he AMU Doctoral School of Humanities, the AMU Faculty of History, and the Theory and History of Historiography and Methodology of History Section of the Historical Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite you to an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Inhabiting Uncertain Futures: The Humanities Between Faith, Data, and Imagination," which will be held on Friday, 12 December 2025, at the Działyński Palace (Stary Rynek 72, 2nd floor) in Poznań.
The kick-off includes two lectures by international guests: Rodrigo Turina (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, UNIRIO, Brazil) on new temporalities and regimes of historicity in a changing climate, and Berbera Bevernage (Ghent University, Belgium) on the relationship between secularism, religion, and historicity. In the workshop part, Marta Kurkowska-Budzan (Jagiellonian University) will lead a session on Adele Clarke's situational analysis, aimed at doctoral students and young researchers interested in narrative and heritage studies. Participants will learn the fundamentals of the method and apply its tools, including the use of language models (LLMs), to assess its usefulness in research on contemporary historical practices.
The conference's central feature is a panel discussion entitled "Epistemic Experiments: Rethinking Method through Interdisciplinarity, Relationality and Embodiment" drawn up by doctoral students from the AMU Doctoral School of Humanities (Aurelia Adamczuk, Wiktoria Czekaj, Małgorzata Gonia, Jarek Kamiński, Teresa Knapowska, Vasyl Kononenko, Aleksandra Dorota Krzyżaniak, Aleksandra Joanna Krzyżaniak, Bartosz Smoczyk, Wojciech Sławnikowski, Przemysław Wąsik, Alan Woźniak, Laura Żary). Participants representing anthropology, archaeology, history, art history, philosophy, cultural studies, musicology and theology present "epistemic experiments" that transcend the boundaries of traditional methods. The panellists' speeches will indicate how the digital humanities are transforming through co-creation of knowledge, contextualism, a turn towards materiality, neurotheological research, multi-species research perspectives, and activist methodologies based on collaboration and situated participation.
The conference aims to analyse the changing epistemic foundations of the humanities, while also activating students and doctoral candidates and supporting cooperation between different disciplines. It seeks to create a space for discussion about the future of the humanities and to support the development of new, experimental forms of research that combine analytical rigour, ethical reflection, and creative imagination.
Detailed information can be found at: http://ewa.home.amu.edu.pl/Inhabiting_Uncertain_Futures_program.html
We look forward to seeing you there!