Dear All,

Please consider the following session for the CSIS Conference, which will take place at The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, on May 11-13 2018:

Italian Studies in the Digital Age

Organizers: Isabella Magni (Newberry Library – Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow) and Andrea Penso (Vrije Universiteit Brussel – FWO Postdoctoral Fellow)

In the past few years, we are witnessing a tumultuous development of the digital humanities on an international scale, offering innovative research and teaching methods, often leading to new questions, reading and interpretations. The panel aims to open a discussion to investigate how Italian Studies are dealing with technological and methodological innovations, to understand the developments, risks, and potentials, and to discuss future prospects of the discipline. Topics may include:

application of new technologies to any aspect of Italian studies (literature, culture, arts, cinema etc.);
digital editions and digital projects completed or in progress;
individual case studies or collaborations;
working groups engaged in the digitization process of big amounts of data;
social, gender, cultural and multicultural aspects of digital humanities;
digital methods: achievements and setbacks;
digital humanities in pedagogy and curricula;

Please send an abstract in English or Italian and a short bio to [log in to unmask]and [log in to unmask] by January 20, 2018.

Sincerely,

Ina Dhelpra, on behalf of the CSIS Conference Organizing Team