Research seminars in the context of the MITE project will feature prominent scholars in the fields of digital humanities, language and literature, philosophy, and computer science.
To participate, please fill out the following form: http://tiny.cc/miteform.
All seminars will be held online at Rome time.
Participants will receive the link to join the meeting a few days in advance.
December 12, 2024, 10:00-12:00
1. Short recap on MITE
2. Evelyn Gius, University of Darmstadt, Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Germany
Title of the talk: From Theory to Text – How to integrate Computation and Literary Studies
Abstract: In this talk, I will address the challenges posed by text analysis in computational literary studies, focusing on the gap between concepts and computation. I will propose to follow an input-process-output workflow by which one can move from a theoretical foundation of a research interest to computational text analysis. I will use examples from my own research in Computational Narratology to showcase how this can be put into practice.
Bio: Evelyn Gius is Professor of Digital Philology and Modern German Literature at Technical University Darmstadt and head of the fortext lab. Her research focuses on narrative theory, manual annotation, operationalization, segmentation, and conflict. She also leads the development of the annotation platform CATMA and serves as chair of the Digital Humanities Association in the German-speaking areas (“Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum”, DHd), as editor of the journal forTEXT Hefte and as co-editor of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) as well as of the book series “Digital Literary Studies“.
Suggested readings:
Gius, Evelyn. “Computational Text Analysis as a Five-Dimensional Problem: A Model for the Description of Complexity.” Edited by Thomas Weitin. LitLab Pamphlet, no. 8 (August 2020): 1–19.
Pichler, Axel, and Nils Reiter. “From Concepts to Texts and Back: Operationalization as a Core Activity of Digital Humanities.” Journal of Cultural Analytics 7, no. 4 (December 2022)
<Pause at the beginning of 2025 because of the MITE Workshop at the University of Macerata on February 4-5, 2025 (information soon), and the deadline of our Special Issue on Humanities >
March 14, 2025, 10:00-12:00
1. Eva Von Contzen, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Title of the talk: Historical Narratology and Character(s): Types and Transtextuality
2. Alessandro Adamou, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History
Title of the talk: Capturing the aesthetic experience and structuring human engagement with art, music and literature
April 10, 2025 10:00-12:00
1. Enrico Terrone, Dipartimento di Antichità, filosofia e storia, Università di Genova, Italy
Title of the talk: Fictional Characters as Experiential Artifacts
Abstract: Fictional characters are artifacts not only in the general sense that they are the outcome of human creativity but also in the specific sense that they have a proper function they perform in virtue of their designed structure. Specifically, the function of a fictional character is the generation of an experience as of reference through the deployment of a mental file while its underlying structure can be linguistic or iconic depending on the medium in which the character is designed.
2. Alessandro Cinquegrani, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Title of the talk: «La storia non è nelle parole: è nella lotta»
May 28, 2025, 10:00-12:00
1. Christof Schöch, Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Germany.
Title of the talk: MiMoText – Literary History between Computational Literary Studies and Linked Linked Open Data
2. Michela Dota, Università degli Studi di Milano & Davide Mastrantonio, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Title of the talk: The Academic Italian Dictionary (DIA) and the Academic Prose
