From the 12th to the 13th of September 2024, the Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities (Ulrike Henny-Krahmer) is organizing a workshop in cooperation with the Professorship of Digital Literary Studies (Julian Schröter) at LMU Munich.
For over a decade, the analysis of text types and genres has been at the center of Distant Reading. Initially, research focused on the identification and repeatability of text groups through stylometric proximity and distance-based clustering, as well as on the replication of genre orders using machine learning. In recent years, however, there has been greater interest in recording the historical meanings of genres. This shift reflects a change in interest: away from the mere classification of genres as category systems towards a historical-hermeneutic understanding of genres as communicative units within aesthetic experiences.
Under the title "Digitale Gattungshermeneutik", the workshop invites participants to further deepen this historicizing and hermeneutic interest by, among other things, expanding the existing spectrum of questions.
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Location
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Schellingstraße 3, 80799 Munich, Rear Building, Room 153. Please register at the e-mail address J.Schroeterlmude.