Ten years, 114 papers, one plot twist: drama research got fancier tools (hi transformers! 🤖) but never broke up with 1970s theory🥸. At #DH2026, @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presented our dive into the DraCor bibliography (2015-2025): what changed, and what stubbornly did not. Slides: plu.sh/decadrama

Next venues for the @adho-org.bsky.social DH conferences mentioned in #DH2026 closing ceremony. - #DH2027 28 June - 3 July 2027, Galway, Ireland dh2027.adho.org - #DH2028 4-7 July 2028 Capetown, South Africa - #DH2029 2029, Padua, Italy Hope that I can make some of these!

News from Daejeon, where #DH2026 is currently taking place and the official announcement has just been made: @adho.org has selected the University of Padua to host #DH2029! A major achievement for the bid team and for the entire Italian DH community.

Is Wuthering Heights secretly a buddy story about a horse and a dog who just tolerate the humans? 🐴🐕 That is the vibe of EcoCor. At #DH2026, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje just presented our open infra for digital ecocriticism, tracking plants & animals in lit. Slides: plu.sh/ecocor

Twin talks by our team at #DH2026 in 🇰🇷: 👉 Tue 30 / 9:00-10:30 / Room 105: "Introducing EcoCor: An Open Infrastructure for Digital Ecocriticism" 👉 Fri 31 / 11:00-12:30 / Room 204-205: "A Decade in Drama Research. Data Mining the DraCor Bibliography" cc @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social @dracor.org

"There is a certain magic to a hackathon" "An event of exploding collective creativity" "A journey into the unknown" Watch our video recap of the #EcoHack2026 and hear what the participants had to say: 📹 videoup.uni-potsdam.de/Panopto/Page... Hackathon webpage: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-h... #DH

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Some days ago my dissertation was finally published 📚✨ if you're into early modern drama, computational literary studies, or cultural evolution, this little book might have something for you. Read it for free here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7... cc @transcript-verlag.bsky.social #DH #CLS

Can AI help us read *more closely*? At #CCLS2026, @ruthahnert.bsky.social explored how LLMs might support a computationally-powered form of reading focused on context, surprise, and interpretation, challenging the distant-vs-close reading divide 🎥 Recording: videoup.uni-potsdam.de/Panopto/Page...

CCLS2026 Keynote: Ruth Ahnert, Close Reading in the Age of AI

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Training School “Early Career Researchers in Empirical Literary Studies” Online and free to attend! The speakers are some of the most talented ECRs in the field, working on reader response, climate fiction, prosocial effects of reading, etc. igelsociety.org/events/train...

#CCLS2026 came to a close with a fun tour through Potsdam’s Sanssouci Park. Sans souci means “no worries” or “carefree” — and after two intense days of talks, posters, discussions, and conversations over coffee, we wish exactly that to all participants😎🍹

The conference is closing! How can it already be over? Many thanks to all the authors, reviewers, and the organizers from @dhpotsdam.bsky.social who made #CCLS2026 such a great success!

Colleagues from all over the world, please think about the combination DH2027 in Ireland + CCLS 2027 in the Netherlands. They're only a few days apart. @uniofgalway.bsky.social @rug.nl

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#CCLS2027 goes @rug.nl !!! @fpianz.eurosky.social and his team are looking forward to welcoming you to the beautiful city of Groningen.

The 3rd place 🥉 in the #CCLS2026 Poster Award is a tie between Louise Prager (Creating NovaCor+, a Corpus of Contemporary German Novels: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and the team of researchers led by Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social (Suspense in Shorts: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...). Congrats! 👏🎉

The 2nd place🥈 of the #CCLS2026 poster award is tied between Yann Audin @audinyann.bsky.social (Design Questions All the Way Down doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and the team of Merten Kröncke, Jana Eckardt & Agnes Hilger @agneshilger.bsky.social (A Canonicity Score for Your Corpus doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)

The poster award 🏆 of #CCLS2026 goes to Hiba Ghannam (Tel Aviv University) for her poster „Beyond Heroes and Villains: Mapping Fairytale Characters Across Palestinian and Grimm Traditions“ Check out the digital version of the poster: zenodo.org/records/2036...

Missed #CCLS2026 in Potsdam? The call for papers for #CCLS2027 closes in January 2027, which gives you plenty of time to prepare exciting CLS research for our #conference track. If you don't want to wait, you can submit to our journal track anytime. #JCLS jcls.io/submissions/...

Save the date: the next #CCLS2027 will take place in Groningen on 8-9 July 2027. Expecting an awesome event @rug.nl from the team of @fpianz.eurosky.social #CCLS2026 #CCLS2027 #ComputationalLiteraryStudies

From the Tagus to the Volga, from Rome to China: how does poetry imagine geography? At #CCLS2026, @tonyamart.bsky.social, @artjomshl.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social trace the “from A to B” formula across 6 European poetic corpora. Seems many poets liked the east-west axis: doi.org/10.26083/tud...

#CCLS2026: 8th Talk is "200 Years of Children in the Novel. On their Visibility, Value, and Agency" by @andrewpiper.bsky.social, presenting his model of narrative #agency analyzing the representation of Children in English-language novels. Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud...

#CCLS2026: 9th Talk is"Where Empires End: Geography of the Poetic Formula ‘from A to B’" by @tonyamart.bsky.social, @artjomshl.bsky.social, & @plechac.bsky.social, examining the #ImaginaryGeography of the poetic formula “from place_a to place_b” across 6 languages. Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud...

For the final day of #CCLS2026 we move to the Neues Palais Campus of @unipotsdam.bsky.social (part of the UNESCO World Heritage btw) Her we’ll have the final sections and the closing ceremony 👋

Vote counting for the very first #CCLS Poster Award is underway 👀🗳️ the winner(s) will be announced tomorrow during the closing act of #CCLS2026 @dhpotsdam.bsky.social @jcls-io.bsky.social

The first day of the #CCLS2026 conference is ending on a really high note 😎🌅🍻 #Potsdam #CLS

#CCLS2026: 5th Talk is"The Anatomy of the Online Book Review" by Marijn Koolen, @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social, Peter Boot, Silvia Lilli, Katja Tereshko, detecting reader engagement in #fiction via large-scale online reviews analysis. Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud... Code: github.com/impact-and-f...

#CCLS2026: 4th Talk is "Echoes of Emotion: Linking Narrative and Reader Response of Web Novels in Chinese and English" by Ze Yu, @fpianz.eurosky.social, Lanping Zhang, who directly confront us with: Stories move us - "but do you leave a comment?" Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud...

#CCLS2026: 3rd talk "Character Development in Oral Testimonies.Computational Modeling of Religiosity in Holocaust Narratives" by Shizgal, Wagner, Abend, & Keydar, presenting on a protagonist's process of identity formation, focusing on religious practice & belief. Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud...

#CCLS2026: 2nd Talk is " #CoreferenceResolution for Full #German Novels Using #LLMs" by @agneshilger.bsky.social and @aehrm.bsky.social, presenting #GerFun a stable solution to coreference! #JCLS #CoreferenceResolution #Fiction Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud... GerFun: github.com/aehrm/llm_li...

Coreference Resolution for Full German Novels using Large Language Models

The paper introduces the GerFuN dataset, consisting of five German-language novels fully annotated for character coreference, comprising a total of 450,000 tokens. Using a semi-manual pipeline, we fir...

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#CCLS2026: First talk of the conference is "Contrasting Verbal Prominence and Network Centrality. A Typology of Dramatic #Characters" by @botondszemes.bsky.social, examining different dimensions of character prominence in plays. #DraCor #Shakespeare #JCLS Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud...

Opening the 5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, @peertrilcke.bsky.social said that 'once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a tradition'. And five times is an INSTITUTION, added @danja.bsky.social. Cheers to the institutionalisation of #CLS then! 🥂 #CCLS2026

@peertrilcke.bsky.social: "And 'schwups' here we are!", welcoming the #ComputationalLiteraryStudies community to #CCLS2026 at Potsdam, @dhpotsdam.bsky.social #JCLS #CCLS2026 #LiteraryComputing #5thAnniversary