One-day workshop programme

Workshop Programme

Workshop on AI/ML Applied Methods in Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Date · 29/Sep/2026 Venue · Barcelona Supercomputing Center 09:00–18:00

Each presentation runs for 10 minutes; each session includes 25 minutes for Q&A, except for the closing talks, which have their own allocated time.

This is a tentative workshop programme: due to the nature of the venue, the organizers reserve the right to make changes to the programme.

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Sessions & Papers ↑ top

Session 1

Political Attitudes, Media & Polarization

09:35–10:40 · 4 papers
01
Unveiling the low-dimensional structure of political attitudes in social media and survey data
Antoine Vendeville · Sciences Po Paris
02
AI vs. Experts: Measuring Ideology, Credibility, and Trust in Spanish Media
Alberto Martinez-Serra · Barcelona Supercomputing Center
03
Polarization, and Parliamentary Conflict in the Spanish Second Republic: Evidence from Parliamentary Speeches
Toni Rodon · Universitat Pompeu Fabra
04
Voices Across Borders:  Diaspora Voter Behaviour. The Case of Romanians in Catalonia
Alina Mierlus · Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Session 2

Digital Platforms

11:20–12:25 · 4 papers
01
Estimating the Uncertainty of Mis/Disinformation Prevalence Across Social Media Platforms
Ishari Amarasinghe · Universitat Pompeu Fabra
02
Rewarding Engagement and Personalization in Popularity-Based Rankings Amplifies Extremism and Polarization
Jacopo D'Ignazi · Universitat Pompeu Fabra
03
Simulating Social Platforms with Hybrid Agent Architectures
Stephanie Anneris Malvicini · Institut d'Investigació en Intel·ligència Artificial (IIIA-CSIC) & Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS)
04
Who Reads What—and How Fast? Partisan Asymmetries in Political News Consumption
Alejandro de la Fuente Cuesta · Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
Session 3

LLM Methods & Applications

12:25–13:30 · 4 papers
01
Is Reasoning reasonable for classification tasks
Ramin Soleyman · Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
02
Scrying Mirrors in the Age of AI: Auditing historical bias in LLMs with polyglot prompting
Barney Harris · Bournemouth University
03
From LLMs to Agents: A Generative AI Pipeline for Mapping and Comparing AI Policy Portfolios
David García-García · Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
04
The Alpha Political Male
Mario Francesco Carillo · Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 
Session 4

Machine Learning for Archaeology & the Past

15:20–16:15 · 3 papers
01
From computer to fieldwork: The application of machine learning algorithms in predictive models for Archaeology
Sonia Carbonell · Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
02
Modeling Agricultural Origins with Machine Learning: A Random Survival Forest Analysis of the Transition to Food Production
Jonas Gregorio · Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
03
Finding the past from orbit: Remote sensing and AI for Archaeology
Max Sebastian Fancourt · Barcelona Supercomputing Center

INTRODUCTORY Speakers & KEYNOTES ↑ top

Introductory speaker · 09:15
Mariona Coll Ardanuy
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Introductory speaker · 15:00
Iban Berganzo Besga 
Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
RES talk · 17:00
Oriol Pineda Martinez 
Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Posters ↑ top

P01
AI at Work: How firm level AI adoption affects its workers economically and politically
Brady Allardice · Universitat Pompeu Fabra
P02
Using large language models to replicate and extend game-theoretic experiments on human cooperation
Max Pellert · Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
P03
Can AI help us predict how the economy evolves?
Stefano Vrizzi · Universitat de Barcelona
P04
Emergence of Bias in Media Diet: Experimental Calibration of an Agent-Based Model.
Aleix Nicolás Olivé · Universitat Pompeu Fabra
P05
CULT/ARC. Explainable representation learning and interactive visualization for cultural archives
Diego Arredondo Ortiz · Universitat Pompeu Fabra
P06
Social Media and the Transition to Adulthood: A Causal Life-Course Approach
Giorgio Nocerino · Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona / CED
P07
Agent-Based Modelling for Policy-Making
Alba Aguilera · Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) and UN Economic & Social Comission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA))
P08
Using Large Language Models to Anchor Ideological Positions in Online Networks
Emma Fraxanet · Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
P09
Beyond the Swipe: Gender Diversity and Interactions in Dating Apps
Sabina Bercovich Szulmajster · Center for demographic studies
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