Plotting Poetry gathers scholars sharing a keen interest in both poetry and quantitative methods. Our annual conference is happening again after the covid break, in person and in Tartu, with keynote lectures by Chris Mustazza and Maciej Janicki.
PROGRAMME
4 July
16:00 - Opening of the conference
16:30
Chris Mustazza
The Voices We Do: Surplus Inscriptions in the Poetry Audio Archive
17:30
Welcome reception
5 July
9:00
Amelie Macaud
Charles Bukowski’s performance poetry, reperformed online
9:30
Igor Pilshchikov
Jakobsonian “broad metrics”: a model for musical verse (exemplified by two late Soviet Russophone “bard” songs)
10:00
Helena Bermúdez Sabel, Clara Martínez Cantón & Pablo Ruiz Fabo
From poetry to song. A corpus-based approach to textual variation
11:00
Nils Couturier and Lara Nugues
Constructing a TIMBRE Database: Handling Popular Poetic Reuses
11:30
Liina Saarlo, Mari Sarv, Susanna Mett
Kalevipoeg in the FILTER-machine. New opportunities to study the links between literary and oral poetries
12:00
Toni Bernhart, André Blessing, Felix Dieterle, Gunilla Eschenbach, Markus Gärtner, Kerstin Jung, Nora Ketschik, Anna Kinder, Julia Koch, Jonas Kuhn, Sandra Richter, Nadja Schauffler, Gabriel Viehhauser, Thang Vu
Blowing 'The Boy’s Magic Horn': Plotted and Synthesised Romanticism
14:00
Kirill Korchagin
Russian Typological Oriented Theories of Meters in the 1920s: From “Metrotonica” to “Tactometrica”
14:30
Antonina Martynenko; Artjoms Šeļa
The fall of genres that did not happen: formalizing historical dynamics of Russian poetic meter semantics
15:00
Vera Polilova
3-ictic dolnik in Russian translations of Spanish and German verse: a comparative rhythmical analysis
16:00
Pablo Ruiz Fabo
MeThAL: Towards a macroanalysis of theater in Alsatian
16:30
Anne-Sophie Bories
Jokes without Humour
17:00
Maria-Kristiina Lotman, Rebekka Lotman
Rhyming strategies in Estonian rap lyrics: a statistical view
6. July
9:00
Maciej Janicki
Text similarity and alignment in the study of Finnic oral folk poetry
10:30
Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir
Textual Variation and Representative Selection of Texts
11:00
Petr Plecháč, Szilvia Maróthy, Levente Seláf
Orality, Music, and Versification in 16th century Hungarian Epic Poems
11:30
Wouter Haverals
Scanning for (un)certainty. In search of an evaluation method for computer-generated scansion of medieval Dutch poetry
12:00
Kaarel Veskis
Quantitative analysis of distribution of the nominative form of the diminutive suffix -kene in Estonian runosongs
14:00-15:30
Final collaboration event
16-18
Optional: Joint visit to the Estonian National Museum