Day 1 (Monday, 23 June)

9.00- 9.30 Registration and Coffee (William Bragg Building, Atrium)

9.30-10.00 (LT 2.37) Institutional Welcome and Opening Remarks

Matthew Treherne (AHC Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation, University of Leeds), Laura Lucia Rossi (University of Leeds)

10.00-11.30 Parallel Sessions (A)

(A1) (LT 2.37) Digital Ante-litteram and the Meta-digital

Chair: Alessio Baldini (University of Leeds)

Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick), Spectres de Dante: Stilnovo, Spirit Writings, and the Prehistory of AI
Jeanne Britton, (University of South Carolina), The Digital Piranesi: Media Histories across Disciplines
Elizabeth Coggeshall (Florida State University), Dante at the Crossroads: Rethinking the Canon in Convergence Culture

(A2) (GR.18) Digital Methods in Teaching and Pedagogy

Chair: Salvatore Campisi (Durham University)

Jovana Karanikikj (Goce Delcev University of Štip), Investigating Italian Literature Education for Foreign Students: Digital vs. Traditional Methods in the Post-COVID Era
Maria Guarnieri (University of Leicester), Federica Sturani (University of Liverpool), Digitally Enhanced Language Teaching and Assessment: Case Studies in Italian Translation and Interpreting
Salvatore Varriale (Università di Genova), L’eduverso per la didattica dell’italiano L2/LS

(A3) (GR.25) DH Tools for Literary Texts Analysis

Chair: Elisa Segnini (University of Glasgow)

Matteo Maselli (Università di Macerata), Dal manoscritto alle reti neurali profonde: come il digitale sta cambiando la dantistica
Angela Fabris (Universität Klagenfurt), Tra archivio digitale, corpus e distant reading: il gioco del lotto nella letteratura e nei prodotti visuali del secolo XVIII
Ruoci Song (University of Cambridge), ‘Segni de L’antica Fiamma’: Mapping Intertextuality between Virgil and Dante in the Divine Comedy

11.45-12.45 (LT 2.37) Keynote Lecture

Elena Pierazzo (Université de Tours), From Digital to Computational Humanities: New Challenges and New Opportunities

Introduced by Gigliola Sulis (University of Leeds)

12.45-14.00 Lunch Break

13.15-14.00 Coffee and Cakes (William Bragg Building, Atrium)

14.00-15.30 Parallel Sessions (B)

(B1) (LT 2.37) Digital Ottocento and Print Culture: A Dialogic Encounter (1)

Organised by Sara Boezio (University of Notre Dame) and Silvia Valisa (Florida State University) for Ottocentismi. INNCIS – Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth-Century Italian Studies.

Chair: Sara Boezio

Chiara Cremona, Dirk Vanden Berghe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Rebuilding Post-revolutionary Identities in Great Britain, France and Italy: The Reception, Discussion and Stigmatisation of Unruliness in Novels through the Periodical Press (1816-1831)
Federica Coluzzi (University of Warwick), Francesca Sartori (University of Bristol), Giving Voice to the Past: Interactive Exhibits and the Recovery of Women’s Literary Heritage in the Eredi di Beatrice Project
Daniela Vitagliano (Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine), Mapping Public Lectures Held by Italian Women in the Late 19^th and Early 20^th Century

(B2)* (GR.18) 13.30-15.30 Digital fair (posters) [* earlier start]

Coordinator: Laura Lucia Rossi (University of Leeds)

Isabella Magni (University of Sheffield), The Italian Paleography Project
Galadriel Ravelli (University of Bath), Online Exhibition Isolated Memories: Remembering (and Forgetting) Colonial Deportations from Libya to Italy
Giorgia Ghersi (Università per Stranieri di Siena), Luca Mazzocchi (Università di Bologna), Carolina Rossi (Università di Pisa), A Digital Workshop for L’Adalgisa. Disegni milanesi by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Rachel Haworth (Independent scholar), The ‘TV Italian Style’ Podcast
Anna Lanfranchi (University of Warwick), The Dialectics of Modernity. Modernism, Modernization, and the Arts under European Dictatorships

(B3) (GR.25) Roundtable: Transnational Research and Teaching at the Digital Turn

Organised by Cecilia Piantanida (University of Warwick) and Marcela Cazzoli (Durham University) for the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS) University of London).

Chair: Cecilia Piantanida

With: Cecilia Piantanida, Marcela Cazzoli, Rosalba Biasini (University of Liverpool), Carlotta Paltrinieri (Royal Holloway University of London), Carmela Pierini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Ana Reimão (University of Liverpool)

(B4) (1.34) The Digital in Linguistic Analysis, Literature, and Translation

Chair: Erica Bellia (University of Cambridge)

Elisa Segnini (University of Glasgow), Linguistic hybridisation, Constructed Languages and AI
Simone Torsani (Università di Genova), Intelligenza artificiale generativa e valutazione diagnostica della produzione scritta: è possibile superare il paradigma dell’accuratezza?
Margherita Cerri (Université Paris Nanterre), Ibridare la poesia: il web, il libro e il significato nelle opere di Fabrizio Venerandi

15.30-17.00 Parallel Sessions (C)

(C1) (LT 2.37) Digital Ottocento and Print Culture: A Dialogic Encounter (2)

Organised by Sara Boezio (University of Notre Dame) and Silvia Valisa (Florida State University) for Ottocentismi. INNCIS – Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth-Century Italian Studies.

Chair: Federica Coluzzi (University of Warwick)

Marguerite Bordry (Sorbonne Université), Un Grand-Tour alla rovescia: ripercorrere le grandi città italiane nella letteratura minore del secondo Ottocento
Silvia Valisa (Florida State University), ‘Un secolo dopo l’altro’: The Periodical as Artifact and Epistemological Frame
Sara Boezio (University of Notre Dame), The Federico De Roberto: Critic and Journalist Digital Archive

(C2) (GR.18) Literature and reading communities in a convergence culture

Chair: Olivia Santovetti (University of Leeds)

Linda Poncetta (Sperling & Kupfer), La rivoluzione del romance in Italia: un fenomeno editoriale internazionale
Carmela Pierini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Il romance nell’era dei social: le ragioni di un ritorno alla lettura della genZ
Marco Tognini (Università di Milano), ‘Se ci fanno piangere, ci piacciono’: gusto letterario e comunità emozionali su BookTok

(C3) (GR.24) Roundtable: Digital Pedagogy and Teaching Practice in the Language Classroom

Organised by Maria Chiara La Sala and Simone Lomartire (University of Leeds).

Chair: Maria Chiara La Sala (University of Leeds)

With: Rosalba Biasini (University of Liverpool), Salvatore Campisi (Durham University), Cecilia Piantanida (University of Warwick), Enza Siciliano Verruccio (University of Reading)

(C4) (1.34) The Digital, Transmediality, and Literary Texts (20^th-21^st century)