From 7 to 9 September 2026, the University of Rostock will host the hackathon Women Playwrights in Digital Corpora. The event focuses on the digital representation and computational analysis of plays by women, with particular attention to their integration into the DraCor research infrastructure.
The three-day hackathon will bring together researchers from computational literary studies, cultural analytics, digital scholarly editing, theatre studies, and related fields. The program combines introductory training sessions on encoding dramatic texts in TEI and working with DraCor data with presentations, collaborative working sessions, and discussions.
During the working sessions, participants may pursue projects of their own or contribute to prepared thematic work packages. Possible areas of work include the encoding and enrichment of plays by women, the integration of new texts into DraCor corpora, the modelling of characters and gendered patterns of representation, and the analysis of character networks, speech distribution, scene structures, and stage directions. Comparative analyses across languages, historical periods, genres, and theatrical traditions are also welcome.
The event is open both to participants with previous experience of DraCor or TEI and to interested newcomers. No prior technical knowledge is required. The working language will be English.
Registration
The event will take place on site at the University of Rostock. Participation is free of charge and limited to 35 participants. To register, please send an email to phf.dh@uni-rostock.de. When registering, please indicate whether you would also like to attend either or both of the following accompanying events:
- Monday, 7 September 2026, from 7:30 p.m.
Informal dinner at L’Osteria Rostock. Participants are responsible for covering their own expenses.
- Tuesday, 8 September 2026, 3:30–5:00 p.m.
Battle of the Plays World Championship 2026
Venue
Seminar Rooms 105 and 116
Philologicum
Universitätsplatz 3
18055 Rostock
Germany
Local organisers: Erik Renz and Ulrike Henny-Krahmer
Contact: phf.dh@uni-rostock.de
The event is organised with the support of the team of the Professorship for Digital Humanities at the University of Rostock. It forms part of the activities of the Rostock Working Group for Digital Humanities (RosDH) and is funded by the Department “Wissen – Kultur – Transformation” of the Interdisciplinary Faculty and by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Rostock.