📢 The Call for Papers for #CHR2027 is live! The 7th Conference on Computational Humanities Research takes place in Manchester, UK, 5–8 January 2027.
The submission deadline is 14 August 2026 – mark your calendars and get your work in! 👉
Infinite Digest samizdat.co/digest/ "An illustrated companion to David Foster Wallace’ Infinite Jest" via @mattmuir.bsky.social Here's a visualization of all the damn footnotes samizdat.co/digest/notes/
The #DH2026 keynote speakers have been announced and we are happy to share the DigiTS PI Maciej Eder, winner of the 2026 Antonio Zampolli Prize has been selected as one of the main speakers. See you in South Korea! 🎉
On May 6-8, we are organising a workshop on Network Analysis in the Humanities. Registration is now open!
Speakers include M. Romanello from University of Zurich & M. Eder, B. Szemes & T. D. Oliveira from the DigiTS team at University of Tartu. See more: digits.ut.ee/network-anal...
Our Researcher in Digital Humanities, @botondszemes.bsky.social spoke about Central European literary memory as reflected in Wikipedia and the possible use of LLMs in cleaning Wikidata query results on a workshop Vienna on January 23rd, focusing on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and literary studies.
My colleagues and I are working on NeoLatDraCor within the #DraCor infrastructure. Starting in January, we will have monthly co-working encoding sessions to further grow this corpus of #NeoLatin drama. If you would like to join, feel free to contact us.
github.com/dracor-org/n...
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A bit eclectic, but a rich collection on Cultural Evolution: Language and Literature in the Hungarian journal Helikon, which focuses on contemporary developments. It's in Hungarian, but it has an English table of contents.
![Line graph showing the history of different types of '[adjective] reading' in Anglophone literary studies from 1920-2020. The x-axis represents publication decades, while the y-axis shows the percent of '[adjective] reading' instances in literary studies journals as a 9-decade moving average. Multiple colored lines track various reading methodologies over time. 'Close reading' shows the most dramatic rise, peaking around 2010 at approximately 18% (33 times its 1920s usage). 'Original reading' dominated the 1920s at 7.6% but declined to 0.5% by the 2010s. Other notable methodologies include 'careful reading' (peaked 1960s), 'critical reading' (peaked 1980s), 'wide reading' (1920s), 'correct reading' (1930s), 'new reading' (1950s), 'feminist reading' (1990s), 'textual reading' (2000s), 'distant reading' (2010s), and 'nuanced reading' (2010s). Each labeled point includes the decade of peak usage, the percentage at peak, and the ratio compared to its lowest-usage decade. Data sourced from JSTOR across seven leading literary studies journals including PMLA, Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, ELH, Modern Language Review, Review of English Studies, and Modern Philology.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:llsfba2zryavs4uunglknwie/bafkreicyi6bsqxkrmjstwbyxfvis33j2wxatye2t2dh5fva5pk46xw6n7y)
Line graph showing the history of different types of '[adjective] reading' in Anglophone literary studies from 1920-2020. The x-axis represents publication decades, while the y-axis shows the percent of '[adjective] reading' instances in literary studies journals as a 9-decade moving average. Multiple colored lines track various reading methodologies over time. 'Close reading' shows the most dramatic rise, peaking around 2010 at approximately 18% (33 times its 1920s usage). 'Original reading' dominated the 1920s at 7.6% but declined to 0.5% by the 2010s. Other notable methodologies include 'careful reading' (peaked 1960s), 'critical reading' (peaked 1980s), 'wide reading' (1920s), 'correct reading' (1930s), 'new reading' (1950s), 'feminist reading' (1990s), 'textual reading' (2000s), 'distant reading' (2010s), and 'nuanced reading' (2010s). Each labeled point includes the decade of peak usage, the percentage at peak, and the ratio compared to its lowest-usage decade. Data sourced from JSTOR across seven leading literary studies journals including PMLA, Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, ELH, Modern Language Review, Review of English Studies, and Modern Philology.
The relative usages of "[adjective] reading" in Anglophone literary studies journals, 1920-2020. Made for my "Prac Crit" course next term, "[Adjective] Reading". Interactive version here: public.tableau.com/views/Adject...
The building of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt
I got wonderful news: I was granted a position of Max Planck independent group leader at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics ⬇️ (@ae.mpg.de) in Frankfurt, which I'll join in early 2026. It's a huge honor: being trusted with academic freedom offered by MPG. My group will study the evolution of arts. 1/3
DigiTS has been selected as the Project of the Year 2025 by the University of Tartu Faculty of Arts and Humanities! 🎉 Thank you for the recognition- it’s wonderful to see our impact reaching beyond our own Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics.
#CHR2025 is off to a pretty great start with some very interesting findings by Federica Bologna et al.
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Two of the lightning talks in #CHR2025
1. Spatial imagination in European poetry - presentation by @tonyamart.bsky.social and @artjomshl.bsky.social
2. Network of CEE based on "memory scores" derived from number of Wikipedia articles
Useful paper on (un)certainties in community detection in networks: Cluster Ambiguity in Networks as Substantive Knowledge in #CHR2025
Very low dependency management for support repos in CHR papers!
Also accompanying code was available in only ~40% of papers.
Insightful talk reflecting on our community practices. #chr25
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Last week at WoLaLa 2025 on LLMs in practice: wolala.nytud.hu
cool!
📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
Today in Bratislava on stylometric analysis of Hungarian novels
On Oct 1, we were joined by Botond Szemes (PhD in Literary Studies). His research explores computational approaches to literature, including stylometry, quantitative drama analysis and network theory, as well as the role of statistical methods and data visualization in knowledge production. Welcome!
On Oct 9-10, a conference on Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics is taking place in Tartu! Today, J. Wilbur is presenting his recent work on Pite Sámi and 3 of our new people- S. Kriuchkova, B. Szemes and B. Bhattacharyya are presenting their 📈 research posters. More info at medal.ut.ee! Welcome!
The DraCor Summit starts today! summit.dracor.org
#dracor #dracorsummit
