TENSIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE HUMANITIES: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ALGORITHMIC CULTURE

On May 20, 2025, at 6:30 p.m., in Room 120 of ISCAP, the seminar “Tensions and Transformations in the Humanities: Critical Perspectives on Algorithmic Culture” will be held, as part of the Digital Humanities research line.

The guest speaker is Rui Torres, Professor of Communication Sciences at Fernando Pessoa University, whose academic and professional career has been marked by interdisciplinarity, involving communication sciences, Romance languages and literatures, semiotics and digital media. His research and creative practice focus on the ways in which these areas intersect and transform through digital media.

Rui Torres has been a guest lecturer at various universities, in Portugal and abroad, and is an integrated member of the Culture, Mediation and Arts R&D group at ICNOVA - NOVA's Communication Institute. He also collaborates with the Digital Mediation and Materialities of Literature group at the Center for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), coordinates the Cibertextualidades (FFP) collection and is co-editor of Bloomsbury's Electronic Literature Series. He leads the Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature project (www.po-ex.net) and regularly publishes his works and works of electronic literature on telepoesis.net.

This seminar proposes a critical reflection on the implications of algorithmic culture in the humanities, with a focus on contemporary challenges and transformations driven by digitization and artificial intelligence.

Attendance is free. Come along!