Day 2 (Tuesday, 24 June)

9.00-9.30 Welcome, Registration and Coffee

9.30-10.30 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.

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

10.45-12.15 Parallel Sessions (D)

(D1) User response across media

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
Serena De Filippi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della sua generabilità artificiale: discussione sul rapporto tra l’IAG, la letteratura e l’individuo
Elizabeth Coggeshall (Florida State University), Dante at the Crossroads: Rethinking the Canon in Convergence Culture

(D2) Approaches to Digital Editions (1)

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
Giliola Barbero (Censimento delle edizioni antiche di Telesio, Bruno e Campanella), Matteo Leta (University of Warwick), Scrittori e filosofi del Rinascimento meridionale: nuovi approcci digitali
Elisa Conti (Università di Catania), Costruire un’edizione critica digitale: per l’opera di Luigi Capuana

(D3) Intersections: Digital Humanities and Gender Studies

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
Nicolò Salmaso (Independent scholar), ‘I Believe in Embracing Change Gracefully’: Senior Italian Female YouTubers and the Self-Representation of Age in a Participatory Culture
Giorgio Busi-Rizzi, Manuela Di Franco (Ghent University), L’uomo che guarda: Operationalising the Male Gaze in Recent Italian Comics

(D4) Updates from the dantelimina.it portal

Organised by Ciro Perna (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) and 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
Federica Maria Giallombardo (Università E-Campus), 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

12.15-13.45 Lunch

13.45-14.45 Training Session (2): DH and Research Projects

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

15.00-16.30 Parallel Sessions (E)

(E1) Mapping the world, Mapping the Digital

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
Katie Blair (University of Birmingham), Data Collection and Geosemiotic Landscapes Analysis of Street ‘Artivism’ in a Refugee Town: Presenting a New Methodological Framework
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

(E2) Approaches to Digital Editions (2)

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

(E3) Literature’s Future in the Shadow of AI

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

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

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

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.