Russian Formalism & The Digital Humanities
Schedule of Events for April 13, 2015
Stanford Humanities Center (424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford)
| 9:00-9:30 Coffee/Breakfast | |
| 9:30-9:50 Franco Moretti, “Opening Remarks” | |
| 9:50-12:30 Session One: Formalist Literary Analysis Then and NowChair: Harsha Ram | |
| Galin Tihanov, “Shades Of Objectivity: Russian Formalism Before And After The Digital Humanities” | |
| Ilya Kliger, “Dynamic Archeology or Distant Reading: Literary Science between Two Formalisms” | |
| Peter Steiner, “Divergence vs. Convergence: Moretti, Tynyanov, Jakobson” | |
| Glen Worthey, “How ‘Digital Humanities’ is Made” | |
| 12:30-1:30 Lunch | |
| 1:30-3:30 Session Two: Russian Formalist Theory meets Digital Humanities ToolsChair: Michael Widner | |
| Mark Algee-Hewitt, “The Order of Poetry: Information, Aesthetics and Jakobson’s Theory of Literary Communication” | |
| David Birnbaum and Elise Thorsen, “Enabling the Automated Identification and Analysis of Meter and Rhyme in Russian Verse” | |
| Matthew Jockers, “Latent Plot Analysis Using the Syuzhet Package in R” | |
| 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break | |
| 4:00-6:00 Session Three: Points of Contact - Russian Formalism and the Digital HumanitiesChair: Nariman Skakov | |
| Igor Pil’shchikov, “The Legacy of the Moscow Linguistic Circle and the Digital Humanities Today” | |
| Gabriella Safran, “Victor Shklovsky and Victor Chernov on Effective Words: Toward a Formalist and Quantitative Analysis of Socialist-Revolutionary Rhetoric” | |
| Jessica Merrill, “The Verbal Mass and the Database: Defining the Text in Formalist Literary Analysis” | |
| 7:30 Dinner at MacArthur Park (27 University Ave, Palo Alto) | |