International Workshop : Digital Humanities and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Case of Narratives
Monday, 30 November 2026
16h00-16h10 : Željko Jovanović, CERMOM-INALCO and Katja Šmid, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Opening Words
Panel I : Proverbs and Jewish Languages in Digital Era
Chair: Katja Šmid, CSIC
16h10-16h35 : Željko Jovanović, CERMOM-INALCO, Borderlands of Wisdom: Paremiological Intertextuality and Multilingualism Across the Mediterranean (PIMAM)
16h35-17h00 : Galit Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Israeli Proverb Indexing Project: Digitizing Contents and Structure: Challenges and Solutions
17h00-17h30 : Arnaud Bikard, CERMOM-INALCO and Valentina Fedchenko, ERTIM-INALCO, Building an Online Resource of Narrative Texts in Jewish languages and Their Translation: Interest and Challenges
Panel II: Digital Initiatives on Jewish Stories
Chair: Marcin Wodzinski, University of Wroclaw
17h30-17h45 : Katja Šmid, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Sephardic Narratives: Edition, Study and Creation of the First Digital Catalog (SephaNar)
17h45-18h15 : 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 Catalog Sephanar
18h15-18h30 : Coffee break
Panel III: Digitization of Folklore Archives
Chair: Dudu Rotman, HUJI
18h30-19h00 : Dina Stein, Israel Folktale Archives, The digitization process of the Israel Folktale Archives
19h00-19h30 : Galit Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Reconnecting digitally with the fieldwork of the past: Reading folktales collected half a century ago in the archives
19h30 : Dinner
Tuesday, 1 December 2026
Panel IV: Timeless Narratives: from Talmud to Netlore
Chair: Galit Hasan-Rokem, HUJI
9h00-9h25 : Ghilad Shenhav, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Beyond the Canon: Recreating Talmudic Reception Trees in Jewish Modernity
9h25-9h50 : Eliezer Papo, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ethnography, Belles-lettres and Digitalization: The Sarajevo Sephardic Circle and its Short Stories One Century Later
9h50-10h15 : Dudu Rotman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Netlore and netnography in contemporary Israel
10h15-10h30 : Coffee break
Panel V: Hasidic Stories Go Digital
Chair: Chen Mandel-Edrei, HUJI
10h30-10h55 : 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)
10h55-11h20 : Sinai Rusinek, The Open University of Israel, The Mayse Tagging Machine, between the AI and the PI
11h20-11h30 : Respondent: Marcin Wodzinski, University of Wroclaw
Panel VI: Digital Corpora of Narratives: between Oral and Written Tradition
Chair: Željko Jovanović, CERMOM-INALCO
11h30-11h55 : Beatrice Gründler/Digital Humanities Expert, Free University of Berlin, Kalīla and Dimna [TBC]
11h55-12h20 : Marta Kacprzak, University of Warsaw, Sephardic Narrative Heritage and Digital Philology: One Thousand and One Nights in Judeo-Spanish
12h20-12h45 : David Mañero Lozano, University of Jaen, Building a Digital Corpus of Oral Narratives: Challenges, Methods and Perspectives from the Corpus de Literatura Oral
12h45-13h10 : Óscar Abenójar Sanjuán, El Colegio de México, Managing Multilingual Oral Literature Corpora: Methodological and Technical Challenges
13.h0-15h00 : Lunch
15h00-16h00 : Concluding Discussion