Media & Talks
A record of press coverage, broadcast appearances, writing and talks, with bios and photos.
1. Coverage, writing and talks
Selected, newest first. The full list of talks and publications is on researchmap.
Television and radio
Aug 2025: J-WAVE Tokyo Morning Radio (AI Socrates)
Jul 2025: TBS Radio Azumi Shin'ichiro no Nichiyo Tengoku (AI Socrates)
Jul 2025: NHK Asaichi (AI Socrates)
Jun 2025: Fuji TV Live News α, a philosophical dialogue with Socrates through AI
Jul 2024: BS Fuji Galileo X, on living with generative AI
Jun 2024: NHK Nagoya, consulting Aristotle about modern worries
Jun 2024: NHK News, asking great thinkers of the past
Newspapers and magazines
Dec 2025: Chunichi Kids Weekly
Sep 2025: Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), on talking with Japanese authors through AI
Jul 2025: Nikkei MJ, on AI Socrates
Jan 2025: Kyoto Shimbun and other papers (Kyodo News)
Aug 2024: Chunichi Shimbun, a classicist who was new to AI and programming
Aug 2024: Kodomo no Kagaku, September 2024 issue
Jul 2024: Kyodo News
May 2024: Chunichi Shimbun
Writing
Feb 2026: Eigo Kyoiku 74(12), on Humanitext Antiqua and the classics in English teaching
Dec 2025: Seiyoshigaku 280, on the architecture of Humanitext Antiqua and context-oriented translation
Oct 2025: National Diet Library, Current Awareness-E 510, on Humanitext Aozora
Jul 2024: Digital Humanities Monthly 156 (foreword)
Selected talks and announcements (2025–)
Oct 2026: Joint press release on the Humanitext project's selection for Schmidt Sciences' HAVI program
Aug 2026: DiHuCo Hub Symposium 2026, BOOST session (Hitotsubashi Hall, Tokyo)
Jun 2026: KCL The Digital Conference 2026 (King's College London), panel “Forging Generative Philology”
Mar 2026: Seoul National University, lecture on Humanitext and the future of the humanities
Mar 2026: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, seminar “Legal History Meets Digital Humanities”
Jan 2026: Japan Society for Digital Archive, 10th annual conference, opening session “AI for DA / DA for AI”
Dec 2025: MEXT Council for Science and Technology, Special Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences
Dec 2025: International Symposium on Buddhist Studies and Digital Humanities (Tokyo International Forum)
Nov 2025: University of Bonn, Centre for the Classical Tradition, XI. Atelier ‘Antikerezeption’
Oct 2025: Waseda University Institute for Advanced Study, seminar on digital humanities
May 2025: Conference on Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World (University of Crete)
2. Bios
Short (about 35 words)
Naoya Iwata is Associate Professor at Nagoya University, working on ancient Greek philosophy and digital humanities. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and builds and runs Humanitext, an AI research platform for reading the classics from the original texts.
Medium (about 100 words)
Naoya Iwata is Associate Professor at the Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya University, with a concurrent appointment at the National Institute of Informatics. He studies ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle, and holds a PhD from the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (2015). He held fellowships at Cambridge (JSPS) and Oxford (British Academy) and taught at Fukuoka University before joining Nagoya in 2023. Since 2023 he has led Humanitext, a research platform that lets anyone question more than 2,300 Greek and Latin works and receive answers grounded in the original passages.
Long (about 220 words)
Naoya Iwata is Associate Professor at the Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences and the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, and Research Associate at the National Institute of Informatics. He read philosophy at Kyoto University and completed his PhD in ancient philosophy at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, in 2015. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, a JSPS Overseas Research Fellow at Cambridge, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford, and Lecturer at Fukuoka University before moving to Nagoya in 2023.
His research on Plato and Aristotle concerns knowledge, methods of inquiry, and the relationship between mathematics and philosophy, with articles in the Journal of the History of Philosophy and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, among others. Since 2023 he has built Humanitext, an open platform whose tools include Humanitext Antiqua, which answers questions about more than 2,300 Greek and Latin works by citing the source passages, and Humanitext Reader, which presents the original texts with sentence-aligned translations.
He is Principal Investigator of a Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) project (2026–2029) and of a JST BOOST project (2025–2030), Program Committee Chair of JADH2026 and Organizing Committee Chair of JADH2027 (Japanese Association for Digital Humanities), and received the IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award in 2025.
3. Photos
Available for news coverage and talk announcements (cropping allowed).
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4. Contact
My email address is on my researchmap page.