5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Potsdam 2026

CCLS2026 Potsdam

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

Call for Papers: https://jcls.io/site/cfp/

Call for Posters: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2026/poster-call/

Dates: May 28-29, 2026

Venue: "Wissenschaftsetage im Bildungsforum" (Thu, May 28) and University of Potsdam, "Campus Am Neuen Palais", Building 8 (Fri, May 29)

Local Organizers: Digital Humanities Network, University of Potsdam, digital-humanities@uni-potsdam.de

Registration is open: https://fmsup-ext.uni-potsdam.de/fs-extern/form/provide/564/

Contact: info@jcls.io

Hashtag: #CCLS2026

Conference Reader: https://jcls.io/media/journals/12/CCLS2026_Conference-Reader.pdf

List of Posters: https://jcls.io/site/ccls2026/poster-session

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

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

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. | Self-paid lunch at the university canteen (“Mensa”)

2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. | Joint walk through Park Sanssouci