Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to the LITERATURE & COMPUTATION WEEK, held at UCLouvain from May 2 to 6. From Monday to Friday, we will host afternoon seminars, on campus and on Teams, on the following topics:
Digital Literature
NLP and Machine Learning for Literature
Poetry and Artificial Intelligence
Digital Humanities and Literature
Computational/Intermedia Literary Performance
You will find a summary of the programme below and the full programme here. Registration is free but mandatory for all interventions. To register, please fill out this form. Team links will be circulated to registered attendees on the day.
This event is a collaboration between the Altissia Chair in Digital Cultures and Ethics (UCLouvain) and the LabEL project (KBR).
We look forward to meeting you there,
Chris Tanasescu & Isabelle Gribomont
PROGRAMME SUMMARY
MONDAY 2/05 - MORE 56 (GPLO-DROIT) (Place Montesquieu, 2) & Teams
14h00 - 14h50: Keynote lecture
Code, Poetry and Traditions of Text: Editing in Open, Broad Context (Ray Siemens, University of Victoria)
15h00 - 15h50: Panel “Digital Heritage Research at KBR (Royal Library of Belgium)”
Computational Document Recognition in the KBR Data Science Lab (Tan Lu, VUB – KBR)
KBR's Digital Research Lab & Computational Literary Studies (Julie Birkholz, UGent – KBR)
Introducing LabEL,
a Laboratory for Electronic Literature at
KBR (Isabelle Gribomont, UCLouvain – KBR)
TUESDAY 3/05 - LECL 82 (Place Montesquieu 1) & Teams
14h00 - 14h50: Reflective Modelling with Visual Representations: What the digital humanities can learn from modelling in design practice (Jan-Erik Stange, Freie Universität Berlin)
15h00 - 15h50: De l’enquête exploratoire à l’exposition en ligne : Bureaux-écrans d’écrivain·e·s. Coulisses numériques de la création (2021-2022) (Corentin Lahouste et Anne Reverseau, UCLouvain)
16h00
- 16h30: Compute INCAL.
Networked Communities and
Cross-disciplinary Trans-centric Research Predictions for
the Institute for the Study of
Cultures, Arts, and Letters at UCLouvain (Derek
Siemens, University of
Victoria, and Chris Tanasescu, UCLouvain)
WEDNESDAY 4/05 - SOCR 20 (Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10-12) & Teams
14h00 - 14h50: What might a Canadian bilingual DH center look like? The Case of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (bilingual French & English talk) (Michael Sinatra, Université de Montréal)
15h00
- 15h50: Saisir
la littérature en contexte numérique : du projet Littérature québécoise mobile à la matérialité des œuvres numériques (René Audet,
Université Laval) - en distanciel/remote
THURSDAY 5/05 - MERC 01 (Rue du Compas, 1) & Teams
14h30 - 15h50: Panel “EMBEDDIA Project (Cross-Lingual Embeddings for Less-Represented Languages in European News Media)”
Text Analysis Using Cross-lingual Embeddings: Results from the EMBEDDIA project (Senja Pollak, Jozef Stefan Institute)
Natural Language Processing Online with ClowdFlows (Martin Žnidaršič, Jozef Stefan Institute)
16h00 - 16h50: Towards a Collection of Works of Digital Literature from Flanders and the Netherlands (1971–2022) (Siebe Bluijs and Lois Burke, Tilburg University).
FRIDAY 6/05 – Online only
14h00 - 15h00: Automatic Genre Attribution for Classic Latin Text Corpora (exact title TBA) (Margherita Fantoli, KU Leuven)
FRIDAY 6/05 – Facebook livestream (@Margento.Official)
22h00 - 23h30: Code Is Poetry. Intermedia Computational Performance (Margento & Friends)