by Thora Hagen, Michael Huber and Daniel Tepavac

On the 23rd and 24th of November the DARIAH-EU working Group “Text and Data Analysis“ and the Department of Literary Computing at the University of Würzburg hosted the workshop “Distant Reading in Literary Texts”. The aim of the event bringing together leading experts in computational analysis of literary texts to stimulate discussion about ongoing research projects and the current problems at the very frontier of this field of research. Speakers were encouraged to present yet unpublished work in progress and thereby gain feedback from colleagues early early on.

Thanks a staff exchange program with the University of Osaka in Japan that is funded by the DAAD, and a grant from the Dariah-EU Funding Scheme for Working Group Activities it was possible to assemble some of the most reputable international representatives of the field. An audience of around 40 students, research assistants and professors from the humanities and computer sciences followed the presentations and engaged vividly in the long discussions.

The program was started by Jan Rybicki (Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland). In his presentation titled “Is Russian Literature Distant?

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