Call for Papers
‘Italian Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality’
Conference Virtual Panel
Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS)
University of Montreal
May 4-7, 2023
The panel ‘Italian Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality’ aims to discuss Italian literature that engages with recent developments in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and Quantum Machine Learning.
If AI has been recurrent theme in science fiction, it is now directly implicated in the making of literary works – both fiction and poetry – across linguistic, cultural, and geographical borders. How is this developing within Italian literature and shaping new directions for the discipline of Italian Studies? To what extend, if at all, the literary and critical language employed so far can still work to engage with works produced through AI? In what ways can AI and AR, rather than bringing forward innovation – as they do in the sciences – led literature backwards? How can AI shake and diversify the Italian literary canon? Does the advent of AI make the use of computer programming and other technologies used so far in literary works outdated (e.g. Python programming language)? What does the interaction with AI and AR tell us about the nature of literature and poetry?
Papers engaging with questions of temporality, genre, authoriality, communities, and gender are particularly welcome, just as theoretical and comparative analyses. Contributions wishing to focus on how Italian Studies could incorporate in its teaching methodologies AI and AR are also welcome.
Should you be interested in submitting a paper proposal as part of the Panel ‘Italian Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality’, please consider submitting an abstract of no more than 150 words and a short bio-bibliographical note by 15 February 2023 to Dr Adele Bardazzi (Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford): adele.bardazzi@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Dr Adele Bardazzi (Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford): adele.bardazzi@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk