22 May
23 May

Scaling from Digital and Computational Perspectives

Date:

all day

22 May 2025 - 23 May 2025

Location:

Center for Advanced Studies Seestr. 13 80802 München

Workshop of the CAS Research Focus “Scales/Maßstäbe”, organized by Prof. Dr. Julian Schröter (LMU).

The digital humanities have a rich tradition of using and reflecting on the metaphor of scale, going back to the concept of ‘scalable reading’ as a critique and development of Franco Moretti‘s notion of distantreading. Since then, questions of scale have had a strong connection to literary and textual computation and to the pair of ‘close’ versus ‘distant’ reading. However, the methodology of scaling in the humanities and social sciences has advanced and gained new power from the possibilities of generative AI and large language models.

Participants include Florentina Armaselu (University of Luxembourg), Boris Čučković Berger (LMU), Jana Diesner (TUM), Stefanie Schneider (LMU), Ursula Ströbele (HBK Braunschweig), Christian Wachter (Bielefeld), Thomas Weitin (Darmstadt).

Keynote, 22 May, 10 a.m.:

Prof. Katherine Bode, Ph.D.: Diffractive Writing: Text, Data, and the Limits of Scale

Katherine Bode is Professor of Literary and Textual Studies at the Australian National University. She is author of Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field (2012).

Registration

Registration is required for participation. If you are interested in our event, please contact us: info@cas.lmu.de