Svenja Guhr

Yuri presents his dream and nightmare visions of generative narratology

"The nightmare of generative narratology" - "A sea of blah"... 🌊 Will we drown? #GenerativeLLM #StoryTelling

Yuri presents on Literature as Emotional Technology

Are stories machines that make us feel? Yuri Bizzoni rethinks #SentimentAnalysis in #CLS in his talk at Atelier: "Narratologie et humanités numériques", ENS Paris/Sorbonne nouvelle

We're thrilled to see our publication out this week! 🥳
#JCLS is such a great place to publish our project results.
Many thanks to the editorial team for the quick publication process and for the great discussion at #CCLS2025!

--> #Code&Data can be found here:
github.com/literarylab/...

Exciting to see my publication with @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social in #JCLS 4(1)! It's been such a great journey discovering #DomesticSpace in 19th-Century #English-language #fiction and presenting our results at #CCLS2025. 🏡🚢🏙️🌉

✍️ Mark your calendars - here are the important dates:
🏰 CCLS26 takes place from 28-29, 2026, at the @unipotsdam.bsky.social, Germany;
🗓️ Deadline for submissions: January 8, 2026;
🔜 Submissions open: starting November 3, 2025.
jcls.io/site/dates/

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 5th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, May 28-29, 2026, in #Potsdam, #Germany! #CCLS26 #CfP

Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Journal of Computational Literary Studies has the most beautiful journal design — and such a great team behind it! Happy and honoured to be published here: bsky.app/profile/jcls... Many thanks to everyone involved! 💙

🚨 News alert!
Want to publish a #CLS journal article in < 8 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, a preprint at the conference, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design?

We're excited to announce that the first article from this year's JCLS conference track has just been published! 🚀

First page of JCLS Article by Maria Levchenko

- Methodology & results on JCLS 4(1): doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
A model for studying cultural communities far beyond St. Petersburg.

#DigitalHumanities #CulturalNetworkAnalysis #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS

Open Data & Code
- Dataset (15k+ events) on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1375...
- Processing pipeline & analysis tools on GitHub: github.com/mary-lev/lit...

Heat map of St Petersburg

How do literary communities actually form?
@maria-lev.bsky.social analyzes the networks of collaboration and aesthetic affinity that are documented through cultural events — e.g. readings, book launches, festivals. These real-world networks often remain invisible in text-based literary history.

Network Visualization of 20 years of literary life in St. Petersburg

The study maps 20 years of literary life in St. Petersburg (1999–2019) analyzing events as community-structuring mechanisms.
📊 15,012 events · 11,777 participants · 862 venues · over 100,000 attendance records

@maria-lev.bsky.social’s "Computational Analysis of Literary Communities. Event-Based Social Network Study of St. Petersburg 1999-2019" is now live in the "Journal of Computational Literary Studies" 4(1)
👉 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

DraCor frontpage as of 2 September 2025.

About to start the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025.

A full day dedicated to TEI-encoded drama corpora. @teiconsortium.bsky.social

We host 30 (!) community-curated corpora, overview:
dracor.org/doc/corpora

Programme for today (18 presentations 🤯):
summit.dracor.org/corpora_conf...

Capitalist LLMs are eating our smart & open humanities data and mashing it into gigantic word porridge... How can we reverse it? — @peertrilcke.bsky.social speaks about the MCP-empowered LLM Usage of #DraCor (or "How to teach Claude use the DraCor API")
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.13774
#DraCorSummit

Logo of DraCorSummit 2025

The very first #DraCorSummit kicked off today 🎭 a full week dedicated to computational drama analysis!
We’re excited to be a partner of this event. Selected papers will appear in a special issue on computational drama analysis in #JCLS (2026).
Stay tuned! #CLS #DramaAnalysis #DraCor @dracor.org

Logo for the DraCor Summit 2025 taking place in Berlin.

Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–5 September 2025!

summit.dracor.org

Discover a varied programme feat. workshops, lectures, discussion rounds, and hackathon sessions.

@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

The registration for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin is open until 20 August. Register soon!

(You may also participate in some parts of the programme online.)

#DH #CLS #ClassicsBluesky #LitWiss
@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

Mehr Infos findet ihr unter www.moorliteratur.de

Wie sieht das Moor aus? Noch bis zum 15. August könnt ihr uns eure schönsten Moorbilder schicken. Die besten Einsendungen werden als Illustration der Mooranthologie aufgenommen, die im oekom-Verlag erscheinen wird. Die besten drei erhalten zudem ein Preisgeld (1. Platz: 3.000 €, 2.: 1.000, 3.: 500€)

Last week, our PLANS project presented at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 - @haimostiemer.bsky.social‬ and @hanshatzel.bsky.social‬ shared our approach to thematic text analysis based on semantic verb classes in German literary texts. 🧵👇 (1/4)

📢 Public service announcement: if you were part of the #DH2025 / @dh2025 crowd, now is the time to become part of the #DH2026 crowd as well by following @dh2026daejeon !

Thank you so much for this, @hkpmw.bsky.social!
Sorry you're missing the fun!!! I manually annotated 10/50 — they were hilarious reads! 🤠💃🔥🕵️‍♀️👨‍🚒👔👩‍⚖️

@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social #dh2025 @mpuren.bsky.social @floriancafiero.bsky.social are discussing text analysis of Colette to look into author attribution. Using (the best named model) CamemBERT among other LLMs to identify jokes.

Now we are searching for very small & special phenomena in very large amounts of data using texts by Colette with Florian Cafiero & Marie Puren at #DH2025. This very much reminds me of our search for unusual gender depictions in the m*w & @diversitykorpus.bsky.social projects (👀 @mflueh.bsky.social)

Locations for next ADHO conferences:
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !

dh2026.adho.org

#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028

Luca presenting his PhD thesis as one of the three exhibits to Operationalizing Dramatic Texts

In his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts", @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presents 3 exhibits, including his recently completed PhD thesis on the "Formal Development of Early Modern European Drama". Congratulations! 🎓 #PhDone #CLS #Drama #Operationalization

Luca presenting at the DH2025

What are the key components of a #play? 🎭
#DH2025: @lucagiovannini.bsky.social takes us on a tour through centuries of thinking from #Aristotle’s #Poetics, through Russian formalism, to modern literary theory and unpacks the question offering a fresh perspective.
#drama #operationalization #CLS

Luca Giovannini presenting at DH2025

#DH2025: Last session before the keynote, @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presents his approach to operationalizing dramatic texts. Tracing key components of plays from #Aristotle to Russian #Formalism to modern literary theory, he investigates how to #operationalize plays using #vectorization. 🎭 #drama