColloquium organized by the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) at Leipzig University. ReCentGlobe is dedicated to the study of globalization projects in the past and present. The Colloquium features both early-stage projects – such as funding proposals, theoretical frameworks, or initial empirical findings – and completed research, book presentations, and innovative methodological or conceptual approaches. Its aim is to critically reflect on humanities and social science research that adopts transregional, global, and planetary perspectives – both in process and in outcome – and to foster interdisciplinary exchange and intellectual inspiration.
The GlobeColloquium is developed in line with the research priorities of the interdisciplinary, cross-faculty ReCentGlobe and is organized in close cooperation with partner institutions within and beyond Leipzig University. The GlobeColloquium is open to all interested parties. If you have a proposal for an event as part of the GlobeColloquium, feel free to contact us: recentglobe@uni-leipzig.de
The sessions take place regularly during the lecture period - usually on Wednesdays from 17:15 to 18:45 in room 5.55, Nikolaistraße 6-10 (Strohsackpassage). Deviations are possible, so please note the respective event announcement..
The sessions take place in a hybrid format and can be joined online via ZOOM: events.recentglobe.org/gczoom
All events are held either in English or German and are open to external participants.
Programm
2.12.2025
Whaat!? Ihr vibe-coded eure Forschungstools nicht? Neue Wege und Probleme als Digital Humanities Entwickler:in
Christopher Pollin (Graz)
Different Time and Location: 12.15 – 13.15 pm, Bibliotheca Albertina
10.12.2025
What Happens to Evidence? GenAI and the Politics of Creativity in Palestinian Activism
Tom Divon (Jerusalem)
21.1.2026
AI and the Humanities: Epistemic Challenges Today and Tomorrow
Rico Hauswald (Dresden
11.2.2026
Workshop/Panel
Colonial Archives Revisited. Writing Transimperial Histories in the Age of AI
18.2.2026
Hermeneutic Challenges. Thinking Trees and Networks as a Literary Scholar
Solvejg Nitzke (Bochum)