On April 8, 2025, the “New Trends in Literary Studies” symposium organized by our University's Department of Comparative Literature brought together experts from the academic community. The symposium addressed innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the transformation of literature in the digital age.
Dr. Mehmet Akın Bulut, Head of Department of Educational Sciences, moderated the session titled “Digitalization in Literary Studies: Reconstruction, Analysis, and Visualization.” This session featured remarkable presentations on how digital humanities tools can be utilized in the analysis of classical texts.
Frederic Spagnoli from the University of Franche-Comté gave an online presentation on the analysis of travelogues using digital humanities tools. Assist. Prof. Merve Aktar discussed how we can synchronize data-driven distant reading methods with close reading. Zehra Yedidal, a student from Ibn Haldun University's Department of Comparative Literature, focused on the reconstruction of Ancient Mesopotamian Literature in electronic media.
The symposium featured a wide range of presentations, from multilingual Ottoman geography to artificial intelligence, from science fiction literature to digital gothic narratives. Participants had the opportunity to rethink the forms of literary production and analysis in the digital age while discussing the representations of artificial intelligence, the human body, nature, and the divine in literature.
