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ICLA-DCL special issues on Digital Comparative Literature.
Srnd your abstract by 7 September 2026.
Full CFP and submission details: icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/20...
#DigitalComparativeLiterature #ICLA #DigitalHumanities #ComparativeLiterature
ICLA DCL Journals CfP – Digita... -
📢 Call for Papers: "Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today"
A mini-conference by ICLA DCL & ADHO SIG-DLS at #DH2026 (Daejeon, South Korea, July 28, 2026). Lightning talks + interactive poster session exploring computational methods, multilingual archives, generative AI, and born-digital literature in comparative literary studies.
📅 Submission deadline: April 30, 2026
📝 300–500 word abstracts (PDF)
Full CFP 👉 https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2026/dh-mini-conference.html
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Awesome!! 💯 Karina van Dalen-Oskam of #CLS fame will deliver the AILC-ICLA Annual Lecture 2025!
"Perceptions of Literariness Across Borders", on November 20, 13.00-14.30 UTC.
Abstract and details here: https://www.ailc-icla.org/events/annual-lecture-2025/
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"Dust That Never Settles" by Amir Moosavi explores how the #arabic & #persian literature keeps revisiting the #IranIraqWar in fiction, challenging state narratives & showing its lasting impact on society, memory, & even the environment.
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Welsh’s Trainspotting meets Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Both raw, both classic. My Needle’s Edge echoes the grit—Scotland’s dialect vs. America’s motel rooms.
https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/22/trainspotting-takes-over/
#Trainspotting #TheSecondSex #NeedlesEdge #AddictionLit #LiteraryFiction #BookTalk #BookDiscussion #ComparativeLiterature #ContemporaryFiction #Reading #AmREading #AmWriting #Addiction
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Final "Digital Comparative Literature" session at #ICLA2025 and still going strong!
With @rebsim on digital social reading and Yunqian Wang on fan fiction.
Infos: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=941&mode=table
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Second session of the day, with interesting papers!
One by Nicholas Wong from Hong Kong University on using word embeddings to detect semantic shifts of words related to "humanity" in a long-running journal, Chao Foon.
And one by Yue Wang on character networks in the famous Chinese novel "Dream of a Red Chamber / Mansion" using Antconc and further methods.
Session details here: https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&cols=5&form_session=813&mode=table
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I'm delighted to be presenting at the 'Global Romanticism' Digital Symposium, hosted by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), on the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive (RPPA) — a digital project exploring transnational Romantic-era poetry.
Full programme: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6052
#GlobalRomanticism
#ComparativeLiterature
#DigitalHumanities #SemanticWeb #MultilingualDH -
Fascinating, massively multilingual, aligned and commented edition of Manzoni's I promessi sposi, the most famous Italian novel ever, presented by Maria Levchenko.
Explore it here: https://projects.dharc.unibo.it/leggomanzoni/traduco
I'm especially curious about the alignment mechanism, both for the comments and the translations. Edit: Ah, they used, among other things, #BERTalign!
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Just a reminder that there is only a few days left until the 5th of April 2025 to submit proposals for a
demo or lightning talk at the mini-conference "Comparative Literature Goes Digital", organized at DH2025 Lisbon by SIG-DLS, ICLA DCL, and CLS-INFRA (the full Call here: https://dls.hypotheses.org/1903) -
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive sits at the crossroads of #ComparativeLiterature and the #DigitalHumanities.
It facilitates the collaborative #contextualization of #poems on any expression level (full-text, facsimile, recording, ...)