1. Opening RemarksLouis Hyman (Johns Hopkins University), Chris Celenza (Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 9:00 to 9:30, Main Hall
2. AI and the Misrepresentation of HistoryMarnie Hughes-Warrington (University of Adelaide)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 9:30 to 10:30, Main Hall
3. Reading the Machine: What Large Language Models Actually Do to Historical TextMark Humphries (Wilfrid Laurier University)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Online
4. The World Historical Gazetteer at ScaleRuth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Room 108
5. Build Your First Software: A Historian's Introduction to Writing CodeJeri Wieringa (Princeton University)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Room 110
6. Teaching AI to Novices: Experiences from Gateway Computing at JHUMark Spindler (Johns Hopkins University, Gateway Computing)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Room 112
7. Archives in the Age of AI: What Cultural Heritage Institutions Need Historians to KnowRichard Marciano (University of Maryland), Rajesh Gnanasekaran (University of Maryland), Linde Brocato (University of Arkansas)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Room 242
8. Who Gets to Argue with the Data? Rent Control and Democratic KnowledgeJo Guldi (Emory University)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 1:30 to 2:30, Room 242
9. What Graduate Training in Computational History Should Look LikeChristopher Phillips (Carnegie Mellon University), Jacob Bruggeman (Ohio State University), Amanda Regan (Clemson University), Sarah Weicksel (American Historical Association (AHA))Thursday, October 15, 2026, 1:30 to 2:30, Main Hall
10. Cleaning and Structuring Historical Data: A Working SessionJim Clifford (University of Saskatchewan)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 1:30 to 2:30, Room 110
11. Trust and Error: AI Hallucination, Bias, and Evidentiary Standards in Historical ResearchEdward J. K. Gitre (Virginia Tech), Samuel Backer (University of Maine)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 1:30 to 2:30, Room 108
13. Working with Computer ScientistsAnjalie Field (Johns Hopkins University, Data Science and AI Institute), Daphne Ippolito (Carnegie Mellon University), Michael Harrower (Johns Hopkins University, Near Eastern Studies)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 3:30 to 4:30, Room 108
14. Teaching History with AINate Sleeter (George Mason University, RRCHNM), Kristin Dutcher Mann (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Meghan McGlinn Manfra (North Carolina State University)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 3:30 to 4:30, Main Hall
15. Network Analysis for HistoriansSong Chen (Bucknell University)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 3:30 to 4:30, Room 112
16. AI in the Archive: Live DemonstrationLoren Moulds (University of Virginia School of Law)Thursday, October 15, 2026, 3:30 to 4:30, Room 242
17. The Discipline We Need to BuildChristopher Phillips (Carnegie Mellon University), Matthew Connelly (Columbia University), Jo Guldi (Emory University), Sarah Weicksel (American Historical Association (AHA))Friday, October 16, 2026, 9:30 to 10:30, Main Hall
18. Searching for Reliability: Using AI to Build Persistent Tools for Research in HistoryS. Wright Kennedy (University of South Carolina)Friday, October 16, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Room 108
19. From Ledger to Query: OCR, NER, SearchJacob Polay (University of Saskatchewan), Keith Pemberton (Yale University), Bob Pasker (CUNY Graduate Center)Friday, October 16, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Room 242
20. Playable Pasts: Making Classroom Games with AITore Olsson (University of Tennessee), Kwok Leong Tang (Harvard University)Friday, October 16, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Room 110
21. What Machines Can't Read: Unicode and the Politics of Open-Ended Character SetsRaja Adal (University of Pittsburgh)Friday, October 16, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Room 107
22. Environmental History and AIAlexander More (University of Massachusetts Boston and Harvard University)Friday, October 16, 2026, 11:30 to 12:30, Room 112
23. Migrant Connections: Building Digital Infrastructure for Migration HistoryAtiba Pertilla (German Historical Institute Washington)Friday, October 16, 2026, 1:30 to 2:30, Room 108
24. Trust: What AI Does and Doesn't Change about Historical Research and TeachingLouis Hyman (Johns Hopkins University)Friday, October 16, 2026, 1:30 to 2:30, Room 110
25. MapReader: Historical Maps as DataKatie McDonough (Carnegie Mellon University)Friday, October 16, 2026, 1:30 to 2:30, Room 242
26. Experiments in AI and Handwriting RecognitionHaley Price (Brown University), Anya Lewis-Meeks (Brown University), Ashley Champagne (Brown University)Friday, October 16, 2026, 1:30 to 2:30, Room 107
27. Closing Remarks & Next StepsLouis Hyman (Johns Hopkins University)Friday, October 16, 2026, 3:00 to 3:30, Main Hall
28. Annual Margaret Levi Lecture in Political Economy: From Value Creation to Value Extraction in Silicon ValleyTim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media)Friday, October 16, 2026, 4:00 to 5:00, Main Hall