February 28 - March 1, 2023 Emmanuelle Lescouet co-hosts, from February 28 to March 1, 2023, at the Maison des Sciences et de l'Homme in Brittany, the colloquium "Entre science et magie : les savoirs dans les cultures de l'imaginaire" (Between Science and Magic: Knowledge in Speculative Cultures) with the Laboratoire des imaginaires.
Débugue tes humanités ! (Debug Your Humanities!) - Season 3
December 6, 2022 - June 20, 2023 Roch Delannay and Giulia Ferretti host the third season of the « Débugue tes humanités ! » (Debug Your Humanities!) workshops, designed for humanities scholars. In person and online on Jitsi.
Digital Humanities Conference Series
November 30, 2022
Marcello Vitali-Rosati gives a talk, on November 30, 2022 at 11 a.m. (EST) on Jitsi, as part of a series of conferences on digital humanities organized by the Clermont-Auvergne Institute of Technology and the Lycée Jean Monnet, titled "Pour un design contre-intuitif, moche et compliqué" (For Counter-Intuitive, Ugly and Complicated Design). Jitsi link to come!
VocUM Conference
November 17-18, 2022 Yann Audin is co-president of the VocUM International Conference's 2022 Edition, organized by students of the Université de Montréal, all from different fields of study relating to language.
Invitation by the Building 21 Project of McGill University
November 7, 2022 The Building 21 Project of McGill University invites Marcello Vitali-Rosati, on November 7 at 1:30 p.m. (EST), to discuss artificial intelligence in the humanities. In person at Building 21, and online (link to come on the project's website).
Colloquium "Le choix dans les cultures de l'imaginaire" (Choice in Speculative Cultures)
October 28, 2022 Emmanuelle Lescouet co-hosts, on October 28, 2022 at the Maison des Sciences et de l’Homme en Bretagne, the "Le choix dans les cultures de l'imaginaire" (Choice in Speculative Cultures) colloquium with the Laboratoire des imaginaires. Follow the colloquium online starting from 3 p.m. (EST).
Symposium
October 27 to 29, 2022
The Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities holds, from October 27 to 29, 2022 in the Lionel-Groulx building of the University of Montreal, the symposium "Anthological Navigations: The Greek Anthology in the Era of Digital Classics". Details, schedule and registration here!
Guest Seminar by Pierre Lévy on the IEML (Information Economy MetaLanguage) Project
October 24-26, 2022
The Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities and the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) invite Pierre Lévy to conduct a seminar, from October 24 to 26, 2022, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (EST), at the University of Montreal, accessible online here, on the interdisciplinary project IEML, that he has been developing and directing for the past twenty years.
Fall 2022 Seminar of the Arcanes Research Group
October 7, 2022
Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Nicolas Sauret are lecturing, on October 7, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (EST) on Zoom, as part of the fall 2022 seminar of the Arcanes Research Group, during the "Désinformation dans les écosystèmes socionumériques" (Disinformation in Sociodigital Ecosystems) segment. Registration at contact@arcanes.ca
Guest Lecture in the course "La lecture : fondements et processus" (Reading: Foundations and Processes) at the Université du Québec à Montréal
October 6, 2022 Emmanuelle Lescouet is invited, on October 6, 2022 at 2 p.m. (EST), to give a lecture in the class "La lecture : fondements et processus" (Reading: Foundations and Processes) taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Workshop
Marcello Vitali-Rosati, on October 6, 2022 at 10 a.m. (EST) online here, gives the inaugural talk of the workshop "Écosophie du numérique" of the EVEille Project: "Thinking Matters: From Plotinus to Livia Canestraro"
"Éditions critiques numériques et multilinguisme" (Critical Digital Editions and Multilingualism) Workshop
September 27, 2022
Mathilde Verstraete and Marcello Vitali-Rosati give a talk, on September 27, 2022, as part of the workshop "Éditions critiques numériques et multilinguisme" (Critical Digital Editions and Multilingualism) held by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques, on the algorithmic exploration of the Greek Anthology project.
Stylo Developments: Toward New XML Exports
September 27, 2022 The text editor Stylo, developed by the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities, is the object of new considerations.
Corpus Season 2
September 5, 2022
Corpus, the livestream show hosted by Emmanuelle Lescouet on the Chair's Twitch channel, is back for a second season on September 5, 2022, live every Monday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (EST)!
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Annual Conference
July 25-29, 2022
The annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations will take place from July 25 to 29, 2022 both online and in person. The Chair's team will be giving and hosting multiple talks and workshops. To obtain participation or registration links, visit the conference's Website.
Interactions multimodales par écran (IMPEC) Conference 2022
July 7, 2022
On July 7, 2022 at 3:30 a.m. (EST), or 9:30 a.m. (CET), Marcello Vitali-Rosati gives a lecture titled "Espaces publics et jardins partagés : les collectifs à l'ère des GAFAM" (Public Spaces and Shared Gardens: Collectives in the GAFAM Era) as part of the 2022 conference Interactions multimodales par écran (IMPEC) of the Lyon research unit ICAR. Registration and attendance information on the conference's website! Lecture will be recorded and available later.
Corpus Liveshow 12-Hour Streaming: Boosting of the Repository of Digital Writings
June 24, 2022
On June 24, 2022, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (EST), Emmanuelle Lescouet will host a special live episode of Corpus, during which everyone is invited to submit digital texts and literary works to boost the content on the Repository of Digital Writings.
8th Document numérique et société Conference
June 23, 2022
On June 23 2022, Margot Mellet gives a talk titled "Design des petites mains : réflexions pour des environnements éditoriaux équitables, pluriels et inclusifs" (Design From Little Hands: Reflections On Fair, Plural and Inclusive Editorial Environments) at the Document numérique et société Conference of the University of Liège, whose theme is "Scientific Communication and Open Science: Opportunities, Tensions and Paradoxes". In presence only!
Canadian Comparative Literature Association Annual Congress
June 22-23, 2022
From June 21 to 24, 2022, the annual congress of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association will take place on Zoom. The theme, this year, is "Divergence and Convergence in Comparative Literature". Antoine Fauchié, Margot Mellet and Marcello Vitali-Rosati will act as facilitators of the workshop "Inscription Practices/Play" on June 22, and the workshop "Inscription Reflections" on June 23. Information on attendance here
Conference "La connaissance intranquille" (Intranquil Knowledge)
June 3, 2022
On June 3, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. (EST), Margot Mellet gives a lecture titled "Le savoir intranquille du texte numérique : restituer une intimité avec son texte à l'écran" (The Un-Tranquil Knowledge of the Digital Text: Restituting Intimacy With One's Text on the Screen) at the conference "La connaissance intranquille" (Intranquil Knowledge) organised by l'Organon, a research and creative writing group put in place by the McConnell-Université de Montréal Chair on stories and writings surrounding care-providing and end-of-life.
Annual Electronic Literature Organisation Conference
May 30 to June 1, 2022
From May 30 to June 1, 2022, Margot Mellet and Emmanuelle Lescouet will give talks at the annual Electronic Literature Organization conference. Registration to attend here
ENCODE from the University of Bologna Project Conference
May 23, 2022
On May 23, 2022 at 10 a.m. (EST), Marcello Vitali-Rosati gives a lecture titled "Technical Thinking: the 'Greek Anthology Project' between Epistemological Choices and Code" at the 5th ENCODE Project Conference, which strives to bridge the gap between classical studies and digital competency. Registration required to attend!
Roundtable "Présent(s) de la science-fiction : évolution et diversification du genre à l'époque contemporaine" (Present[s] of Science Fiction: Evolution and Diversification of the Genre in the Contemporary Era)
May 20, 2022
On May 20, 2022 at 9:45 a.m. (EST), Emmanuelle Lescouet will give a talk titled "Concevoir le futur, concevoir la langue" (Conceiving the Future, Conceiving Language) at the roundtable organised by the University Aix-Marseille.
Humanistica Conference 2022
May 19-21, 2022
From May 19-21, 2022, the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities team will give multiple lectures and presentations as part of the annual conference organised by Humanistica, the francophone digital humanities association. Exact dates and links to come!
Conference "DH Unbound" by the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities
May 17-19, 2022
From May 17-19, 2022, the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities team will give multiple talks and presentations in the context of the annual conference "DH Unbound". Exact dates and links to come!
Carrefour de culture et création numériques roundtable
May 16, 2022
The Carrefour de culture et création numériques (C3N) of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the University of Montreal holds a roundtable on May 16, 2022 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Roch Delannay, Antoine Fauchié and Margot Mellet will give a presentation on the text-editing tool Stylo. Only in person, link to attend in the event description!
Colloquium "Les mythes au XXIe siècle" (Myths in the 21st Century)
May 12-13, 2022
Emmanuelle Lescouet gives a lecture titled "Mise en scène de l'autre : renversement de la morale patriarcale" (Staging of the Other: Reversal of Patriarchal Morals) in the colloquium organised as part of the ANR program "Aiôn, socio-anthropologie de l'imaginaire du temps" (Aion, Socioanthropology of Time's Lore) at the University of Besançon on May 12-13, 2022, which will lead to the publication of its proceedings in Number 36 of the journal ¿ Interrogations ?
89th Acfas Congress
May 9-10, 2022
On May 9, 2022, PhD candidates Roch Delannay, Giulia Ferretti and Mathilde Verstraete will give lectures as part of the "Prix étudiants" (Student Awards) period of the conference "Le numérique dans les sciences humaines : Édition et visualisation" (The Digital in the Humanities: Edition and Visualisation) at the 89th Acfas Congress at 3:45 p.m.
On May 10, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., Marcello Vitali-Rosati will preside the 4th session of the same conference. Online only, link to come!
International colloquium
May 6, 2022
On May 6, 2022, Mathilde Verstraete gives a lecture titled "Les figures de l'auteur au sein du projet d'édition numérique collaborative de l'Anthologie grecque" (Authorial Figures in the Collaborative Digital Edition of the Greek Anthology) at 9 a.m. (EST) at the international colloquium organised by the French Studies section of the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of the University of Rome La Sapienza. Live on YouTube
International colloquium « L'écrivain et la machine. Figures de l'auteur à l'ère du numérique » (The Writer and the Machine. Authorial Figures in the Digital Era)
May 6, 2022
On May 6, 2022, Mathilde Verstraete gives a lecture titled "Les figures de l'auteur au sein du projet d'édition numérique collaborative de l'Anthologie grecque" (Authorial Figures in the Collaborative Digital Edition of the Greek Anthology) at 9 a.m. (EST) at the international colloquium organised by the French Studies section of the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of the University of Rome La Sapienza. Live on YouTube
Colloquium
May 3, 2022
On May 3, 2022 at 9:40 a.m., Emmanuelle Lescouet will give a lecture titled "Penser le savoir en commun : communauté universitaire" at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Live on Zoom here
International colloquium "Vivre par(mi) les écrans : passé et avenir" (Living Through/Among Screens: Past and Future)
April 27, 2022
From April 27 to 29, 2022, the colloquium "Vivre par(mi) les écrans : passé et avenir" (Living Through/Among Screens: Past and Future), directed by Mauro Carbone and Jacopo Bodini, will take place at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 - IRPhil. Marcello Vitali-Rosati will be presenting on April 27, 2022 at 11 a.m. (EST) "Pour une multiplicité d'écrans" (For a Multiplicity of Screens).
Streaming here.
Interview with Paul Kawczak
April 25, 2022
Interview between Paul Kawczak and Rachel Laroche on his last novel Ténèbre online here on April 25, 2022 at 1 p.m.
Focus group "Les formats d'écriture comme interfaces entre supports et genres de discours" (Writing Formats as Interfaces Between Supports and Discourse Genres)
April 15, 2022
As part of this focus group hosted by the University Paris-Est Créteil, Marcello Vitali-Rosati gives a talk titled "Formats d'écriture et formes de pensée" (Writing Formats and Forms of Thought) at 10:15 a.m. (EST) online here
Conference "Reconnecter un monde dévasté ? Représentation des enjeux environnementaux dans les jeux vidéo" (Reconnecting a Barren World? Representation of Environmental Issues in Video Games)
April 8, 2022
As part of the lecture series "Le numérique à son miroir" (The Digital to Its Mirror), the University of Rouen-Normandy organises a conference on the representation of environmental issues in video games. Margot Mellet will give a lecture titled "Sacrifices must be made: Réflexions sur l'obsolescence dans le jeu Inscryption" (Sacrifices Must Be Made: Thoughts on Obsolescence in the Video Game Inscryption) at 9:10 a.m. (EST) online, here
March 24, 2022 39th Edition of the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
The Littérature québécoise mobile team, constituted by René Audet, Bertrand Gervais, Alexandra Saemmer and Marcello Vitali-Rosati, presents a panel titled "Penser la matérialité des pratiques littéraires numériques" (Thinking the Materiality of Digital Literary Practices) on March 24, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. at the conference hosted by the Department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. Online here
PhD candidate Margot Mellet will give, on March 18, 2022, at 11:30 a.m., a lecture titled "Textapes et profil numérique. Analyse de l’œuvre transmédiale Les Textapes d’Alice" (Textapes and Digital Profile: Transmedial Analysis of Les Textapes d'Alice) at the 19th Comparative Canadian Literature student colloquium of the Université de Sherbrooke "At the Crossroads: Intermediality As a Meeting Point" online here.
Lecture "From Computer Science in the Humanities to the Collaborative Edition of the Greek Anthology" (Dall'informatica umanistica all'edizione collaborativa dell’Antologia Greca)
Lecture given in Italian by Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Mathilde Verstraete at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II on March 18, 2022 at 11 a.m. (EST) online here
Human Beings, Humanists and Tinkerer in Digital Spaces Seminar
Seminar conducted by Marcello Vitali-Rosati at the Department of Humanities of the University of Macerata on March 9, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. (EST) on Jitsi, here
Discussion on palimpsest
As part of the project "Le récit de voyage à l'ère numérique. Tentative d'épuisement de l'autoroute Nord-Sud (Gaspé et Miami) (Travel Literature in the Digital Era: Attempt at Exhausting the North-South Highway [Gaspé and Miami])", PhD candidates Margot Mellet and Emma Lacroix will discuss their research on palimpsest on March 8, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. (EST) here.
Graduate colloquium of the Département des littératures de langue française (Montreal):
Emmanuelle Lescouet will speak about Notifictions and chat stories qu during the colloquium Échange(s) on March 16, 2022
Time for a Break Conference
Emmanuelle Lescouët participates in the colloquium "le temps d'une pause" organized by ADELFIES of McGill University March 25, 2022 registration link
The References That Connect Us: Creating Knowledge Networks From a Zotero Library Workshop
Workshop conducted in collaboration with the Comparative Materialities Research Group of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association on February 22, 2022 at 9:30 (EST) here
Conference from the Laboratoire des imaginaires:
In an online presentation titled "Conceiving Archaeology as the Deconstruction of Dogma in Speculative Fiction", Emmanuelle Lescouet speaks on political societies and the subversion of their social rules in speculative fiction worlds. Click here for the Zoom link.
Call for contributions for the Comparative Materialities Research Group
The Comparative Materialities Research Group of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association hosts workshops, roundtables and meetings.
Midi-conférence du CriAlt: Corpus of digital narratives: literature and video games, a continuum?
Emmanuelle Lescouet will present part of her doctoral research on January 25 at 12:00 p.m. (Montreal time)Link: on Zoom.
Lecture
Lecture given by Marcello Vitali-Rosati online, January 18, 2022 at 6 p.m. (CET), or noon (EST), here.
