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- Final Action Event
- Call for Applications for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) and Virtual Mobility Grants (VMG) – Spring 2022
- Distant Reading Compendium
- Action Objectives
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- Application process for STSMs (Spring 2022)
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- Budapest Training School
- Call for Applications for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) and Virtual Mobility Grants (VMG) – Summer 2021
- Call for Applications to the Galway Training School (5-7 December 2018)
- Call for Applications to the Named Entity Recognition & Geo-Tagging for Literary Analysis Training School (22-25 March 2021)
- Call for Applications: Budapest Training School (23-25 September 2019)
- Call for STSMs (Spring 2018)
- Call: Training School on Optical Character Recognition and Text Encoding for the production of ELTeC contributions
- Closing Conference Programme – Zoom links
- Distant Reading for European Literary History (COST Action CA16204)
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- First Call for STSM Applications – Grant Period 2
- Galway Training School 2018
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- Guidelines for Handling of New Projects
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- Joint Action Meeting in Lisbon, 2019
- Málaga Meeting 2020
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- Second Call for STSM Applications in Grant Period 2
- STSMs
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- Working Groups
- Würzburg Training School
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- Closing Conference Programme
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Distant Reading Recommends: Zeleno Busenje (Green Turf) by Edhem Mulabdić
Distant Reading RecommendsThe sixth article of the Distant Reading Recommends series is written by Vedad Mulavdić of the University of Sarajevo and Meliha Handžić of the International Burch University in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They describe Zeleno busenje (Green Turf), the “first Bosniak novel” of so-called “minor” European literatures. The novel will be included in the Bosnian corpus […]
European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) published in Version 1.0.0!
Working GroupsThe COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History (CA16204) is proud to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of the European Literary Text Collection, ELTeC for short. The latest release comes almost exactly one year after our first significant release and brings more languages as well as more novels per language to the table, […]
A New ELTeC Baby
Associated Projects, Our NetworkNews of a new ELTeC-related project from Action member Roxana Patras. Pop-Lite: Romanian Popular Novels and Their Sub-genres during the Long Nineteenth Century: digital editing and corpus analysis is a pioneer Romanian initiative that combines DH tools and methods with traditional approaches to Romanian literary history and theory. The project aims to address the lack […]
Digital Library of Serbian ELTeC Novels
Associated Projects, Our NetworkA new digital library was recently established at the University Library „Svetozar Marković“ in Belgrade, Serbia, initially populated by novels from the Serbian contribution to the ELTeC corpus. Users of the library can simultaneously read a digital facsimile of a copy of the chosen novel, as well as a text-only version. Many researchers and volunteers […]
UMA welcomes experts in European literature from 24 countries
Events, Our NetworkThis is a translation of an article about our recent Action meeting in Málaga, written by Cristina Fernández and originally published in Málaga Hoy on 18 February 2020. We are grateful for permission to publish this translation of the original article. The project tries to search through distant reading for a common tradition in the […]
Distant Reading Novel Collections Released in ELTeC Version 0.5.0
Our NetworkOne of the principal aims of our Action, Distant Reading for European Literary History, is to build a multilingual European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC), ultimately containing around 2,500 full-text novels in at least 10 different languages. Today, we are pleased to announce the first public release of ELTeC, with nine language collections included! The ultimate aim is for ELTeC […]
1st Call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) Applications in COST Action “Distant Reading for European Literary History” (CA 16204)
UncategorizedFirst call for Grant Period 3, for Missions occurring before March 31st, 2020. COST Action “Distant Reading for European Literary History” (CA16204) is launching a new call for applications for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs). The deadline for applications is November 30th, 2019. Our Action is particularly interested in the following topics, which are closely […]
Invitation to Doctoral Training School: “Distant Reading – Tools and Methods.” Basel, 12-13 December 2019.
Associated Projects, Calls, Events, Our NetworkDistant reading, driven by the development of digital technology in the human sciences, has emerged as one of the most prolific approaches to literary texts. Maps, graphs and trees, in Moretti’s (2005) words, allow us to reread famous works in a new way, or to look at large amounts of texts that have long been […]
Distant Reading Recommends: Beatin dnevnik (Beata’s Diary) by Luiza Pesjak.
Distant Reading RecommendsThe fifth article of the Distant Reading Recommends series is written by Katja Mihurko Poniž of the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. She describes Beatin dnevnik / Beata’s Diary, the first novel written in Slovene by a woman writer, and one containing numerous interesting echoes of nineteenth century literature from elsewhere in Europe. In Distant Reading Recommends, an […]
Distant Reading Recommends: Nove (The New Women) by Jelena Dimitrijević
Distant Reading RecommendsThe fourth article of the Distant Reading Recommends series comes from Serbia, and is written by Cvetana Krstev of the University of Belgrade and Vasilije Milnovic of the University Library “Svetozar Markovic,” University of Belgrade. They introduce a prominent oriental-themed novel from the Serbian tradition, puzzlingly neglected today but notable for its formal and thematic innovations. In Distant […]