Blaž Zabel, the principal investigator on the research programme The History of Humanities in Slovenia, hosts three participants from History of Philology: Past and Future, a workshop held at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, on 7 May 2026: Kris Palmieri (LMU Munich), Laura Loporcaro (Ghent University) and Aaron Turner (Royal Holloway, University of London / Knapp Foundation). They ask what philology is, treating it as discipline, method and scholarly ethos, and resist reducing it to classics or to German nation-building — the Slovenian, German and British cases each need their own context. The talk turns to whether shared methods can bridge traditions, to over-specialisation across subfields, and to philology's present value: close, critical reading as a skill that AI cannot supply.