Christof Schöch: “‘Libération des données’: An open science approach to the curation and analysis of the XVIIIe siècle: bibliographie” (short presentation). Digital Humanities Conference 2024: Reinvention and Responsibility. Washington DC: George Mason University, August 6-10, 2024. – https://dh2024.adho.org/. – See also: https://christofs.github.io/BIB18/ (website) https://dhtrier.quarto.pub/bib18 (slides) – 10.5281/zenodo.13118386 (DOI).


Julie Birkholz, Ingo Börner, Joanna Byszuk, Vera Maria Charvát, Silvie Cinková, Tess Dejaeghere, Anne Dijkstra, Julia Dudar, Matej Ďurčo, Maciej Eder, Jennifer Edmond, Evgeniia Fileva, Frank Fischer, Françoise Gouzi; Serge Heiden, Sarah Hoover, Maarten Janssen, Michal Křen, Bartłomiej Kunda, Carsten Milling, Michał Mrugalski, Ciara L. Murphy, Lukas Plank, Marco Raciti, Stefan Resch, Emily Ridge, Salvador Ros, Christof Schöch, Artjoms Šeļa, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje, Toma Tasovac, Justin Tonra, Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, Peer Trilcke, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Anna Woldrich, Vera Yakupova: “Literary Methods for All: CLS INFRA – Unlocking a World of Words!” (poster presentation). Digital Humanities Conference 2024: Reinvention and Responsibility. Washington DC: George Mason University, August 6-10, 2024. – URL: https://dh2024.adho.org/.



Christof Schöch: “Linked Open Data for Literary History. Extracting, Modeling, Linking and Querying Data on the French Enlightenment Novel” (opening keynote). The International Conference for the Study of the Novel. Second Edition: Migration and Economic Inequalities in the History of the Novel: Discourses, Representations, Identity (Re)Construction. Cluj-Napoca: Institutul de Lingvistică și Istorie Literară Sextil Pușcariu, 21-22 June 2024. – Presentation: https://dhtrier.quarto.pub/cluj, Programme: https://icsnpuscariu.wordpress.com.


Sarah Hoover (presenting author), Julie Birkholz, Ingo Börner, Joanna Byszuk, Sally Chambers, Vera Maria Charvat, Silvie Cinkova, Anna Dijkstra, Julia Dudar, Matej Durco, Maciej Eder, Jennifer Edmond, Evgeniia Fileva, Frank Fischer, Vicky Garnett, Francoise Gouzi, Serge Heiden, Michael Kren, Els Lefever, Michal Mrugalski, Ciara Murphy, Carolin Odebrecht, Eliza Papaki, Marco Raciti, Emily Ridge, Salvador Ros, Christof Schöch, Artjoms Sela, Justin Tonra, Elsbeth Toth Cifra, Peer Trilcke, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Vera Yakupova (2024): “Literary Methods for All: CLS INFRA”. DARIAH Annual Event 2024, Workflows: Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities. Lisbon, June 18-21, 2024. – URL: https://annualevent.dariah.eu/.


Christof Schöch: “Replication or Reproduction or What? Modes of Repetitive Research in Computational Literary Studies”. ExploreCor: Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies (CLS INFRA Training School), Session Reproducibility in CLS Research. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH OEAW), Vienna, June 10-12, 2024. [#200]


Jacek Kudera (presenting author), Claudia Bamberg, Thomas Burch, Folke Gernert, Maria Hinzmann, Susanne Kabatnik, Claudine Moulin, Benjamin Raue, Achim Rettinger, Jörg Röpke, Ralf Schenkel, Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Doris Schirra, Christof Schöch, Joëlle Weis: “LODinG: Linked Open Data in the Humanities”. The 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources, Applications, Best Practices, Co-located with LREC 2024. 25 May 2024, Torino, Italy. – Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2024.ldl-1.7/ – Poster: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11371264 – Programme: https://ldl2024.linguistic-lod.org/.



Christof Schöch: Participation in the panel on Digital Transformation in the Personal and the Academic Space: Convergence of the fields of Digital, Humanities, and Literature, org Youngmin Kim. Dongguk University, South Korea, 24 May 2024.


Christof Schöch: “Bigger Smarter Data: Extracting, Modeling and Linking Data for Literary History”. Invited lecture, org. Lee Seung-eun and Byungjun Kim on behalf of Korean Association for Digital Humanities (KADH), the Department of Korean Language and Literature, Humanities Utmost Sharing System. Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 23 May 2024. – Slides: https://dhtrier.quarto.pub/ku/ – DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11213754Announcement.




Christof Schöch: “Legal aspects and scholarly requirements regarding TDM in the digital humanities: current developments in Germany”. French-German Meeting on Copyrighted Works in Digital Libraries. Bibliothèque National de France / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Paris, 14 Dec 2023.




Keli Du, Julia Dudar, Julia Röttgerman, Christof Schöch: “Investigating Measures of Distinctiveness for the Genre-Based Classification of Entire Novels”. Workshop SIG-DLS Seven Years On, Digital Humanities Conference 2023 (DH2023), University of Graz, July 10, 2023.





Christof Schöch: “Les humanités numériques multilingues : trois études de cas (The European Literary Text Collection, Approches d’un corpus multilingue : L’exemple de Dei delitti et delle pene de Beccaria, De l’histoire littéraire comme réseau)”, Séminaire ‘Pourquoi le franco-allemand’, org. Falk Bretschneider et Rainer Maria Kiesow. Paris, EHESS / Centre Georg Simmel, April 11, 2023.



Birkholz, Julie; Börner, Ingo; Chambers, Sally; Charvat, Vera; Cinková, Silvie; Dejaeghere, Tess; Dudar, Julia; Ďurčo, Matej; Eder, Maciej; Edmond, Jennifer; Fileva, Evgeniia; Fischer, Frank; Heiden, Serge; Křen, Michal; Kunda, Bartłomiej; Mrugalski, Michał; Murphy, Ciara; Odebrecht, Carolin; Raciti, Marco; Ros, Salvador; Schöch, Christof; Šeļa, Artjoms; Tasovac, Toma; Tonra, Justin; Tóth-Czifra, Erzsébet; Trilcke, Peer; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; van Rossum, Lisanne. “Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS INFRA): a project to connect people, data, tools, and methods” (poster). Digital Humanities Conference 2022 (DH2022). Tokyo, Japan, July 25–28, 2022. – URL (book of abstracts): https://dh2022.dhii.asia/dh2022bookofabsts.pdf (see page 624–627). Open Access


Julia Röttgermann (presenting author), Maria Hinzmann (presenting author), Katharina Dietz, Henning Gebhard, Anne Klee, Johanna Konstanciak, Christof Schöch, Moritz Steffes: “Mining and Modeling Spaces and Places for Literary History as Linked Open Data”. Digital Humanities Conference 2022 (DH2022). Tokyo, Japan, July 25-28, 2022. – Abstract: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6948192. Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6916198. Open Access





Christof Schöch: “What is ELTeC all about?” Belgrade Training School 2022: Exploring ELTeC: Use-Cases for Information Extraction and Analysis, org. Ranka Stankovic, Joanna Byszuk, Roxana Patras. Hybrid workshop, Belgrade, March 21-23, 2022. – website · slides.


Keli Du, Julia Dudar, Cora Rok, Christof Schöch. “Kontrastive Textanalyse mit pydistinto – Ein Python-Paket zur Nutzung unterschiedlicher Distinktivitätsmaße” [Poster]. In: DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. 8. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd2022), hg. Michaela Geierhos, Peer Trilcke, Ingo Börner, Sabine Seifert, Anna Busch und Patrick Helling. Potsdam, 2022. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6327966. Open Access


Maria Hinzmann, Christof Schöch, Katharina Dietz, Anne Klee, Katharina Erler-Fridgen, Julia Röttgermann, Moritz Steffes. “Linked Open Data für die Literaturgeschichtsschreibung – Das Projekt Mining and Modeling Text” [Poster]. In: DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. 8. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd2022), hg. Michaela Geierhos, Peer Trilcke, Ingo Börner, Sabine Seifert, Anna Busch und Patrick Helling. Potsdam, 2022. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6328036. Open Access


Maria Hinzmann, Julia Röttgermann, Anne Klee, Moritz Steffes, Christof Schöch: “The French Enlightenment Novel as a Graph? Potentials and Challenges in the Construction of a Knowledge Network”. Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022. Technologies, Models, Analyses, and Visualizations. 6th International Conference. 3–4 Feb 2022, online. – URL: https://graphentechnologien.hypotheses.org/[…] (paper) – DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5840088 (paper). Open Access


Christof Schöch: “Les potentiels de la sémantique quantitative”. Sources et méthodes de la lexicographie numérique – Quellen und Methoden der digitalen Lexikographie (Les mots du droit, atelier 3). Loveno di Menaggio: Villa Vigoni, 4-7 Oct 2021.


Christof Schöch: “Current Challenges in Computational Literary Studies” (invited lecture), International Webinar on
Digital Humanities
, org. Dhareppa Konnur. Seshadripuram Evening Degree College, Department of English, Bangalore, India, 29 June 2021.


Christof Schöch: “Digital Humanities, Distant Reading / Computational Literary Studies and the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History”. Webinar Distant Reading, with Rosario Arias Dobla and Borja Navarro Colorado, org. Infraestructura de Tecnologías del Lenguaje (INTELE), 11 June 2021. – Event · slides · video recording.



Christof Schöch: “ELTeC, un corpus mulilingue annoté pour une histoire littéraire européenne numérique”. Éditions critiques multilingues : défis et possibilités, org. Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Eugénie Matthey-Jonais, Joyce Boro, 88e Congrès annuel de l’Acfas, Université Sherbrooke / Université Bishop, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, 3-7 Mai 2021. – Remote event · website.


Katja Mihurko-Poniz, Rosario Arias, Berenike Herrmann, Cvetana Krstev, Carolin Odebrecht, Christof Schöch, Dmytro Yesypenko: “Thresholds to the ‘Great Unread’: Titling Practices across Multilingual Collections of European Novels” (Webinar). Day of DH 2021, COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History, 29 Apr, 2021. – Remote event · video recording.




Christof Schöch, Maria Hinzmann, Katharina Dietz, Julia Röttgermann, Anne Klee: “Smart Modeling for Digital Literary History”. Smart Data ╳ Digital Humanities: 11th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH2020), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 1-4, 2020. – Delivered remotely. – Conference website.



Christof Schöch: “How Could Digital Literary Historiography Work? Some Lessons Learned in the MiMoText Project”. Vortragsreihe DHLunch@GS, org. Thorsten Ries, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 26. Oktober 2020. – Invited lecture, delivered remotely. – Information: Eventseite


Christof Schöch: „Current Challenges in Computational Literary Studies“. CDH 2020. Benevolence and Excellence: Digital Humanities and Chinese Culture. Shanghai Library, October 20-21, 2020. – Keynote, delivered remotely. – Slides.





Christof Schöch & Maria Hinzmann: “Mining and Modeling Text: Informationsextraktion und Linked Open Data für die Literaturgeschichtsschreibung”. Konferenz Informationen – digital verpackt, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, 22.-23. Sept. 2020. – Eingeladener Vortrag, delivered remotely. – SlidesVideo.


Christof Schöch, Ulrike Henny, Albin Zehe, Christian Pölitz & Katrin Betz: “The ‘topic modeling workflow’ (tmw)“, Workshop Let’s Develop an Infrastructure for Historical Research Tools, at the Digital Humanities Conference 2017, Montréal, Canada, 7.-12.8.2017. – InformationenSlides.






Christof Schöch: “Repeating and Repeatable: Digital Literary Studies between Past and Present”, Interroger le texte à l’ère de l’intelligence mécanique : la stylistique outillée, au carrefour du disciplinaire et de l’interdisciplinaire, Montpellier, France, June 11-12, 2019. – Keynote. – Conference website



Lecture: “Burrows Zeta for Contrastive Lexical Stylistics”. Galway Training School of the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History, co-located with the EADH Conference 2018, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, December 5, 2018. – Plenary lecture.


Christof Schöch, Daniel Schlör, Albin Zehe, Henning Gebhard, Martin Becker, Andreas Hotho: “Burrows’​ ​Zeta: Exploring​ and​ Evaluating Variants​ ​and​ ​Parameters”. Digital Humanities Conference (DH2018), Mexico City, 26.-29.6.2018. – Long paper. – Abstract | Slides.



Christof Schöch: “Towards a Resarch Agenda for Data-driven Approches to Literary Periods” (Keynote). Annual conference of The Coordinating Committee for the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series (CHLEL): ‘Period Shapers in Literary History’, org. Dirk van Hulle. University of Antwerp, 24.5.2018. – Slides.


Fotis Jannidis & Christof Schöch: “Measuring the Complexity of Literary Texts: Results from STTR Measurements and Direct Speech Identification”, Osaka-Würzburg Collaborative Workshop, org. Tomoji Tabata, Osaka University, Japan, April 5, 2018.





Christof Schöch: “Spitzer & Racine, revisited”. Sektion Theorien von Autorschaft und Stil in Bewegung. Stilistik und Stilometrie in der Romania, org. Nanette Rißler-Pipka, 35. Kongress des Deutschen Romanistenverbands, Universität Zürich, Schweiz, 8.-11.10.2017. – Informationen.


Christof Schöch: “Quantitative Approaches to Textual Semantics”, Session Digital Humanities: Text and the Machine, org. Anne Baillot and Sinai Rusinek, German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Conference 2017 (GISFOH), Jerusalem, Israel, 10-13.9.2017. – Invited lecture. – Informationen.



Christof Schöch & Erik Ketzan: “Close/Machine-Reading Two Versions of Andy Weir’s The Martian”, Seminar Machine Reading/Narrative Machines, org. Jeffrey Champlin, Christof Schöch, Inge van de Ven, Annual Meeting of the American Association for Comparative Literature (ACLA Conference), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 6.-9.7.2017. – InformationScheduleSlides.






Daniel Schlör, Stefanie Popp, Christof Schöch, Ulrike Henny und José Calvo Tello: “Straight Talk! ­Automatic Recognition of Direct Speech in Nineteenth-­century French Novels”, Book of Abstracts of the Digital Humanities Conference 2016 (Kraków, Poland, 12.-15.7.2016). ADHO, 2016. – URL: dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/31 (abstract) – DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10072385 (abstract and presentation).







Christof Schöch: “Open Access to Research Data: Creating, Publishing and Using Text Collections for Research in Digital Literary Studies”, DARIAH-Italien Summer School Models for Open Access Publishing, Villa Vigoni, Italien, 9.-11.6.2015 (Gastvortrag / invited lecture). – Programme.


Christof Schöch und Nanette Rißler-Pipka: “Comedia – Comédie: Topic Modeling als Perspektive auf das spanische und französische Theater des 17. Jahrhunderts”, Von Daten zu Erkenntnissen: Digitale Geisteswissenschaften als Mittler zwischen Information und Interpretation, Jahrestagung des DHd-Verbands, Universität Graz, Österreich, 23.-27.2.2015. – DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4623289 (abstract) – http://gams.uni-graz.at/o:dhd2015.v.015 (slides). Open Access


Christof Schöch: “Aktuelle Methoden der quantitativen Analyse literarischer Gattungen: ein Werkstattbericht”, Forschungskolloquium am Department of Literary Studies / Ghent Center for Digital Humanities dir. Gunter Martens, Universität Gent, Belgien, 20.2.2015 (Gastvortrag / invited lecture).


Christof Schöch: “What is Computational Literary Genre Stylistics?”. Exploring Historical Sources with Language Technology: Results and Perspectives, org. Martin Wynne, Gabor Toth, Rik Hofstra, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Den Haag, Huyghens ING, The Netherlands, 8.-9.12.2014 (Lightning Talk). – +www





Christof Schöch: “Enrich, Analyze, Interpret – Digital Methods for Literary Studies”, Seminar Introduction to Digital Humanities, dir. Tara Andrews, University of Bern, Switzerland, 19.5.2014 (Gastvortrag / invited lecture).



Christof Schöch: “Collaborative Academic Writing: Tools and Features”, Session Digital Humanities And The Tyranny of Distance, org. Erik Champion, Digital Humanities Australasia, 17.-21.3.2014, University of Western Australia, Perth (Vortrag, via Skype). +info+pdf


Christof Schöch: Keynote “Die digitale Wende. Chancen und Herausforderungen für die Geisteswissenschaften” (und Moderation der Podiumsdiskussion “Eine Roadmap für die digitalen Geisteswissenschaften”), DARIAH-AT Workshop Digitale Geisteswissenschaften in Österreich: Nationale Kooperationen und europäische Perspektiven, org. Johannes Stigler, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Graz, Austria, 20.11.2013. +info +pdf +pdf


Christof Schöch: Vortrag “Qu’en aurait dit Diderot? Le passage au numérique, les études de lettres et les valeurs des Lumières”, Bousculer les frontières. Autour de Diderot et du XVIIIe siècle, org. Michel Delon, Michèle Vallenthini & Charles Vincent, Institut Pierre Werner, Luxembourg, 13.-15.10.2013. +info+pdf



Christof Schöch: Vortrag “Intégrer, distinguer, légitimer, expliquer ? – Les rapports changeants entre écriture descriptive et narration, de la fin des Lumières aux années 1830”, Colloque international Po­étiques du descriptif dans le roman français du XIXe siècle, org. Alice de Georges-Métral, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, 23.-25.5.2013



Christof Schöch: Plenarvortrag / invited plenary lecture: “Du document à l’édition numérique : les procédures éditoriales“, Workshop Digital Text / Genetic Document. Text Encoding and Genetic Editing, dir. Bénédicte Vauthier, Universität Bern, Schweiz, Sept. 2012.


Christof Schöch: Vortrag / paper “Nouvelles configurations : textes, théories et outils dans les études de lettres“, Colloque international: Configuration(s), Groupe Recherche Assistée par Ordinateur / CRÉA, org. Anne Bandry-Scubbi, Françoise Deconinck-Brossard, Alain Kerhervé, Clotilde Prunier, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Frankreich, 06/2012. – Information: https://crea.parisnanterre.fr/recherche-assistee-par-ordinateur-rao–665881.kjsp


Christof Schöch & Christiane Fritze: Paper “DARIAH for editors and developers of digital scholarly editions“. Interedition Symposium on Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure, Huygens ING Den Haag, The Netherlands, 03/2012.


Christof Schöch: “Describing Description. Database-Driven Research on Descriptive Writing in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel“. Session Digital Enlightenment, dir. Anne Bandry-Scubbi, 13th International Congress of Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Graz, Österreich, July 2011.


Christof Schöch & Johanna Wolf: “Varianten visualisieren. Alte methodische Debatten im neuen Licht der digitalen Medien“. Variante und Varietät: Dies Romanicus Turicensis, dir. Cristina Albizu, Hans-Jörg Döhla, Lorenzo Filipponio, Marie-Florence Sguaitamatti, Harald Völker, Vera Ziswiler, Reto Zöllner. Romanisches Seminar, Universität Zürich, Schweiz, June 2011.


Christof Schöch: “Le temps du génie. Attributs temporels du génie créateur et idées sur la temporalité au XVIIIe siècle français“, Le Génie créateur à l’aube de la modernité, 1750-1850, org. Nathalie Kremer, Académie royale flamande des sciences et des beaux-arts, Bruxelles, Belgien, Oct 2009.



Christof Schöch: “Un type de picturalité textuelle dans la critique d’art et la fiction romanesque de Diderot”. Diderot, Salons, org. Stéphane Lojkine & Franziska Sick, Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail, Frankreich, March 2008.


Christof Schöch: „La Chambre dans le roman libertin du second XVIIIe siècle“ (Gastvortrag / invited lecture). Forschungsseminar Le dispositif de la chambre, org. Stéphane Lojkine, Université Toulouse-Le Mirail, Frankreich, Feb 2007.