General Meeting of the DFG Priority Programme “Computational Literary Studies”

General Meeting of the DFG Priority Programme “Computational Literary Studies”

Würzburg 5-9 October 2025 Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität - Emil-Hilb-Weg 23 - Room 00.001

Mon 5 October

• 17:30-18:30 Evening talk by Jan Rybicki (Jagiellonian University in Kraków): Can ChatGPT imitate Hemingway?

Tue 07 October

• 11:00-11:45 Katrin Dennerlein, Thomas Schmidt, Christian Wolff: Emotions in Drama

• 11:45-12:30 Keli Du, Julia Röttgermann, Christof Schöch: Beyond Words. Semantic and multiword distinctive features for an investigation of literary subgenres

• 13:30-14:15 Frederik Arnold, Robert Jäschke, Philip Kraut, Steffen Martus: Is Expert Knowledge Key? Scholarly Interpretations as Resource for the Analysis of Literary Texts in Computational Literary Studies

• 14:15-15:00 Marc Lemke, Nils Kellner, Ulrike Henny-Krahmer: Computational Approaches to Narrative Space in 19th and 20th Century Novels

• 15:30-16:15 Hanno Ehrlicher, Sebastian Padó: Tracing Regularities in Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Dramatic OEuvre with a Computational Approach

• 16:15-17:00 Evelyn Gius, Hans-Ole Hatzel, Haimo Stiemer: Unitizing Plot to Advance Analysis of Narrative Structure

• 17:30-18:30 Evening talk by Katherine Bode (Australian National University, Canberra): The materiality of computing

Wed 08 October

• 09:30-10:30 Marina Lehmann (online): Advanced sentiment analysis for understanding affective-aesthetic responses to literary texts: A computational and experimental psychology approach to children’s literature

• 11:00-11:45 Thomas Haider: Animal-Centric Affective Analysis in Poetry

• 11:45-12:30 Axel Pichler, Nils Reiter: Interpretation, Argument, Evaluation: A Workflow for Assessing LLM-Generated Interpretations of Poetry

• 13:30-14:15 Svenja Guhr: From Annotation to Analysis - A Journey through Scenes, Sounds, and Jupyter Notebooks in CLS

• 14:15-15:00 Marie Flüh, Julia Nantke, Janis Pagel, Nils Reiter: Comparative Annotation to Explore and Explain Text Similarities

• 15:30-16:15 Benjamin Gittel: Different Routes to (Modernity) - Critique in Fiction

• 16:15-17:00 Marie-Christine Bucher Daniel Kababgi: Computational Literary Studies of Fictional Space and Affect

• 17:30-18:30 Evening talk by Damian Garreau (Universität Würzburg): A (short) introduction to explainable AI

Thu 09 October

• 09:00-09:45 Merten Köncke, Leonard Konle, Fotis Jannidis, Simone Winko: Literary Change. German Poetry between Realism and Early Modernism and Its Relation to Literary, Cultural and Social Developments

• 09:45-10:30 Mareike Schumacher: Preparing the GenderScore - mining non-binary gender representation in literary texts

• 11:00-12:00 Concluding discussion

• 13:00-14:00 Guided tour of the ZPD’s Retro Computing Lab with Thorsten Roeder