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.

Tuesday, June 3rd

9.00 Welcome and greetings
Davide Mazzi, Head of the Department of Studies on Language and Culture
Laura Gavioli, PhD Human Sciences coordinator
Matteo Al Kalak, DHMoRe director
Marina Bondi, Summer school programme director

9.30 – 11.00
Christoph Hafner (City University of Hong Kong)
Lecture: Approaching ‘Digital Discourses’ from a Digital Literacies Perspective

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 1

11.30 – 13.00
Christoph Hafner (City University of Hong Kong)
Workshop: Doing Digital Ethnography: Multiple Perspectives on Digital Cultures and Practices

13.00 -14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00
Josef Schmied (TU Chemnitz)
Lecture: Understanding AI tools for revising and editing research writing

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 – 18.00
Josef Schmied (TU Chemnitz)
Workshop: Practising revising and editing research writing with Large Language Models

20.30 Social Dinner


Wednesday, June 4th

9.30 – 11.00
Marcus Müller (TU Darmstadt)
Lecture: Chatting with Large Language Models in corpus linguistics

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 2

11.30 – 13.00
Marcus Müller (TU Darmstadt)
Workshop: Chatting with Large Language Models in corpus linguistics

13.00 -14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00
John Bateman (University of Bremen)
Lecture: Scaling-up qualitative multimodal analyses: theoretical principles for practical variable-scale projects

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 – 18.00
John Bateman (University of Bremen)
Workshop: Scaling-up qualitative multimodal analyses: mixing manual and automatic analyses of complex multimodal artefacts

18.30 Piano and Wind Quintets
Conservatorio di Musica Vecchi-Tonelli (Auditorium Verti, Via Goldoni 10, Modena)


Thursday, June 5th

9.30 – 11.00 Parallel Sessions
Participants’ Presentations

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 3

11.30 – 13.00 Parallel Sessions
Participants’ Presentations

13.00 -14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00
Astrid Ensslin (University of Regensburg)
Lecture: Videogames, Digital-born Fiction and DH: Distant Reading/Play and Ludolinguistic Experiments

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 – 18.00
Astrid Ensslin (University of Regensburg)
Workshop: Videogames, Digital-born Fiction and DH: Distant Reading/Play and Ludolinguistic Experiments


Friday, June 6th

9.30 – 11.00
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa)
Lecture: The evolving automation of translation: Applications and implications of less and more automated translation tools

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 4

11.30 – 13.00
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa)
Workshop: Concordancers, NMT and LLMs: Comparative analysis and practical applications for Translation

13.00 -14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00
Wu Ping
(Beijing Language and Culture University)
Lecture: Using a Large Language Model in Emotional Analysis: A Case Study on Yu Hua’s Novel To Live

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 – 18.00
Wu Ping (Beijing Language and Culture University)
Workshop: Practice of Using a Large Model in Emotional Analysis: Segments from Il Colibrì