Program
The conference will be in hybrid format, with the possibility to attend the conference online via Zoom.
If you wish to attend as an online guest, we kindly ask you to fill out this registration form. You will receive the link shortly before the start of the conference via email.
Conference
| Day | Time | What | |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 20th | 08:45 | Registration & coffee | |
| 09:15 | Berenike Herrmann, Giulia Grisot, Robin-M. Aust: Conference Opening by the organizers | ||
| 09:30 | Maximilian Benz: Greetings from SFB1288 | ||
| 09:45 | Morning Lecture: Mareike Schumacher - “Affective space? Narrative space as a multidimensional reference system” (Chair: Berenike Herrmann) | ||
| 10:45 | coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | Panel 1: Fictional Landscapes and Historical Perspectives - Chair: Maximilian Benz | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Dorit Funke, Bielefeld University - Raum für neue Identitäten – Das ‚Lob Italiens‘ in Vergils Georgica | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Nicole Fischer, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Novalis’ Landscapes and Mindscapes | ||
| 12:00-12:30 | Robin-M. Aust, Bielefeld University - Topographies of hate? The Connotation(s) of Space and Place in the Works of Thomas Bernhard | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 13:30 | Panel 2: Poster Session - Chair: Berenike Herrmann & Giulia Grisot | ||
| 13:30-14:00 | Berenike Herrmann & Giulia Grisot, Bielefeld University - Is Heidi really happier in the mountains? A case for an investigation of spatial affect in fiction. | ||
| 13:45-14:00 | Marc Lemke, Rostock University - Computational Approaches to Narrative Space in 19th and 20th Century Novels (CANSpiN) | ||
| 14:00-14:15 | Laura Geray, Bielefeld University - Nonmetropolitan Ontologies of Space | ||
| 14:15-14:45 | Berenike Herrmann & Robin-M. Aust, Bielefeld University - “Comparing national literature is doing national literature”. Practices of comparing in genesis, solidification and transformation of german-swiss literature. | ||
| 14:45 | coffee break | ||
| 15:15 | Panel 3: Landscape and Social Involvement in Contemporary Culture - Chair: Elisa Ronzheimer | ||
| 15:15-15:45 | Zef Segal, The Open University of Israel - Imagined motion in Haifa: Digitally reading space and time in Ikhtayyi by Emile Habibi | ||
| 15:45-16:15 | Lore Knapp, Bielefeld University - Landschaftsbeschreibungen in zeitgenössischen deutschen, britischen, amerikanischen, kanadischen und australischen Klimaromanen. Funktionen ihrer affektiven Wahrnehmung im Vergleich | ||
| 16:15-16:45 | Siu Yau Jesse Ng, University of Cambridge - The Intertwined Space and Affect in Hong Kong Protest Literature | ||
| 16:45-17:15 | Ellen Grünkemeier, Bielefeld University - Landscape, Seascape and Sky: England’s Jurassic Coast in the Popular Imagination | ||
| 17:15 | break | ||
| 18:00 | Evening Lecture: Caroline Bassett - “Let’s hear it for the end of the world? Or the Good and the No-Good No Place” (Chair: Giulia Grisot) | ||
| 19:45 | Conference Dinner | ||
| April 21st | 09:00-9:30 | Coffee and open chat | |
| 09:30 | Closing Lecture: Matthew Wilkens - “Toward a joint analysis of gender, space, and affect in large literary corpora” (Chair: Robin-M. Aust) | ||
| 10:30 | Panel 4: Data-Driven Approaches to Fictional Landscapes - Chair: Robin-M. Aust | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Lovro Škopljanac, Zagreb University - “The light and breadth of space touched me”: How readers memorize narrative space | ||
| 11:00 | coffee break | ||
| 11:15-11:45 | Lisu Wang, University of Leicester - Breaking the borders: the spatial intertextuality of the Paris landscape between Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘French Life’ and Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities | ||
| 11:45-12:15 | Katrin Rohrbacher, McGill University - “Lived Space”: A Computational Study of Setting in Fiction | ||
| 12:15 | Lunch break | ||
| 13:15 | Discussion Panel: Britta Hochkirchen, Kirsten Kramer, Elisa Ronzheimer, Silke Schwandt: Comparing, Hermeneutics, and the Data Paradigm (Link) | ||
| 15:15-16:15 | Conclusion and farewell |
Training School
| Day | Time | What |
|---|---|---|
| April 22nd | ||
| 9:30-10:00 | Welcome | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Introduction to CATMA (Logging in to CATMA, Project-Modul, Tagset, Examples) | |
| 10:45-11:00 | Annotations with CATMA | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Analysis + Q&A | |
| 11:30-11:45 | Break | |
| 11:45-12:45 | Hackaton - Let’s annotate together | |
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch break | |
| 13:45-14:45 | Hackathon part 2 - Group work | |
| 14:45-15:55 | GitMA | |
| 15.55-16.00 | Questions, closing remarks |