Plenaire sessie ‘Digitale literatuur en haar onderzoek in een digitale maatschappij

Welkom en inleiding
Bart Eeckhout (UAntwerpen, VAL), Thomas Ernst/Leonore Nassen (UAntwerpen, lokale organisatie)

Panel- en publieksdebat
“Digital Literature and AI: Challenges and Inspirations for the Literary Studies of the Future”
Sprekers: Leah Budke (KU Leuven) | Astrid Ensslin (University of Regensburg) | Robbe Vandersmissen (UGent)

Parallelle sessies

Section 1: Digital Literary Studies and Digital Humanities

• Lindsey Geybels/Lien Claeys (UAntwerpen): Drawing Edges between Generations: Social Networks in the Works of Crosswriters
• Luna De Bruyne (UAntwerpen/UGent)/Véronique Hoste (UGent): Emotions in Guido Gezelle’s ‘Paper Women’ letter correspondence
• Lamyk Bekius (UAntwerpen): Too little or too much data? Reflections on genetic criticism applied to floppy disk files and keystroke logging data
• Chiara Cremona (VUB): Studying the transcultural reception of English novels through digitised reviews of Italian periodical press
• Paavo Van der Eecken (UAntwerpen): Thinking Outside of the Bounding Box: A Reconsideration of the Application of Computational Tools on Uncertain Humanities Data

Section 2: Literature, Authorship and Literary Criticism in a Digital Society
Chair: Pim Verhulst (UAntwerpen)

• Giorgio Busi Rizzi (UGent): The Networked Author. Rethinking contemporary authorship through comics after the digital turn
• Michele Marchini (KU Leuven): Mexico and Digital Literature: Evolving Perspectives, from Juan Villoro to Mónica Nepote
• Robbe Vandersmissen (UGent): De toekomst voor oren: het luisterboek als gamechanger in het literaire veld
• Hanne Willekens (UGent): Gegenderde kritiek? Een empirische analyse van gender in literatuurrecensies in het Zweedse dagblad Dagens Nyheter (2018-2022)

Section 3: Bodies and Objects, Identity and Representation in Literature, Theatre and Film
Chair: Helga Mitterbauer (ULB)

• Jonas Vanderschueren (KU Leuven): “Zaraza”: Re-imagining corporeality through environmentally adapted bodies in The Witcher
• Janina Meissner (UAntwerpen): “Ich muss das Ding haben.“ Things and their Poetic Potentials in Georg Büchner‘s Woyzeck
• Francis Mus (UGent): Zichtbaarheid en erkenning. Paratekstuele (zelf)representatiestrategieën in literaire vertalingen Frans-Nederlands in de Lage Landen
• Quintus Immisch (University of Tübingen/Aix-Marseille Université/Brussel): Freud and the Naked Truth. Case Study from a PhD Project on Nudity in Modern Literature and Culture

Section 4: Biographies, Characters and Identities in Radio, Children’s and Youth Literature
Chair: Janine Hauthal (VUB)

• Iana Nikitenko (VUB): Narrating Lives Over the Airwaves: A Transnational Study of Post-war Radio Biographies in Britain and Germany
• Andrea Davidson and Rosemarie Knobloch (UAntwerpen): Adolescence onstage and behind the scenes: The intergenerational collaboration to adapt Aidan Chambers’ The Toll Bridge into Ibycus’ De Tolbrug
• Elena Guerzoni (Bologna/UAntwerpen): Like a River. Adolescence and Youth Literature: Metaphors of Ungraspable Identities
• Katrijn Van den Bossche (VUB): ‘It’s A Story. It’s Not My Life’: Reading Natzasha Brown’s Assembly(2021) as a Politically Engaged Anti-Novel

Plenaire sessie “Literatuur, letterkunde en artificiële intelligentie”