Call for Papers: Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis

We invite you to the second edition of the workshop on drama analysis using computational and quantitative methods. What results have been achieved in the field and what obstacles still remain? To answer these questions, we invite scholars working with or critically reflecting on formal, quantitative or digital methods of drama analysis to discuss the current state of research and its future prospects.

The workshop is being held as part of the DraCor Summit 2025, and while papers using DraCor project data, tools or corpora are particularly welcome (Fischer et al. 2019), it is not a requirement.

More broadly, we are interested in contributions addressing the following topics:

• Application of computational methods for drama analysis, such as topic modelling, stylometry, network analysis, sentiment or emotion analysis
• Critical reflection on their deployment within literary studies, in particular with respect to questions of generalisability, interpretability and reproducibility of results
• Development and application of language processing methods in regard to character speech or stage directions
• Exploring cultural evolution perspectives for drama history by means of corpus-based analyses or classifications
• Theoretical perspectives on the application of digital methods in drama studies
• Exploitation of linked open data and metadata analysis
• LLM approaches to drama (history)

Submission Guidelines:
Please send an abstract of up to 500 words (in PDF format, no anonymization required) to info@dracor.org by 13 May 2025 (extended deadline). Please put "Submission Drama Workshop" in the subject line of the email.

Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to write a full paper (4,000-6,000 words) to be included in
a reader distributed prior to the workshop. A template will be available in Word, ODT and LaTeX formats. Revised versions of the papers will later be published in a peer-reviewed proceedings.

Schedule:

13 May 2025 - Deadline for abstracts
26 May 2025 - Notification of acceptance
10 August 2025 - Deadline for full papers
3 September 2025 - Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin
End of 2025 - Deadline for revised papers

We look forward to receiving your contributions!
Organisers of the Computational Drama Analysis Workshop: Luca Giovannini and Daniil Skorinkin (University of Potsdam)

More information here.