AI Is Transforming Our Understanding of the Past

by Hanna Nordin | Mar 30, 2026 | News

Artificial intelligence (AI) does not just shape our lives today — the technology also changes how we study, interpret and communicate the past. In the new book Evolving Perspectives of Digital Classics, Anna Foka, Professor of Digital Humanities at Uppsala...

WASP-HS Launches New Website

by Hanna Nordin | Mar 27, 2026 | News

WASP-HS has just launched an updated version of the website to better reflect ongoing research, activities, and events. The website includes research, graduate school pages and more. The website is also available in Swedish. “The new website features a more modern...

Figuring the Boundary Between Human and Robot — PhD Defense

by Hanna Nordin | Mar 5, 2026 | News

On 6 March 2026, Dominika Lisy defends her doctoral thesis, “Figuring the Boundary between Human and Robot: A Feminist New Materialist Perspective on Dermally Layered Relationality”, at Linköping University. See event page. Abstract Social robots are expected to...

New Book Release: The AI Paradox by Virginia Dignum 

by Hanna Nordin | Mar 4, 2026 | News

It is not about what artificial intelligence (AI) will do to us, but about how we choose to shape it, argues Virginia Dignum, Professor in Responsible AI at Umeå University, in her new book “The AI Paradox: How to Make...

Networking and Community Building at the WASP-HS Winter Conference 2026

by Hanna Nordin | Feb 10, 2026 | News

More than 100 WASP‑HS PhD students, newly graduated doctors, and supervisors gathered at Lund University on 4–6 February for the WASP‑HS Winter Conference 2026. Three days of workshops, presentations, and networking focused on how AI shapes, and is shaped by, humanity...