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).
First Student Conference of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN)
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.
April 13, 2023 Emmanuelle Lescouet gives a talk, on April 13, 2023, 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!
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
March 26, 2023 The Chair's team is invited to take part in a day-long Wikithon organised by Productions Rhizome in partnership with Littérature québécoise mobile, of which Marcello Vitali-Rosati is a collaborator.
March 23, 2023 Mathilde Verstraete cohosts, with the Center for Classical Studies of the University of Montreal, on March 23, 2023 from 9 a.m. (EST) in the Jean-Brillant Building of the University, a public reading of Virgil's Aeneid as part of the Festival Européen Latin Grec.
March 4-7, 2023 As part of the partnership established in 2015 with the Liceo classico Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi, Altamura, two days of workshops will take place in Paris, held by Servanne Monjour (CELLF Sorbonne), Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Mathilde Verstraete, with the objective of bringing a theoretical and concrete reflection on the issues and practical potentialities raised by the collaborative digital edition of the Greek Anthology.
March 3, 2023 Marcello Vitali-Rosasti is invited by Université Côte d'Azur to speak, on March 3, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. (CET), at 89, route de Turin in Nice, on artificial intelligence and intelligence definition models.
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.