
Conference "Reconnecter un monde dévasté ? Représentation des enjeux environnementaux dans les jeux vidéo" (Reconnecting a Barren World? Representation of Environmental Issues in Video Games)
April 8, 2022
As part of the lecture series "Le numérique à son miroir" (The Digital to Its Mirror), the University of Rouen-Normandy organises a conference on the representation of environmental issues in video games. Margot Mellet will gi
PhD candidate Margot Mellet will give, on March 18, 2022, at 11:30 a.m., a lecture titled "Textapes et profil numérique. Analyse de l’œuvre transmédiale Les Textapes d’Alice" (Textapes and Digital Profile: Transmedial Analysis of Les Textap

Lecture "From Computer Science in the Humanities to the Collaborative Edition of the Greek Anthology" (Dall'informatica umanistica all'edizione collaborativa dell’Antologia Greca)
Lecture given in Italian by Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Mathilde Verstraete at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II on March 18, 2022 at 11 a.m. (EST) online here

Discussion on palimpsest
As part of the project "Le récit de voyage à l'ère numérique. Tentative d'épuisement de l'autoroute Nord-Sud (Gaspé et Miami) (Travel Literature in the Digital Era: Attempt at Exhausting the North-South Highway [Gaspé and Miami])", PhD candidates Mar

Time for a Break Conference
Emmanuelle Lescouët participates in the colloquium "le temps d'une pause" organized by ADELFIES of McGill University
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Graduate colloquium of the Département des littératures de langue française (Montreal):
Emmanuelle Lescouet will speak about Notifictions and chat stories qu during the colloquium Échange(s)
on March 16, 2022

Human Beings, Humanists and Tinkerer in Digital Spaces Seminar
Seminar conducted by Marcello Vitali-Rosati at the Department of Humanities of the University of Macerata on March 9, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. (EST) on Jitsi, here

The References That Connect Us: Creating Knowledge Networks From a Zotero Library Workshop
Workshop conducted in collaboration with the Comparative Materialities Research Group of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association on February 22, 2022 at 9:30 (EST) here

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