5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies

Conference Programme 

Thursday | May 28, 2026. Venue:  "Wissenschaftsetage im Bildungsforum", Potsdam

• 12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. | Arrival, Registration & Coffee
• 12:45 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. | Opening
• 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Session 1 (Chair: Julian Häußler)
  • Botond Szemes: Contrasting Verbal Prominence and Network Centrality. A Typology of Dramatic Characters [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7996]
  • Agnes Hilger, Anton Ehrmanntraut: Coreference Resolution for Full German Novels Using Large Language Models [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7983]
  • Esther Shizgal, Eitan Wagner, Omri Abend, Renana Keydar: Character Development in Oral Testimonies: Computational Modeling of Religiosity in Holocaust Narratives [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7997]
• 2:30 p.m to 3:00 p.m. | Time for Talks & Coffee
• 3:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m. | Session 2 (Chair: Keli Du)
  • Ze Yu, Federico Pianzola, Lanping Zhang: Echoes of Emotion: Linking Narrative and Reader Response of Web Novels in Chinese and English [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7994]
  • Marijn Koolen, Joris J. Van Zundert, Peter Boot, Silvia Lilli, Katja Tereshko: The Anatomy of the Online Book Review [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7995]
• 4:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. | Session 3 (Chair: Svenja Guhr)
  • Arthur Freitas Ramos: Grace as a Formal Turning Point: Computational Detection in Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction [online] [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7982]
  • Ella Montgomery, Alexandra Montgomery: Much Ado about Meaning: Shakespeare in Localization [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7998]
• 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Poster Session: "Opening", & More Coffee   
• 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. | Keynote. Ruth Ahnert: Close Reading in the Age of AI [Abstract] (Chair: Luca Giovannini)
• 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. | Poster Session: "Finale". Snacks & Drinks at the Rooftop Terrace

Friday | May 29, 2026. Venue: University of Potsdam, "Campus Am Neuen Palais", Building 8

• 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. | Good Morning Coffee
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | Session 4 (Chair: Henny Sluyter-Gäthje)
  • Andrew Piper: 200 Years of Children in the Novel. On their Visibility, Value, and Agency [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7987]
  • Antonina Martynenko, Artjoms Šeļa, Petr Plechac: Where Empires End: Geography of the Poetic Formula "from A to B" [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7986]
  • Maria Levchenko: Stylometry or Embeddings? Authorship Attribution for Russian and Italian Poetry [online] [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7985]
• 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. | Time for Talks & Coffee
• 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Session 5 (Chair: Haimo Stiemer)
  • Emilio Maria Sanfilippo, Claudio Masolo, Alessandro Mosca, Gaia Tomazzoli: Modeling and Reasoning over Observations: An Ontology for Literary Criticism [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7993]
  • Federico Gabriel Cortés: From Literary Criticism to Literary Studies: Topic Modeling Argentine Academic Journals (1982–2024) [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.26083/tuda-7981]
• 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. | Closing

CCLS2026 Poster Session

• Ingo Börner: Agentic Access to Linked Open Data: An MCP Server for Chat Interaction with the “DraCor Open Knowledge Graph”
• Akintoye Samson Japhet, Ismail Olaitan Afolabi: “Animal Farm” as a Textual Motif in Orwell’s “Animal Farm”
• Merten Kröncke, Agnes Hilger, Jana Eckardt: A Canonicity Score for Your (German-language) Corpus
• Hiba Ghannam: Beyond Heroes and Villains: Mapping Fairytale Characters Across Palestinian and Grimm Traditions
• Elena Hamidy: Can LLMs Effectively Detect Poetry? Identifying Quality Differences Among Local, Free, and Commercial Models
• Pensalfini Martina, Sabatino Lorenzo: Copyright, Computation, and Literary Space: A Linked Open Data Pipeline for Contemporary Authors
• Gilad Gutman: A Computational Method for Analyzing Figurative Language: Classifying the Body Politic Metaphor in Early Modern English Tragedies
• Luise Prager: Corpus Construction and Preprocessing Evaluation of Contemporary German Prize-Winning Novels (2010-2025)
• Maxim Demin, Mark Schwindt, Mariia Menshikova: Digital Analysis of Studies in Soviet Thought / Studies in East European Thought (1961–2020): The Transformation of the Expert Perspective
• Yann Audin: Design questions all the way down: A General Methodological Model of Distant Reading
• Jeffrey Clapp, Lau Chaak Ming: Does Autofiction in English Exist? Generic and Narrative Measures
• Tina Ternes: Emotional Links between Text and Discussion in Shared Reading Sessions
• Pascale Feldkamp, Kristoffer L. Nielbo, Yuri Bizzoni: Language in Expansion: Diachronic Variation across Genres in Danish Newspapers
• Lisa Gollner: Machine Learning-Based Extraction and Clustering of Recurring Characters in Historical  Periodicals
• Svenja Guhr, Irem Kurtdemir, Hayden L. Nurnberg, Adikkya Rahman, Shannon Thornton, David Bamman: Measuring Suspense in English-Language Short Fiction
• Matilde Innocenti: Modeling Institutional Literary Networks: A Relational Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Theatre Archives
• Khoa Lê Văn Tuấn, Linh Võ Thị Phương, Trinh Nguyễn Thị Ngọc, Ly Trương Nguyễn Cát: Operationalizing Narrative Entrapment: Predictive Affective Trajectories via Contextual Sentence Embeddings in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
• Laura Duparc, Camille Bertrand, Ami Nagai: Shadows: A Computational Knowledge Graph of Mythological and Literary Characters for Cross-Cultural Narrative Analysis
• Marc Barcelos: Style After Success: A Multidimensional Analysis of Context-Driven Expressive Drift in US-Published Creative Writing in the Long 20th Century
• Keli Du, Julia Röttgermann, Christof Schöch: Test for Uniformity of P-values: a reproduction of results

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The conference will take place as a hybrid event. Presentations and participation are possible both on site and virtually.

Local Organizers: Digital Humanities Network, University of Potsdam, digital-humanitiesuni-potsdam.de (digital-humanities[at]uni-potsdam[dot]de)