LUCDH presents a lunchtime talk once a month on recent research in Digital Humanities & AI. All Leiden University staff and students are welcome to attend in the Digital Lab, Huizinga 0.09 (as well as 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

• 17 March - Markus de Jong - Unfolding unopened letters based on X-ray tomography
• 24 February - Steven Denney - "What Were They Thinking?" Using Open-Text Responses to Validate Constructs in Survey Experiments

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