first student conference of CRIHN

3150 rue Jean Brillant, H3T 1N8 · University of Montréal · April 3-4, 2023 · cehnum2023@gmail.com

The organizing committee of the first student conference of the CRIHN invites students to participate in its first conference with the theme of memory in the digital humanities. Taking place on April 3rd and 4th 2023 at the Université de Montréal, this conference will have two components, theoretical and technical. The committee accepts abstracts in English and French from graduate or undergraduate students until March 15th at noon (Eastern time), 2023.


Call for proposals

This first student conference of the CRIHN focuses on memory in digital humanities, a subject with important theoretical, technical and pragmatic implications. The memory we seek to explore is that of consciousness and matter and the relation between the two. Our theme is extended to three areas of research:

  1. History and archive: the preservation of knowledge and the past shifts to a digital format, offering new ways of comprehending the archive.
  2. Computer memory and database structure: computer memory is an architectural space that affects the relationship between individuals as well as humans and machines.
  3. Collective or individual memory: the digital dissipates the limit between collective memory and individual memory, making it possible to study the difference between the two.

We welcome technical and theoretical proposals related to the three axes of the call.

This student conference offers its participants a presentation experience that will be subject to a blind peer review process. This project was born from the desire to forge links between students wishing to get involved in the field of digital humanities in Canada. Thus, presentations in English and French will be offered, and we will provide a framework to facilitate meetings between young researchers. Two plenaries given by Frédéric Clavert and Amanda Montague will open and close the conference.

The organizing committee accepts proposals of 300 words (excluding a short bibliography) for 15-minute presentations plus 5 minutes of Q&A. Proposals should be uploaded to the form as anonymous PDFs to facilitate the blind review process. We prefer in-person presentations, but we will reserve a few spots for people who cannot be there in person and want to present online: if you cannot travel to Montreal for the conference, it is necessary to specify this in the registration form, to be completed by noon (Eastern time) of March 15th, 2023. (For information, no travel grants will be available.)


Plenary Sessions

Frédéric Clavert

A High Frequency Collective Memory? Methodological and critical suggestions for the study of collective memory echoes on social medias

In May 2016, a far-right French website contested the organization of a concert by rapper BlackM for the commemoration of the centenary of the Battle of Verdun. The controversy ended the day following the commemoration, which was a highlight of the Centenary of the Great War (Centenaire de la Grande Guerre) in France. This event showcases how social medias have changed the modes of circulation of information, and thus the modes of interaction and online echoes of the historical past.

From the example of the Centenary of the Great War and the confined ww2 celebrations during the 2020 spring, as well as the health crisis, this presentation proposes to evaluate the possible use of digital tools to study collective memories in the digital age. How does (or doesn't) one constitute a corpus of tweets? What methods to choose? What types of analysis should one carry out??

The presentation will also propose a dual reflection: the first on the theoretical framework of memetics highlighted by Dominique Boullier and which I used in the presented work; the second revolves around a triptych of bricolage (tinkering)/braconnage (paoching)/sabotage which I will use to characterize my use of digital tools.



Amanda Montague

Affective and Embodied Memory in Pedagogical Practices of Digital Storytelling

New forms of digital and locative storytelling have enhanced, altered, and at times constricted, the spatial and narrative parameters of memory discourse. Digital tools impact daily affective memory encounters by complicating conditions of intimacy, co-presence, temporality, and embodiment.

The complex relationship between the body and technology at the heart of digital memory discourse also applies to notions of embodied pedagogy, where thinking through the body in digital learning environments offers a more humanistic approach to our work in digital contexts. This was clearly seen in the challenges and opportunities that came with the large-scale shift to online learning in March of 2020.

Drawing from frameworks of collective, connective, and collected memory, this talk explores the relationship between technology, memory, and community that emerged in the classroom in students’ digital memory projects done at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. These student projects provide insight into the dynamics of augmented memory and co-presence in virtual spaces and the requisite technological and rhetorical strategies of immediacy and intimacy that they generate.


Schedule

8:30-9:15 Coffee and welcome speech (C-3061)

Une mémoire collective à haute fréquence ?..

9:15-10:30 Plenary conference of Frédéric Clavert, Moderator: Loïc Laridant

Frédéric Clavert, C2DH Luxembourg: « Une mémoire collective à haute fréquence ? Propositions méthodologiques et critiques pour l’étude des échos de mémoire collective sur les réseaux sociaux numériques »


Monday, 3 April 2023
10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Mémoire du numérique et mémoire sociale

11:00-12:30 Session 1 (C-3061), Moderator: Giulia Ferretti

Loïc Laridant, UCLouvain: « L'implication des médias mainstreams dans la dynamique sociale numériques #MeToo (sur Twitter) et son implication dans l'évolution du mouvement (de manière générale et secondaire) entre janvier 2016 et octobre 2022 »

Antoine Fauchié, Université de Montréal: « Mémoire des gestes d'édition : les interfaces textuelles comme pharmakon ? »

Marie Julie, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier: « Réseaux sociaux : espaces nodaux de la mémoire ou mise en scène mémorielle ? »

Mathilde Verstraete, Université de Montréal: « Impliquer par le jeu, ou comment hacker l’Anthologie prolonge sa mémoire »


12:30-13:30 Lunch [not provided]

Mémoire des objets et mémoire des lieux

13h30-15h Session 2 (C-3061), Moderator: Antoine Fauchié

Yann Audin, Université de Montréal: « Sur la nécessité et l'urgence d'une théorie collaborative du numérique »

Abdoulaye Diallo, Université Cheikh Anta Diop / RADDHO: « L’histoire récente de l’humanité numérique : quels apports dans les sciences sociales en Afrique ? »

Giulia Ferretti, Université de Montréal: « Un monde façonné par l’Internet »


15:00-15:30 Coffee break

Effets du numérique sur la mémoire

15:30-17:00 Session 3 (C-2059), Moderator: Yann Audin

Yanet Hernández Pedraza, Univ. de Montréal - Univ. de Haute-Alsace: « Exploitation et accès à la mémoire du passé »

David Valentine, Université de Montréal: « Défragmenter la mémoire montréalaise »

Cathie-Anne Dupuis, Université de Montréal: « La BDPEQA : renouveler l’histoire de l’esclavage au Canada en utilisant les données biographiques »

Romane Marlhoux, Univ. de Haute-Alsace: « Mémoire vive ? Extraire et transmettre du “mémorable” à la Renaissance »


8:30-9:00 Welcome & coffee

Memory, Nostalgia, and Hermeneutics

9:00-10:30 Session 4 (C-3061), Moderator: Yanet Hernández

Yann Audin, Université de Montréal: « The Palimpsest and the Pentimento: To interpret is to remember »

Parham Aledavood, Université de Montréal: « A Computational Analysis of Traumatic Memories in Contemporary Canadian Migration Literature »

Richy Srirachanikorn, Concordia University: « Lost Again: Refractive Nostalgia and the Generative Potential of Memory »

Alex Custodio, Concordia University: « Handheld Histories: Digital Archives of Portable Play »



Tuesday, 4 April 2023
10:30-11:00 Coffee break

Affective and Embodied Memory

11:00-12:15, Plenary conference of Amanda Montague, Moderator: Parham Aledavood

Amanda Montague, McMaster University: « Affective and Embodied Memory in Pedagogical Practices of Digital Storytelling »

12:15-12:30 Closing speech

Committee

Parham Aledavood

Parham Aledavood is a PhD student in literature and digital humanities at the University of Montreal. He holds a master’s degree in linguistics and literary studies in English from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. In addition to CRIHN, he is affiliated with The Research Center for Planetary Literary and Cultural Studies (CELCP). His research interests include migration literature, memory and trauma, computational narrative studies, and postcolonial digital humanities.

Yann Audin

Yann Audin is a PhD student in Literature and Digital Humanities at the University of Montreal. He holds a master's degree in Physics from Bishop's University and a master's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Montreal. He is affiliated with the Canadian Society for the Digital Humanities, the Canadian Research Chair on Digital Textualities, the Centre de recherche interuniversitaires sur les humanités numériques, and the Association de littérature comparée de l'Université de Montréal. His research interests revolve around digital hermeneutics, narrative studies, and computational semiotics. He also contributed with the théâtre PÀP on the analysis of their creative process.

Giulia Ferretti

Giulia Ferretti is a PhD candidate in literature at the University of Montreal, with a specialization in digital humanities, and holds a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Macerata (Italy). Under the supervision of Marcello Vitali Rosati, her research project focuses on the philosophy of digital protocols and their role in the production and circulation of knowledge. More generally, she is interested in the approach proposed by the Critical Code Studies, which applies critical hermeneutics to the interpretation of computer code. She is affiliated with the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities and the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques.

Yanet Hernández

Yanet Hernández is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Digital Humanities, jointly supervised by the University of Montreal and the University of Haute-Alsace. Holder of a bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and a master's degree in Rare Books and Digital Humanities, she is working on a digital critical edition of John Calvin's French correspondence. Her interests range from the vulgarization of ancient documents using digital technologies to the workings of editorial pipelines. She is a member of the EVEille team as well as of the Organizing Committee of the EVEille Study Days 2023.

Loïc Laridant

Loïc Laridant is a student following a Master's degree in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies (with a specialization in digital information management) at UCLouvain in Belgium. Under the supervision of Mr. Michael E. Sinatra, he is currently doing a research stay at the CRIHN working on semantic tagging and on the organisation of the CÉHNUM conference. As part of his university dissertation in Belgium, he is particularly interested in the evolution of the #MeToo social dynamic on Twitter, from 2017 to today.

Anastasiia Radchuk

Anastasiia Radchuk is a PhD candidate in literature (option Digital Humanities) at the Univ. of Montreal. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees in European Literary Cultures from Univ. of Strasbourg in France, Univ. of Bologna in Italie and Univ. of Thessaloniki in Greece. Her research interests include mathematical theories of communication and algorithms in digital space. She is affiliated with the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities and the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques.

Mathilde Verstraete

Mathilde Verstraete is a PhD candidate in literature (option Digital Humanities) at the University of Montreal. After obtaining a Master's degree in Ancient Languages and Literatures (Classics) at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), she joined the Canada Researche Chaire on Digital Textualities and is now the coordinator of the collaborative and digital edition of the Greek Anthology project. Under the supervision of Marcello Vitali Rosati and Elsa Bouchard, she is conducting her research on the potentialities of reception of the Greek Anthology manuscript.


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