Agenda

Roberto Leporatti (University of Geneve) on "The scattered poems of Francesco Petrarca: The other side of Canzoniere"

AULA AFFRESCHI, via Zamboni, 34

Roberto Leporatti (University of Geneve) and his research team introduces RdP Project (funded by the FNSRS): The scattered poems of Petrarca. The other side of Canzoniere.

Michelangelo Zaccarello, The other side(s) of digital textuality

Aula Affreschi, via Zamboni 34

L'avvento del mezzo digitale ha profondamente trasformato tanto le dinamiche di produzione e diffusione del testo letterario, quanto la relativa prassi editoriale. Nonostante ciò, le questioni di fondo che pone la filologia conservano tutta la loro importanza.

Fabio Massimo Bertolo’s Lesson on Luca Pacioli’s Summa, Venezia 1494

AULA AFFRESCHI, via Zamboni, 34

Fabio Massimo Bertolo, CEO of Minerva Auctions, introduces the ancient book and its fascinating history, through an exceptional example: the "Summa" by Luca Pacioli, the most important treatise on arithmetic, geometry and proportions of the Renaissance, published in Venice in 1494.

Marie Rebecchi, The Intelligence of a Time Machine from Jean Epstein to Friedrich Kittler

Aula Affreschi, Via Zamboni 34, Piano Terra

Cinema can be interpreted as “time machine” and exhibits plasticity of time (time-lapse, slow motion, loops and inversions). According to Jean Epstein, avant-garde filmmaker, cinema is a “machine for thinking time”, as a cinematic potential to deconstruct our understanding of time and space.

Stephen McCormick, A Digital Facsimile Edition of the Franco-Italian Huon d’Auvergne (14th and 15th centuries)

Aula Forti, via Zamboni 32

Stephen is professor at the Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA, USA

Domenico Fiormonte, The Digital Humanist. The past, the present and… the future?

Aula Affreschi, via Zamboni 34

Starting from the reflections at the edge of "The Digital Humanist: A Critical Inquiry" (Punctum Books, 2015), the author explores the current role of DH in society and culture, envisaging future directions

Richard Rogers, Situating digital methods

Aula Affreschi, via Zamboni 34

The lecture historicises and theorises digital methods, situating them as a part of the computational turn in internet-related research.

Karen Coyle visting @DH.ARC

Karen Coyle is a librarian with nearly four decades of experience with library technology. She engages in a variety of areas relating to digital libraries. Karen has published dozens of articles and reports, most available on her web site, kcoyle.net.

DISTANT READING & SENTIMENT ANALYSIS WORKSHOP

Aula Affreschi, Via Zamboni 34, 40126 Bologna, Italia

Workshop on methodologies and tools for computational analysis organized by DHDK students. Registration by May 20.

/DH.arc centre presentation

Aula Affreschi, Via Zamboni 34, 40126 Bologna, Italia

Members of the Centre will introduce current activities and illustrate ongoing projects. Master students are kindly invited to participate and discuss research lines to be addressed during internships. Follows Karen Coyle's keynote speech.

Two seminars on AI and Deep Learning by Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (Roma 2 University)

Aula Affreschi, Via Zamboni 34, Piano Terra

Fabio Zanzotto's seminars: "Hey, Merry Men! Robin-Hood Artificial Intelligence is calling you!" and "Symbolic, Distributed and Distributional Representations in the Era of Deep Learning"

Seminar on Data Science by Paul Groth (University of Amsterdam)

Aula Affreschi, Via Zamboni 34, Piano Terra

Paul Groth's seminar: Thinking about the Making of Data