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Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to the online seminar (in Italian) "Filologia italiana e analisi digitale dei testi letterari” with Professor Pasquale Stoppelli (former “Sapienza” University of Rome) and Paolo Mastandrea (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). The event will be held on Thursday, December 10 from 2 to 3.30 PM CET and on Friday, December 11 from 10 to 11.30 AM CET on Zoom. We recommend a free ticket reservation on Eventbrite at the link: http://hfc-hor3.eventbrite.com.

Abstract. How does philological practice change in the digital age? How can the potential of information technology be applied to the study of literary texts? What is the role played by large text databases in literary criticism and how can they be effectively interrogated? The conversation between Pasquale Stoppellihttps://pasqualestoppelli.academia.edu/, Former Professor at “La Sapienza” University of Rome and co-author of Letteratura Italiana Zanichelli (LIZ)https://www.zanichelli.it/ricerca/prodotti/liz-4-0-letteratura-italiana-zanichelli, and Paolo Mastandreahttps://www.unive.it/data/persone/5592099/curriculum, Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and head of several electronic corpora of Latin poetry, including Musisque Deoque (MQDQ)https://www.mqdq.it/ and Poeti d’Italia in lingua latinahttp://www.poetiditalia.it/, tries to answer questions like these.

The initiative is organized by the Humanities for Changehttp://www.humanitiesforchange.org/ network, promoted by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanitieshttp://www.unive.it/vedph (VeDPH) and financed with funds for student activities of Ca' Foscari University.

Best regards, Francesco Venturini on behalf of Humanities for Change

— Humanities for Change A network for the future of the humanities www.humanitiesforchange.hypotheses.orghttp://www.bembus.hypotheses.org/ info@humanitiesforchange.orgmailto:bembus@humanitiesforchange.org