Paratexts

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In literature, paratextual elements traditionally act as thresholds between the text itself and what is beyond the text. They underline the passage from an extradiegetic level to a diegetic level and, ultimately, in the case of literature, from reality to fiction. Although this model has been articulated to apply to paper publishing, the digital sphere has demonstrated a tendency to increasingly blur the boundaries between the two levels. On the web, everything is text, or rather, more specifically, a small amount of text and an enormous ensemble of paratexts. It is indeed the paratexts that usually play an operational role: paratexts are the devices that allow us to act (change of address, page, liking content, etc.). In other words, the paratexts become the interface, a place of action, a world, or, even better, the world where we act. The paratexts then become an environment; our environment.

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Humanistica Conference 2023

June 26-28, 2023
The Chair's team is glad to present multiple papers at Humanistica's, the French association for digital humanities, annual conference.

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“Sciences de l'imaginaire” (Speculative Science) Colloquium

June 16, 2023
Emmanuelle Lescouet gives a talk titled "Les humanités numériques pour documenter les corpus de l'imaginaire" (Digital Humanities For Documenting Speculative Fiction Corpora) at the "Sciences de l'Imaginaire" (Speculative Science) colloquium hosted by the research group "Identité culturelle, Textes, Théâtralité" (Cultural Identity, Texts, Theatricality) of Avignon Université. Program to come!

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Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2023 Annual Congress

May 29-June 1, 2023
The Chair's team is glad to be presenting multiple papers and panels at the Canadian Society for Digital Huamanities' annual congress.

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Acfas Congress 2023

May 8-10, 2023
Marcello Vitali-Rosati gives a talk and releases the collective work “Les éditions critiques numériques : entre tradition et changement de paradigmes“ he has co-edited with Robert Alessi at the 2023 Acfas Congress; Emmanuelle Lescouet gives a talk and hosts a workshop on digital literature and video game narration. Full program on the Acfas website.

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Uno sguardo digitale sull'Antologia greca : piattaforme, metodi e strumenti dell'informatica umanistica Conference (The Greek Anthology through the Digital Prism: Platform, Methods and Instruments from the Digital Humanities)

March 28, 2023
Italian conference held by Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Mathilde Verstraete at the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples - Federico II on March 28, 2023 at 10 a.m. (EST) on Jitsi

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Publication of the collective work Les éditions critiques numériques. Entre tradition et changement de paradigme coedited by Robert Alessi and Marcello Vitali-Rosati

March 27, 2023
The collective work Les éditions critiques numériques. Entre tradition et changement de paradigme (in French only), coedited by Robert Alessi and Marcello Vitali-Rosati, comes out today in the "Parcours numériques" collection, directed by the Chair and the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN), of the Presses de l'Université de Montréal (University of Montreal Press), accessible EventsContent productionContent circulationContent legitimationMediasPublishingLiteratureDigital identities and profilesAuthors and authorshipDigital platformsParatextsReflection planesMetaontologyEditorializationMediating conjuncturesMarcello Vitali-RosatiDigital spaceMemory and ArchiveOpen AccessTechnological determinismPublishing platformsBooks

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#ArtsLitt Wikithon Invitation

March 26, 2023
The Chair's team is invited to take part in a day-long Wikithon organised by Productions Rhizome in partnership with Littérature québécoise mobile, of which Marcello Vitali-Rosati is a collaborator.

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Greek Anthology Collaborative Digital Edition: Workshops

March 4-7, 2023
As part of the partnership established in 2015 with the Liceo classico Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi, Altamura, two days of workshops will take place in Paris, held by Servanne Monjour (CELLF Sorbonne), Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Mathilde Verstraete, with the objective of bringing a theoretical and concrete reflection on the issues and practical potentialities raised by the collaborative digital edition of the Greek Anthology.

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