Day 2 (Tuesday, 24 June)

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

9.30-10.30 (GR.18) Training Session (1): Launch of the SIS Digital Lab

Joe Dale (Independent Consultant), Practical AI in Italian Studies. A Hands-On Introduction

Overview: This session offers a practical introduction to user-friendly AI tools that can enhance Italian language teaching, support research, and reduce workload. Each tool will be demonstrated live, with short examples to show how they can be adapted for use in teaching and research.

Introduced by Emanuela Patti (SIS Research Portfolio; University of Edinburgh)

10.45-12.15 Parallel Sessions (D)

(D1) (LT 2.37) User response across media

Chair: Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick)

Alessio Baldini (University of Leeds), Starting from Zero (2021): Representational Justice and Twitter Users’ Responses
Cormac Newark (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London), ‘Re-making’ Italians after World War II: Opera and TV
Carlo Eugeni (University of Leeds), Innovative and Inclusive Democratic Spaces through AI: Facilitating Accessibility powered by Easy to Read Italian

(D2) (GR.18) Intersections: Digital Humanities and Gender Studies

Chair: Valentina Mele (University of Leeds)

Clara Stella (Università di Padova), CrossMisogyny: radici storiche e dimensioni contemporanee del discorso misogino
Sara Delmedico (University of Bologna - Gerda Henkel Foundation), AI’s Reading of Narratives of Violence against Women in Early-Twentieth Century Italy and France
Giorgio Busi-Rizzi, Manuela Di Franco (Ghent University), L’uomo che guarda: Operationalising the Male Gaze in Recent Italian Comics

(D3) (GR.25) Updates from the dantelimina.it portal

Organised by Ciro Perna (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) and Elisabetta Tonello (Università di Salerno)

Chair: Elisabetta Tonello (Università di Salerno)

Serena Malatesta (Università di Padova - Université de Tours), Le metodologie digitali del Progetto Dante LIMINA: da LiMINA a D:verse dalla razionalizzazione per database, passando per le digital scholarly edition verso il machine learning
Beatrice Mosca (Università E-Campus), Dante Matrix: nuove frontiere digitali per la tradizione manoscritta della Commedia
Aldo Stabile (Università di Salerno), Mappare e descrivere le immagini della Commedia: il catalogo del progetto D.A.N.T.E.
Federica Cifariello (Università della Campania), Il progetto Dante Juyō: per una repertorizzazione della fortuna e legacy dantesca in Giappone

(D4) (1.34) Approaches to Digital Editions (1)

Chair: Simon Gilson (University of Oxford)

Isabella Magni, Visualising Petrarch’s Fragmenta: The Petrarchive Project
Jonathan Schiesaro (Trinity College Dublin), Encoding Non-Authorial Corrections in Digital Editions: A Hypertextual Approach to Giorgio Vasari’s Ragionamenti
Elisa Conti (Università di Catania), Costruire un’edizione critica digitale: per l’opera di Luigi Capuana

12.15-13.45 Lunch Break

13.10-13.45 Coffee and Cakes (William Bragg Building, Atrium)

13.45-14.45 (GR.18) Training Session (2): DH and Research Projects (ECA)

Giovanni Pietro Vitali (Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Université Paris-Saclay)

Overview: The workshop aims to review post-doctoral opportunities for young researchers, focusing on integrating Italian Studies with Digital Humanities. It will cover training, funding (including ERC and Marie Curie), and other calls, helping Italianists to become digital humanists and enhance their career prospects

Introduced by Olivia Santovetti (University of Leeds)

15.00-16.30 Parallel Sessions (E)

(E1) (LT 2.37) Literature’s Future in the Shadow of AI

Organised by Emanuela Patti and Federica Pedriali (University of Edinburgh)

Chair: Carlotta Paltrinieri (Royal Holloway — University of London)

Emanuela Patti (University of Edinburgh), From Balestrini's Tape Mark I to ChatGPT: Mapping the Evolution of Literary Authorship in the AI Era
Fabio Ciotti (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), LLMs as Model Readers: Evolving Narrative Analysis
Federica Pedriali (University of Edinburgh), From Print to Pixels: On the Future of Literary Objects

(E2) (GR.18) Mapping the world, Mapping the Digital

Chair: Daniela Vitigliano (Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine)

Alberto Savi (Università di Milano – Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Visualizing and Mapping Flows of Regional Italian Cinema. A Data-driven Approach to Emilia-Romagna's Cinema
Muhammad Nouman Akhtar (Università di Genova), AI Digital Mentor: A Generative AI Tool for Cultural Heritage at the Balzi Rossi Archaeological Site
Yasmine Posillipo, Giulia Barison (Universitāt des Saarlandes), Il libro di Cauteri nel progetto ALMA: Digital Humanities per lo studio delle Reti del Sapere nella Romània Medievale

(E3) (GR.25) Approaches to Digital Editions (2)

Chair: Serena Vandi (Trinity College Dublin)

Martina Pensalfini (Università di Bologna), OpenGadda
Laura Antonietti (Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Université Paris-Saclay), Per un’edizione digitale di UR Partigiano Johnny
Eleonora Litta (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), The LiITA: Linking Italian Project
Giada Di Pino (Università di Catania), Un archivio storico-editoriale digitale: come le Digital Humanities possono contribuire alla diffusione e alla conservazione del patrimonio archivistico editoriale contemporaneo

17.00-18.00: Lecture - Performance (Free event: booking required) (Workshop Theatre)

Kimberly Campanello (University of Leeds), Disarticulating the Digital: Extraordinary Power tra i confini

Overview: In this lecture-performance, Kimberly Campanello tracks the digital as method and as source in her Italy-oriented writing, with examples from This Knot, Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K (in-progress) and her recently completed autofictional novel A Rag, A Map, a Pocket, a Grave.

Introduced by Valentina Mele (University of Leeds)

18.00-19.00: Closing Remarks and Drinks Reception

Gigliola Sulis (University of Leeds), Emma Cayley (LCS Head of School, University of Leeds)