Coordination :

                       - Abdenbi LACHKAR (Pr, Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France) 

                       - Hayssam KOTOB (Pr, Université Libanaise, Beyrouth, Liban)

                       - Brahim CHAKRANI (A/ Pr, Michigan State University, USA)

Plenary Conference1: Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté, France)

Plenary Conference2: Rahma Barbara (Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah- Fès, Maroc)

This international conference focuses on the still insufficiently analyzed field of Digital Humanities in the Eastern and Mediterranean domain. It brings together researchers whose research combines information processing, engineering, linguistics, literature, terminology and translation on the one hand, and innovative practices in the fields of teaching and learning languages and cultures and the appreciation of tangible and intangible heritage on the other. The very great development of the Internet has increased the number of its users in the Eastern and Mediterranean world in recent years, and must, in our view, be accompanied by in-depth research in the fields of translation, heritage, pedagogical and scientific practices and digital humanities. This implies both technical research in computer science and information sciences applied to languages and cultures and their teaching and learning in Arab countries, but also an analytical and critical reflection on the Mediterranean and Eastern heritage, particularly Arabic, its texts and discourses and their appreciation by the receivers of the different languages and cultures. This is a relatively new field of research in languages and cultures, and a significant challenge to be addressed.

The expected presentations will focus on:

- the concept of digital humanities, in its various dimensions, as it appears in the Eastern and Mediterranean domains;

- digital humanities, educational practices, pedagogical innovations, languages, texts, and translation; digital humanities, theories and practices in/of translation and in the fields of heritage, culture, and employability;

- the development of databases from an analytical and critical perspective for Arabic lexicon in a trilingual Arabic-French-English perspective; for the privileged domain of language-culture constituted by proverbs and fixed phrases, etc.

- logometry and textometry and their contributions to the processing and analysis of Arabic and Mediterranean texts and discourses. - the digitization of cultural heritage under good conditions of fidelity to the texts and their variants, as well as accessibility,

- the creation of easily consultable multilingual corpora reflecting heterogeneous sociolinguistic and cultural situations, even those in crisis,

- digital documents, multimedia, memory, and archives (manuscripts and augmented heritage),

- metadata, information systems and tools, and translation. This inventory is, of course, not exhaustive.

Other editions will follow this one. This new meeting should result in collective recommendations and a publication, thus opening the door to a field of teaching and research that we would like to help develop for Eastern and Mediterranean cultural areas.

Conference languages: Arabic, English, and French

Proposals for papers, 300-500 words long, including spaces, must be sent by July 30, 2025, to the following address: lachkarabdenbi@gmail.com

Publication:

Publication of articles accepted by the scientific committee is planned after the conference.

Registration fees: 80 euros for lecturer-researchers, 40 euros for doctoral students.

Scientific Committee

- Driss Ablali (Université de Lorraine, France)

- Abderrahmane Amsidder (Université Ibn Zohr-Agadir)

- Bassam Baraké (Université Libanaise, Liban)

- Rima Barake (Université Libanaise, Liban)

- Rahma Barbara (Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc)

- Mohammed Bendahan (Université Mohammed V, Rabat Maroc)

- Stefan Bratosin (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Gilda Caiti-Russo (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Nadia Chafai (Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc)

- Solange Creveille (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Brahim Chakrani (Michigan State University, USA)

- Fatheya El-Fararguy (Université de Tanta, Egypte)

- Mohamed El-Himer (Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Maroc)

- Nahed Emaish (Université Jordanienne, Amman, Jordanie)

- Saba Fares (Université de Toulouse 2, France)

- Isabelle Felici (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Fatima Zohra Fourar (Université Abbes Laghrour-Khenchala, Algérie)

- Mariarosaria Gianninoto (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Shokooh Husseini (Institut des sciences humaines et des études culturelles, Iran)

- Agata Jackiewicz (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Boris James (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Hayssam Kotob (Université Libanaise, Liban)

- Abdenbi Lachkar (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Rima Labban (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Marie-France Merger (Université de Pise, Italie)

- Akram Odeh (Université Jordanienne, Amman, Jordanie)

- Ahmad Haji Safar (Université du Qatar, Doha, Qatar)

- Ahmad Shakeri (Institut des sciences humaines et des études culturelles, Iran)

- Max Silberztein (Université de Franche-Comté, France)

- Driss Sulaimani (San Diego State University, USA)

- Marta Tordesillas (Université autonome de Madrid, Espagne)

- Mihaela-Alexandra Tudor (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Madeleine Voga (Université Montpellier Paul Valéry, France)

- Abdelhamid Zahid (Université du Qatar, Doha, Qatar)