09/07/2025 08:30
- 17:30
HALL: Lecture Hall 05
Proponent:
Cadeddu F.
Chair:
Cadeddu F.
Speaker:
Aftar S.,
Ali I.,
Cadeddu F.,
Chiara P.,
Costa M.,
El Ganadi A.,
Ferrandino G.,
Iezzi F.,
Mariani A.,
Napolitano M.,
Panzeca I.,
Puccetti G.,
Ruozzi F.,
Scapini E.,
Shahnawaz S.,
Spanò I.,
Timpers L.
The panel explores how the study of religion is being enriched by the adoption of digital tools and the development of new technologies which move from the needs of the scholarly community investigating religions in the many scientific disciplines and from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Its aims are: presenting new tools, projects, methodologies making use of IT technologies; analysing if and how the approach to the sources changed with the most recent technological developments; discussing both scientific and technical approaches chosen to address the needs of the user community; projecting the potential impact of the adoption of such tools within the scientific community and beyond.
The panel is composed of an introduction and four sessions.
Session I: Digital Humanities and non-Latin scripts: editions, corpora and digital libraries. The session aims to discuss various tools from diverse research contexts, focusing on corpora, editions and digital libraries.
Session II: Understanding the meaning, identifying the tool. The session presents case studies in which the need to understanding the semantics of texts and the (often limited) available sources to work on challenged scholars to identify different technological solutions.
Session III: (Re)Composing datasets: reading, describing, presenting research resources with new tools. The session presents different case studies on the composition of research datasets that face the challenges of digitisation and FAIRification, while also aiming at identifying new methodologies and tools to shift from more traditional to new/innovative research questions and approaches.
Session IV: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Religious Studies. This session explores how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with religious studies, introducing innovative tools and methods while addressing critical ethical and interpretive challenges.