Methods of writing in Late Bronze Age Cyprus look quite different to those of the Bronze Age Aegean, from which the Cypro-Minoan writing system was derived. But there has been a certain reluctance to see signs of ‘cuneiformisation’ in Cypriot writing practices in recent literature. This paper aims to show that Cypriot writers were interacting…[Read more]

In R. Parker and P.M. Steele (eds.) The Early Greek Alphabets: Origin, Diffusion, Uses, Oxford: OUP 2021

This contribution reports on the collaborative effort of building an open access multilingual corpus of European novels published 1840-1920 (the European Literary Text Collection – ELTeC) within the COST Action “Distant Reading for European Literary History” (COST Action CA16204). Working at the intersection of many languages and cultures, we…[Read more]

This contribution reports on the collaborative effort of building an open access multilingual corpus of European novels published 1840-1920 (the European Literary Text Collection – ELTeC) within the COST Action “Distant Reading for European Literary History” (COST Action CA16204). Working at the intersection of many languages and cultures, we…[Read more]

We present results of a project examining the application of text visualization in the context of religious studies and sociology. Our goal is to analyze and compare the online communication of various religious directions. For this contribution we focus on the visualization of collocations for specific religious and spiritual key concepts. As a…[Read more]

Memes are a popular part of today’s online culture reflecting current developments in pop-culture, politics or sports and are created and shared in large scale on a daily basis. We present first results of an ongoing project about the study of online-memes via computational Distant Reading methods. We focus on the meme type of image macros. I…[Read more]