Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 2024 Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Annual Meeting, presenting the paper "The Digital Maktaba Project: Building an ... Read more
At EMNLP 2024, Sania Aftarha presented RoBERT2VecTM: A Novel Approach for Topic Extraction in Islamic Studies, co-authored by Luca Gagliardelli, Amina El Ganadi, Federico Ruozzi, and Sonia Bergamaschi (University of ... Read more
Federico Ruozzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) and Domenico Ciccarello (University of Palermo) presented the paper "Digital Maktaba: Enhancing Library Inclusivity through Automated Knowledge Extraction from Multi-Alphabet Digital Collections" ... Read more
Davide Caffagni, ITSERR researcher (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 35th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), presenting the paper "Revisiting Image Captioning Training Paradigm via Direct CLIP-based ... Read more
At FLLM 2024, Amina El Ganadi (University of Palermo) presented the paper The Impact of Generative AI on Islamic Studies: Case Analysis of "Digital Muhammad ibn Ismail Al-Bukhari", co-authored by ... Read more
"Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence and Religious Studies: initial research perspectives" December 2, 2024, the Workshop “Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence and Religious Studies: first research perspectives” will be held ... Read more
PhD students Luca Sala and Giovanni Sullutrone presented the paper “Arabic Text Enhancement with GPT for Digital Libraries” at JCDL 2024, where the work was awarded second place in the Best Short Paper category. The contribution, ... Read more
The Fifth Training Event of the ITSERR project in Turin: at the center of Innovation and Interdisciplinary Research in the filedwork of Religious Studies On 14 and 15 January 2025, ... Read more
At the recent conference on European research infrastructures in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Cultural Heritage, organised by CNR-DSU in Rome to promote open and integrated research systems oriented towards ... Read more
Ilaria Sabbatini (University of Palermo) participated in the international conference "Multimedioevo. Storie medievali e linguaggi multimediali fra XX e XXI secolo" with her paper: "Teaching Medieval Sources in the Age ... Read more
Amina El Ganadi (University of Palermo) presented her paper "Digital Maktaba Project: Proposing a Metadata-Driven Framework for Arabic Library Digitization" at the 21st Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting ... Read more
Irfan Ali (University of Palermo) and Amina El Ganadi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, presenting their research on ... Read more
The Department of Cultures and Society at the University of Palermo recently hosted two seminars led by Prof. Pedro Ramirez Rueda (University of Barcelona), the first scholar to visit ... Read more
On April 10–11, 2025, the ITSERR project hosted its sixth in-house training event at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo” (ISTI-CNR) in Pisa. The two-day meeting brought ... Read more
On May 14, the Faedo Lecture Hall at ISTI-CNR will host the seminar “Arabic Multimodal Language Modeling”, presented by Hawau Olamide Toyin, a PhD student in Natural Language Processing at ... Read more
As part of the activities of the Laboratory of Bibliography and Online Historical Research, the Master’s Degree Programme in Historical, Anthropological and Geographical Studies, and the ITSERR Research Project, a seminar ... Read more
An opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange on the role of artificial intelligence in the study of texts, libraries, and archives. The seminar brings together scholars working in the fields of Digital ... Read more
As part of the National Open Access (NOA) mobility program of the ITSERR project, the seminar titled “AI and Religious Studies: New Perspectives and Applications for the Study of Talmud ... Read more
Giuseppe Cartella, ITSERR researcher, presented the paper “Sanctuaria-Gaze: A Multimodal Egocentric Dataset for Human Attention Analysis in Religious Sites” at SINT4CH 2025 – 1st International Workshop on Spatial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage. ... Read more
On June 12–13, the “Enzo Ferrari” Department of Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia will host the seventh in-house training of the PNRR-funded ITSERR project – Italian ... Read more
Amina El Ganadi (University of Palermo, FSCIRE), member of the research team of the ITSERR project, presented the paper “Divine Diplomacy: Religion and Power in Mongol-Muslim Relations during the Yuan Dynasty” ... Read more
ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE – will take part in the European Academy of Religion annual conference (#EuARe2025) in Vienna with the panel: Technology and the ... Read more
ITSERR took part in the European Academy of Religion annual conference (#EuARe2025) held in Vienna, contributing with two panels dedicated to methodological and technological developments in Religious Studies. The panel ... Read more
ITSERR, took part in the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing, held in Vienna, with a contribution on the diachronic analysis of Church Slavonic. Maria Cassese presented the ... Read more
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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more
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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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”, ... 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 ... 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, ... 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: ... Read more