International Workshop: Digital Humanities and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Case of Narratives
Monday, 30 November 2026
16:00–16:10: Željko Jovanović, CERMOM-INALCO and Katja Šmid, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Opening Remarks
Panel I: Proverbs and Jewish Languages in the Digital Age
Chair: Katja Šmid, CSIC
16:10–16:35: Željko Jovanović, CERMOM-INALCO, Borderlands of Wisdom: Paremiological Intertextuality and Multilingualism Across the Mediterranean (PIMAM)
4.35 pm–5.00 pm: Galit Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Israeli Proverb Indexing Project: Digitising Content and Structure: Challenges and Solutions
17:00–17:30: Arnaud Bikard, CERMOM-INALCO and Valentina Fedchenko, ERTIM-INALCO, Building an Online Resource of Narrative Texts in Jewish Languages and Their Translations: Benefits and Challenges
Panel II: Digital Initiatives on Jewish Stories
Chair: Marcin Wodzinski, University of Wrocław
17:30–17:45: Katja Šmid, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Sephardic Narratives: Edition, Study and Creation of the First Digital Catalogue (SephaNar)
5.45 pm–6.15 pm: Nadège Rollet and Sabine Thuillier, Digital Humanities Laboratory (LabHD), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), From Sources to Annotated Data: Creating an Interconnected Platform for the Digital Catalogue Sephanar
18.15–18.30: Coffee break
Panel III: Digitisation of Folklore Archives
Chair: Dudu Rotman, HUJI
18.30–19.00: Dina Stein, Israel Folktale Archives, The digitisation process of the Israel Folktale Archives
19:00–19:30: Galit Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Reconnecting digitally with past fieldwork: Reading folktales collected half a century ago in the archives
7.30 pm: Dinner
Tuesday, 1 December 2026
Panel IV: Timeless Narratives: from Talmud to Netlore
Chair: Galit Hasan-Rokem, HUJI
9.00–9.25 am: Ghilad Shenhav, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Beyond the Canon: Recreating Talmudic Reception Trees in Jewish Modernity
9.25–9.50 am: Eliezer Papo, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ethnography, Belles-lettres and Digitalisation: The Sarajevo Sephardic Circle and its Short Stories One Century Later
9.50–10.15: Dudu Rotman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Netlore and netnography in contemporary Israel
10.15–10.30: Coffee break
Panel V: Hasidic Stories Go Digital
Chair: Chen Mandel-Edrei, HUJI
10.30–10.55: Gadi Sagiv, The Open University of Israel, From Close Reading to Distant Reading and Back: Digital Analysis of the First Century of Hasidic Stories (1814–1914)
10.55–11.20: Sinai Rusinek, The Open University of Israel, The Mayse Tagging Machine: Between AI and PI
11.20–11.30: Respondent: Marcin Wodzinski, University of Wrocław
Panel VI: Digital Corpora of Narratives: between Oral and Written Tradition
Chair: Željko Jovanović, CERMOM-INALCO
11.30–11.55: Beatrice Gründler/Digital Humanities Expert, Free University of Berlin, Kalīla and Dimna [TBC]
11.55–12.20: Marta Kacprzak, University of Warsaw, Sephardic Narrative Heritage and Digital Philology: One Thousand and One Nights in Judeo-Spanish
12.20–12.45: David Mañero Lozano, University of Jaén, Building a Digital Corpus of Oral Narratives: Challenges, Methods and Perspectives from the Corpus de Literatura Oral
12.45–13.10: Óscar Abenójar Sanjuán, El Colegio de México, Managing Multilingual Oral Literature Corpora: Methodological and Technical Challenges
13.00–15.00: Lunch
15:00–16:00: Concluding Discussion