The WASP-HS Winter Conference 2026 will be in LUX, the Joint Faculties for Humanities and Theology, at Lund University 4-6 February. It will be filled with workshops, poster presentations, and interactive discussions, with ample opportunity for networking.
Please join us and contribute to the conversation!
Encountering Digitalization
What happens when interactions are automated and digital agents intervene? Welcome to this year’s WASP-HS Annual Exchange — a dynamic conversation on human-centred digitalization with Prof. Brit Ross Winthereik, Dr. Kash Haresamudram, Dr. Charlotte Högberg and Dr. Malin Heintz.
Professor, Dept of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark
PhD in Technology and Society, Lund University
PhD in Technology and Society, Lund University
PhD in Economics, Arbetsförmedlingen
Come and see the most recent PhD project results and give your feedback and contribute with your insights.
Please download and use the poster template for the poster session.
Download poster template (.pptx)
Open for WASP-HS PhD students:
Bias and Prejudices in AI Training Data
Moderator: Sarah de Heer
Smashing the Cloud with a Hammer: Exploring AI Through Rejection
Moderator: Martin Lindstam
History a la ChatGPT
Moderator: Johannes Widegren, Nasrin Mostofian and Mo von Bychelberg
AI experts meet AI narratives on Bluesky
Moderator: Igor Ryazanov
Open for all WASP-HS researchers:
Wednesday, February 4
09:00—11:30
Workshop: AI in Higher Education
C214, and breakout rooms:
C213
C212 (the Staff canteen)
Workshop: Smashing the Cloud with a Hammer
B352
11:30—13:00
Lunch and Poster Presentations
Outside of Lux Auditorium
13:00—15:00
WASP-HS Annual Exchange
LUX Auditorium
15:00—15:20
Coffee
Outside Lux Auditorium
15:20—18:00
How to Write a PostDoc Application
C214
15:20—18:00
Posters that Don’t Suck: From Awkward to Awesome!
B336
18:00—18:30
PhD student council meeting
B336
19:00
Conference dinner PhD certificate ceremony
Forum Medicum, Sölvegatan 19
Thursday, February 5
10:00—12:00
Poster sessions by WASP-HS PhD students
12:00—13:00
Lunch
13:00—15:00
Supervisor meeting
LUX C214
13:00—16:00
Workshop: Bias and Prejudices in AI Training Data
B240
Workshop: History a la ChatGPT
B352
Workshop: AI Experts Meet AI Narratives on Bluesky
B339 CANCELLED
18:00
Pool for PhD students
Paradis Biljard
Friday, February 6
9:30—12:30
Oral presentations by PhD students
LUX Auditorium
09.30: Welcome and introduction by Ericka Johnson, WASP-HS Graduate School Director
09.35 Johannes Widegren: Archives +Sapmi = AI?
10.05 Nicolas A. de Pieuchon: Countering Bias in AI Methods for Text Data
10.35 Coffee
11.00 Ziming Wang: A Meat-Summer Night’s Dream: A Tangible Design Fiction Exploration of Eating Biohybrid Flying Robots
11.30 Laetitia Tanqueray: Reframing Robots for Care: Situating Informal Caregivers in the Development of Social Robots
12.00 Sarah de Heer: When Algorithms Shape Care: AI-Driven Medical Device, Precision Medicine and Quality under the Right to Health
Registration is closed
