Since the 1980s, the focus of cultural and social sciences internationally has increasingly turned to the topic of space. The geographer Edward Soja provided the intuitively understandable label for this development: the spatial turn. However, the question of what space is and how it can be studied has given rise to a whole landscape of specialist answers over the last 40 years.
The German workshop “Literature and Space” invites all interested parties to explore this landscape in the field of literary studies. We will focus in particular on the diversity of methods between close and distant reading, between qualitative and quantitative approaches, analog and computer-aided methods. What concepts of space are there in connection with literature? What can we learn about literature when we examine space in and around literature? Which approach brings which horizon of knowledge with it?
We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Berenike Herrmann (Bielefeld University), Dr. Jana-Katharina Mende (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) and Daniel Kababgi (Bielefeld University) on site and online. They will report first-hand on their experiences from their research projects.
Participants are invited to bring their own texts: In addition to the theoretical discussion, there will be a practical hands-on part where Computational Literary Studies tools can be tried out.
The event is organized and sponsored by the research focus “Digital Hermeneutics” of the Department of Knowledge - Culture - Transformation of the Interdisciplinary Faculty of the University of Rostock and the Institute of German Studies at the University of Rostock. Fernanda Alvares Freire, Nils Kellner, Marc Lemke and Nico Förster are particularly involved in the organization.
Location
Jacobi-Passage, seminar room 9, Kröpeliner Str. 57, 18055 Rostock (on the 4th floor) and online via Zoom. Please register using the following online form: https://tinyurl.com/5cnf7dth. After successful registration you will receive the access data for Zoom.
Contact: nils.kellneruni-rostockde