Digital Humanities and counter-narrative

Speaker: Daniel Raffini, Sapienza Università di Roma

Abstract
In recent years, Digital Humanities (DH) have evolved from a one-way approach, where technologies are used as tools to analyze culture, to a two-way approach that involves humanities scholars trying to understand how society is changing in relation to the digital revolution. In this context, an ethical-driven approach has now become prevalent in this field of study. Starting from a philosophical background, particularly Foucault's concept of the dispositif and the critique of archives, the seminar will explore the counter-narrative approach of DH. This exploration aims to understand how the discipline is addressing various ethical and social issues from a militant perspective, particularly by examining its potential relationships with gender and transcultural studies.

Biography
Daniel Raffini is a post-doctoral fellow and contract professor of Digital Humanities at Sapienza Università di Roma. He is currently working on new perspectives in the field of DH, especially the relationship between literature and artificial intelligence, both from a thematic point of view and with respect to ethical and theoretical issues. He holds a PhD in Italian Studies from Sapienza and was a visiting fellow at the University of Seville. He has published studies on the reception of foreign literatures in Italian magazines between the two world wars and on contemporary Italian literature authors, including Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Lalla Romano, Vincenzo Consolo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luciano Bianciardi, and Gianni Celati.

Host: Prof. Monica Landoni