{"id":5,"date":"2017-01-19T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/sis\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:48:00","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/sis\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Elena Pi<\/strong><strong>erazzo (Universit\u00e9 de Tours), <em>Fr<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>om Digital to Computational Humanities: New challenges and new opportunities<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Monday, 23 June, 11.45-12.45<\/h3>\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>The keynote explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence, particularly machine learning and computer vision, on digital philology and manuscript studies. It traces the evolution from early scepticism toward computational methods to their current integration in scholarly workflows, highlighting breakthroughs such as Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), stylometry, and large-scale manuscript clustering. I will reflect on pioneering projects, such as Transkribus, eScriptorium, and the Venice Time Machine, emphasising both the opportunities and ethical dilemmas posed by AI. Drawing on examples from medieval and early modern manuscript research, the talk highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, technical literacy, and ethical awareness. The talk warns against the risk of marginalisation if scholars fail to engage with these technologies and advocates for proactive involvement in shaping the future of digital scholarly editing. Ultimately, I will call for a reimagining of philological practices in light of AI\u2019s capabilities and challenges, urging the community to lead rather than follow technological change.<\/p>\n<h3>The Keynote Speaker<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.univ-tours.fr\/annuaire\/elena-pierazzo\">Elena Pierazzo<\/a>, is Professor of Digital Humanities at the Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes Superieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours, where she directs the master in Digital Humanities. She has a PhD in Italian Philology. Her specialisms are Italian Renaissance texts, digital editions of early modern and modern draft manuscripts, digital editing, and text encoding. Her most recent publication is Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods (2015). She has served as the Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and was involved in the TEI user community, with a special interest in modern and medieval manuscripts. As the co-chair of the Programme Committee for the DH2019 conference, she also served as co-chair of the working group on digital editions for the European Network NeDiMAH and was one of the scientists-in-chief for the ITN DiXiT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Pierazzo (Universit\u00e9 de Tours), From Digital to Computational Humanities: New challenges and new opportunities Monday, 23 June, 11.45-12.45 Abstract The keynote explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence, particularly machine learning and computer vision, on digital philology and manuscript studies. It traces the evolution from early scepticism toward computational methods to their current integration...","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.leeds.ac.uk\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}