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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 6d

"The nightmare of generative narratology" - "A sea of blah"... 🌊 Will we drown? #GenerativeLLM #StoryTelling

Yuri presents his dream and nightmare visions of generative narratology

Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 6d

Are stories machines that make us feel? Yuri Bizzoni rethinks #SentimentAnalysis in #CLS in his talk at Atelier: "Narratologie et humanités numériques", ENS Paris/Sorbonne nouvelle

Yuri presents on Literature as Emotional Technology

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Stanford Literary Lab @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · 8d

We're thrilled to see our publication out this week! 🥳
#JCLS is such a great place to publish our project results.
Many thanks to the editorial team for the quick publication process and for the great discussion at #CCLS2025!

--> #Code&Data can be found here:
github.com/literarylab/...

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 8d

Exciting to see my publication with @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social in #JCLS 4(1)! It's been such a great journey discovering #DomesticSpace in 19th-Century #English-language #fiction and presenting our results at #CCLS2025. 🏡🚢🏙️🌉

JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 8d

#CLS meets #spatial analysis! 🏡
"Making #BERT Feel at Home. Modelling #DomesticSpace in #19th-Century British and Irish #Fiction" by @guhrs.bsky.social, J. Monaco, @alexsherman.bsky.social, @mattgwr.bsky.social and M. Algee-Hewitt is now live at #JCLS 4(1). 10.48694/jcls.4164 #transformer

First page of JCLS 4(1) article by Guhr et al. (2025)

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 14d

✍️ Mark your calendars - here are the important dates:
🏰 CCLS26 takes place from 28-29, 2026, at the @unipotsdam.bsky.social, Germany;
🗓️ Deadline for submissions: January 8, 2026;
🔜 Submissions open: starting November 3, 2025.
jcls.io/site/dates/

Important Dates

jcls.io

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 14d

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 5th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, May 28-29, 2026, in #Potsdam, #Germany! #CCLS26 #CfP

Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳

Call for Papers

jcls.io

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 15d

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Maria Levchenko @maria-lev.bsky.social · 16d

Journal of Computational Literary Studies has the most beautiful journal design — and such a great team behind it! Happy and honoured to be published here: bsky.app/profile/jcls... Many thanks to everyone involved! 💙

JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

How do literary communities actually form?
@maria-lev.bsky.social analyzes the networks of collaboration and aesthetic affinity that are documented through cultural events — e.g. readings, book launches, festivals. These real-world networks often remain invisible in text-based literary history.

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 News alert!
Want to publish a #CLS journal article in < 8 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, a preprint at the conference, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design?

We're excited to announce that the first article from this year's JCLS conference track has just been published! 🚀

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

- Methodology & results on JCLS 4(1): doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
A model for studying cultural communities far beyond St. Petersburg.

#DigitalHumanities #CulturalNetworkAnalysis #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS

First page of JCLS Article by Maria Levchenko

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

Open Data & Code
- Dataset (15k+ events) on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1375...
- Processing pipeline & analysis tools on GitHub: github.com/mary-lev/lit...

Literary Events in Saint Petersburg (1999-2019) from SPbLitGuide Newsletters

This dataset contains detailed entries of cultural and literary events in Saint Petersburg from May 1999 to October 2019, as documented in the SPbLitGuide newsletters. The original newsletter, created...

zenodo.org

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

How do literary communities actually form?
@maria-lev.bsky.social analyzes the networks of collaboration and aesthetic affinity that are documented through cultural events — e.g. readings, book launches, festivals. These real-world networks often remain invisible in text-based literary history.

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

The study maps 20 years of literary life in St. Petersburg (1999–2019) analyzing events as community-structuring mechanisms.
📊 15,012 events · 11,777 participants · 862 venues · over 100,000 attendance records

Network Visualization of 20 years of literary life in St. Petersburg

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 16d

@maria-lev.bsky.social’s "Computational Analysis of Literary Communities. Event-Based Social Network Study of St. Petersburg 1999-2019" is now live in the "Journal of Computational Literary Studies" 4(1)
👉 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

doi.org

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DraCor @dracor.org · Sep 2

About to start the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025.

A full day dedicated to TEI-encoded drama corpora. @teiconsortium.bsky.social

We host 30 (!) community-curated corpora, overview:
dracor.org/doc/corpora

Programme for today (18 presentations 🤯):
summit.dracor.org/corpora_conf...

DraCor frontpage as of 2 September 2025.

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 3

Capitalist LLMs are eating our smart & open humanities data and mashing it into gigantic word porridge... How can we reverse it? — @peertrilcke.bsky.social speaks about the MCP-empowered LLM Usage of #DraCor (or "How to teach Claude use the DraCor API")
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.13774
#DraCorSummit

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · Sep 1

The very first #DraCorSummit kicked off today 🎭 a full week dedicated to computational drama analysis!
We’re excited to be a partner of this event. Selected papers will appear in a special issue on computational drama analysis in #JCLS (2026).
Stay tuned! #CLS #DramaAnalysis #DraCor @dracor.org

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DraCor @dracor.org · Jun 6

Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–5 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

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · Aug 14

The registration for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin is open until 20 August. Register soon!

(You may also participate in some parts of the programme online.)

#DH #CLS #ClassicsBluesky #LitWiss
@temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

DraCor @dracor.org · Jun 6

Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–5 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

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Joana van de Löcht @doctoressa.bsky.social · Aug 5

Mehr Infos findet ihr unter www.moorliteratur.de

Preisausschreibung Moorliteratur

Projekthomepage zur Preisausschreibung Moorliteratur, gefördert von der Andrea von Braun Stiftung.

www.moorliteratur.de

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Joana van de Löcht @doctoressa.bsky.social · Aug 5

Wie sieht das Moor aus? Noch bis zum 15. August könnt ihr uns eure schönsten Moorbilder schicken. Die besten Einsendungen werden als Illustration der Mooranthologie aufgenommen, die im oekom-Verlag erscheinen wird. Die besten drei erhalten zudem ein Preisgeld (1. Platz: 3.000 €, 2.: 1.000, 3.: 500€)

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · Jul 22

Last week, our PLANS project presented at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 - @haimostiemer.bsky.social‬ and @hanshatzel.bsky.social‬ shared our approach to thematic text analysis based on semantic verb classes in German literary texts. 🧵👇 (1/4)

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Christof Schöch @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 19

📢 Public service announcement: if you were part of the #dh2025 / @dh2025 crowd, now is the time to become part of the #dh2026 crowd as well by following @dh2026daejeon !

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · Jul 20

Thank you so much for this, @hkpmw.bsky.social!
Sorry you're missing the fun!!! I manually annotated 10/50 — they were hilarious reads! 🤠💃🔥🕵️‍♀️👨‍🚒👔👩‍⚖️

Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · Jul 19

I’m always excited to see what @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social is up to, but this project brings me a special kind of joy, because …

This is my corpus! I donated it to the Lab! 1/3

A collection of book covers from the “Men Made in America” romance novel series—one man for each state!

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · Jul 18

@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social #dh2025 @mpuren.bsky.social @floriancafiero.bsky.social are discussing text analysis of Colette to look into author attribution. Using (the best named model) CamemBERT among other LLMs to identify jokes.

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