Colloquium
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The laboratory will participate in the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities.
Interview
A discussion with Pierre Tchounikine
The Digital Writing Research Laboratory welcomed a visit from Pierre Tchounikine
Launch
New episode of Skholé: The materiality of research with Yann Audin
New episode of the Skhole podcast with Yann Audin
Colloquium
Design questions all the way down. A General Methodological Model of Distant Reading
Yann Audin from Research Laboratory on Digital Writing will present a poster at the Annual Conference of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies
Conference
Modeling Intelligence from Turing to ChatGPT
Marcello Vitali-Rosati will give a lecture as part of the CERIUM summer school.
Colloquium
The Research Lab at Humanistica 2026
The laboratory will take part in the Humanistica 2026 conference in Paris.
Interview
Philippe Arseneault welcomed Marcello Vitali-Rosati on his program Plein phare.
Talk
Call for Doctoral contracts LREN, GREN, CRIHN (Université de Montréal)
The Research Laboratory on Digital Textualities, in collaboration with the GREN and the CRIHN, opens doctoral contract in Digital Humanities.
Colloquium
ACFAS 2026 Conference Symposium: “Dialogic Metamorphoses of the Digital Humanities (CRIHN-GREN Symposium)”
Two members of the laboratory, Giulia Ferreti and Federico Siragusa, will be speaking as part of the ACFAS 2026 Conference in Trois-Rivières.
Conference
International Journalism Festival in Carleton-sur-Mer
Marcello Vitali-Rosati will participate in the 2026 International Journalism Festival in Carleton-sur-Mer
Interview
A discussion with Juliette Bibasse
The Digital Writing Research Laboratory had the great pleasure of meeting Juliette Bibasse, an artist and curator
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