On my (long) way to Palo Alto, I am pleased to share the following news - shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...

📢 Call for Posters #CCLS2026: Do you have a #CLS project, exciting work in progress, or an interesting error analysis to discuss? Submit your #poster proposal by March 3 and be part of the hybrid conference! jcls.io/site/ccls202...

Join us today for a meeting with Tamar Zandberg! Also via zoom.

🚨Call for Papers for #CCLS2026! Want to publish a #CLS journal article in 8-12 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, conference #preprint, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design? Submit by January 8, 2026, and be part of #JCLS and our conference in May! 🚀 jcls.io/site/cfp/

New week, new article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🚀 We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper.bsky.social: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale? #CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing

By inserting an artificial word with precisely defined frequency and #dispersion, they test how well different measures detect what’s truly #distinctive. Their findings uncover that a #TF-IDF -based measure is more sensitive to dispersion variations than other dispersion-based measures. #Evaluation

We are happy to share our open lab sessions for this semester, with 5 CLS related talks by lab members and visitors!

הערב - מפגש הפתיחה של סמינר מדעי הרוח הסביבתיים לשנה זו! אנו נארח את ד''ר נעמה סדן (אוניברסיטת סטנפורד) שתדבר על אקו-ריטואלים. מוזמנים/ות!

New paper out! Our Hebrew Novel Project started as a citizen science effort to collect data on thousands of novels. We quickly realized - surprise, surprise : ) - that reading is complex.

As always: #OpenData and #OpenCode Dekel, Y., Marienberg-Milikowsky, I., & Jacobson, G. A. (2025). "From Readers to Data." #JCLS 2025. Data set. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #CCLS2025 #CLS #CitizenScience #Hebrew #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics

Jacobson et al. explore how #ReaderUncertainty becomes a source of insight by embracing interpretive #ambiguity. Drawing on 1,026 questionnaire responses from the #HebrewNovelProject, they examine how readers express uncertainty—from skipping questions to outright rejecting interpretive frameworks.

This week, we announce another article from #JCLS 4 (1): Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169). Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience

An exciting start to the new academic year. Our lab is expanding: We're thrilled to welcome new postdocs, RAs, and research projects (and due to this growth, we've even gained an extra room!). Ready for a year of productive and enjoyable teamwork. Full of hope.

A new academic year, new hopes.

Today’s #highlight for me on the last day of #dh2025? Luca Giovannini presenting his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts". He proposes drama vectorization not to simplify plays, but rather to continue formalist morphological thinking using computational tools. 🎭📊 #cls #drama

An inspiring CLS work!

What are the key components of a #play? 🎭 #DH2025: @lucagiovannini.bsky.social takes us on a tour through centuries of thinking from #Aristotle’s #Poetics, through Russian formalism, to modern literary theory and unpacks the question offering a fresh perspective. #drama #operationalization #CLS

Super excited to share our research with you! Here's the link to our slides and code on GitHub. See you at 2pm in room Aud B3! github.com/literarylab/...

Couldn't agree more!

I'm thrilled to announce that our Talmudic Stories project has just secured another three years of funding! (This news comes independently of today's presentation of the project in Lisbon). It's a significant achievement for our lab and for the research of late antique Hebrew literature. >

Now in the posters session in #DH2025 in Lisbon - Itay explains how to build a narratological database for late antique texts, based on our Talmudic stories project.

#DH2025 attendants, we will also stream this mini-conference about digital methodsin comparativeliterature, so anybody is welcome to attend! With 17 lightning talks and demo! ⚡️📢 dls.hypotheses.org/1952 #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social

Just arrived in Lisbon for the #DH2025 conference. Excited to be here!

@evelynius.bsky.social comments: CCLS2025 was a blast! There were so many engaging discussions, it really could have lasted more than two days. The good news is that we already know we’ll continue next year in Potsdam, where the 5th anniversary edition will take place. @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

While just last week we were gathered in beautiful Kraków for #CCLS2025, discussing the latest in #ComputationalLiteraryStudies, next week we meet again, this time at the #DH2025 conference in sunny Lisbon! ☀️

We're looking forward to more inspiring talks and vibrant discussions on #CLS research questions with a breeze of ocean air in our hair. ☀️🌊🌬️😎 See you in Lisbon! 📚💻 #DigitalHumanities #DH2025

As a follow-up to our last post on DH resource platforms, here are more DH centers that may be helpful for your research and networking. We’re curious to know — which DH centers do you know or work with? (1/7)

Post-doc opportunities at BGU: www.fulbright.org.il/program/2/84... Excellent candidates who want to work on Talmudic stories and /or computational natratology and /or ecocriticism are welcome 🤗.

On my way home after an excellent conference, of the highest level. It was inspiring! My head is full of thoughts and ideas for the future. A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful editors of the journal, and to the local hosts! I'm proud to be a member in such an intellectual community. #CCLS2025

Not had enough of #CCLS2025 yet? Next year is already our fifth anniversary! Get excited for #CCLS2026 in Potsdam! @dhpotsdam.bsky.social 🥳 #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #DH #LiteraryComputing

We’d love your input! Help us improve CATMA by taking our short, anonymous survey (10-15 min). Users of all experience levels are welcome. Take part and feel free to share! 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thanks very much to everyone who participates! #CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities #DHTools

#CCLS2025 is about to start. @peertrilcke.bsky.social opens the probably "hottest conference of the year". We're ready for hot research on #ComputationalLiteraryStudies.

Next talk is by Gilad Aviel Jacobson, Yael Dekel, @itaymm.bsky.social: From Readers to Data. Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science (doi.org/10.26083/tup...) #CCLS2025

The NAPH conference at UCL has concluded a few hours ago. My talk (part of the ecocriticism session) focused on intergenerational responsibility within late antique Hebrew literature. Now heading from London to Krakow for the second station of this intensive week: The CCLS conference!

July is here and so is #CCLS2025! ☀️ Starting on Thursday, we’re ready for two days of 🔥 hot research in #ComputationalLiteraryStudies. Don’t worry about the heat: the science is hot, the conference room is air-conditioned. 😎 See you in Kraków (or online)! 👉 Don’t forget the hashtag: #CCLS2025

First station of this week: London.

After two horrible weeks, back to (a kind of a) routine.

We are very excited to announce the publication of our forTEXT issue on text annotation in higher education. It brings together tried-and-tested, reusable teaching concepts in German centred on the method of text annotation in the humanities. 👉 www.fortext-hefte.de (1/4)

We were delighted last week to host Gilad Gutman (Tel-Aviv University and the Open University of Israel), for a talk about networks, political metaphors, and Shakespeare. What a fascinating work!

לפני כמה ימים שמחנו לארח את ד''ר טפת הכהן-ביק (מכון ון-ליר) להרצאה על שריפות בספרות העברית, ועל אתגר ייצוג הקטסטרופה האקלימית בתוך מסורת פואטית שבה האש מזוהה עם הנשגב. היה מרתק, חשוב, ולמרבה הצער - גם אקטואלי.

Happy to share a new publication: shc.stanford.edu/arcade/publi...

🚨 #DH2025 early bird registration has been extended until May 9! ⏰Secure your spot and register soon at: dh2025.adho.org/conference-r... #DH2025 #dh #digitalhumanities #adho

ביום שלישי הקרוב, פרופ' נמרוד מרום (החוג לארכיאולוגיה, אוניברסיטת חיפה) יפתח את סמינר המרכז שלנו לסמסטר הנוכחי. פרטים בהזמנה המצ''ב.

Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.

Thrilled to be on my way to Stanford for what promises to be a truly unique workshop! jewishstudies.stanford.edu/events/jewis...

Great news! The paper, written by Yael Dekel, Gilad Jacobson and myself, discusses the question of uncertainty in computational literary studies from a citizen science perspective (or vice versa?...). We are looking forward!

Ever wondered how to use digital methods to analyse classical literature? Check out my latest open access article in the JCLS (@jcls_io): https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.3670 #Classics #comedy #theatre #DH #DraCor #networkanalysis

Die verloren geglaubte Bibliothek Vor 8 Jahrzehnten ist die Büchersammlung des deutsch-jüdischen Religionsphilosophen Franz Rosenzweig in Tunesien gestrandet. Die Münchner Historikerin Julia Schneidawind hat die Bände dort wieder entdeckt. Über die Odyssee von mehr als 3.000 Büchern taz.de/!6073880/