Amina El Ganadi, ITSERR researcher, presented the paper “Reimagining Islamic Knowledge Classification: Evaluating Culturally Adaptive LLMs for Arabic-Script Libraries” at The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2025. Her contribution examined how ChatGPT can support the categorisation of an Islamic digital library by leveraging incremental Machine Learning and Transfer Learning techniques, highlighting the model’s notable familiarity ... Read more

Anna Mambelli took part in the 25th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT), held in Berlin, presenting the paper “The uBIQUity of Sacred Texts between Past and Future: Methodological Challenges and New Tools”. The paper introduced the uBIQUity project, developed within ITSERR, which investigates the sacred texts of ... Read more

  ITSERR took part in the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities, in Florence, with the paper “ReCoptic: Computer Vision for the Reconstruction of Dismembered Coptic Codices”, presented by Fabrizio Sebastiani, scientific coordinator of the ITSERR project and co‑authored with Lorenzo Bianchi, Fabrizio Falchi, Alejandro Moreo and Costanza Bianchi. The contribution applies advanced computer ... Read more

  The PNRR ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE project promotes, from 8 to 12 September 2025, the Summer School AI for Religious Studies: Unlocking Knowledge, designed for the doctoral students of the DREST – National PhD Program in Religious Studies, and hosted by the “Giorgio La Pira” Research Library (FSCIRE) and ... Read more

ITSERR researcher Ivana Panzeca (University of Palermo) took part in the seminar “Forme ed espressioni dell’aristotelismo nella tradizione araba”, held at the Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre of the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose in Palermo. The two‑day event, organised in collaboration with the Master’s degree programme Religioni e Culture (LM‑64) and the Department ... Read more

On 11–12 September 2025, the event will take place at the Complesso Monumentale dello Steri of the University of Palermo. The ITSERR project, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) with resources from NextGenerationEU, enhances the European Research Infrastructure RESILIENCE by developing innovative digital ... Read more

On 19 September 2025, the Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa will host a seminar by Friederick Riemenschneider (University of Heidelberg), currently in Pisa as a visiting scholar under a Transnational Access (TNA) grant within the ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE project. The seminar will explore how multilingual language models generalize ... Read more

From 23 to 26 September 2025, Davide Caffagni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), researcher in the ITSERR project, took part in the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2025) in Tampere, Finland. He presented the paper “Generating Synthetic Data with Large Language Models for Low-Resource Sentence Retrieval”, which investigates ... Read more

uBIQUity  (ITSERR WP8) presented at the 11th CISSR – Annual Meeting on Christian Origins in Bertinoro, within the session Jewish History, Hellenistic Judaism, and Septuagint Studies, co-directed by Anna Mambelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia / FSCIRE), scientific coordinator and product owner of the project. The paper, entitled “Scriptural Continuities in the Alexandrian Tradition: ... Read more

  On 25th September 2025, the Department of Law at the University of Palermo will host the event “DIALOGHI CON LA STORIA DEL DIRITTO” The program will open with contributions from Prof. Beatrice Pasciuta and Prof. Fabrizio D’Avenia (University of Palermo), followed by a lecture by Dr. Ignazio Alessi (University of Cambridge) entitled “Medieval Papal ... Read more

  ITSERR project researchers participated in the international conference "Pathways of Texts: From Ancient Traditions to New Computational Frontiers. Bibles, Libraries, Webs of Books". Anna Mambelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia/FSCIRE) and Laura Bigoni (University of Bologna/FSCIRE) presented "The uBIQUity and Resilience of Scriptures and their Heritage". Sara Abram (University of Palermo) presented "Ubiquitous Ḥadīths ... Read more

ITSERR researcher Ivana Panzeca (University of Palermo), took part in the International Conference “The Dānešnāme and its (Structural) Aftermath” at KU Leuven, presenting the paper “Discovering and mapping the manuscripts of Dānešnāme-ye ʿAlāʾī”. Her contribution focused on the identification and mapping of the manuscript tradition of Avicenna’s Persian Dānešnāme-ye ʿAlāʾī, shedding light on the transmission and dissemination of ... Read more

The 44th Course of the International School of Ius Commune, held in Erice, Sicily, and dedicated to “Legal, cultural and religious pluralism: aspects and problems in the tradition of the ‘ius commune" hosted a contribution from ITSERR. ITSERR researcher Roberto Imperia (University of Palermo), presented his latest study, “Il ‘Corpus Iuris Canonici’ nell’età digitale: anticipazioni sul ... Read more

  Giuseppe Cartella, Vittorio Cuculo and Marcella Cornia took part in the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) presenting the paper “Modeling Human Gaze Behavior with Diffusion Models for Unified Scanpath Prediction” (co‑authored by Giuseppe Cartella, Vittorio Cuculo, Alessandro D’Amelio, Marcella Cornia, Giuseppe Boccignone and Rita Cucchiara). The work introduces ScanDiff, a model that combines ... Read more

Laura Righi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) and Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose – FSCIRE), researchers in the ITSERR project, took part in the international conference “AI and Digital Humanities: Methodological Approaches, Theories and Methods”, held at the University of Siena. Within the panel “AI for Document Enhancement and Use” (chair ... Read more

  ITSERR researcher Amina El Ganadi (University of Palermo, FSCIRE) took part in the Arabic NLP workshop co-located with the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) conference in Suzhou, China.

Amina El Ganadi (FSCIRE, Bologna / University of Palermo / University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), member of the research team of the ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE project, presented the paper “Hallucinating tafsīr? Evaluating LLM QA on al-Ṭabarī’s Texts” at the IQSA 2025 Annual Meeting (International Qur’anic Studies Association). Her contribution explores the potential and limitations ... Read more

ITSERR researcher Laura Righi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) took part in the seminar “Documentazione pontificia e strumenti digitali: i primi risultati del progetto ITSERR attraverso il caso del divieto di usura”, within the “Tavola ovale di storia moderna” series organised by FBK‑ISIG. Her presentation illustrated research carried out in the framework of the ... Read more

ITSERR researchers Giovanni Puccetti (IIT‑CNR), Marianna Napolitano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia/FSCIRE) and Andrea Esuli (ISTI–CNR), together with Maria Cassese (ISTI‑CNR), took part in the 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference (Österreichische Linguistiktagung) in Klagenfurt, contributing to the 2nd Digital Slavic Panel devoted to digital methods in Slavic linguistics. The paper “Tracing historical and regional variation of Church Slavonic: a hybrid ... Read more

ITSERR researchers Sara Abram (University of Palermo) and Ivana Panzeca (University of Palermo) took part in the training day for students and PhD candidates “Manoscritti, scritture e conoscenze: la trasmissione del sapere nell'Islam medievale", devoted to the foundations of manuscript culture in the Islamic world. In her talk entitled “Il codice in caratteri arabi: l’eredità manoscritta nella tradizione islamica”, Ivana ... Read more

ITSERR researchers from the University of Palermo, Ilaria Sabbatini, Domenico Ciccarello, Ivana Panzeca, Igor Spanò, Marco Papasidero, Andrea Ravasco, Sara Abram and Fabio Tutrone took part in the conference “L’utopia come categoria e come metodo: fonti, genealogie, prospettive”, organised by the Department of Culture and Society at the University of Palermo. Over two days, the event ... Read more

At the Campus of the University of Palermo, the initiative “Dal papiro all’algoritmo. Lingue antiche e Intelligenza Artificiale: il futuro nasce dal passato”, took place over two days, involving high school students from Palermo in a series of hands-on workshops exploring the intersection between the humanities and digital technologies. Over the course of the two ... Read more

At the Department of Culture and Society of the University of Palermo, the seminar “Interpretare l’Intelligenza: ermeneutica medievale e intelligenze artificiali” was held, organised within the framework of the ITSERR project – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE for Religious Studies. The morning opened with welcome addresses by Valentina Favarò, Director of the Department ... Read more

From 9 to 11 March 2026, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia will host the international seminar “Exploring the Frontier of Science with AI and the Role of Humanities”, a high-level event dedicated to the relationship between Artificial Intelligence, scientific research and the humanities. The event will take place at the Hotel Posta and ... Read more

ITSERR took part as one of the key actors in the national workshop “Research Infrastructures for Innovation”, promoted by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and dedicated to the role of Research Infrastructures in innovation processes and in collaboration with businesses. The initiative, organised by CNR in collaboration with the network of Infrastructure Managers ... Read more

On Monday, 11 May 2026, Bologna will host “Religion at the Greenhouse. Exploring the Dynamics and Growth of RESILIENCE”, the event marking the conclusion of the preparatory phase of RESILIENCE, the European research infrastructure dedicated to the study of religions. The event will bring together representatives from European and national institutions, universities, research infrastructures and ... Read more

ITSERR researcher Ilaria Sabbatini (University of Palermo) took part in the 8th National Conference of Public History of the AIPH, “Shaking History. Public History and Reconstruction – Heritage on the Move: Digital, Memory and Participation”, where she coordinated the panel “Serving Research, Supporting Participation”. During the session, Francesca Cadeddu (Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII ... Read more