LUCDH presents a lunchtime talk once a month on recent research in Digital Humanities and AI. All Leiden University staff and students are welcome to attend. And we hope you can join us in person in Huizinga 0.09.

Lectures are announced via the LUCDH Webpages and Newsletter. Please register so we can keep you updated of any scheduling changes - you can register either with the specific sign-up form or an email to lucdh@hum.leidenuniv.nl. If you cannot attend in person, let us know if you wish to attend online when you register. We usually livestream via MS Teams and we will email you the link.

2025

• 9  Dec, 12:00 - 13:00 Steven Denney (LU Lecturer) TBA
• 25 Nov, 12:00 - 13:00 Rubin Ros (PhD Leiden University) Tracing Expertise in Politics: A Digital History of Technocracy in the Dutch House of Representatives, 1917-1994
• 14 Oct, 12:00 - 13:00 Ruilin Wang (PhD, University of Helsinki) Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery (Online)
• 16 Sept, 12:00 - 13:00 Matthew Sung (PhD candidate) Beyond Classifications and Segments: Recent developments in understanding the dialectal variation of tonal languages
• 9 May, 11:00 - 12:00 Justin Yeung (visiting PhD Candidate) Modelling Social Dynamics on Social Media: Networks and NLP 
• Lunch in the Lab: 12:00-13:00 on 25 February, 25 March, 29 April, 20 May, 24 June 2025.

2023-2024 Lunchtime Speaker Series of Lectures in Digital Humanites

• 10 Oct - Dr. Yann Ryan on 'What Use are Networks Anyway? Using Statistical Models to Understand Patterns in the Early Modern Book Trade'
• 7 Nov - Dr. Mike Preuss on 'What is the AI in Game AI?'
• 19 Dec (new date) - Dr. Gijs Wijnholds on 'Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings'
• 13 Feb - Keerthi Sridharan Vaidehi (PhD) on 'Beyond Discourse: An Introduction to Conversation Analysis in Linguistics Research and Elsewhere'
• 5 March - Dr. Rogier Creemers and Vincent Brussee (PhD) on 'Digital Humanities for Contemporary Policy Research - the Case of China'
• 16 April - Aron van de Pol (PhD) on 'Colonial Korean Print Shops through Computer Vision'
• 14 May - Corine Geeritsen (PhD) on 'From Pixel to Caesar: Using Atlas.ti to discover the past in early digital games'