It's nice that The Odyssey is getting its day in the sun as a synecdoche for history. But when this summer is over, it's back to the relentless, remorseless rise of Jane Austen.
Anastasia Glawion
@anastasiaglawion.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Literature and Methods - FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Congratulations to the organizers on delivering such an outstanding conference. @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social
🇰🇷 Our colleagues have just concluded a brilliant DH conference in Daejeon, and shared this photo with us from overseas. We're delighted to have such a strong presence there. @mila-oiva.bsky.social @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social @katrohrbacher.bsky.social @tillmannohm.bsky.social #DH2026
A truly fantastic conference #dh2026 has just ended in South Korea! In the last few days, my colleagues and I have presented our recent work from @dhssfau.bsky.social: @mila-oiva.bsky.social analyzed changing […]
If you were sad to have missed the symposium 'Mapping the Canon: Quantitative Approaches to Literary History' (organized by @jbrottrager.bsky.social), the contribution by @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and myself is now available on Zenodo! #fanfiction #omegaverse #canon zenodo.org/records/2162...
A Genre of Our Own: Fanonization and the Omegaverse
Abstract This paper studies the processes of canonization that unfold on Archive of Our Own, one of the largest contemporary online fanfiction websites. Fanfiction, on both the production and consumpt...
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Meet unsere assoziierte Doktorandin Chiona Hufnagel 👋 Sie untersucht die Verhandlung von „hegemonic male masculinity“ und „male femininity“ in indigener Literatur – z.B. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Joshua Whitehead. www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/mitglieder/k...
@peetertinits.bsky.social at the last session of #DH2026 talking about using huge harmonized bibliographic datasets to study the diffusion of information and patterns of language adoption across Early Modern -> Modern Europe. V. cool!
📢 Prae-Doc-Stelle (30h, 3 Jahre) am Institut für Germanistik der Uni Wien im FWF-Projekt »Mind the Gap: Theory-driven Operationalization in Computational Literary Studies«. Thema: literaturwiss. Konzepte für computergestützte Verfahren messbar machen – Fallbeispiel dt. Kurzgeschichte nach 1945 […]
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Demonstrating the canonicity power law distribution with our slides and my hand 🫳 At our talk at #DH2026 with @janaeckardt.bsky.social and @mertenkroencke.bsky.social
I would love that for Erlangen in the upcoming heatwave...
One of the things I’m appreciating in Daejeon is the sun shades at every street intersection to shield humans as they wait to cross the street. Essential during this heatwave. I wonder what similar (simple but effective) infrastructure the UK will have to adopt… #Korea #DH2026
Listening to a fascinating talk by Peter Marecki and Patryk Ciesielczyk on the Polish Demoscene and how the Atari 8 functioned as an artifact around which relationships and knowledge emerged - I bet @cananhastik.bsky.social would be thrilled! #dh2026
this is officially the biggest screen I ever presented on. hope I don't have too many typos! #dh2026
I love the detailed information for session chairs provided by the #DH2026 organizers: dh2026.adho.org/information-... Stealing this for future events!
Information for Session Chairs - DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
Information for Session Chairs Session Chairs: Please do not be stressed about technical issues as help is always available. Equipment problems in the session room are handled by our trained staff: ea...
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Happening in a bit! #dh2026
DHSS at #DH2026 in #Daejeon! On 30 July, our colleague @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social will present “Nostalgia in alt-right social media: Truth Social” together with Mykola Makhortykh from the University of Bern. 🕘 09:00–10:30 📍 Session S101, Room 204–205 #DigitalHumanities #FAU
🐈 Exciting news from #DH2026 in Daejeon! DHSS researcher @katrohrbacher.bsky.social presents “Letting the Cat Out of the Bag”: Towards the Automatic Detection of Animal Metaphors in Literary Texts. 🗓️ 30 July, 13:40–15:10 📍 Session S094, Room 108 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social
Interested in canon research and world literature? Come to our talk at #DH2026! 📖 »Canons of World Literature Contextualised: Introducing Canon Shelf and Canon Curator« 🗓 Fri July 31, 2–3:30 PM, Room 101-102, S009 We introduce a repository for canon lists & a provenance-aware enrichment pipeline.
Wonderful talk by Heejung Ryoh, analyzing the success of the National Museum of Korea in regaining visitors after the dip in visitorship after the pandemic #dh2026
What a wonderful lecture by Maciej Eder! Took me back to the first ever lines of R code I wrote back in 2015 under the supervision of the then-student assistant Jasmin Bieber: of course it was a session on #stylo! Here are the slides: computationalstylistics.github.io/presentation...
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It's such an interesting moment in AI+DH thinking. Kim Hyeon's keynote text public.aks.ac.kr/~tutor/pdf/2... and slides public.aks.ac.kr/~tutor/pdf/2... Including more on his AI Classical Translation Studies Program and interactive platform, CCTI (Classical Chinese Text Interpreter) #DH2026
DH2026 Opening Keynote Script
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Really enjoying Kim Hyeon's reflections on the joy of learning, putting learning into practice, getting joy from that practice, then learning more. Informed by Confucius' Analects #DH2026
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Lisa Seuberth!
Am 22. Juli 2026 hat unsere Kollegiatin Lisa Seuberth im Rahmen einer mündlichen Prüfung erfolgreich ihre Dissertation verteidigt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Wir wünschen Lisa alles Gute für die nächsten Schritte. www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/2026/07/24/e...
📘 The #DH2026 Book of Abstracts — first release — is now on Zenodo, in PDF and machine-readable XML. All accepted contributions for #DigitalHumanities 2026 in Daejeon, Korea (July 27–31). 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... A revised edition follows after the conference.
Digital Humanities 2026: Book of Abstracts
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🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 With #DH2026 in #Daejeon starting next week, please join me in applauding the local organizers for publishing the complete "Book of (extended) Abstracts" ahead of schedule! In PDF with no less than 1013 pages, and also in glorious XML versions! […] [Original post on fedihum.org]
"Scientists who use AI are morons who aren't reading" I'm a computational social scientist and I feel like LLMs are a lot of things, but one thing they can be is a computational tool for text-based information in science. Here is what I am doing this morning
our department won't be the same without y'all! 🖤
Mariana @mariannagracheva.bsky.social , Sabine @sabinelang.bsky.social , and Nathan @nfdykes.bsky.social, we wish you all the very best. You will always be part of the DHSS family. Here are some highlights from the wonderful moments we shared together. (2/2)
Moments of joy, relaxation, connection, and togetherness. 🌞 Our summer party was not only a wonderful time to celebrate together, but also a heartfelt opportunity to say goodbye to some of our colleagues as they leave the department to begin new journeys. (1/2)
Our doctoral researchers Emma Barbieux & @srahmaniank.bsky.social organize a conference on “Author Figurations in North American Literatures and the Public Sphere”, April 8 –9, 2027. See the CFP: www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/en/2026/07/1...
CfP for the RTG Conference “Author Figurations in North American Literatures and the Public Sphere”
Our doctoral researchers Emma Barbieux and Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki organize a conference on “Author Figurations in North American Literatures and the Public Sphere.” The conference will take place…
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Last colloquium for this semester! Join us today from 4–6 PM for a talk by Maximilian Würz, research associate at @grk2806.bsky.social : „Entstehungsbedingungen kurzer Erzählformen im 21. Jahrhundert. Eine quantitative Analyse.“ 📍 Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3 Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen
⚡ Stellenausschreibung am Arbeitsbereich #DigitalHumanities des FB Philosophie & Geisteswissenschaften der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social (100% E13 TV-L FU, befristet bis zu 4 Jahre) www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet... (Bewerbungsfrist: 27.07.2026)
Defended my PhD in computational linguistics! Huge thanks to @schtepf.bsky.social, @michamahlberg.bsky.social, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social & @paulari.bsky.social, and to my colleagues from DHSS and Computational Corpus Linguistics for the Doktorhut with a working CQL query.
We are so delighted and proud to celebrate our colleague Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis today at the DHSS Department! 🎉 Here are a few smiles, photos, and highlights from this special day. Congratulations, Nathan—we wish you every success in the future! 🥂