Global Horizons of the Digital and Public Humanities

10:00-11:00 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks by Giovanna Ceserani, CESTA Faculty Director, and CESTA Faculty Advisory Board and Staff

11 am-12 pm: Session 1: Nautical Passages: Building Networks and Narratives Across Cultural Objects

Chair: Alice Staveley (Stanford)

• Heiner Krellig (Ca’ Foscari/Berlin) “Aesthetics of Water in Venice”
• Ilaria Sicari (Stanford/Ca’ Foscari) “Solzhenitsyn Galaxy”
• Grant Parker (Stanford), “Exploring South African Archives Digitally"

12:30-1:30 pm: "Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Center" Visit, Lead by Lerone Martin (Stanford)

2-4 pm: "Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve" Visit, Lead by Jeff Schwegman (Stanford)

10:00-11:00 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks by Giovanna Ceserani, CESTA Faculty Director, and CESTA Faculty Advisory Board and Staff

9:45-10:45 am: "Stanford Special Collections" Visit, and Recent Conversations about IIIF, Lead by Ben Albritton (Stanford)  

11 am-12 pm: Workshop on Digital and Public Publishing

• Alix Keener (Stanford Libraries & CESTA)
• Nicole Coleman (Stanford Libraries)
• Jasmine Mulliken (Stanford University Press)

12:00-12:45 pm: Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020) Reading Group

Lead by

• Chloé Brault (Stanford)
• Matt Warner (Stanford)

1-2 pm: Session 2: Museum-islands: New Technologies for Heritage Studies

Chair: Krish Seetah (Stanford)

• Fabio Pittarello (Ca' Foscari), "Exploring Artists' Lives with the Space-Time Cube"
• Elisa Corrò (Ca' Foscari) and Nevio Danelon (Ca' Foscari/Duke University), "The Evolving Mind: Public Engagement and the Shifting Landscape of Heritage" 
• Martin Critelli (Ca' Foscari), "The HIOSC project: a services integration for a deep analysis of texts and images"

2:10-3 pm: Roundtable on Virtual and Augmented Reality for Digital and Public Humanities

Cyan DeVeaux (Stanford), Elaine Lai (Stanford), Aftab Hafeez (Stanford), Nevio Danelon (Duke/Ca' Foscari), Elisa Corrò (Ca' Foscari)

3:10-3:55 pm: Session 3: Water Currents: Multiple Aporoaches to Singular Cultural Archives

Chair: Zephyr Frank (Stanford)

• Simon Levi Sullam (Ca' Foscari), "The Antisemite in the city: Close and Distant Reading of French Digital Sources"
• Maria Vittoria Curtolo (Ca' Foscari), "Philosophical Texts Traveling on Water"

4-6 pm: Stanford University's Presidential Lecture with Mary Beard on "Unlocking the Cases: Museums and the Anxiety of History"

10:00-11:00 am: Session 4: Archives in Flux: Data Loss and Digital Editing 

Chair: Franz Fischer (Ca' Foscari), a response provided by Mateusz Fafinski (University of Erfurt)

• Corina Guerra (Ca' Foscari), "A Fluid Edition on Practical Knowledge about the Lagoon of Venice"
• Benedetta Bessi (Ca' Foscari), "Digital Islands: Modeling the Isolaria (15th-17th c.) between Text and Space"
• Elaine Treharne (Stanford), "On the 1966 Florence Flood"
• Stefania de Vincentis (Ca' Foscari) and Paolo Berti (Ca' Foscari), "Venice as a Digital Dungeon: Imaginaries in Media Culture"

11 am-12 pm: Introduction to Digital Resources at Stanford with Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR) members

1-2 pm: Session 5: Linguistic Rivers: Digital Methods of Language Analysis

Chair: Laura Stokes (Stanford)

• Daniele Fusi (Ca’ Foscari), “Rehydrating Language Rhythm Through the Waves of Time: New Metrical Analysis Tools”
• Antonio Pagliara (Ca’ Foscari) and Danielle Baglioni (Ca’ Foscari), “Allographic Texts: Contacts Between Mediterranean Languages and Scripts”
• Jessica Puliero (Ca’ Foscari), “Notes on the Lexicon of Fishing: a Journey Between Etymology and Digital Ontology in the Venetian Lagoon”
• Flavia Bruni (Ca’ Foscari), “Sentenced to Row: Planning Data Extraction from 18th-Century Condemnations to the Papal Galleys” 

2:15-3:00 pm: Session 6: Intervention: Material Perspectives on Culture and Heritage Studies

Chair: Bridget Algee-Hewitt (Stanford)

• Krish Seetah (Stanford)
• Aleks Plukowski (University of Reading) 

3:15-4:15 pm: Exploring Histories of Heritage and Culture through Cantor Arts Museum

4:30-6 pm: CESTA and Data Science's Co-hosted Lecture, "Data Feminism for Artificial Intelligence" by Lauren Klein (Emory University)

With responses by Adrian Daub (Stanford) and Chiara Sabatti (Stanford)

co-sponsored by Clayman Institute for Gender Studies, Human-Centered Artficial Intelligence (HAI), and Stanford Humanities Center

6-6:30 pm: "Data Feminism for Artificial Intelligence" Discussion and Reception 

10-11 am: Visit to "David Rumsey Map Center"

11 am-12 pm: Visit to "Archive of Recorded Sound"

12:00-1 pm: Workshop on “Future Horizons for Digital and Public Humanities with Lightning Talks” 

Lead by Chloé Brault (Stanford), Merve Tekgürler (Stanford), William Parish (Stanford), Charlotte Lindemann (Stanford), JJ Lugardo (Stanford), Nicole Constantine (Stanford)

1:15-2:30 pm: Grant-writing Workshop, Lead by Madison Priest (Stanford)

2:30-3 pm: Mellon Sawyer Seminar Reception

3-4:30 pm: CESTA Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Data of Enslavement

Chair: Grant Parker (Stanford), a response provided by Samia Errazzouki (Stanford)

• Lauren Klein (Emory University)
• Alex Borucki (University of California, Irvine)
• Greg O'Malley (University of California, Santa Cruz)

5-6:30 pm: Closing Discussion, Lead by Elaine Lai (Stanford)

16:00-18:00: Session 1: The City and the Archive: Data extraction from archival records and documents 

VeDPH Lab, Sala Piccola, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà

Chair: Simon Levi Sullam (Ca’ Foscari)

• Dorit Raines (Ca’ Foscari), "Data extraction from archival sources: models, solutions, prospects"
• Laura Stokes (Stanford), "Water rights in an early modern murder case: Using digital reconstructions to decipher historical motivations"
• Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford), "Travel, computation, and digital publishing: historical knowledge in open access"

Round Table with Federico Boschetti (VeDPH/CNR-ILC), Flavia Bruni (Chieti/Pescara), Valentina Dal Cin (Ca’ Foscari), and Ilaria Sicari (Ca’ Foscari)

9.00-14.00: Guided Tour of the Marciana National Library and visit to the Biennale Architettura 2023

15.00-16.45: Session 2: Travel Itineraries, Entities, and Editions

VeDPH Lab, Sala Piccola, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà 

Chair: Benedetta Bessi (Ca’ Foscari)

• Roey Sweet and Richard Ansell (Leicester), "War, Travel and Cultural Exchange: William Gell and the British in Iberia, 1750-1830"
• Rachel Midura (Virginia Tech), "Rivers and Roads: The Beauty and Danger of Waterways in Early Modern Itineraries" [online]
• Anna Toledano (Stanford), "Living Scientific Names of Félix de Azara’s Lost Bird Collection"
• David Wrisley (NYU Abu Dhabi), "Mapping Itineraries to the Eastern Mediterranean (15-16th c.)"

17.15-18.45: Session 3: Water Policies and their Impact on Communities and Identities 

Chair: Flavia Bruni (Chieti/Pescara)

• Franca Tamisari (Ca’ Foscari), "Indigenous cultural values in ‘water country’ and their recognition in Australia"
• Elena Zapponi (Ca’ Foscari), "Waterscapes in Havana. Imaginaries of the ocean and of the Malecón"
• William Parish IV (Stanford), "Indigenous Water Rights and Machine Learning: New Forays"
• Fabio Pittarello (Ca’ Foscari), "Bauhaus of the Seas Sails: Designing Sustainability, Social inclusion and Beauty for the European Coastal Cities"
• Corinna Guerra and Pietro Omodeo (Ca’ Foscari), "Managing the Lagoon. Digital Edition of Archival Sources from the Early Modern Period"

9.00: Saluti istituzionali Roberta Dreon, Rector’s delegate for Humanities Research

Sala Berengo, Ca’ Foscari

• Daniele Baglioni, Director of Department of Humanities
• Giovanna Ceserani, Director of CESTA 
• Franz Fischer, Director of VeDPH

9.15-10.45 Session 4: Cities and Water - Public History 

Chair: Stefano Dall’Aglio (Ca’ Foscari)

• Will Fenton (Stanford), "Ghost River: Restorative Storytelling and Limits of Consultation"
• Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter), "Hidden Venice: Geolocated Apps, Urban Space and Public History"
• Alessandra Valentini and Elena Missaggia (Ca’ Foscari), "Women’s Lives, Women’s Histories Project: Matronae Podcast"
• Fabio Pittarello (Ca’ Foscari), "Remembering the City: Stumbling Stones, Memory Sites and Augmented Reality"

11.00-13.00 Session 5: Digital and Public Approaches for Literary and Linguistic Research 

Chair: Will Fenton (Stanford)

• Chloé Brault (Stanford), "Islands that Repeat Themselves"
• Enrico Chies (Ca’ Foscari), "Epic Fail & Epic Win - Annotating Iliadic themes and motifs"
• Ella Elbaz (University of Haifa), "Traveling and Stationary Metaphors: Darwish and Al-Qasem Over Water"
• Renana Keydar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "What is ‘the Environment’ in contemporary legal thought: Insights from a computational text analysis of human rights documents"
• Charlotte Lindemann (Stanford), "River Passages in Manhattan Novels"
• Jessica Puliero (Ca’ Foscari), "The dialect of Pellestrina"

14.00-15.30 Session 6: Digital Cultural Heritage and the Public 

Chair: Diego Calaon (Ca’ Foscari)

• Elisa Corrò and Nevio Danelon (Ca’ Foscari), "Venice Actions for Neuro Humanities: A New Initiative for a Neurohumanistic Hub at Ca’ Foscari"
• Mateusz Fafinski (University of Erfurt), "Digital Silence: Fragments, Catalogues and Seeing the Diverse Heritage"
• Stefania De Vincentis (Ca’ Foscari) and Martin Critelli (CNR), "Moving a IIIF panorama. The Galleria Borghese case study"
• Heiner Krellig (Ca’ Foscari/Berlin), "A visual history of the Lagoon of Venice (in forma virtuale)"

17.00-18.30 VeDPH Seminar 

Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford): "Truth in Climate Fiction: Communicating Real World Facts through Unreal Worlds"

Field trip to Pellestrina

Vecchia Remiera di Portosecco; Museo della Laguna e Piccola Pesca; Casoni di Pesca, Fisherman’s Boat Trip

Guide: J. Puliero

International Conference: Paving the Way to the Rediscovery of Ancient Greece: Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Other Travelers (15th-19th century). New Approaches and Methods

9.30-13.00: The Digital Rediscovery of Ancient Greece 

CFZ, Ca’ Foscari Zattere

Chair: Franz Fischer (Ca’ Foscari)

• 9.30-10.00: Benedetta Bessi and Daniele Fusi (Ca’ Foscari), "Modelling the Archipelagus. The Digital Edition of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum"
• 10.00-10.30: Brady Kiesling (ToposText), "Textualizing the Mediterranean: Lessons from Pausanias and ToposText"
• 10.30-11.00: Eleni Gadolou and George Tolias (Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece), "Mapping Greek Antiquities in the 19th Century: the Case of the French Scientific Mission"
• 11.30-12.00: Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford ), "Introducing the Grand Tour Explorer: Digital Humanities and the History of Travel"
• 12.00-12.30: Maria Cristina Manzetti (University of Cyprus), "Mapping the Impressions of Grand Tour Travellers in Greece"

15.30-17.00: On the Path of Erasmus and Greek Studies in Venice with Caterina Carpinato, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice