Global Horizons of the Digital and Public Humanities

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