The series envisages three formats:
– One-hour lectures (45-50 minutes, followed by questions)
– mini-panels(“duets”): involving two speakers giving a short talk (20-25 minutes) and a long discussion
– workshops: 90 minutes including practical work for students
Session will take place on THURSDAY, Italian Times, GMT+1.
| Date/Time | Lecturer | Theme |
| 24/09/20 3.45-5.15 pm | Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis (University of Illinois) | Panel: Parsing Multimodality: Towards a Transpostional Grammar |
| 1/10/20 9.30-11 am | Louise Ravelli (University of New South Wales) | Workshop: Introduction to Spatial Discourse Analysis in Relation to the Built Environment |
| 8/10/20 3.45-5.15 pm | Massimo Riva (Brown University) | Lecture: Transmedia storytelling and modular reading, from nineteenth-century analog to twenty-first century digital publishing |
| 15/10/20 10 – 11.30 am | Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken) | Lecture: What Computers Know, Learn and Can Be Trusted With |
| 22/10/20 2-3.30 pm | Geoffrey Williams (University of Bretagne Sud) Bernd Meyer (Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies Mainz) | Panel: “Challenges of corpus compilation and annotation” Rubbish In, Rubbish Out: Building corpora that represent something in language Annotation as theory: metadata, annotations and other layers of information for multilingual spoken language corpora |
| 29/10/20 2-3.30 pm | Roberto V. Zicari (Goethe University, Frankfurt) | Lecture: Assessing Ethical AI. Z-Inspection: A holistic and analytic process |
| 5/11/20 3.45-5.15 pm | Naomi Baron (American University) | Lecture: Is Reading Boring? |
| 12/11/20 2-3.30 pm | Walter Quattrociocchi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) | Lecture: From confirmation bias to eco chamber. A data driven approach |
| 19/11/20 10 – 11.30 am | Julien Longhi (University of Cergy-Pontoise) | Workshop: How to explore textual corpora with the Iramuteq Software? |
| 26/11/20 2-3.30 pm | Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds) | Lecture: Multimodality and the Pandemic |
| 3/12/20 2-3.30 pm | Chiara Rioli (Fordham University/Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) | Workshop: Delving Into Jerusalem’s Archives: History, Religions and Languages. A Methodological Workshop. |