The lecture series AI in the Book Industry, Literature and Literary Studies" brings together perspectives from the book industry, literary studies, and computational humanities.
Organized by Prof. Dr. Julian Schröter and Prof. Dr. Erika Thomalla, the series examines how artificial intelligence is changing editorial work, metadata optimization, literary analysis, translation, self-publishing, content production, and the legal framework of generative AI.
The program includes contributions by Prof. Dr. Julian Schröter and Prof. Dr. Erika Thomalla, Katja Krause, Tobias Streitferdt, Prof. Dr. Ted Underwood, Prof. Dr. Hannes Bajohr, Susanne Barwick, Andy Grimm, Prof. Dr. Andrew Piper, Cornelius Reiber, Tom Schmidt, and Prof. Dr. Rabea Kleymann.
Sessions:
- 20 April 2026: Introduction
- 27 April 2026: AI and Editing
- 04 May 2026: AI and Metadata Optimization
- 11 May 2026: AI as Cultural Technology
- 18 May 2026: Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Texts and Their Styles
- 01 June 2026: Legal Aspects of Generative AI
- 08 June 2026: Liquid Content: Agentic AI and how we will create, distribute and consume content in the future
- 15 June 2026: AI and Literary History
- 22 June 2026: AI in Translation
- 29 June 2026: AI in Self-Publishing
- 06 July 2026: Text Analysis with AI
Lectures are held on Mondays, 18:00 - 20:00.
View the full program here.
The lecture series is supported by the Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft (MUG).