4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Krakow 2025
CCLS2025 Krakow
The conference will take place as a hybrid event. Presentations and participation are possible both on site and virtually.
Call for Papers: see https://jcls.io/site/cfp/ – submission deadline is February 7January 30, 2025
Call for Posters: see https://jcls.io/site/ccls2025/poster-call – submission deadline is May 15, 2025
Dates: July 3-4, 2025
Venue: Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philology (Al. Mickiewicza 9, 31-120 Kraków)
Local Organizers: Jan Rybicki, Jagiellonian Centre for Digital Humanities, jchc@uj.edu.pl
Registration: https://www.konferencje-uj.pl/?lang=en&go2rej=1&kid=397
Please note the "Regulations of the Conference".
Conference Fee:
- 0 PLN (virtual attendance)
- 300 PLN (on-site attendance)
- 550 PLN (on-site attendance, incl. Conference Dinner on Thursday)
Contact: info@jcls.io
Hashtag: #CCLS2025
Conference reader: to be published on June 19, 2025
Pre-Conference: CLS INFRA will host a free of charge workshop before the CCLS Conference on 2nd July. You can find more information about the program and registration here: https://clsinfra.io/closing-event/
Conference Programme
Thursday | July 3, 2025
8:45 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. | Arrival, Registration & Coffee
9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. | Opening
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. | Session 1 (Chair: tba)
- Fotis Jannidis, Rabea Kleymann, Julian Schröter, Heike Zinsmeister: Do Large Language Models Understand Literature?
- Keli Du, Uygar Navruz, Nazan Sınır, Julian Valline, Christof Schöch, Sarah Ackerschewski: Reconstructing shuffled text: Bad Results for NLP, but Good News for Using In-Copyright Text
10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | Time for Talks & Coffee
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. | Session 2 (Chair: tba)
- Maria Levchenko: Computational Analysis of Literary Communities: Event-Based Social Network Study of St. Petersburg 1999-2019
- Gilad Aviel Jacobson, Yael Dekel, Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky: From Readers to Data
- Julia Neugarten: A Powerful Hades is an Unpopular Dude: Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction
12:30 p.m. to 13:30 p.m. | Lunch break
1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. | Session 3 (Chair: tba)
- Daniil Skorinkin, Boris Orekhov: The Outward Turn: Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th Century Literature
- Svenja Guhr, Jessica Monaco, Alexander J. Sherman, Mark Algee-Hewitt: Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction
- Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Anda Baklāne, Valdis Saulespurēns: Urban Transportation in the Latvian Early Novels or "Why do you use a 19th-century horse-drawn cab when you have a 20th-century taxi?"
3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. | Time for Talks & Coffee
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Session 4 (Chair: tba)
- Rongqian Ma, Keli Du, Yiwen Zheng: Verse within Prose
- Natalie M. Houston: Rhymefindr: An Historical Poetics Method for Identifying Rhymes in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry
4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Time for Talks & Coffee
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | Keynote
- Maciej Eder: Text Analysis Made Simple (Kind of), or Ten Years of Stylo [Abstract]
7:00 p.m. | Conference Dinner
Friday | July 4, 2025
8:45 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. | Good Morning Coffee
9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. | Session 5 (Chair: tba)
- Katrin Rohrbacher: Opening Worlds: Narrative Beginnings and the Role of Setting
- Noa Visser Solissa, Andreas van Cranenburgh and Federico Pianzola: Event Detection between Literary Studies and NLP
- Andrew Piper: Towards a Moral History of the Novel Using Large Language Models
10:40 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. | Time for Talks & Coffee
11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. | Session 6 (Chair: tba)
- Julia Dudar, Christof Schöch: Exploring Measures of Distinctiveness
- Allison Keith, Antonio Rojas Castro, Hanno Ehrlicher, Kerstin Jung, Sebastian Padó: A Computation Analysis of Character Archetypes in the Works of Calderón de la Barca
- Yuri Bizzoni, Pascale Feldkamp, Kristoffer L. Nielbo: Encoding Imagism?
12:45 p.m. to 13:00 p.m. | Closing
Local Organizers
In cooperation with the CLS INFRA project
