Leaving #Seoul after an intense week!

The #ICLA2025 Congress was a blast. I especially enjoyed our "Digital Comparative Literature" sessions; great discussions! And the round table on responsible use of generative LLMs turned out really great as well, with a rather large audience.

The only less-than-great thing was that, unsurprisingly, I think I was basically the only one posting about the event here, with @icla_dcl / @rebsim. 😞

#DigitalHumanities #Comparative Literature #CLS

Now at #ICLA2025, the special session "Celebrating Han Kang's Nobel Prize Award" in the Grand Ballroom.

Sadly, a missed opportunity for the international visibility of the session and its hero: talks appear to be in #Korean with just the first lines of the abstract in #English shown on the screen. That's quite reductive, I can only suppose. And I have read the abstracts already.

Infos: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=1030&mode=table

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Kang

#NobelPrize #HanKang #multilingualism

We're now in the middle of the special roundtable session on "Living With Machines: Comparative Literature, AI, and the Ethics of Digital Imagination".

I'll speak briefly about different kinds of AI (generative LLMs, non-generative LLMs, deep learning, machine learning); when to use which, and most important, when NOT to use LLMs; as well as some best practices for #transparency, #reproducibility and #sustainability in this context.

Details: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=1031&mode=table

#ICLA2025 #Seoul #LLMs

Our "Digital Comparative Literature" track is in full swing today, with the first session about #Latour and #AI, about "Digital World Literature" and about the scholarly publishing landscape in the humanities, which urgently needs to catch up with the scholar-led, Diamond OA movement...

Details of the talks: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=811&mode=table

#ICLA2025 @icla_dcl #DiamondOA #WorldLiterature

Very fitting for #ICLA2025, just came across this article on writing poetry between two languages:

"Moving between cities and tongues, poet Tim Tim Cheng wants to put Hong Kong’s writing on the map" in Hong Kong Free Pres.
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/27/writing-between-cities-poet-tim-tim-cheng-wants-to-put-hong-kong-on-the-map/ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/27/writing-between-cities-poet-tim-tim-cheng-wants-to-put-hong-kong-on-the-map/