The workshop, led by Jerome de Groot, Ester Oras, Jess Thompson, Christopher Vardy, and Matthew Williams, follows up on the discussions from last year.

This interactive workshop will begin to explore collaboration and possible Biomolecular Humanities approaches. Through a consideration of approach and disciplinary practice, we will begin to establish ways that we might work towards answering some of the pressing questions arising from developing biomolecular approaches within the humanities. Everyone is welcome to contribute and participate in what will be a generative and productive meeting! Building on the work that we began together at our initial meeting last year the workshop looks to develop ways of rethinking and reworking our approaches to new data and techniques. Our leading contributors are drawn from Archaeology, Biology, English Literature, Archaeochemistry, and Cultural Genomics, and together we will outline some of the new thinking in our fields and the challenges (and rewards) of working in multidisciplinary ways.

Some initial thoughts on Biomolecular Humanities are outlined in the following paper: Oras, E., de Groot, J., & Björkstén, U. (2025). The ‘Biomolecular Humanities’? New challenges and perspectives. iScience. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224029067

The workshop will be followed by a discussion.