From September 12 to 13, 2024, the Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities (Ulrike Henny-Krahmer) in collaboration with the Professorship for Digital Literary Studies (Julian Schröter) at LMU Munich will host a workshop.
For over a decade, the analysis of text types and genres has been a focal point of distant reading. Initially, research concentrated on identifying and replicating text groups through stylometric proximity and distance-based clustering, as well as replicating genre hierarchies using machine learning. In recent years, however, the focus has increasingly shifted towards capturing the historical meanings of genres. This shift reflects a change in interest: moving away from simply classifying genres as categorical systems toward a historically 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, among other things, by expanding the range of existing questions.
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Venue:
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Schellingstraße 3, 80799 Munich, Rear Building (RG), Room 153. Please register via email at J.Schroeter@lmu.de.