“Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today” DH2026 Mini-Conference Program

Posted on 30/06/2026 by Simone Rebora

Date: 28 July 2026 (GMT+9 Timezone)

Location: Daejeon Convention Center (DCC), Daejeon, South Korea, Room 101

In the context of the 2026 edition of the Digital Humanities Conference (DH2026) in Daejeon, South Korea, the Special Interest Group Digital Literary Studies within ADHO (SIG-DLS) and the Digital Comparative Literature (DCL) research committee of ICLA jointly joinlty organize a mini-conference titled “Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today”.

The mini-conference will include 20 presentations, with a poster slam followed by a poster exhibition. Full program below.

First session: poster slam (14:00-16:00 GMT+9)

14:00–14:05	Welcome and opening remarks
14:05–14:10	Lightning Talk 1 (Online) – Pablo Ruiz Fabo
14:10–14:15	Lightning Talk 2 (Online) – Silvia Lilli
14:15–14:20	Lightning Talk 3 (Online) – Camilla Moreschini
14:20–14:25	Lightning Talk 4 – Renana Keydar
14:25–14:30	Lightning Talk 5 – Marco Lorenz
14:30–14:35	Lightning Talk 6 – Jenny Kwok
14:35–14:40	Lightning Talk 7 – Benjamin Miller
14:40–14:45	Lightning Talk 8 – Seolha Lee
14:45–14:50	Lightning Talk 9 – Chinatsu Maki
14:50–14:55	Lightning Talk 10 – Min Kim
14:55–15:00	Lightning Talk 11 – Kang Park
15:00–15:05	Lightning Talk 12 – Haruka Tsutsui
15:05–15:10	Lightning Talk 13 – Samya Brata Roy
15:10–15:15	Lightning Talk 14 – YunHa Kang
15:15–15:20	Lightning Talk 15 – Ruoci Song
15:20–15:25	Lightning Talk 16 – Haimo Stiemer
15:25–15:30	Lightning Talk 17 – Dennis Yi Tenen
15:30–15:35	Lightning Talk 18 – Kohei Furuya
15:35–15:40	Lightning Talk 19 – Mari Agata
15:40–15:45	Lightning Talk 20 – Tomoji Tabata
15:45-16:00	Discussion of online talks

Coffee break (16:00-16:30 GMT+9)

Second session: poster exhibition (16:30-18:00 GMT+9)

16:30–17:30	Poster exhibition
17:30–18:00	Closing remarks

Organizers / Programme Committee

Samya Brata Roy (ICLA DCL)
Youngmin Kim (ICLA DCL)
Federico Pianzola (ICLA DCL)
Christof Schöch (ICLA DCL / SIG DLS)
Shanmugapriya T (SIG DLS)
Joanna Byszuk-Podsadniuk (SIG DLS)
Katherine Elkins (SIG DLS)
Berenike Herrmann (SIG DLS)
Nuette Heyns (SIG-DLS)
Suzanne Mpouli (SIG DLS)
Simone Rebora (ICLA DCL / SIG DLS)
Pablo Ruiz Fabo (SIG DLS)

DH2026 SIG Mini-Conference – Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today (CfP)

Posted on 22/03/2026 by Simone Rebora

In the context of the 2026 edition of the Digital Humanities Conference (DH2026) Conference in Daejeon, South Korea, the Special Interest Group Digital Literary Studies within ADHO (SIG-DLS) and the Digital Comparative Literature (DCL) research committee of ICLA jointly invite submissions for a mini-conference titled “Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today”.

Background and Goals

Digital or Computational Literary Studies and Comparative Literature continue to evolve through the integration of computational methods, multilingual archives, and innovative analytical frameworks. This workshop seeks to explore the intersection of digital and comparative approaches, highlighting both established and emerging methods — from born-digital narratives, distant reading and cultural analytics to machine learning, generative Large Language Models, and beyond. We particularly welcome contributions that address the challenges and opportunities of multilingual, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary research, as well as critical reflections on the role of technology or such mediated narratives in literary scholarship.

We encourage submissions for work that will be presented both as a (hybrid) lightning talk format as well as in an open-space, interactive poster session.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are by no means limited to the following areas:

Digital Methods in Comparative Literature: Applications of computational techniques (e.g., distant reading, network analysis, topic modeling, sentiment analysis) to compare texts across languages, cultures, or historical periods.
Multilingual and Multicultural Approaches: Case studies on digitized or born-digital literary archives, challenges of multilingual corpora, and cross-cultural literary analysis.
Generative AI and Literary Studies: Critical or applied uses of large language models (LLMs) and other AI tools, including their ethical, methodological, and theoretical implications.
Digital and Computational Linguistics for Analysis of Literary Texts: Applying linguistic theory and computational methods to study aspects of literary discourse.
Tools and Infrastructures: Software, workflows, or platforms that support digital and/or comparative literary research.
Theoretical and Methodological Innovations: New frameworks for combining digital and comparative approaches, including reflections on the limits and potentials of computational methods.
Born-Digital and Post-Digital Literature: Studies of electronic literature, hypertext, or other digital-born forms, as well as their analysis through digital tools.
Responsible Research Practices: Discussions on reproducibility, transparency, and ethical considerations in digital and/or comparative literary studies.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit a 300 to 500-word abstract (excluding references) describing your project, research idea, or theoretical contribution, by sending your abstract as one PDF file to Christof Schöch at schoech@uni-trier.de by the due date mentioned below.

Mini-conference Format

The half-day workshop will have two parts: first, a lightning talks session, then a poster session. All contributors are invited to participate actively in both sessions, that is: first present their work in a quick talk, then be ready to discuss their work supported by a poster.

The main goal of the mini-conference is to foster exchange between researchers, developers, and practitioners, and provide a networking opportunity ahead of the start of the main conference programme.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the organizing committee. We expect to be able to offer free on-site printing of posters to most if not all participants (within our budgetary limits).

Key Dates

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2026
Mini-conference Date: July 28, 2026, in the afternoon (KST).

Organizers / Programme Committee

Contact

For inquiries, please contact Simone Rebora at simone.rebora@univr.it.

Reading with Computers: The Conference of Computational Literary Studies 2025

Posted on 03/08/2025 by Julia Neugarten

The Conference of Computational Literary Studies (CCLS), which is now in its 4^th year, has quickly become an important touchstone for the scholarly community around digital and computational literary studies. This year’s conference was held at Jagiellonian University in the beautiful city of Krakow.

This is the courtyard of the breathtaking Collegium Maius, the location for our conference dinner and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture taken by Svenja Guhr

Over the course of two days and six sessions – comprised of sixteen talks and one long-awaited keynote – some interesting shared focal points and concerns for the area of CLS emerged. It is perhaps to be expected that our field is now asking itself challenging questions about large language models: do these models understand literature? What does it even mean to understand literature? And can LLMs be used to identify the moral of a story?

A second interesting strand of research revolved around the representation of space in literary works. A variety of papers tackled the topic of literary space and place in innovative and diverse ways: from geocoding to machine learning and from analyzing literary modes of transportation to measuring how easily literary worlds can be visualized.

Another interesting set of papers clustered around the analysis of literary reception: how do texts impact readers and circulate in society? This included forays into literary citizen science, the mapping of literary communities in contemporary St. Petersburg, and my own research, which revolves around the reception and rewriting of Greek mythology in contemporary online fanfiction.

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, “The Rape of Proserpina”, Galleria Borghese, Rome. (1621-22), World History Encyclopedia

Specifically, I presented an analysis of fanfiction about the mythological figures Hades and Persephone. Most canonical versions of this myth are characterized by an explicitly unequal power dynamic, since Persephone is kidnapped and sexually assaulted by Hades. The moment of her violent abduction was immortalized in the famous statue by Bernini.

Through a computational analysis of the verbs associated with the fictional characters of Hades and Persephone in contemporary fanfiction, I measured the power dynamics portrayed in this fanfiction. The fan-written stories are varied: some portray the unequal, patriarchal power dynamics familiar from traditional versions of the myth, others rewrite the relationship to subvert canonical expectations. I also found that stories with a bigger power imbalance were less popular with readers, which led me to the title for my paper: a powerful Hades is an unpopular dude.

Me – Julia Neugarten – introducing fanfiction at the start of my presentation. Picture taken by Svenja Guhr.

Overall, we had an inspiring and diverse conference – more diverse than I can describe in a short blogpost, so I encourage you to check out all of the contributions yourself. The atmosphere was curious, inquisitive, and supportive, for which I want to thank the organizers and everyone who participated. Next year, CCLS will celebrate its 5th anniversary at the Potsdam Digital Humanities Network.

“Comparative Literature Goes Digital” DH2025 Mini-Conference Program

Posted on 06/06/2025 by Simone Rebora

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)

DH2025 SIG-DLS Mini-Conference. Comparative Literature Goes Digital

Posted on 28/03/2025 by Simone Rebora

The program (planned on Monday 14 July, 13:30-17:00 WET) will include a series of lightning talks and demos, welcoming contributions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Distant reading techniques and computational literary studies when applied in a comparative perspective;
Multilingual literary archives and the digitization of texts in different languages and writing systems;
The transformation of the book, reading in the post-digital age, and born-digital literature;
Geographic information systems, data visualization, and comparative literary studies;
Machine translation, artificial intelligence;
Language models and comparative literature.

To submit a contribution for a lightning talk or a demo, please send a brief abstract via the submission form by 25 April 2025. A lightning talk is intended as a short presentation (max 5 minutes) of an ongoing or finished project, or even of an idea for possible research (if you choose this format, please submit an abstract of max 250 words–excluding any bibliographic references). A demo is intended as a longer, interactive presentation (max 15 minutes) of a tool or workflow for digital/computational literary studies (if you choose this format, please submit an abstract of max 500 words excl. references–you can also add links to supporting materials like notebooks and/or videos). All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the programme committee and notifications of acceptance will be sent by 2 May 2025.

Organising & programme committee

Call for SIG-DLS stipends

Posted on 04/11/2024 by Simone Rebora

The SIG-DLS is offering two stipends (400 Euros each) for short-term scientific missions, to allow SIG-DLS members to visit experts in the field and conduct research/training in line with the SIG DLS’s aims. This should benefit diffusion of skills/knowledge and foster networking/community building.

With this Call for SIG-DLS stipends, we invite submissions by 24 November 2024. Applications should be made via the dedicated online form (https://forms.gle/itCNbKDcMaqaNRqK9 – you need to log in via Google to access it) and should be composed of:

A CV of the applicant;
A motivation letter (max one page) detailing the planned activity for the short-term scientific mission;
A letter from the host confirming their intention to host the applicant (the letter should be signed and should contain all contact details).

Proposals will be evaluated by the SIG-DLS Steering Committee based on the following criteria:

Academic age of the applicant;
Quality of the envisioned research/training plan;
Coherence with the host expertise.

Applicants will be notified by 1 December 2024 and stipends will be transferred to the successful applicant by 31 December 2024. Awardees will have to submit a report (in the form of a blog post) after completion of their mission, which will be published on the SIG-DLS website.

DH2024 Workshop – Computational Literary Studies: How To Do Research Responsibly (Program)

Posted on 22/07/2024 by Simone Rebora

Date 5 August 2024 (ET Timezone, UTC -4)

Location Hazel Hall 332 and Zoom

9:00-10:30 Intro & Keynote I

Amy Earhart, Ethical Datasets: Embodied Digital Approaches

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:30 Lightning talks – session I

Julian Häußler, Dominik Gerstorfer, Evelyn Gius	Using Jupyter Notebooks as Research and Presentation Environment – Experiences from the Project KatKit
Jan K. Argasiński, Iwona Grabska-Gradzińska, Karol Przystalski, Jeremi K. Ochab*, Tomasz Walkowiak	Stylometric Analysis of LLM-Generated Commentaries
Takehiro Hashimoto	A lightning talk proposal for literary text analysis using LLM
Joseph Rudman	Genre vs. Authorship in Non-Traditional Attribution Studies – A Work in Progress

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45-12:30 Demo session

Joanna Byszuk, From raw texts to meaningful results: working with curated datasets

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Keynote speech II

Artjoms Šeļa, How to do research responsibly and be bad at math?

15:00-15:15 Break

15:15-16:00 Lightning talks – session II

José Calvo Tello, Nanette Rißler-Pipka, Lukas Weimer, Ubbo Veentjer, Daniel Kurzawe, Ralf Klammer, Mathias Göbel, Stefan E. Funk, George Dogaru, Stefan Buddenbohm, Florian Barth	Responsability through FAIRness or why you Should Bring your Texts to TextGrid Repository
So Miyagawa, Yuzuki Tsukagoshi , Yuki Kyogoku, Kyoko Amano	Computational Analysis of Intertextuality in Vedic Texts: A Progress Report
Patrick Juola	Stylometry and Writing Systems
Kahyun Choi	Toward Equitable and Diverse Digital Poetry Libraries
Florentina Armaselu	Generic, Specific and Satirical Modes in 18th Century English Novels

16:00-16:30 Open mic

Organizing committee

Maciej Eder (CLS-Infra)
Joanna Byszuk (CLS-Infra and SIG-DLS)
Simone Rebora (SIG-DLS)
Berenike Herrmann (SIG-DLS)
Suzanne Mpouli (SIG-DLS)
Pablo Ruiz Fabo (SIG-DLS)

DH2024 Workshop – Computational Literary Studies: How To Do Research Responsibly (CfP)

Posted on 11/03/2024 by Simone Rebora

In the context of the DH2024 Conference “Reinvention & Responsibility” (https://dh2024.adho.org/), the SIG-DLS is organizing a pre-conference workshop entitled “Computational Literary Studies: How To Do Research Responsibly”

The overarching goal is to present, promote, and showcase a subfield of DH that has recently reached — or seems to have reached — a critical point of its maturity. Known under the name of Computational Literary Studies, Digital Literary Studies, or Cultural Analytics, the field primarily revolves around computer-assisted analysis of literary sources. It was commenced by the groundbreaking initiative SIG-DLS (https://dls.hypotheses.org/), and then further developed by a few other endeavors, e.g. the CLS Priority Programme founded by DFG (https://dfg-spp-cls.github.io/), the JCLS journal (https://jcls.io/), the CCLS annual conference (https://jcls.io/site/conference/), the Journal of Cultural Analytics (https://culturalanalytics.org/), the CHR annual conference (https://computational-humanities-research.org/), the COST Action Distant Reading (https://www.distant-reading.net/), and the CLS INFRA project founded by Horizon2020 (https://clsinfra.io/).

The idea behind the workshop is to consolidate the already existing initiatives, and to share experiences between projects, centers, and scholars involved in DLS/CLS. The workshop program will be composed by a combination of invited talks, demo sessions, and lightning talks.

With this Call, we are inviting submissions for lightning talks (max. 5 minutes) on ongoing projects, research ideas, and infrastructures in DLS/CLS. Please send a 250-word abstract to simone.rebora@univr.it by 15 May 2024. Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee and notifications sent by 30 May 2024.

Organizing committee

Maciej Eder (CLS-Infra)
Joanna Byszuk (CLS-Infra and SIG-DLS)
Simone Rebora (SIG-DLS)
Berenike Herrmann (SIG-DLS)
Suzanne Mpouli (SIG-DLS)
Pablo Ruiz Fabo (SIG-DLS)

DH2023 Workshop – SIG-DLS Seven Years on (Program)

Posted on 19/06/2023 by Simone Rebora

Date: July 10, 13:30-17:00

Venue: University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 3, A-8010 Graz – Workshop Venue 5

First Session (13:30 – 14:15)

Chair: Simone Rebora

Benjamin Nagy, Metre Matters

Lightning talks

Szemes Botond, Patterns of Clause Relations in Narrative Fiction

Gabriele Vezzani, “Condemned to Nothing but Masterpieces”: Style and Success in the Literary Field

Shai Gordin and Avital Romach, Layers of Authorship in Cuneiform Texts

Second Session (14:15 – 15:15)

Chair: Joanna Byszuk

Veronica Mangiaterra, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Valentina Bambini, Literary Metaphors: Neurocognitive Characteristics and Diachronic Evolution

Yuki Kyogoku, Yuzuki Tsukagshi, So Miyagawa, and Kyoko Amano, Comparative Analysis of Vedic Sanskrit Documents Using Doc2Vec and Transformer Models

Andrea Nini, The Statistical Approximation Hypothesis: A Cognitive Linguistic Explanation for the Effectiveness of Function Word Frequency

Coffee Break

Third Session (15:35 – 16:40)

Chair: Pablo Ruiz Fabo

Peter Boot and Marijn Koolen, Computing and Interpreting Valence in Literary Studies

Andre Kasen and Lars Johnsen, From Verification to Attribution with Authorship Profiles

Lightning talks

So Miyagawa, Yuzuki Tsukagoshi, Yuki Kyogoku, and Kyoko Amano, Analyzing Text Similarity in Vedic Sanskrit Texts: A Bipartite Approach Using Stylometry and Text Reuse Detection

Katja Tereshko, Readers Response on Linguistic Features of the Literary Text

Keli Du, Julia Dudar, Christof Schöch, Investigating Measures of Distinctiveness for the Genre-Based Classification of Entire Novels

SIG member’s meeting (16:40 – 17:00)

DH2023 Workshop – SIG-DLS Seven Years on (CfP)

Posted on 15/03/2023 by Simone Rebora

Seven years have passed since the constitution of the ADHO Special Interest Group “Digital Literary Stylistics” (SIG-DLS). In the meantime, the research field has changed, with the advent of new methodologies (drawing on the constantly growing field of computational linguistics) and the affirmation of emerging theories and definitions (such as the modeling paradigm in “computational literary studies”). At the same time, some aspects and reference points have remained the same, such as the confirmed success of frequency-based approaches and the pivotal role of statistical methods.

With this workshop, we would like to provide a renewed overview of the field of Digital Literary Stylistics, in ideal dialogue with the seminal workshop organized at DH2016, which allowed the constitution of the SIG-DLS. We therefore open a Call for Papers to all related areas of research, including (and not limited to):

understanding and improving “classic” stylometric methods (between Delta and Zeta)
stylometric feature engineering (character n-grams, words, syntax, and beyond)
integration with advanced language models (e.g. word embeddings and Transformer models)
identifying the source(s) of stylistic difference (from authors to genres, epochs, and beyond)
style annotations (e.g. phenomenological dimension of style, gestalt annotations)
style in different contexts (e.g. social media style, style of artificial agents)
style in translation, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural style comparisons
style as reader/text interaction
style and complexity
style and quality
tools, platforms and infrastructures for digital literary stylistics
(FAIR) development and sharing of corpora and collections

To submit a contribution, please send a brief abstract for a 20-minute presentation (max 250 words) to simone.rebora@uni-mainz.de by 26 April 2023. All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the programme committee and notifications of acceptance will be sent by 8 May 2023.

SIG-DLS Bursary: for this year, SIG-DLS offers two bursaries (500 Euros each) to outstanding papers presented by early stage researchers. If you intend to apply, please add a short letter of motivation to your submission.

Organising & programme committee

Simone Rebora (University of Mainz)
Joanna Byszuk (Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Francesca Frontini (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli”, CNR Pisa)
Berenike Herrmann (Bielefeld University, Basel University)
Suzanne Mpouli (Paris Cité University)
Pablo Ruiz Fabo (University of Strasbourg)

DH2022 SIG Workshop – Not FAIR yet? Infrastructures for Digital Literary Stylistics under the global looking glass

Posted on 16/06/2022 by Simone Rebora

Single autodidacts, local labs, university centres, national, and transnational structures – there are many ways in which scholars pursue DLS projects. The global, diverse, and dynamic developments of the past few years alone have demonstrated that “DH infrastructures for Digital Literary Stylistics” is a timely topic.

Taking seriously this factor, the SIG DLS pre-conference workshop at the international conference DH2022 in Tokyo will ask about the current forms and functions of digital infrastructures for DLS, at a diverse global level.

What types of infrastructure are used by whom to what ends? What particular functions are used?
Where and why are scholars missing infrastructure?
And also: can there be too much emphasis on infrastructure in certain contexts?

In particular, we will try to apply the notion of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) and more broadly of Open Data best practices, including data citation to the DLS domain, with a critical perspective.

Research infrastructures, in particular in Europe, have provided tools and methods for the application of FAIR principles. ERICs such as CLARIN and DARIAH have been offering in particular data deposit (with persistent identifiers to cite collections), guidance for licences, standardised metadata, support for open standards, interoperable tools and platforms, access via single sign on, and also training to develop new competences for scholars. More recently the Computational Literary Studies (CLS) infrastructural project has been launched, as well as the German National research infrastructure text+, both of which aim to build a shared resource of high-quality data, tools and knowledge to aid new approaches to studying literature in the digital age.

At the same time, several problems still prevent data sharing, citation, reuse in DLS. These are of legal, technical, but also disciplinary nature. While European (or national) infrastructures may offer a partial solution to these problems, can we say that this is enough? And is it an exportable model?

In this workshop on 25 July 2022 we want to tackle the issues of making DLS research data FAIR, taking into account what RIs can offer but also the intrinsic limitations. We do so by inviting three short inputs, representing the perspectives of infrastructures and of researchers, followed by a discussion. Here, prompts from a forth speaker on the Japanese and East Asian research context will be given, addressing FAIR DLS from a diverse and global perspective.

We will also collect feedback from researchers prior to and during the meeting, and we envisage the possibility of a position paper on the issue after the conferece.

Program

10:00 – 10:30 UTC Short provoker keynotes (confirmed speakers: Maciej Eder, Suzanne Mpouli, Andrew Piper)

10:30 – 11:15 UTC Discussion with attendees (confirmed short provoker keynote by Chifumi Nishioka: Asian Diversity in DH)

11:15 – 11:30 UTC Wrap up

11:30 – 12:00 UTC SIG’s members’ meeting

Info and registration: https://dh2022.adho.org/workshops-and-tutorials

Organizers: Berenike Herrmann, Simone Rebora, Francesca Frontini, Anne-Sophie Bories

DHLab@GS UT Austin has DHLunches

Posted on 02/10/2020 by riesth

The Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is launching its Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab@GS) with a series of online Digital Humanities Lunch Talks (DHLunch@GS) in 2020-21 (Mondays, 1-2pm, CST).
The talks will feature a range of international scholars speaking about current Digital Humanities research perspectives in Germanic Studies and other Humanities disciplines.

The new DH Lab is a DH Hub at the Department of Germanic Studies and a DH meeting, research and learning space. It promotes, supports, develops and coordinates Digital Humanities research and teaching activities. The DHLab drives and supports the integration of Digital Humanities into the Germanic Studies curriculum, and serves as an on-campus hub enabling transdisciplinary DH projects and collaboration. Read more.

Attendance is online, and free, everybody is welcome. Please register for the events via the programme page.

Fall Sessions 2020

Oct 19, 1-2pm CST – Gabriel Viehhauser (Stuttgart University, Germany)
Openness and Restrictions in Digital Scholarly Editions
Oct 26, 1-2pm CST – Christof Schöch (Trier University, Germany)
How Could Digital Literary Historiography Work? Some Lessons Learned in the MiMoText Project
Nov 9, 1-2pm CST – Fabian Offert (University of California, Santa Barbara, US)
Critical Machine Vision as a (Digital) Humanities Challenge
Nov 16, 1-2pm CST – Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch (Mainz University, Germany):
Between Performance and Academia: The World of Digital Musical Editions
Nov 23, 1-2pm CST – Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
The Archives Unleashed Project: Lowering Barriers to Access through Community and Infrastructure

Spring Sessions 2021

Feb 8, 1-2pm CST – Gunther Martens, Lore De Greve (Ghent University, Belgium)
Sentiment Analysis of Online Literary Criticism: From Annotation to Text Mining
Feb 22, 1-2pm CST – Leif Weatherby (New York University, US)
Signs of Redundancy: On Digital Semiotics
Mar 8, 1-2pm CST – Nico Schüler (Texas State University, US)
Digital Performance Studies: Analyzing Expressiveness in Music Recordings
Mar 29, 1-2pm CST – Julia Nantke, Sandra Bläß, Marie Früh (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Dehmel Digital, or How to Access 36,000 Letters
Apr 12, 1-2pm CST – Berenike Herrmann (University of Basel, Switzerland / NN), Jana Lüdtke (FU Berlin, Germany)
Computational Sentiment Analysis of Fiction
Apr 19, 1-2pm CST – James Baker, Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex, UK)
Digital Humanities, Where Do We Go From Here? – A Conversation

Questions? Contact:
Thorsten Ries

“Tool Criticism 3.0” Workshop Moving Online!

Posted on 12/07/2020 by Simone Rebora

With DH2020 Ottawa converted into a Virtual Conference, the ADHO-Special Interest Group “Digital Literary Stylistics” (SIG-DLS) has decided to convert also its new Tool criticism workshop into an online, hybrid format.

First phase (asynchronous)

From Tuesday 14 July, we will publish the contributions by invited speakers on the “DH2020” Humanities Commons Group (where the main conference will take place).

Speaker	Title
Quinn Dombrowski	‘It doesn’t work’: failure and DH tools
Thierry Poibeau	It’s complicated! On Natural Language Processing Tools and Digital Humanities
Joanna Byszuk	Direct speech for multilingual corpora – some problems and one possible solution
Avery Blankenship	Coding the Bechdel Test for Nineteenth-Century Novels: Gender Classifiers and Scikit-Learn

These contributions will provide food for thought for an asynchronous discussion on Humanities Commons. The discussion thread will be open for the entire week before the official opening of the Conference.

Second phase (synchronous)

On Monday 20 July, at 3pm CEST, an online live event will take place on Zoom (at a link provided on the “DH2020” Humanities Commons Group), where invited respondents will discuss the contributions and open the discussion among participants. Here is a provisional schedule:

Time (CEST)	Activity	Respondents
15:00 – 15:15	Welcome. SIG’s activities overview
15:15 – 15:45	Paper 1 (Quinn Dombrowski)	Ted Underwood and Frank Fischer
15:45 – 16:15	Paper 2 (Thierry Poibeau)	Christof Schöch and Francesca Frontini
16:15 – 16:30	Virtual Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00	Paper 3 (Joanna Byszuk)	Suzanne Mpouli and Simone Rebora
17:00 – 17:30	Paper 4 (Avery Blankenship)	J. Berenike Herrmann and Simone Rebora
17:30 – 18:00	SIG’s members’ meeting

Of course, participation is free (you just have to register to the Conference and to Humanities Commons), so we are just waiting for you to join us!

SIG DLS Activities and COVID-19

Posted on 25/05/2020 by J. Berenike Herrmann

The global COVID-19 pandemic also affects the SIG DLS.

Our forthcoming Workshop on “Tool Criticism 3.0, originally scheduled for DH2020 at Ottawa, Canada, will not take place in in-person format. We will keep you posted as to new developments.

The SIG-DLS endorsed workshop “Finally, a Tool! Introducing CATMA for Identification and Metaphor Analysis with MIPVU,” originally scheduled for RaAM 2020 at Hamar, Norway, has been canceled.

CfP – Tool Criticism 3.0 Present, past, and future methods in Digital Literary Stylistics (DLS)

Posted on 25/02/2020 by Simone Rebora

After the success of the second edition in Utrecht, the ADHO-Special Interest Group “Digital Literary Stylistics” (SIG-DLS) organizes a new version of its Tool criticism workshop for DH2020 Ottawa. This year, it will be open to contributions of all interested researchers and it will also set a focus on historical tool criticism.
The main goal of the workshop is to provide more critical awareness on the use of tools in DLS.This type of tool criticism can only be stimulated in two ways: (a) by a direct confrontation with user feedback and reports,which usually remain “in the background” of research papers; (b) via reconstructions of the historical evolution of tools and methodologies (which are never a given, but are built on top of complex –and sometimes unpredictable– research paths). The workshop is a natural extension of the DLS Tool Inventory (DLS-TI), which gathers information on the practices of the various traditions present in DLS.
The workshop is scheduled for a pre-conference slot (the date pending confirmation). It will be structured as a mini-conference, where participants will be asked to present short critical reports (20 minutes each) on their use of tools in DLS. We encourage submissions on the following topics:

user interface criticism;
criticism of implied/hidden epistemologies (anatomy of tools);
theoretical tool criticism (e.g. issues in modeling);
historical tool criticism;
biases in DLS studies;
replication studies.

Submission details

Proposals should be sent by 15 April 2020 to simone.rebora@univr.it. They should contain a title and a brief abstract (max 300 words).
Also feel free to enter contributions to the DLS Tool Inventory (DLS-TI), if relevant.
Acceptances will be notified by 15 May, 2020.

Organization

Organizers: Simone Rebora (University of Verona & University of Basel), J. Berenike Herrmann (University of Basel), Francesca Frontini (UPVM & Praxiling), Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta), and Thierry Poibeau (CNRS & LATTICE)

Scientific committee: Anne-Sophie Bories (University of Basel), Julia Flanders (Northeastern University), Francesca Frontini (UPVM & Praxiling), J. Berenike Herrmann (University of Basel), Thomas C. Messerli (University of Basel), Thierry Poibeau (CNRS & LATTICE) , Simone Rebora (University of Verona & University of Basel), Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta), Jan Rybicki (Jagiellonian University), and Peter Verhaar (Leiden University).

Registration

Please note that all participants and attendees will need to be registered for DH 2020. Full-day workshop registration for participants costs $70CAD and includes lunch.
Conference registration information can be found here: https://dh2020.adho.org/registration/

Digital Literary Studies (SIG-DLS)

Official Web page for the ADHO Special Interest Group (SIG) in Digital Literary Studies