The Summer School will be held at the Department of Studies on Language and Culture (Via Sant’Eufemia, 19). We suggest entering by the side entrance in Via Bonacorsa 10, where you will find the registration desk.

Monday, June 8th

14.00 Welcome and greetings
Davide Mazzi, Head of the Department of Studies on Language and Culture
Lorenzo Baraldi, DHMoRe vice-director TBC
Marina Bondi/Silvia Cavalieri, Summer school programme director

14.30 – 16.00 Lecture
Michaela Mahlberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg & University of Birmingham)
Lecture: TBA

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 1

16.30 – 18.00 Workshop
Michaela Mahlberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg & University of Birmingham)
Workshop: TBA


Tuesday, June 9th

9.30 – 11.00Lecture
Lynne Bowker (Université Laval)
Lecture: TBA

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 2

11.30 – 13.00 Workshop
Lynne Bowker (Université Laval)
Workshop: TBA

13.00 -14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00 Lecture
Marcus Müller (TU Darmstadt) 
Lecture: Natural Meaning and Artifical Intelligence. A View from Corpus Linguistics

16.30 – 18.00 Workshop
Marcus Müller (TU Darmstadt) 
Workshop: Natural Meaning and Artifical Intelligence. A View from Corpus Linguistics


Wednesday, June 10th

9.30 – 11.00Lecture
Josef Schmied  (TU Chemnitz)
Lecture: AI Ethics for Scholarly Journals: Dos and don‘ts in detail and explicitly

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 3

11.30 – 13.00 Workshop
Josef Schmied  (TU Chemnitz)
Workshop: Practising AI declarations: authors’ responsibilities and choices

13.00 -14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00 Parallel Sessions
Participants’ Presentations

16.30 – 18.00 Parallel Sessions
Participants’ Presentations

20.30 Social Dinner


Thursday, June 11th

9.30 – 11.00Lecture
Nataliia Laba  (University of Groningen)
Lecture: Text-image collapse: the challenge of multimodal generative AI

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 4

11.30 – 13.00 Workshop
Nataliia Laba  (University of Groningen)
Workshop: Text-image collapse: resolving some of the challenges of multimodal generative AI

13.00 -14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00 Lecture
Wu Ping
(Beijing Language and Culture University)
Lecture: Large Language Models for Emotion Analysis in Literary Translation: A Case Study of Yu Hua’s “To Live

16.30 – 18.00 Panel
Beijing Language and Culture University
Cao Yanli, The Limits of Mechanical Reasoning in the Generation of Embodied Metaphors by Large Language Models
Qian Li, From Passive Retrieval to Critical Curation: Redefining the Literature Review in the Age of AI
Sun Hongbo, Mitigating AI’s Pseudo-Understanding: A UG-Based Approach to Sinitic Comparative Syntax


Friday, June 12th

9.30 – 11.00Lecture
Niall Curry (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Lecture: TBA

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 5

11.30 – 13.00 Workshop
Niall Curry (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Workshop: TBA

13.00 – 13.15 Closing Remarks