Digital Hermeneutics of Ephemeral Cultural Expression: Text Affects workshop #1

Workshop

Inizio: 26.05.2026 09:30
Fine: 28.05.2026 12:30
Relatore: Workshop
Luogo: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
Contatto: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it

This workshop, led by the Text Affects working group, is funded by the British Academy Pump-priming Fund within the Digital Hermeneutics of Ephemeral Cultural Expression project. It brings together the members of a consortium under construction, targeting a future funding application within the Horizon Europe Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society - 2027 (HORIZON-CL2-2027-01) call. With the call due to open in May 2027, the participants will also explore other funding opportunities to pursue in the meantime.

The project focuses on ephemeral cultural expressions (specifically artistic, cultural, and popular events) which, by their transient nature, represent the most vulnerable forms of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). The call explicitly recognizes that phenomena such as globalization, urbanization, and migration endanger the continuity of living cultural practices. Our project confronts this by targeting the invisible cultural phenomena: the dynamic, evolving processes underlying these events-that are otherwise lost to history, thereby addressing a crucial documentation gap identified in the literature.

The project's scope is defined by the combination of Hermeneutics with Al methods for capturing, and interacting with, Ephemeral Cultural Expressions, a direct response to the call for innovative methodological approaches and tools using digital technologies for ICH. We move beyond static documentation by proposing a scholarly method for identifying, interpreting, and reconstructing cultural processes across complex temporal, linguistic, and geographical boundaries.

Timetable

26 May – Day 1

09:30-10:00 Welcome

10:00-12:30 Call overview, aims and objectives

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00 Brainstorming

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Project outline

27 May – Day 2

10:00-12:30 Conceptual framework and WPs

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00 WP group activity

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Consortium partners

28 May – Day 3

10:00-12:30 Next steps

Scientific Organization: Alessio Antonini (The Open University), Alessandro Adamou (Bibliotheca Hertziana)