Call for Papers: Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis: Achievements and Opportunities
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19. March 2025
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Call for papers
Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis: Achievements and Opportunities
DraCor Summit 2025 (1 - 4 September 2025)
Berlin, 3 September 2025
Deadline: 6 May 2025
The workshop is part of the DraCor Summit 2025. It will take place on Wednesday, 3 September 2025.
The analysis of drama through computational and quantitative methods has come a long way from first pioneering efforts of figures such as Boris Yarkho, Solomon Marcus, or Hartmut Ilsemann, and now represents a major research strand within Computational Literary Studies. The maturity of the field was demonstrated in the first edition of the Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis, held in Cologne in September 2022 and whose contributions were recently published (Andresen and Reiter 2024).
Three years on, we aim to convene again to give an overview of the current state of computer-aided drama analysis. What new achievements have been made? Which obstacles still need to be overcome? To answer these questions, the workshop invites scholars working with and/or critically reflecting on formal, quantitative or digital methods for analysing drama to discuss the current state of the field and present new perspectives for the future.
The workshop is organised as part of the DraCor Summit 2025 (1–4 September 2025). Therefore, contributions using corpora, data or tools developed within the DraCor project (Fischer et al. 2019) are particularly welcome, but this is not a prerequisite.
We invite the submission of short abstracts (up to 500 words) on any of the above-mentioned or closely related topics by 6 May 2025. A decision on the acceptance to the workshop will be made by the workshop organisers. Submissions should be in English and do not need to be anonymised (open peer review).
Please send your abstract in PDF format to info@dracor.org by 6 May 2025, stating “submission drama workshop” in the subject line.
Organisers of the Computational Drama Analysis Workshop
Luca Giovannini, Daniil Skorinkin (University of Potsdam)
The complete Call for Papers can be found here.
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