Slavic DH Workshop: Russian Literary Studies in the Digital Age
On Tuesday May 28, the Slavic DH Working Group at Princeton will welcome Frank Fischer and Boris Orekhov from the Higher School of Economics Centre for Digital Humanities (Moscow) for a day-long workshop combining discussions, demonstrations and hands-on exploration of cutting-edge digital humanities approaches to the study of Russian literature. Researchers at all levels of familiarity with DH are welcome to attend.
9:30–10:30am Introduction: The State of Digital Humanities in Russia
10:45am–12:15pm “Programmable Corpora:” A New Infrastructural Concept for Digital Literary Studies
Hands-on work with the Russian Drama Corpus
Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Tolstoy Everywhere: Unleashing the Information Hidden in the 90-Volume “Collected Works”
An overview and exploration of the 91st Volume Project, a digitized index for the collected works of Leo Tolstoy
3:30- 5pm Neural Network Poetry Meets Distant Reading: Analyzing Computer-Generated Echoes of Russian Literary History
A discussion of the historical origins of computer-generated poetry and an introduction to neural-net approaches as a new practice of distant reading
Presenters:
Frank Fischer is Associate Professor for Digital Humanities at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and director of DARIAH-EU, the pan-European digital research infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. His research focuses on digital perspectives for the study of literature.
Boris Orekhov is Associate Professor at the HSE School of Linguistics and founder of the Tolstoy Digital Project. His professional interests include Corpus studies, as well as development and application of different methods of automatic analysis of texts.
RSVP by Thursday May 23 here.
This event will take place at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton, B Floor of Firestone Library, Princeton New Jersey. Please note that non-Princeton guests must RSVP for access to Firestone Library. Information for visitors here.
This event is presented by Slavic DH Working Group at Princeton, and is sponsored by the Princeton Slavic Department and the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton.
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