Team Potsdam enjoying the #DHd2026 reception in Uni Wien's stunning Groรer Festsaal ๐ฅ Great conference, great people!
Posts by Luca Giovannini
CCLS2026 Call for Posters
One week left for submitting a poster proposal for #CCLS2026! #CallForPosters ๐ 03.03.26
Neues Palais, Potsdam
๐๏ธ Mark your calendars!
#CCLS2026 will take place in beautiful #Potsdam ๐ฐ on May 28-29. Join us in person ๐ฅ or online ๐ป to discuss cutting-edge research in #CLS.
๐๐ป๐ jcls.io/site/ccls2026/
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social #DH #LiteraryComputing
poster, code&culture talk by manuel burghardt
๐ This semester, our #Code&Culture lecture series will have a focus on #DigitalEnvironmentalHumanities. Our first guest will be @manuelburghardt.bsky.social with a talk titled "Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale".
Register here: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-h...
๐ Just launched the #DigitalHumanities Early Career Fellowship at @unipotsdam.bsky.social โ
In the first class, we turned historical sources into data with OCR, discussed โwhat counts as dataโ in the humanities, did some metadata modeling, and met a wonderful new cohort of young researchers!
#DH
#tb to last week's #DraCorSummit โ grateful to all presenters, attendees, and organisers for a week full of inspiring exchanges on computational drama analysis โจ @dracor.org @dhpotsdam.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Shakespeare is beaten by a student assistant! ๐ฒ
The 3rd World Championship in #battleoftheplays (formerly #dramenquartett) took place at the #DraCorSummit. 20 participants competed in intense matches โ after a thrilling finale, Tabeer Khilji of @unipotsdam.bsky.social took the cup home! ๐ ๐ #dracor
Luca @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presenting the English Drama Corpus within #DraCor โ and showing what can be built on top of it with the DraCor API: in this case, a map of all locations mentioned in 435 English plays (1550sโ1700s)
#DraCorSummit
dracor.org/eng
Title slide of the keynote presentation.
Wonderful keynote by Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) at #DraCorSummit on turning theatre programmes into structured data with ontologies + LLMs opening new horizons for Performing Arts Analytics, from micro to macro history.
#DraCor @juliajbeine.bsky.social
Logo for the DraCor Summit 2025 taking place in Berlin.
โจ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today!
5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
Programme:
summit.dracor.org
@temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Logo of the DraCor Summit 2025, designed by Mark Schwindt.
Picture of the keynote speaker of the upcoming DraCor Summit, Clarisse Bardiot. Source for the picture is her personal website clarissebardiot.info.
We're very happy to welcome Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) as our keynote speaker at the #DraCor Summit! Join us on Mon, 1 Sep 2025, 18:00 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
summit.dracor.org/opening_keyn...
Remember to register for the Summit (it's free).
summit.dracor.org/registration
Luca presenting at the DH2025
What are the key components of a #play? ๐ญ
#DH2025: @lucagiovannini.bsky.social takes us on a tour through centuries of thinking from #Aristotleโs #Poetics, through Russian formalism, to modern literary theory and unpacks the question offering a fresh perspective.
#drama #operationalization #CLS
Svenja Guhr and Luca Giovannini in front of DH2025 poster
@lucagiovannini.bsky.social and I are ready for day 2 at #DH2025! โ๏ธ
So good to see colleagues from all around the world ๐บ๏ธ
Who else is at the mini conference โThe Times they are a-changingโ?
Screenshot of the dracor.org frontpage from 14 July 2025.
๐ซ We just rolled out a new #DraCor release featuring significant improvements to the API, Frontend, and Schema.
Full update here:
weltliteratur.net/dracor-platf...
#DigitalHumanities #DH2025
Waiting for you all at #CCLS2026 in Potsdam! ๐
Peer Trilcke opening CCLS2025 in Krakow
#CCLS2025 is about to start. @peertrilcke.bsky.social opens the probably "hottest conference of the year". We're ready for hot research on #ComputationalLiteraryStudies.
Slide di un progetto presentato nella poster session
Slide di un progetto presentato nella poster session
Slide di un progetto presentato nella poster session
Poster Madness in corso! #aiucd2025
๐๏ธ Our contribution to #AIUCD2025: a prototype for a "Little Atlas of Early Modern English Drama"
Demo: atlas-emed.github.io
Paper: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
with @andreaswagnr.bsky.social
@aiucd.bsky.social
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social @dracor.org
Logo for the DraCor Summit 2025 taking place in Berlin.
Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1โ5 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
โ ๏ธ Deadline extension: please submit your abstracts (500w) until 13.05.2025!
#DraCorSummit2025 @dracor.org
๐ Deadline approaching: please submit your abstracts (up to 500 words) by Tuesday, May 6!
Happy to be presenting today within the lecture series of the #Rostock Working Group for #Digital #Humanities:
www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/di...
Throwback to the first edition of the #Potsdam #DH Spring School "Text as Data" โ here's the wrap-up: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-h...
@dhssfau.bsky.social @dinaraamirovna.bsky.social @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social @danja.bsky.social @lucagiovannini.bsky.social
We cannot believe these 5 days are over ๐ญ The โText as dataโ #DHSpringSchool has reached its end, but the spring continues to blossom โ and so do #DigitalHumanities ๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ
I'll be reporting from Potsdam this week where the Spring School "Text As Data" is about to start! #TextAsDataSchool
We've put together a lovely program for our participants: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-h...
The Spring school is organized by
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social & @dhssfau.bsky.social
๐ Sneak peek alert!
Our โText as Dataโ #DHSpringSchool merch just landed in Potsdam โ fresh stickers & mugs ready to go! โโจ
Only a few more days until we kick off on Monday โ we can't wait to welcome all the participants and teachers๐
#DigitalHumanities #DH2025
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-h...
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โ ๏ธ 2. Workshop on #Computational #Drama #Analysis (Berlin, 03.09.25), as part of the #DraCorSummit2025
๐๐ป CfP: summit.dracor.org/cfp-drama-an...
๐๏ธ Deadline: 06.05.25
๐ฅ @dhpotsdam.bsky.social @dracor.org @danja.bsky.social
Logo for the DraCor Summit 2025 taking place in Berlin.
Join us for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1โ4 September 2025.
summit.dracor.org
From corpus building to latest advances in digital drama analysis.
CfPs open until 6 May 2025. General registration opening in due time.
@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social
Slides from the dรฉfense
...and thanks in particular to my supervisors @peertrilcke.bsky.social @roccocoronato.bsky.social for their support during these three years! #digitalhumanities
On Monday I defended my doctoral dissertation โ afaik, the first ever in computational literary studies at @unipotsdam.bsky.social. Such a great day! ๐ป Thanks to everyone involved!