DIGITAL HUMANITIES SEMINARS
WOLEC-DIGI
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
21 November 2019
Giovanni Pietro Vitali
(University of Cork)
The VUB Platform for Digital Humanities – DIGI and WOLEC are happy to announce that two Digital Humanities seminars will take place on Thursday 21st November:
LECTURE
10u-12u: Last Letters from the World Wars. Analysing Texts of Conflict through a Digital Approach.
Room I0.03
For information and registration: carolien.van.nerom@vub.be
HANDS ON WORKSHOP
14u-16u: Tools and Methods for Digital Text Analysis.
Room I0.01
For information and registration: andrea.penso@vub.be
The lecture will be about Dr. Vitali’s current research project, which deals with a linguistic and thematic analysis of the last letters of people sentenced to death during the First and the Second World Wars.
The hands on seminar will provide some basic knowledge about tools for digital textual surveys and stylometric and quantitative analysis of corpora of data.
All events are free of charge but registration is required. You will need to bring your own laptop, especially for the hands on workshop, which will be based on the R package (https://cran.r-project.org) and the visual interface RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com). The software must be downloaded and installed before the workshop.
Giovanni Pietro Vitali is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at University College Cork, the University of Reading and New YorkUniversity. Previously, he worked several years in France as a lecturer of Italian Studies at the University of Lorraine and the University of Poitiers. Recently he became associated researcher at University of Oxford where he is the Digital Humanities advisor of the project Prismatic Translation (https://prismaticjaneeyre.org/).
He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Sciences at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, and in Italian Literature at the University of Lorraine in a dual doctorate international program. His thesis is devoted to the analysis of proper names, notably noms de guerre, in the works of partisan author Beppe Fenoglio.
His main research interests revolve around Digital Humanities, Linguistics, Dialectology, Onomastics, Contemporary Literatures and Musicology. He is about to publish a new monography on the language and themes of Italian political music entitled Voices of Dissent. Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Italian Popular and Political Music.
One of the main aims of his research activity is to describe the contemporary perception of cultural and social events of the historical heritage.