“Comparative Literature Goes Digital” DH2025 Mini-Conference Program

Date: 14 July 2025 (GMT+1 Timezone)

Location: Aud B2 (TB)

In September 2024, a new Research Committee on “Digital Comparative Literature” (DCL) was formed as part of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). In September 2025, the Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS-INFRA), part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, will conclude its activities.

To celebrate the concurrent creation and conclusion of these two sister projects, the SIG-DLS (now renamed “Digital Literary Studies”) organizes a mini-conference at DH2025 in Lisbon, dedicated to all applications of digital and computational methods in the study of literature.

The program will include two lightning keynotes, four demos, and 11 lightning talks.

Schedule:

13:30-13:50 – Welcome and introduction

13:50-14:30 – Session 1 (Chair: Simone Rebora)

Lightning keynote Yina Cao (Sichuan University) About the Deconstruction and Reconstruction of World Literature(s) and Generative Artificial Intelligence
Lightning keynote Youngmin Kim (Dongguk U/Linnaeus U/Hangzhou Normal U) Poetic Innovation of Transcoding for the Age of AI: bp Nichols’s Visual/Concrete Poetry and Christopher Dewdney’s Continuing Poems
Demo Maria Levchenko (University of Bologna) LeggoManzoni: A Multilingual Digital Edition for Translation Studies

14:30-14:40 – Short break

14:40-15:30 – Session 2 (Chair: Joanna Byszuk)

Demo Richard Změlík (Palacký University Olomouc) Digital Corpus of Czech Novels – The Web Application
Lightning talk Jana-Katharina Mende (University of Halle, Germany) Modelling Hidden and Invisible Multilingualism in German literature (1790-1890) – A Multilayered Literary History
Lightning talk Shanmugapriya T(Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad), Fotis Jannidis (University of Würzburg) Attitudes towards information technology in Indian English and German novels since 2000
Lightning talk Silvia Lilli (Independent researcher) Surprisal as a Lens for Linguistic Creativity Across Languages

15:30-16:00 – Coffee Break

16:00-16:55 – Session 3 (Chair: Suzanne Mpouli)

Demo Andrea Nini (University of Manchester) Examining an author’s individual grammar
Lightning talk Enrica Bruno (University of Bologna) Breaking the Line: Towards a Semantic Framework for Non-Linear Literary Phenomena
Lightning talk Agnieszka Podpora (Jagiellonian University), Magda Heydel (Jagiellonian University), Jan Rybicki (Jagiellonian University) So we have 250,000 catalogue entries from a big national library. Now what?
Lightning talk Artjoms Šeļa (Institute of Czech Literature, CAS), Petr Plecháč (Institute of Czech Literature, CAS) Poetry (of) space: toponyms in European verse
Lightning talk Jamie Jungmin Yoo (Yonsei University) Mapping Intertextuality: Yi Su-gwang’s Reception of Tang Poetry in Joseon Korea

16:55-17:05 – Short break

17:05-18:00 – Session 4 (Chair: Youngmin Kim)

Demo Svetlana Yatsyk (IRHT, CNRS) From psalms to patterns: large-scale detection of liturgical structures in Books of Hours through text reuse algorithms
Lightning talk Evgeniia Fileva (Trier University), Julia Dudar (Trier University), Christof Schöch (Trier University), Artjoms Šeļa (Czech Academy of Sciences) Multilingual Stylometry: The influence of corpus composition and language on the performance of authorship attribution using corpora from the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC)
Lightning talk Lyu Hohyun(Korea University), Lee Seung-eun(Korea University), Chung Eugene(Korea University) Narrative Worlds of K-pop Idol Fan Fiction: A Comparative Digital Humanities Approach to Domestic and Global Fandoms
Lightning talk Nuette Heyns (North West University), Menno van Zaanen (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources) Refining Narrative Annotation for Segmentation: Challenges and Debates
Lightning talk Judith Brottrager (Technical University of Darmstadt) Networked Resemblance: Networks Models as Comparative Frameworks

18:00 – Open mic



Organising & programme committee:

Simone Rebora (SIG-DLS and ICLA DCL)
Joanna Byszuk (SIG-DLS and CLS-INFRA)
Yina Cao (ICLA DCL)
Maciej Eder (CLS-INFRA)
J. Berenike Herrmann (SIG-DLS)
Youngmin Kim (ICLA DCL)
Suzanne Mpouli (SIG-DLS)
Federico Pianzola (ICLA DCL)
Pablo Ruiz Fabo (SIG-DLS)