The mini-conference will take place on July 28, 2026 (afternoon, KST) and will include lightning talks and an interactive poster session.
Please submit a 300–500 word abstract (excluding references) as one PDF file by April 30, 2026.
Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2026.
Submissions: Christof Schöch — [email protected]
Inquiries: Simone Rebora — [email protected]
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This mini-conference explores the intersections of Digital/Computational Literary Studies and Comparative Literature.
We welcome contributions on topics including digital methods in comparative literature, multilingual and multicultural approaches, generative AI and literary studies, computational linguistics for literary analysis, tools and infrastructures, theoretical and methodological innovation, born-digital and post-digital literature, and responsible research practices.
The call for our new event at DH2026 Daejeon is now out!
At the Digital Humanities Conference 2026 in Daejeon, South Korea, the ADHO SIG-DLS and the ICLA Digital Comparative Literature (DCL) Research Committee jointly invite submissions for a mini-conference titled:
Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today
More info:
https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2026/dh-mini-conference.html
📣 AILC–ICLA Annual Lecture 2025
Join us on 20 November 2025, 13:00–14:30 UTC for Prof. Karina van Dalen-Oskam’s lecture “Perceptions of Literariness Across Borders.”
She will present insights from two major projects—The Riddle of Literary Quality and Novel Perceptions—exploring how readers evaluate 400 contemporary novels and how genre, gender, translation, and linguistic features shape perceptions of literariness.
📍 Online | Open to all
👉 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/the-ailc-icla-annual-lecture-2025-tickets-1837895437729
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be sent via the submission form by April 25, 2025. Two formats are available:
Lightning Talk (5 min): Short presentation of a project or idea (max 250 words).
Demo (15 min): Interactive presentation of a tool or workflow (max 500 words). Supporting materials (e.g., notebooks, videos) can be included.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Acceptance notifications will be sent by May 2, 2025.
Conference Schedule & Topics
The program will take place on Monday, July 14, 2025, from 13:30 to 20:00 WET. It will feature lightning talks and demos on topics including:
Distant reading techniques in a comparative literary context.
Multilingual literary archives and text digitization.
The transformation of books and reading in the digital age.
GIS and data visualization in comparative literature.
Machine translation and AI in literary studies.
Language models in comparative literature.