Workshop “Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence and Religious Studies: First Research Perspectives”
December 2 @ 10:30 AM - 6:30 PM
“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 in Room 3.3 of Building 14, Viale delle Scienze, Palermo.
The event is part of the PNRR project ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE in which the University of Palermo is partner with the Departments of Culture and Society, Law, Mathematics and Informatics, Engineering and Architecture.
The initiative is part of the internationalization and research promotion activities of the Department Culture and Society and it will feature contributions from experts and scholars from national and international universities and research centres, including the CNR, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the University of Turin and the University of Naples L’Orientale, as well as French scholars from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). The workshop will be introduced by Prof. Fabrizio D’Avenia, Principal Investigator of the project for the University of Palermo.
The workshop represents a significant opportunity for the advancement of interdisciplinary and international research in the field of Digital Humanities applied to Religious Studies.
Innovative topics related to Artificial Intelligence applied to Religious Studies will be addressed, one of the key themes of the PNRR ITSERR project, which aims to promote innovative methodologies and technological solutions capable of overcoming geographical and disciplinary boundaries, encouraging the construction of global and interdisciplinary research networks.
The workshop represents an important opportunity for the advancement of interdisciplinary and international research in the field of Digital Humanities applied to Religious Studies. Innovative topics related to Artificial Intelligence applied to Religious Studies, one of the key themes of the PNRR ITSERR project, which aims to promote innovative methodologies and technological solutions capable of overcoming geographical and disciplinary boundaries, fostering the construction of global and interdisciplinary research networks, will be addressed. In particular, during the day, aspects related to the digital processing of corpora of religious texts in both Latin and non-Latin languages, as well as artifacts and buildings of religious-cultural character from the 4th to the 19th century, will be explored through the creation of next-generation interactive software.
To encourage wider participation, it will also be possible to follow the event remotely by this google meet link.
Here you can find the complete program