Culture & Computation Lab

The CuCo Lab website got a complete design rebuild. We look more settled now, less busy, and nicely organized. Quite the opposite to how running this lab feels in real life, I‘d say.

As last step in the transition to the new version of the #Lingscape platform, we’ve also built a new website for the project - 100% PHP-free ✌️ Check it out via lingscape.app

Auf der Seite science.lu des @fnr.lu gibt es jetzt ein schönes Profil des Instituts für Luxemburgistik an der @uni.lu aus Anlass seines 20-jährigen Bestehens. science.lu/de/luxemburg...

Closing lecture of the critical media studies series with @cucolab.bsky.social

JOB OPPORTUNITY! Several postdoctoral positions are currently available as part of the ULIDE's (ulide.uni.lu) emerging Competence Hub on Digital Governance in Crisis-Affected Regions. This one will involve close collaboration with the CuCo Lab. Spread the news, join the team, do awesome things!

JOB OPPORTUNITY! Several postdoctoral positions are currently available as part of the ULIDE's (ulide.uni.lu) emerging Competence Hub on Digital Governance in Crisis-Affected Regions. This one will involve close collaboration with the CuCo Lab. Spread the news, join the team, do awesome things!

Our very own Cat Tebaldi (@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) appeared on the show Titel, Thesen, Temperamente yesterday, where she shared her expertise on Looksmaxxing. Great segment on a not so great trend.

Great feature with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social in @wort.lu about Looksmaxxing and other toxic trends in the manosphere. @uni.lu www.wort.lu/panorama/wen...

This week, we have another fantastic speaker lined up in our talk series, Martina Heßler from Darmstadt. She will discuss new forms of unknowingness in the context of software bugs. The talk will be in German. Join us on site or online, 20.11.2015, 16 CET Infos: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...

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New article! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives

Took me a while, but here it is: Discourse figures in the Luxembourg language debate (2015-2020) This is a multi-method analysis of the latest wave in the public debate on multilingualism. It focuses on the role of different social groups & recurring linguistic figures for discourse structuation.

Join us today for this talk!

We kick off the new semester tomorrow with a talk by our head of lab, Christoph Purschke. Join us - on site or via Webex - to discuss the connection between language, technology and cultural regression.

I would like to announce our upcoming conference “Algorithmic (Dis-)Orders: Law and Culture in Transition”, taking place on 22–23 September 2025 at EHESS, Paris, organized by Jean Lassègue and myself.

The University of Luxembourg opens 4 professor positions via the Anne Beffort Excellence Programme, boosting diversity & gender equality in academia. AI • Theoretical CS • Mathematics • Electrical Power Quality Apply by 20 October #AcademicJobs #Luxembourg

JOB: Lecturer in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data Start: Jan 2026 | Permanent | 100% 👀 Focus: digital curation, computational analysis (CV, ML, network analysis, data ethics) of artworks, photographs, films… #DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #DigitalArtHistory

Don’t forget to join for our last talk of the semester, Friday 6/6 at 10:15 CEST! The Webex link is available in the talk info on our website!

Happy to announce our upcoming book Conspiracy as Genre. Narrative, Power, and Circulation Edited by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social, @aplum.bsky.social & @questoph.bsky.social, it examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority, moving beyond either disinformation or revelation.

Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code. #DigitalHumanities #RStats link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Now available open access: my latest article exploring how blockchains and NFTs challenge legal notions of identity. www.universi.uni-siegen.de/katalog/zeit... (p. 89-102)

What started as a workshop in the Luxembourg Pavillon at the World Expo in Dubai has now finally taken form as an open access volume: „The Humanities and the Rise of AI. Implications of Cultural and Societal Engineering“ More papers to follow in the next weeks and months.

Join us for the talk by Jannis Androutsopoulos on Friday morning via Webex.

Looking for a new challenge, e.g., teaching & researching English in a multilingual society & workplace? With a digital twist? Then come & work with us at the Department of Humanities in Luxembourg! We’re looking for a new colleague in English linguistics (Assoc or Full Prof)! #jobs #linguistics

If you would like to know the relationship between conspiracy and bad gender ideologies please stay tuned for @cucolab.bsky.social s edited volume on just this nonsense

Next week we will host the last talk of the year in our series “CuCo Lab Conversations”. Our very own Ruth Reicher will discuss pre-modern literary stagings of “extreme bodies” and their relation to current narratives of influencers. [Talk in German] Info: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...

This week at TLT24 in Hamburg, we’re gonna present a paper on LuxBank, the first UD treebank for Luxembourgish. We, that is: Alistair Plum, Caroline Döhmer, Emilia Milano, Anne-Marie Lutgen and Christoph Purschke Preprint via arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2411.04813

Next Friday (22 November), @leoniedejonge.bsky.social from Groningen will visit the CuCo Lab to discuss the evolution of far right ideologies in the 21st century. We’re thrilled to host her talk. You can join on site or online (via Webex): cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...

Next month we will host the workshop "Mensch Metapher Maschine", organized by @questoph.bsky.social, Ralf Becker and Simon Kasper. The main topic of the workshop is the complex relationship between humans and technology, with a special focus on the role of language. Program: t1p.de/mmm2024