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
Laura Gavioli, Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Human Sciences
Marina Bondi/Silvia Cavalieri, Summer school programme director

14.30 – 16.00Lecture
Michaela Mahlberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg & University of Birmingham)
Lecture: The fact and fiction continuum in the age of AI

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 – 18.00 Workshop
Michaela Mahlberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg & University of Birmingham)
Workshop: The fact and fiction continuum in the age of AI


Tuesday, June 9th

9.30 – 11.00 Lecture
Lynne Bowker (Université Laval)
Lecture: Exploring the potential and pitfalls of AI for multilingual scholarly publishing

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 1

11.30 – 13.00 Workshop
Lynne Bowker (Université Laval)
Workshop: Developing a (mini) business case for multilingual scholarly events

13.00 -14.30 Lunch break

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

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


Wednesday, June 10th

9.00 – 10.45
Participants’ Presentations

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break & Poster Session 2

11.15 – 13.00
Participants’ Presentations

13.00 -14.15 Lunch break

14.15 – 16.00
Participants’ Presentations

16.30 – 18.00
Participants’ Presentations

18.30 Octet for Wind Instruments
Conservatorio di Musica Vecchi-Tonelli (Auditorium Verti, Via Goldoni 10, Modena)


Thursday, June 11th

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

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 3

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
Cheng Ying (Tongren University)
A Study on the Cognitive Hierarchy of Intercultural Metaphors Based on Eye-Tracking from the Perspective of Digital Humanities
Sun Hongbo (Heze University)
Corpus-Driven Evidence of Syntactic Simplification and Lexical Explicitation in Translational English
Cao Yanli (Hefei Normal University)
The Limits of Mechanical Reasoning in the Generation of Embodied Metaphors by Large Language Models

20.30 Social Dinner


Friday, June 12th

9.30 – 11.00 Lecture
Niall Curry (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Lecture: A critical reflection on  GenAI use in applied linguistics research

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00 Workshop
Niall Curry (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Workshop: Applying a human perspective to GenAI use in the research process

13.00 – 13.15 Closing Remarks