Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21)

Looking forward to #cads2026 with two presentations:

📚 "Body, movement and sensation in fanfiction on Jane Austen" with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social & @michamahlberg.bsky.social

🏛️ "A Multivariate Analysis of Quotation in German Parliamentary Debates"

An analysis tree of the concordance for "Christmas" in CLiC's interface for FlexiConc showing three algorithms: partition by n-grams, partition by metadata attribute, KWIC grouper ranker

Merry Christmas from the RC21 team!

Stay tuned for updates in the first few months of the new year. In the meantime, our analysis tree offers a reusable and environmentally friendly literary alternative to the biological version.

clic-fiction.com/flexiconc

YouTube video by Digital Humanities and Social Studies - FAU Text and Language - Logo Reveal

The Text and Language Research Group, led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, has just revealed its newly designed in-house logo! Created to reflect our identity in the DH, @dhssfau.bsky.social

More about the design in the description of our one-minute reveal film.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol8q...

CliC, CliC, CliC...📚🖥
Participants learned a great deal by using a powerful digital tool like Clic to analyze #gender in #19th-century #fiction with concordance analysis, all run by Dr. Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social.

#DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities #FAU
#CliC

We wouldn't want to pick favourites among #RC21 workshops, but if we did, the #DHSS2025 participants would be tough to beat.

It was great to see such lively discussions during a hands-on concordance analysis exercise that didn't need anything more than a PDF reader.

Eight now in our Summer School on Data, Gender and Society @nfdykes.bsky.social is introducing hands on examples of concordance analysis with flexiconc.
#DHSS2025

Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading
#DHSS2025
@rc21project.bsky.social

May be of interest of attendees at the #RC21symposium by
@rc21project.bsky.social, where Susan gave a wonderful talk on a very related topic back in spring ☺️

Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society If you are attending the FAU Innovation Days (view details), you have the opportunity to register for the keynote talks. Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led…

How can concordances help us study gender in 19th-century fiction?
In just a couple of weeks, @nfdykes.bsky.social represents #RC21 at #DHSS2025 to explore with participants how FlexiConc contributes to #DataGenderSociety!

go.fau.de/1cadb

If you're attending Konvens 2025 at Hildesheim, don't miss our tutorial on Reading Concordances with Algorithms tomorrow, where we talk about our mathematical framework and given some background on the FlexiConc library. konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle... @rc21project.bsky.social

The next #RC21 workshop is just around the corner: "FlexiConc: Reading Concordances with algorithms" on Tuesday, September 9 as part of #KONVENS2025 in Hildesheim. We hope to meet many of you there!

🔗 konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle...

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

If you're currently at #CMC2025 (listening to Stephanie's keynote), do check out the talk later this afternoon by Andreas Blombach, Stephanie Evert, Linda Havenstein & Philipp Heinrich:
"Dimensions of Drivel in German Telegram Posts: Manual Annotation and Predictive Power"

On day 3 of our Reading Concordances course at #ESSLLI2025, @michamahlberg.bsky.social is ready to go hands-on with FlexiConc in CLiC. Teaching materials available soon at github.com/reading-conc... CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Happening next week, August 4-8! 👩‍💻

Digital Humanities Summer School Waiting List now open!!!

Sign up now!

#DHSS #FAU #dhss25

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Digital Humanities Conference 2025 in Lisbon 🤩

Big thanks to the amazing organizers @adho-org.bsky.social, and special appreciation to @sabinelang.bsky.social, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social , Dominik Kremer, and @nfdykes.bsky.social for representing DHSS!

After the most recent #RC21 talk at #DH2025, the next workshop is already coming up in a couple of weeks: "Reading Concordances: A Training Course in Key Corpus Linguistics Methodology" taught by @schtepf.bsky.social and @michamahlberg.bsky.social as part of #ESSLLI2025!

🔗 go.fau.de/1c-eh

I'm presenting the results of my PhD this afternoon – feel free to join us if you're interested in discourse analysis, research methodology, or wondering what I've been doing all these years 😅

What a joy! Thank you for the invitation @gavinbrookes.bsky.social

Join us in Lancaster!
#CADS2026

@fau.de #MovingKnowledge

"The times they are a-changing: a mini-conference on temporal data in DH" programme schedule for a pre-conference event at DH2025

Continuing on the theme of an event-filled summer, #RC21 are excited to present tomorrow on how to analyse concordances to identify temporal trends in water-related political debates – and to hear all the other fantastic talks, of course!
#dh2025

Also, by the time 2040 starts tomorrow evening, Bluesky will surely have an edit function so we can correct our typo in the initial post!

Thursday, July 10
💡 “Digital hermeneutics: Reading concordances with algorithms” presented by
@schtepf.bsky.social and @nfdykes.bsky.social

Friday, July 11:
🔑 Keynote by
@michamahlberg.bsky.social
„Corpus linguistics and storytelling: Data and connections“

Right after CL2025 #RC21 team we're about to head to CL2040 – time really does fly!

www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/pb-s...

⏳ Only 10 days left to sign up for our #DHSS25 Summer School!

Seize this unique chance to enhance your Digital Humanities skills and enjoy insightful discussions on the theme #DataGenderSociety ☀️

👉 Secure your spot now: go.fau.de/1c-ac

#FAU #DigitalHumanities

Big reveal 🥁
Here is the second keynote speaker for our #DHSS25 summer school (22 - 26 Sept 2025)

Prof. Mareike Schumacher
@mkschumacher.bsky.social will talk about

" #Corpus compilation and gender-sensitive analysis"

Join us @fau.de in September!

& don't forget to apply for a travel bursary

We‘ve kept the best for last at #cl2025: @nfdykes.bsky.social shows how our research in @rc21project.bsky.social enables analysts to read concordances at scale using FlexiConc and neural sentence embeddings.

Stephanie Evert standing next to a concordance of the word "coffee"

In the first part of the "Reading concordances with algorithms" workshop, @schtepf.bsky.social introduces us to her favourite concordance ☕
#cl2025 #rc21

Now that I finally caught a flight to BHX I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s #RC21 workshop at #cl2025. In addition to these two contributions, I will also be talking about bootstrapping, multivariate analysis, legal tech, and comparative discourse studies!

A screenshot of FlexiConc used through a web app. Concordance of "Birmingham" showing common n-grams in literary corpora. The results show that "at Birmingham" is preceded by terms like "outbreak" and "riot", while "to Birmingham" looks more positive.

We're much looking forward to a busy #cl2025 for #RC21: workshop on Sunday and presentation on Thursday!

(Let's skip the riots, though)