https://hdl.handle.net/10807/83124 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:26:40 GMT 2026-06-23T14:26:40Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/339889 Titolo: Macchine, automi e intelligenza artificiale nella letteratura e nella lingua tedesca Autori: Elena Bellavia; Raul Calzoni; Emilia Fiandra; Federica Missaglia; Francesco Rossi Abstract: This issue of Cultura Tedesca (n. 71, January–June 2026) collects the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Italian Association of German Studies (AIG), held in Pisa in June 2025. Edited by Elena Bellavia, Raul Calzoni, Emilia Fiandra, Federica Missaglia, and Francesco Rossi, the volume is titled Machines, Automata, and Artificial Intelligence in German Literature and Language and brings together contributions from literary studies, media history, and linguistics around a shared question: what becomes of the human when the machine is no longer merely a tool, but an environment, an interlocutor, and an autonomous producer of signs? The essays trace a wide arc — from the dystopian imaginaries of industrial modernity to contemporary digital fiction, from seventeenth-century combinatorial language experiments to generative literature, and from aesthetic reflections on AI-generated images to applied questions in corpus linguistics, translation, language teaching, and speech synthesis. Together, they argue that AI is not a neutral technological object but a transversal category that reshapes subjectivity, authorship, memory, and the boundaries between human competence and algorithmic delegation. The volume is organized in two parts. The first engages with literary and cultural-historical perspectives, examining works by Andreas Eschbach, Benjamin Stein, Eugen Ruge, and Alexander Kluge, as well as Fritz Lang's Metropolis and the theoretical legacy of Max Bense. The second part addresses linguistic and applied dimensions, including corpus-based translation studies, the computational detection of evaluative language, AI-mediated language learning in tandem settings, and the emotional synthesis of German speech. The introduction frames the whole as a call for critical literacy that combines historical awareness with technological consciousness — one capable of distinguishing simulation from truth, and of hearing the human where the machine seems to have taken its place. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10807/339889 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/339280 Titolo: Brescia in età moderna. Ricerche, fonti, prospettive Autori: Bazzani, C Abstract: This special issue brings together a range of multidisciplinary contributions aimed at presenting new perspectives on the history of Brescia in the early modern period. Drawing on approaches from social, political, cultural, economic, and intellectual history, as well as insights from related disciplines, the volume explores themes, sources, and methodologies that are reshaping our understanding of the city and its territory between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Particular attention is devoted to the use of previously unexamined archival materials and innovative interpretative frameworks, which open new avenues for investigating the individuals, institutions, and processes that shaped Brescian society. By fostering a dialogue between different fields of inquiry, the issue highlights the richness and vitality of current research, offering a renewed and multifaceted picture of Brescia’s place within the broader contexts of Italian and European history in the early modern age. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10807/339280 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/339196 Titolo: Congrès de fondation de l’AIGF (Association internationale de géographie francophone). La géographie francophone au défi du monde contemporain. Vol. 2 Autori: Molinari P.; Gwiazdzinski L. Abstract: This special issue contains a selection of contributions that were presented at the founding congress of the International Association of Francophone Geography (AIGF), which took place in Rabat, Morocco, at the National Institute of Planning and Urbanism from June 13 to 15, 2023. The main goals of the AIGF are to energize and broaden the international audience of Francophone geography on a global scale while contributing to the advancement of the discipline. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10807/339196 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/338871 Titolo: Scritture di guerra e di pace dal Settecento al Novecento. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi in ricordo di Carlo Annoni (Milano, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 5-6 dicembre 2024) Autori: Ottavio Ghidini Abstract: This volume collects the proceedings of the conference focused on the representation of war, peace, and resistance in Italian literature from the 18th to the 20th century. Following institutional greetings and an introductory address by Marco Maria Corradini, the papers explore the complex dialogue between historical conflicts and literary imagination.The first section examines the modern era: Corrado Viola analyzes the relationship between war and 18th-century literature; Francesco De Cristofaro provides a comparative overview of novels on war and peace between 1819 and 1865; Aurélie Gendrat-Claudel investigates French critical perspectives on riots and war in Manzoni's The Betrothed; and Duccio Tongiorgi reflects on the literary memory of the Battle of Lissa.The second section shifts focus toward the 19th and 20th centuries: Fulvio De Giorgi explores ideals of peace in Antonio Rosmini's panegyric of Pope Pius VII; Ottavio Ghidini discusses the role of Manzoni’s legacy during the Italian Resistance; Valter Boggione analyzes the evolution of the term "partisan" in the works of Beppe Fenoglio and Resistance narratives; and Giuseppe Lupo concludes with an analysis of the betrayed ideals of the Risorgimento in 20th-century literature. Together, these contributions offer a comprehensive, multidisciplinary investigation into how Italian literature has shaped, witnessed, and reinterpreted historical trauma and the quest for peace. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10807/338871 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z