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Lecture Series: Gerrit Brüning

S.R.231 Rodestraat 14 (via ingang Lange Winkelstraat), Antwerpen

Genetic Editing and Textual History. The Case of Goethe’s Faust.

In his lecture, Gerrit Brüning introduces the key concepts and features of the Faust edition, which is published in an advanced beta stage (beta.faustedition.net), and nearing completion. The genesis of Goethe’s Faust tragedy spans a period of about 60 years. Individual stages of its conceptual and textual history have survived in hundreds of manuscripts with more than 2000 written pages. The Faust edition gives access to this material, enabling the user to find all witnesses for every single passage of the work and to explore images and transcriptions in an intuitive way.

Lecture Series: Thorsten Ries

S.R.231 Rodestraat 14 (via ingang Lange Winkelstraat), Antwerpen

Digital Forensics in the Humanities: Beyond Philology

This lecture endeavors to shed light on the impact of digital forensics on the historical humanities, discussing sample cases and arguments about born-digital historical primary sources. It will make the case that digital forensic literacy and historical computing knowledge will have to be key components in historical humanities education and political discourse.

Workshop: Automatic Text Reuse Detection with TRACER

S.C.104 Prinsstraat 13, Antwerpen

Automatic text reuse detection with TRACER

In this workshop, participants will run text reuse detection analyses on the seven English language Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling, a selection of Harry Potter fanfiction as well as the Harry Potter movie subtitles. The objective of the workshop is not only to practise text analysis with TRACER but also to introduce participants to current strategies and issues in this area of research.

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