LUCDH presents a lunchtime talk once a month on recent research related to Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence. All Leiden University staff and students are welcome to attend in the Digital Lab, Huizinga 0.09 (or online).

Lectures are announced via the LUCDH Webpages & Newsletter. Please register so we can keep you updated of any scheduling changes and send you the online link. Registration is via the lunch lecture's sign-up form or with an email to lucdh@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

2026

• 19 May 2026: Maria Voltsichina: Kremlin's Control and Suppression Strategies: The evolution of the relationship between violence and disinformation between 2000 – 2021
• 14 April 2026: Johan Visser: Connecting Dutch colonial sources with AI
• 24 March 2026: Steven Denney: "What Were They Thinking?" Using Open-Text Responses to Validate Constructs in Survey Experiments
• 17 March - Markus de Jong - Unfolding unopened letters based on X-ray tomography

2025

• 16 Dec, 12:00 - 13:00 Gebrekirstos G. Gebremeskel Mermru: Building a Dynamic and Integrated Linguistic Engine for Ethio-Semitic Languages (upcoming)
• 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.

See Past Events for listing of Lunch Lectures pre-May 2025