The Graduate Studies Sector at the Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, is preparing to organize a forum for young researchers in its eighth session under the title "Humanitarian Studies and Digitization between Theory and Practice", under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of the University, Prof. Dr. Ayman Saleh, Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, Prof. Dr. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty, and the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ashraf Attia, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Affairs.

Prof. Dr. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty, said that the topic of this year’s forum is consistent with the steps taken by Faculty of Al-Alsun in the last two years to develop its study programs at the postgraduate level, as the Faculty implemented the Translation Technology Program in the academic year 2020-2021 as one of the interdisciplinary programs that combine the translation specialization and the field of intelligence Artificial intelligence and technological applications assisting the translation process, noting that the selection of the forum’s topic came to keep pace with recent trends in human studies in general and in studies of language, literature and translation in particular.

Prof. Dr. Ashraf Attia, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, confirmed that the Young Researchers Forum is an important research and scientific platform in exchanging visions and ideas between researchers and specialists, noting that the forum is held on three axes: the axis of linguistic studies, the axis of literary studies, and the axis of translation studies, and each axis includes a number of topics. And new research ideas that will be discussed by the forum participants through research papers and discussions over two days.

He added that language sciences are closely linked to digital technology through many technological applications used in building linguistic databases, linguistic repertoires and machine translation, in addition to the fact that digital platforms have become one of the important tools in presenting literary and cognitive production, so new concepts such as interactive literature, digital narration, digital text and other modern concepts and trends have emerged, which the forum will discuss this year.