Call for Papers: The Fifth AKHP Annual International Conference "Artificial Intelligence, Humanities and Pedagogy in Central Asia: Challenges and Perspectives"

The Aga Khan Humanities Project (AKHP), established in 1997, is a distinctive educational initiative within the Graduate School of Development at the University of Central Asia (UCA). The project promotes the values of the humanities, universal ethics, multiculturalism and pluralism across Central Asia. It achieves this through eight interdisciplinary teaching modules and innovative pedagogical approaches, delivered by trained AKHP educators in partnership with academic institutions in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

In the era of rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), the humanities face both unprecedented challenges and transformative opportunities. Central Asia, with its rich cultural and intellectual legacy, must explore how AI can contribute to the preservation, study and dissemination of humanistic knowledge.

This conference seeks to bring together educators, scholars, field experts, IT professionals and members of the public to engage in dialogue and collaboration on the following themes:

• AI in the education and science system: challenges and perspectives;
• AI and ethics;
• AI and tradition;
• AI and human consciousness;
• the future of humanities in the AI system;
• AI and gender;
• AI and environment or ecology;
• AI and social processes;
• ethical and social aspects of the introduction of AI into studies in the humanities;
• prospects for the development of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research at the intersection of AI and the humanities.

The following people are invited to participate:

• teachers and researchers in the field of AI and digital humanities;
• philosophers, historians, linguists, cultural scientists;
• developers of technological solutions for the humanities sphere;
• representatives of academic institutions and IT companies.

Submission Guidelines

Please send a 300-word abstract and a short summary by email to Professor Pulat Shozimov at pulat.shozimov@ucentralasia.org by 10 September 2025. Full texts of articles submitted on time will be reviewed for publication by the University of Central Asia.

Languages: English and Russian
Dates of the conference: 20–21 November 2025
Deadline for submitting abstracts: 1 October 2025
Full submission of conference materials (after the event): 10 December 2025

Note: International participants are responsible for covering their round-trip and accommodation during the conference.