Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 39, No. 253.
Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
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Date: 2025-12-06 08:51:13+00:00
From: Matteo Maselli <mattmas91@yahoo.it>
Subject: CFP - Italianistica Digitale: Research by Young Scholars (May 28–29, 2026, at the Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Étienne and online)
CFP - Italianistica Digitale 2: Research by Young Scholars (May 28–29, 2026, at
the Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Étienne and online)
After the first meeting hosted in Macerata in April 2024, the University of
Macerata, the research laboratory Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des
Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM) UMR5317, and the Faculty of Arts, Letters and
Languages of the Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Étienne are organizing the second
edition, ina hybrid format (in-person and online), of the conference
Italianistica Digitale 2: Research by Young Scholars. The initiative aims to
continue an open, interdisciplinary, and innovative dialogue on the practices and
methodologies of the Digital Humanities applied to Italian literary studies,
fostering exchanges among young scholars at both the national and international
levels. The conference intends to highlight research projects that, using digital
tools, address texts, authors, archives, and phenomena related to Italian
literature and its cultural transmission in original ways.
Proposals for presentationsare welcome on (but not limited to) topics such as:
- LLMs and libraries for literary research: automatic annotation, named
entity recognition (NER), textometry, knowledge graphs, data visualization.
- Automatictranscription of heritage texts: challenges and solutions for
Handwritten TextRecognition (HTR) applied to Italian manuscripts and printed
works.
- Machine translation and machine learning: new perspectives on the rendering of
Italianliterary texts.
- Teaching literary texts:use of LLMs and interactive platforms for the teaching
of Italian literature.
- Digital editing and preservation: strategies for the longevity of sources,
online critical editions, andlong-term preservation.
- Born-digital heritage:collaborative platforms, databases, and computational
philology practices;algorithms for comparing textual versions, digital genetic
editions, andanalysis of authorial variants.
- Stylometry and quantitative analysis: author attribution, recognition of genres
and styles, networks ofliterary influence.
- Semantic models and historical lexicography: multilingual embeddings for the
study of Italian lexical evolution, digital dictionaries, and linked data.
- Digital archives and metadata: FAIR standards, ontologies for the description
of literary collectionsand author libraries.
- Gamification and citizen science: public involvement in OCR/HTR correction and
collaborative annotations.
- Multimod alanalysis:interaction between text, image, music, and video in
digital editions.
- Ethics and generative AI: copyright, cultural biases, and the representation of
Italian languageand literature.
- Immersive teaching:augmented and virtual reality for heritage engagement and
literature instruction.
- Toponmy and literary geography: interactive maps, GIS, and storytelling of
Italian literary locations.
- Sustainability and archiving:strategies for data preservation, distributed
archives, and blockchain for philology.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Italian literary texts: approaches and
applications.
- Impact of Digital Humanities tools and machine learning on Italian Studies:
research and teaching.
The conference will take place on May 28–29, 2026, atthe Université Jean Monnet
– Saint-Étienne and online, and is open to PhD candidates, early-career
researchers, and postdoctoral fellows under the age of 40. The organization will
cover the costs of meals during theconference. Travel and accommodation expenses
will be borne by theparticipants.
Paper proposals (max. 20 minutes), written in Italian, English, Chinese, or
French, must be submitted by January 28, 2026, to the following email addresses:
cai.jin@univ-st-etienne.fr and m.maselli2@unimc.it
Proposals should include:
- first name, last name, short biography (max. 1,000 characters);- current
academic position;- email address and phone number;- title and abstract of the
paper (max. 1,500 characters);- up to 5 keywords.
The scientific committee will notify applicants of theacceptance of their
proposals by February 28, 2026.
The publication of the conference proceedings isplanned. Selected contributions
will undergo peer review according to thestandards recognized by ANVUR.
Scientific Committe:
Vito Avarello, LauraMelosi, Jingjing Li, Clara Bulfoni, Ciro Perna, Elisabetta
Tonello, CarloVecce, Jean Marie Roulin.
Organizing Committee:
Ahmad Fliti, Cai Jin, and Matteo Maselli.
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