New Digital Resources and Computational Methods for the Study of Literature in a Global Context

Wednesday 11/4
-breakfast 8:30
-9:00–11:30

Mads Rosendahl-Thomsen (Aarhus Universitet)–Introduction to project
or future funding possibilities
Tim Tangherlini (UCLA)– Goodreads and Reception-at-scale
David Kim (UCLA)– Goethe and Networks
Peter Broadwell (UCLA)– hGIS and Macroscopes
-11:30-1:30 lunch

-13:30-15:30

Scott Weingart (CMU): tba
Denis Tenen (Columbia): Scene Detection in Literary Fiction
David Mimno (Cornell): classification
-15:30-16 coffee

-16:00-17:30–show & tell

Jack Chen and team (UCLA): East Asian Macroscope
Kristoffer Nielbo (Aarhus Universitet): “Tidens Ström” [The Flow of Time] – Tracking temporal dynamics in collected writings”

Thursday 11/5
-breakfast 8:30
-9:00–11:30

Julie Markussen (Aarhus Universitet): What is Danish world literature?

Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford University): TBA
-11:30-1.30 lunch

-1.30-3.00 roundtable