Dear all, As per tradition, the SIG-DLS organizes a pre-conference event at the upcoming DH Conference, this year in collaboration with the ICLA Digital Comparative Literature Research Committee <https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/> and the Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure <https://clsinfra.io/>. Here below is the Call (available also at: https://dls.hypotheses.org/1903), open until *25 April.* All the best, Simone Comparative Literature Goes Digital <https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2025/dh-mini-conference.html#comparative-literature-goes-digital> In September 2024, a new Research Committee on “Digital Comparative Literature” (DCL) was formed as part of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). In September 2025, the Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS-INFRA), part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, will conclude its activities. To celebrate the concurrent creation and conclusion of these two sister projects, the SIG-DLS (now renamed “Digital Literary Studies”) organizes a mini-conference at DH2025 in Lisbon, dedicated to all applications of digital and computational methods in the study of literature. The program (planned on Monday 14 July, 13:30-20:00 WET) will include a series of lightning talks and demos, welcoming contributions on (but not limited to) the following topics: - Distant reading techniques and computational literary studies when applied in a comparative perspective; - Multilingual literary archives and the digitization of texts in different languages and writing systems; - The transformation of the book, reading in the post-digital age, and born-digital literature; - Geographic information systems, data visualization, and comparative literary studies; Machine translation, artificial intelligence; - Language models and comparative literature. To submit a contribution for a lightning talk or a demo, please send a brief abstract via the submission form <https://forms.gle/f6oKJdSnHX9XkxgZ8> by 25 April 2025. A lightning talk is intended as a short presentation (max 5 minutes) of an ongoing or finished project, or even of an idea for possible research (if you choose this format, please submit an abstract of max 250 words). A demo is intended as a longer, interactive presentation (max 15 minutes) of a tool or workflow for digital/computational literary studies (if you choose this format, please submit an abstract of max 500 words–you can also add links to supporting materials like notebooks and/or videos). All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the programme committee and notifications of acceptance will be sent by 2 May 2025. Organising & programme committee <https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2025/dh-mini-conference.html#organising-programme-committee> Simone Rebora (SIG-DLS and ICLA DCL) Joanna Byszuk (SIG-DLS and CLS-INFRA) Yina Cao (ICLA DCL) Maciej Eder (CLS-INFRA) J. Berenike Herrmann (SIG-DLS) Youngmin Kim (ICLA DCL) Suzanne Mpouli (SIG-DLS) Federico Pianzola (ICLA DCL) Pablo Ruiz Fabo (SIG-DLS)