Our culture is deeply affected by digital praxis: the way we perceive space, time, relationships between public and private spheres, our identity and our privacy are undergoing intense structural changes. The entirety of our lives, our worldviews and our values are being altered. Literature has also experienced this metamorphosis in terms of its boundaries, styles and structures, as well as with its cultural, social and political functions. Digital praxis has an impact on both hypermedia literary forms and print literature. The Canada Research Chair is less focused on digital literature itself, and more on literature in the digital era. This perspective involves understanding how our culture is being globally affected through the analysis of recent changes in every aspect of literature in the digital age (for example, the concepts of the author, the literary work, as well as the notions text and fiction).
June 26-28, 2023 The Chair's team is glad to present multiple papers at Humanistica's, the French association for digital humanities, annual conference.
June 16, 2023 Emmanuelle Lescouet gives a talk titled "Les humanités numériques pour documenter les corpus de l'imaginaire" (Digital Humanities For Documenting Speculative Fiction Corpora) at the "Sciences de l'Imaginaire" (Speculative Science) colloquium hosted by the research group "Identité culturelle, Textes, Théâtralité" (Cultural Identity, Texts, Theatricality) of Avignon Université. Program to come!
May 29-June 1, 2023 The Chair's team is glad to be presenting multiple papers and panels at the Canadian Society for Digital Huamanities' annual congress.
May 24-July 26, 2023 Emmanuelle Lescouet holds bi-monthly conferences with scholars of imaginative fiction as part of the conference cycle “Pistes de lecture”, Wednesdays from May 24 to July 26, 2023, live on Twitch.
May 8-10, 2023 Marcello Vitali-Rosati gives a talk and releases the collective work “Les éditions critiques numériques : entre tradition et changement de paradigmes“ he has co-edited with Robert Alessi at the 2023 Acfas Congress; Emmanuelle Lescouet gives a talk and hosts a workshop on digital literature and video game narration. Full program on the Acfas website.
April 6, 2023 Emmanuelle Lescouet gives a talk, on April 6, 2023, titled "Le futur est-il fluide ?" (Is the Future Fluid?) at the Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Relationships in Science Fiction Conference, hosted by the Stella Incognita association for the promotion and development of research on science fiction, which will take place April 4 through 7, 2023. Details on the Stella Incognita website.
April 3-4, 2023 The Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) hosts its very first student conference, organized by Yann Audin, Giulia Ferretti, Mathilde Verstraete et al., on the topic of memory in digital humanities at the Université de Montréal, April 3-4, 2023. The conference will be accessible both in person and online.
March 28, 2023 Italian conference held by Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Mathilde Verstraete at the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples - Federico II on March 28, 2023 at 10 a.m. (EST) on Jitsi
