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New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 📢
We’re excited to announce “Do Large Language Models Understand Literature? Case Studies and Probing Experiments on German Poetry” by @fotisjannidis.bsky.social, Kleymann, @julianschroeter.bsky.social & Zinsmeister. doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4225
#JCLS #CLS #LLM #Poetry
10.12.2025 17:57 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Zwei neue LMU-Projekte im Akademienprogramm der BAdW
Ein Vorhaben zur arabischen Überlieferung des Alten Testaments sowie ein Vorhaben zum Werk des Philosophen Rudolf Carnap werden 2026 im Akademienprogramm ihre Arbeit aufnehmen.
🙌 Zwei neue #LMU-Projekte im Akademienprogramm der #BAdW: Ein Vorhaben zur arabischen Überlieferung des Alten Testaments sowie ein Vorhaben zum Werk des Philosophen Rudolf Carnap werden 2026 im Akademienprogramm der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften ihre Arbeit aufnehmen.
05.12.2025 10:40 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The median academic opinion about AI has been
2017: quant methods are no use for qualitative problems
2021: these models are just parroting memorized phrases
2025: now that they do everything, higher ed is doomed
So, if you're depressed right now, remember: we're almost certainly wrong! +
04.12.2025 14:26 — 👍 96 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 1
Sadly, we're only able to remember minority mistakes.
The mistakes of majorities are shadowy, elusive, as hard to remember as last night's dreams. Come to think of it, were they mistakes at all? No, on second thought, it was very complicated at the time, and perhaps we were right in principle.
04.12.2025 14:26 — 👍 32 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
(Seriously, though: we've memory-holed how confidently wrong people were on this topic, because it's a case where *most of us* were confidently wrong. We should adjust priors so a lot more of the probability mass is on "I don't know" and "I could well be surprised.")
04.12.2025 15:00 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
How do you handle this problem: You are interviewed and asked about the future of–let's say the humanities or literature–and you outline scenarios but are eventually reported in public such that ''the probability mass on 'I don't know''' is mostly erased (because people want to know the future)?
04.12.2025 15:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
„Wenn wir KI als Kulturtechnologie begreifen, könnten wir uns auch mit der Frage beschäftigen, wie sich KI-Unterstützung und menschliche Kreativität in eine überzeugenden Synthese bringen lassen“, sagt Julian Schröter @julianschroeter.bsky.social im Interview des LMU-Forschungsmagazins.
03.12.2025 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
For the current issue, I gave an interview on #AI and #authorship.
03.12.2025 12:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ulrike Henny-Krahmer und ich laden zur Fotsetzung des Workshops "Digitale Gattungshermeneutik: Gattungen in Kontexten", am 27. und 28.11. in Rostock ein: mit @svenjaguhr.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy , @fotisjannidis.bsky.social , Keli Du , Katrin Dennerlin, Julia Röttgermann und anderen: #CLS
18.11.2025 09:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Planned Research Projects
Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.
A large number of doctoral and post-doctoral positions in the cluster of excellence "cross-cultural philology" at LMU Munich including computational and digital projects: www.lmu.de/crosscultura....
24.09.2025 05:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you @christophheilig.bsky.social for making this fabulous workshop on the relationships between narrative and AI real!
26.06.2025 14:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I am very much looking forward to co-hosting this event at the @badw.de on June 26. I will also present insights from my own research on narration and AI storytellers. @julianschroeter.bsky.social, professor for digital literary studies at the LMU, will likewise contribute.
16.06.2025 13:54 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Aus dem Rant von A.L. Kennedy in der SZ:
Elon Musks permanente Sichtbarkeit schadet dem Kult um seine Person. Selbst wir Briten hassen ihn
Elon Musk, Nepo-Baby der Apartheid und Imperator des Fragilen Weißen Egos, ist natürlich die größte Bedrohung für alles und alle, überall. Jetzt, da Trump wieder im Weißen Haus sitzt, beansprucht Elon die Vormachtstellung, nach der er sich immer gesehnt hat. So wie Trump die Billigversion eines reichen Mannes ist, ist Elon die Idiotenversion eines Genies. Beide Männer wurden als Kinder von lieblosen und wenig liebenswerten Vätern schikaniert, beide sind zu promisken, nihilistischen Narzissten ohne Freunde herangewachsen, alles, was sie anfassen, vergiften und zerstören sie. Doch mit je mehr Energie Musk Twitter in den Propagandasender X verwandelt, desto mehr Nutzer verliert er.
"So wie Trump die Billigversion eines reichen Mannes ist, ist Elon die Idiotenversion eines Genies."
Alison Louise Kennedy in der SZ
(siehe Alt-Text)
22.01.2025 11:19 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
I haven’t known, however, that the green button is the solution for: "Seek the Lord while he may be found"
05.12.2024 11:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dennerlein, Katrin | Germanic Studies | University of Illinois Chicago
University of Illinois ChicagoUniversity of Illinois ChicagoExpand Programs men...
Today, there is a conference organized by Katrin Dennerlein and Patrick Fortmann: “Rewriting Literary History With Algorithms”. german.uic.edu/profiles/den... (also virtual). My (virtual) contributions aims to add some nuance to perspective modeling (@tedunderwood.me): genre as political practice.
14.11.2024 15:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Siarad Cymraeg ...
& tief im Westen 😊😍🎧🎶🎶
Moin!
#Forschungsdaten "und andere Geschichten" ... #RDM #ResearchData #FAIRdata
A good 2026!
🎓 Wissenschaftlerin & 💬 Kommunikatorin
📚 Forschung: Boxliteratur | Ernährung | Weltanschauungsroman. PD @unibonn.bsky.social
👩🏫 #WissKomm & #HistorischeSemantik @wortgeschichte.bsky.social, @nawg.bsky.social
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Digital Humanities Software Engineer
doing NLP, statistics, coding, and similar stuff;
Computational Literary Studies @ Universität Würzburg;
https://anton.ehrmanntraut.de
https://clsinfra.io
Building a shared and sustainable infrastructure for literary studies in the digital age. Funded by @HorizonEU (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 101004984)
Digital Humanities Network
University of Potsdam, Germany
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/
Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; phd'd Stanford English, alum of Literary Lab. I make data about culture and write about forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history.
Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Prof at TU Darmstadt, director of @fortextlab.bsky.social, editor @jcls-io.bsky.social.
Digital Humanities | Computational Literary Studies | Annotation (with @catma.bsky.social) | Operationalization | Narrative Theory | Events, Plot, Conflict
https://federicopianzola.me
I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @rug.nl
ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
processing cultural data for research & researchers
OER developer at Uni Potsdam (@dhpotsdam), DraCor co-founder & co-editor
A collaborative research community at @princeton.edu that advances computational and data-intensive humanities scholarship to create a more just future. #HumanitiesforAI
Website: https://cdh.princeton.edu/
Newsletter: cdh.princeton.edu/news/newsletter
Computational Linguists—Natural Language—Machine Learning
Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities.
Assistant professor Digital Humanities and Information Science @UniGroningen.bsky.social @GroNLP.bsky.social https://andreasvc.github.io/
Postdoc in Digital Humanities | Università di Verona & RWTH Aachen
Digital Humanist and Professor of Spatial Humanities, King's College London (@kingsdh.bsky.social). Also: Head of Humanities, @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Various other things too, e.g. @folkloresociety.bsky.social Council Member.
https://stuartdunn.blog
Researcher of fandom studies, fanfiction, computational literary studies and literary reception. Currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Views are my own.