09:00-09:15 | Opening Session

Welcome and Introduction

Angelica Lo Duca and Chiara Salvador

• Welcome from the organisers
• The origins of the workshop and the collaboration between our institutions
• Introduction to the aims of the event and the speakers

09:15-10:00 | Keynote Address

Richard Sproat

AI Creativity Where It's Too Easy to Be Creative: Using LLMs to Detect Puns and Allusions in Heraldry

Session 1 - Part 1

AI and Translations: Interpreting Uncertain and Ambiguous Data (Part I)

10:00-10:30

Chair: Shai Gordin and Angelica Lo Duca

• Yael Assouline Scaling the Detection of Historiolae in the Papyri Graecae Magicae: A Corpus Annotation Project Using LLMs and Model Context Protocols
• Gunhyuk Lee How AI Reads Coptic Ostraca: Formula, Fragment, and the Reconstruction of Meaning in O.Frange 1–27

10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break

Session 1 - Part 2

AI and Translations: Interpreting Uncertain and Ambiguous Data (Part II)

10:45-11:15

Chair: Shai Gordin and Angelica Lo Duca

• Doaa Elalfy Imposing Coherence: AI and the Construction of Meaning in Greek–Arabic Texts
• Greg Baker, Shirley Chan, Vanessa Enriquez Raido & Greta Hawes Into the Parallage: Harnessing Abundance, Plurality and Divergence in AI Translation of Ancient Texts

11:15-11:40 | Panel Discussion Session 1

Moderator(s): Shai Gordin and Angelica Lo Duca

Session 2

AI and Graphic Elements: Innovation or Illusion in Low-Resource Contexts?

11:40-12:10

Chair: Chiara Salvador and Andrea Marchetti

• Celia López Castillo & David Díez Galindo Generative AI for the Interpretation of Non-Alphabetic Visual Systems: A Cross-Cultural Study of East Asian Scripts and Iconography
• Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello AI for the Paleography of Ancient Greek Papyri: Some Reflections from Eight Years of Collaboration between Computer Vision and Papyrology

12:10-12:30 | Panel Discussion Session 2

Moderator(s): Chiara Salvador and Andrea Marchetti

12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break

Session 3

AI and Philological and Educational Practices: Interpretative Assistant or Source of Dependence?

13:30-14:15

Chair: So Miyagawa and Sebastian Nehrdich

• Eva Maria Hemauer Can AI Read Your Hieroglyphs? Evaluating LLM Performance across Ancient Egyptian Script Traditions, Transliteration Practices, and Low-Resource Ancient Languages
• Alexandre Loktionov, Innokentiy Humonen, Maksim Golyadkin, Valeria Rubanova, Ekaterina Alexandrova & Ilya Makarov AI in the Hieroglyphic Classroom? A Pilot Study of Human-in-the-Loop Assistance, Cognitive Load, and Pedagogical Integration
• Shuning Zhang The Role of AI in Philological Research: A Case Study of a Bilingual Manchu–Classical Chinese Database

14:15-14:40 | Panel Discussion Session 3

Moderator(s): So Miyagawa and Sebastian Nehrdich

14:40-15:00 | Coffee Break

Collaborative Workshop

15:00-15:45

Towards Responsible AI for Low-Resource Ancient Languages: Collaborative Guidelines

15:45-16:00 | Closing Reflections

Chiara Salvador and Angelica Lo Duca

Next Steps and Community Building

Closing Remarks