Conference: Digital Stylistics in Romance Studies and Beyond
Date: 27th of February – 2nd of March 2019
Venue: University of Würzburg
Keynotes: Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University), Glenn Roe (Sorbonne Université, Paris)
Wednesday, 27th of February
Toscanasaal (Würzburg Residence)
17-18:
Registration
18-20:
Conference Opening (Robert Hesselbach & Christof Schöch)
Prof. Dr. Baris Kabak (Vice-President of the University of Würzburg)
Keynote:
Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University)
Using corpus-based analysis to study fictional style: A multi-dimensional analysis of variation among and within novels
Thursday, 28th of February
9-9.30:
Simon Gabay (Neuchâtel)
Français vs francois: does linguistic normalisation affect stylometric results?
9.30-10:
Andreas von Cranenburgh (Groningen)
Dutch weak and strong pronouns as a stylistic marker of literariness
10-10.30:
Sascha Diwersy (Montpellier) / Olivier Kraif (Grenoble)
Patterns and Novels – an outline of the PhraseoRom project and its provisional results
10.30-11:
Coffee break
11-11.30:
Martin Wynne (Oxford)
Exploring Rhetoric in the Electronic Enlightenment
11.30-12:
Arjuna Tuzzi (Padova) / George Mikros (Athens) / Michele A. Cortelazzo (Padova)
Applying General Imposters’ method to the Ferrante’s case
12-14:
Lunch break
14-14.30:
Katharina Dziuk Lameira (Kassel)
Complexity and Style of Spanish literary Texts
14.30-15:
Fotis Jannidis (Würzburg)
Text complexity and style
15-15.30:
Coffee break
15.30-16:
Julian Schröter (Würzburg)
The challenge of exploring the style of the German Novelle as a virtually orderless genre
16-16.30:
Daniel Schlör (Würzburg)
Preparation of a Text Type Dataset: Bootstrapping Rare Classes for the Annotation Process
Friday, 1st of March
9-9.30:
Jan Rohden (Göttingen)
Digital approaches to poetic style: a quantitative stylistic analysis of Italian Petrarchism
9.30-10:
Laura Hernández Lorenzo (Sevilla)
Digital Stylistics applied to Golden Age poetry: is really Fernando de Herrera a transitional poet between Renaissance and Baroque?
10-10.30:
Anne-Sophie Bories (Basel)
A Tempo for Negritude in Césaire’s Cahier
10.30-11:
Coffee break
11-11.30:
Jonathan Armoza (New York)
Probabilistic Matrix Factorization for Digital Humanities: Modeling the Parts of Speech of Emily Dickinson’s Fascicles
11.30-12:
Nanette Rißler-Pipka (Karlsruhe)
Cross-language stylometry: Picasso’s writings in Spanish and French
12-14:
Lunch break
14-14.30
Ulrike Henny-Krahmer (Würzburg)
Family Resemblance in Genre Stylistics
14.30-15:
José Calvo Tello (Würzburg)
Subgenre Classification: Linguistic vs. Literary Features
15-15.30:
Coffee break
17-19:
Toscanasaal (Würzburg Residence)
Keynote:
Glenn Roe (Sorbonne Université, Paris)
Voltaire’s Style: A Study in Digital Methods
Saturday, 2nd of March
9-9.30:
Álvaro Cuéllar González (Kentucky)
Presentation of the Estilometría TSO Project: Stylometry Applied to Spanish Golden Age Theatre
9.30-10:
José Manuel Fradejas Rueda (Valladolid)
The authorship and the redactions of the Primera Partida in the light of stylometry
10-10.30:
Coffee break
10.30-11:
Clémence Jacquot (Montpellier) / Ilaria Vidotto (Grenoble) / Laetitia Gonon (Grenoble)
Digital stylistic analyses in “PhraseoRom”: methodological and epistemological issues in a multidisciplinary project
11-11.30:
Simone Rebora (Verona) / Massimo Salgaro (Verona)
Classifying the style(s) of criticism. A new research on Italian book reviews
11.30-12:
Final discussion & information on publication etc.
Participation and Funding
There is no conference fee for the participation. For better planning, however, please contact us by e-mail at robert.hesselbach@uni-wuerzburg.de.
The conference is made possible by funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant number FKZ 01UG1508.