philtag 19 (2026)
The next philtag at the Centre for Philology and Digitality (ZPD) will take place on February 4–5, 2026. The event is intended both to strengthen research networks at the University of Würzburg and to welcome colleagues from outside the university. While online participation will be possible, we warmly encourage in-person attendance. All presentations will be held in English.
Online Participation
Online participants may use the chat system to pose questions.
Wednesday, 4 February 2026 Drama
Digital Editions: Methods and Projects/Corpora
| 12:00 | Katrin Dennerlein: Introduction |
| Regina Toepfer (Würzburg): DT16 digital – Drama und Theater im deutschen Sprachraum des 16. Jahrhunderts digital | |
| Julia J. Beine (Würzburg): DraCor – Open Infrastructure for Drama Analysis | |
| Martin Rupnig & Katrin Dennerlein (Würzburg): Streamlit for drama: Semi-automatic TEI conversion of historical drama text | |
| Florian Debaene (Ghent): TEI Classification for DraCor: Efficiency, Transfer Learning and Multilinguality | |
| 13:45 | Coffee break |
Digital Literary History and Drama Analysis
| 14:15 | Julia J. Beine (Würzburg): Tracing Schemers in Early Modern Receptions of Roman Comedy |
| 15:00 | Katrin Dennerlein (Würzburg): Women Playwrights 1700–1900: Genres, Bestselling Authors, and Emotional Economies |
| 15:45 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 | Botond Szemes (Tartu): Rethinking Protagonists: A Bottom-Up Analysis of Character Function and Language |
| 17:00 | Lucas van der Deijl (Groningen): Strange Voices. Detecting Multilingualism and Code-Switching in Early Modern Drama |
| 18:30 | Dinner (speaker) |
Thursday, 5 February 2026
Digital Approaches to Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
| 9:15 | Stephanie Döpper (Würzburg): Introduction |
| 9:30 | Anja Wutte (Köln): About Shapes, Rules and Grammars – Innovations and Possibilities of Rule-Based Generations in Archaeology |
| 10:00 | Johannes Hechtl (Würzburg): Digital Pathways to the Hittite World |
| 10:30 | Jochen Griesbach (Würzburg): Playful Learning: Knowledge transfer and digitization at the Martin von Wagner Museum |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | Benedetta Bellucci (Würzburg): Digital Methods in the Study of Images of Musical Instruments from Ancient Mesopotamia. The MIAM Project Approach |
| 12:00 | Berenike Rensinghoff & Thomas Heide (Marburg & Mainz): Disiecta Membra, Disiecta Data? Digital Aproaches to a Long-Term Project on Architectural Pieces in Roman Germany |
| 12:30 | Leif Scheuermann (Trier): Simulating Roman Transport – The STRADA Project |
| 13:00 | Closing |
