Conference Big data, small literatures
The overarching thematic focus of this symposium is digital literary studies, which, as part of digital humanities, recently introduced a radical paradigmatic shift in the humanities. The conference aims to provide a platform for the presentation, exploration, and comparative analysis of the challenges encountered by scholars in the field of digital literary studies, particularly experts on literatures in minor languages as well as literatures that, though not inherently minor, nevertheless tend to be pushed to the periphery by Anglocentrism. The conference fosters cross-disciplinary exchange between and among scholars in literary studies and computer science, addressing shared challenges crucial to the advancement of global digital literary studies. Hosted by the Slovenian Comparative Literature Association, the conference is co-funded by the Slovenian Book Agency, the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, and the Research Center for the Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica.
Programme
Petek / Friday, 3. 11. 2023
10.00–10.30 Pozdravni nagovori / Welcome speeches
• Blaž Zabel
• Ivana Zajc
• Lucija Mandić
10.30–11.30 1. sekcija / Session 1
• Oleg Sobchuk, Artjoms Šeļa: Computational Thematics: Comparing Algorithms for Clustering the Genres of Literary Fiction
• Silvie Cinková, Petr Plecháč: Rhymes and Syntax. Morpho-syntactic Analysis in a Czech 19th-Century Poetry Corpus
• Ranka Stanković, Cvetana Krstev, Duško Vitas: SrpELTeC: Serbian Literary Corpus for Distant Reading
11.30–12.00 Diskusija / Discussion
12.00–13.30 Kosilo / Lunch
13.30–14.30 2. sekcija / Session 2
• Jan Rybicki: Between Textual Data and Metadata. Distant Reading 10,000 Books in Polish
• Marko Pranjić, Andrejka Žejn, Senja Pollak: Comparison of Josip Jurčič and Ivan Cankar with Computational Semantic Change Detection Methods
• Ivana Zajc: Stylometric Analysis of the Works of Ivan Cankar and Ivan Tavčar: The Aspect of the Development of Literary Style
14.30–15.00 Diskusija / Discussion
15.00–15.30 Odmor za kavo / Coffee break
15.30–16.30 3. sekcija / Session 3
• Dominika Werońska: Basking in Basque Prose: A Stylometric Glance at Novels in Euskara
• Andrei Terian: The Subgenres of the Romanian Novel (1845–1947): A Distant Reading Based on GDRN 2.0
• Vlad Pojoga: The Last Bastion of European Romanticism: A Quantitative Analysis of Poetry in Romania’s Convorbiri literare (1867–1944)
16.30–17.00 Diskusija / Discussion
19.00 Večerja / Dinner
Sobota / Saturday, 4. 11. 2023
9.30–10.30 4. sekcija / Session 4
• Mojca Šorli: Named Entites in Slovenian Modernist Literature: A Functional View
• Darko Ilin, Katja Mihurko Poniž, Ivana Zajc, Mila Marinković: Shaping Electronic Collection LETTERS: Discovering Epistolary Exchange and Navigating Correspondence Metadata
• Lucija Mandić: Exploring Social Institution Relationships in 19th-Century Slovenian Narrative Fiction through Word Embeddings
10.30–11.00 Diskusija / Discussion
11.00–11.30 Odmor za kavo / Coffee break
11.30–12.30 Okrogla miza / Round table: Defining Small Literatures by Numbers
• Marko Juvan
• Jeanne Glesener
• Benedikts Kalnačs
12.30–13.00 Diskusija in zaključek / Discussion and concluding remarks