The development of the participatory web, or web 2.0, has, in the last few years, brought about a multiplication of what we call user profiles. Indeed, every platform asks the user to create a “profile,” from social networks to online retail platforms such as meetup sites and online games. The writer, as well as the researcher, create their own authorial face while simultaneously developing original self-narratives. We would then say that, henceforth, authors “editorialize” themselves. They use digital tools and their associated features in order to produce as an author. Given that it is constructed online, the authorial identity is therefore dynamic (never definitively complete), heterodetermined (namely by the readers) and preformative. Furthermore, these distortions of the forms and functions of the user profile may be considered literary practices that, through their playful creativity, subvert common usage of the online profile and its social implications.
October 10, 2023 - March 26, 2024 Giulia Ferretti and Louis-Olivier Brassard host the third season of the « Débugue tes humanités ! » (Debug Your Humanities!) workshops, designed for humanities scholars. In person at the Bibliothèque des lettres et sciences humaines of the Université de Montréal (registration here) and online onJitsi.
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 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 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 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 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.