Join us on October 20 at 9:30 am for the v irtual Sawchen Lecture Series\, featuring Dr. Daniil Skorinkin and Dr. Alex ey Vdovin of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. The talk is co-sponsored by the SSHRC-funded Digital Dostoevsky pr oject at University of Toronto. The project’s PI\, Kate Holland (University of Toronto)\, will moderate.
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Title: “Russian Digital Humanities: Spotlight on Russian D rama and Novels Corpora”
Abstract: A Data-Driven Vie w on 200 Years of Russian Drama
Daniil Skorinkin will present RusDraC or (rus.dracor.org) — an open corpus o f Russian drama intended for digital literary studies. As of today\, the co rpus contains 210 Russian plays from 1747 to 1947. RusDraCor is part of the bigger DraCor family of corpora (dracor.org) — an international endeavor for quantitative research of dramatic texts . All the DraCor texts are encoded in the machine-readable XML-based format known as TEI\, widely used in building corpora for the humanities. Skorink in will demonstrate how such encoding and the digital methods we apply coul d bring new knowledge about the evolution of Russian drama over 200 years. If time allows\, Skorinkin will also offer ‘structural insights’ into parti cular well-known Russian plays.
Towards the Corpus of the Russian Nov el\, 1800-1917
Alexey Vdovin will present the first database of Russi an Novels\, 1800-1917\, which now contains 1500 texts and becomes the basis of the future corpus in progress. In his talk\, Alexey will describe the s ources of the database\, its scope and limits\, its metadata\, and the prin ciples and the difficulties of categorization of novels. The database in it s current view allows to pose several simple questions leading to the funda mental turning points in the history of the Russian novel.
Bi os: Daniil Skorinkin is the head of the Masters’ program in Digita l Humanities at the HSE University in Moscow. His main area of interest is digital literary studies with a focus on computational methods for modeling ‘character spaces’ and ‘character systems’ in fiction. His PhD thesis was a digital take on the character system in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace\, whi ch involved network analysis\, stylometry\, and certain NLP techniques. Dan iil is the co-founder & one of the main contributors of rus.dracor.org.
Alexey Vdovin is Associate Professo r of Russian Literature at the National Research University Higher School o f Economics (Faculty of Humanities\, Moscow). He is the author of Nikolai D obroliubov: raznochinets mezhdu dukhom i plot’iu (Moscow\, 2017)\, Kontsept glava literatury v russkoi kritike 1830–1860 (Tartu\, 2011) and co-editor of Khrestomatiinye teksty: Russkaia ped- agogicheskaia praktika i literatur nyi kanon XIX veka (Tartu\, 2013). His fields of expertise are the history of Russian literature in the Age of Realism\, Russian literary criticism\, theory of literary canon\, history of Russian novel. His current projects a re the corpus of Russian novel\, 1800-1917\, and the book entitled ‘To Kill the Idyll: the Stories about Peasants in the Russian Culture Before Emanci pation”.
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