Can AI help us read *more closely*?
At #CCLS2026, Ruth Ahnert explored how LLMs might support a computationally-powered form of reading focused on textual context, surprise, and interpretation—challenging the old distant-vs-close reading divide.
🎥 Keynote recording:
https://videoup.uni-potsdam.de/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9af4f4bc-cfb0-4c09-a70b-b46500f7cc9a
Maria Levchenko asks one of the big questions in the room: “What can #LLM #embeddings do for literary studies?” Claiming that "Embeddings are not stochastic parrots."
Her paper also reuses the “PoeTree” corpus referred to in the previous talk provided by Plecháč et al. https://versologie.cz/poetree/
#Reusability #Community #JCLS #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS2026
#CCLS2026: Snacks & drinks on the rooftop terrace @dh_potsdam. The view could be worse. ☀️
#ComputationalLiteraryStudies #LiteraryComputing #JCLS #CCLS goes Potsdam
Interested in Computational Literary Studies? Then it might be worth following #CCLS2026 today and tomorrow, folks!
@peertrilcke "And 'schwups' here we are!", welcoming the #ComputationalLiteraryStudies community to #CCLS2026 at Potsdam, @dh_potsdam
🚆 On my way to #CCLS2026, organized by the @dh_potsdam team under the umbrella of @jcls!
You can find the program and the conference reader with complete but preliminary versions of all papers to be presented here: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2026/
And in case that is not enough reading material, of course our five issues of papers, published over the last five years, are available here: https://jcls.io/issues/
#Potsdam #CLS #ComputationalLiteraryStudies @peertrilcke @EvelynGius #Conference
RE: https://fedihum.org/@jcls/116645567138979434
On my way to Potsdam atm!!! 🚌🚂🚋 🔜 🏰👩💻💬
Super excited to see you all in person so very soon! 🤩
#CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing #Conference #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #JCLS
Wonderful to be at the opening of the conference on "Plot and Genre in Computational Literary Studies" at the Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität (ZPD) at Würzburg University.
Here is Katrin Dennerlein opening the conference!
See the program here: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/zpd/veranstaltungen/plot-genre/
#DigitalHumanities #CLS #ComputationalLiteraryStudies
@fotis_jannidis @cnDuKeli @EvelynGius @SvenjaGuhr @TedUnderwood @rebsim @jcls
Wie lassen sich wichtige und häufig zitierte Textstellen in literarischen Texten finden? Was bedeutet das für literaturwissenschaftliche Interpretationen?
Frederik Arnold und Robert Jäschke präsentieren am 4. Mai 2026 um 14:30 Uhr die von ihnen entwickelten Methoden zur Text-Reuse-Detection. Weitere Informationen und die Möglichkeit zur Online-Anmeldung finden sich hier: https://www.it.fu-berlin.de/unsere-services/kompetenzentwicklung/fortbildungen/workshops/E-Research/2026-05-04-Text-Reuse-Detection.html.
Digital Humanities Uni Potsdam
JCLS
Christof S. 🇪🇺
Svenja Guhr
Federico Pianzola
IBI HU Berlin