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Adriana Iezzi is Full Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at the Department of Interpretation and Translation of the University of Bologna. Her research activity focuses on Chinese contemporary calligraphy, with particular attention to the analysis of the main artistic expressions that deviate from traditional calligraphic forms (e.g. graffiti art). The main aim of her research is to provide a model for qualitative analysis of these new artistic expressions, proposing a new taxonomy of Chinese renewed calligraphy production, a systematic study on its language and texts, and revealing socio-political and economic implications of their emergence. She is Principal Investigator of 1) the ERC Starting Grant project WRITE – New forms of calligraphy in China: a contemporary culture mirror (GA n. 949645); 2) Bando FARE Research Project WenDAng – WRITE Digital Archive (CINECA code: R20K7ZB983)

Francesca Tomasi is Associate Professor in Archival and Library Sciences at the University of Bologna. Her research is devoted to Digital Humanities, with a special attention to knowledge organization theories, models and technologies.
She is founder and coordinator of the PHD programme Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem - CHeDE, and head of the research centre DH.arc. She has been president of the italian association in Digital Humanities AIUCD, founder and coordinator of the international second cycle degree Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge - DHDK.

Katarina Lučić is a PhD candidate at the University of Bologna’s Department of Interpretation and Translation. Her PhD project focuses on creating a digital semantic archive WenDAng, to store, preserve, analyse and disseminate the data gathered by the domain experts of the WRITE project. She holds master’s degrees in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge from the University of Bologna and in Italian Language, Literature, and Culture from the University of Belgrade. Throughout her academic career, Katarina has covered various positions with a focus on digital humanities and cultural heritage, among which a post-degree research fellowship at the Carisbo Foundation (Bologna), working on the project called Digital Humanities, and a research fellowship at the Department of Interpretation and Translation, working on the WenDAng project. She attended different conferences and schools, including the Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School at the University of Cambridge.