ACADEMIC CONFERENCE | Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities

Explore how AI is reshaping the humanities, language, culture, and society with leading international scholars at this special conference.
About this Event

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto is pleased to host Artificial Intelligence & the Humanities, a special interdisciplinary conference for academics, bringing together invited scholars and experts from Canada, Italy, and the United States for a day of intellectual exchange and dialogue.

The all-day conference will explore the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence on the humanities, language, culture, education, and society, examining the opportunities and challenges AI presents across a wide range of fields, from language learning, literature, and cognitive science to creativity, communication, and organized crime.

Featuring distinguished speakers including Marcel Danesi, Antonio Nicaso, Domenico Pietropaolo, Michael Lettieri, Paolo Granata, Massimo Leone, Massimo Vedovelli, Jamin Pelkey, and Stephanie Walsh-Matthews, the conference will also feature a plenary lecture by Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University), entitled “Reimagining the Humanities through AI: Synthetic Agents in Distributed Cognition.”

Through thought-provoking presentations and interdisciplinary dialogue, the conference will offer an opportunity to reflect on how artificial intelligence is reshaping human knowledge, imagination, and cultural expression.

Presented by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto.

Seating for this event is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

This is an all-day conference featuring multiple sessions throughout the day.

Attendees are welcome to arrive at any time, attend the sessions that interest them, and stay for as long as they wish. Attendance for the entire conference is not required. We will do our best to accommodate all attendees, subject to seating availability at the time of arrival.