Culture & Computation Lab
@cucolab.bsky.social
Research lab for Computational Cultural Studies in the Department of Humanities at @uni.lu
Current topics: critical media studies, cultural language technology, digital sociality studies
Led by @questoph.bsky.social
Get in touch via cucolab.uni.lu
Current topics: critical media studies, cultural language technology, digital sociality studies
Led by @questoph.bsky.social
Get in touch via cucolab.uni.lu
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We know it’s early, but save the dates for the upcoming CuCo Lab Conversations! We have some fantastic speakers lined up for you, including @dirkhovy.bsky.social, Martina Heßler and @bildoperationen.bsky.social. And then there’s this guy: @questoph.bsky.social.
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New article!
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am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives
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am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives
Pearl Nationalism: Tradwives and the Chronotopes of Femininity | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core
Pearl Nationalism: Tradwives and the Chronotopes of Femininity
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October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New article!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
am terrible at being on mat leave but ok at writing about tradwives
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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.
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.
Discourse figures in the Luxembourg language debate (2015–2020)
| Zeitschrift für Sprachvariation und Soziolinguistik
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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.
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!
Watch out for the next talk by @dirkhovy.bsky.social. It approaches the question of the human condition in a digitally enriched lifeworld from a new perspective, considering the role of „AI“ in particular.
Join us on site or via Webex, 9.10.2025, 16:00 CEST.
Infos: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
Join us on site or via Webex, 9.10.2025, 16:00 CEST.
Infos: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
October 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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.
We will open with a lecture by @questoph.bsky.social. It deals with how language as a symbolic form is being displaced & replaced in digitality.
„Last night of the prompts. On technology and cultural regression“
Join us on 25.09., 16:00 CEST, on site or via Webex!
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
„Last night of the prompts. On technology and cultural regression“
Join us on 25.09., 16:00 CEST, on site or via Webex!
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
September 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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.
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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.
September 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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.
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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
AI • Theoretical CS • Mathematics • Electrical Power Quality
Apply by 20 October
#AcademicJobs #Luxembourg
Four female professor positions opened through the Anne Beffort Excellence Programme
The Anne Beffort Excellence Programme is a flagship initiative of the University of Luxembourg, dedicated to fostering excellence, diversity, and gender equality in academia. Named after Anne Beffort ...
www.uni.lu
August 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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
AI • Theoretical CS • Mathematics • Electrical Power Quality
Apply by 20 October
#AcademicJobs #Luxembourg
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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
Start: Jan 2026 | Permanent | 100% 👀
Focus: digital curation, computational analysis (CV, ML, network analysis, data ethics) of artworks, photographs, films…
#DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #DigitalArtHistory
UZH: Lecturer Teaching
The Art History Department (Program Directorate) in collaboration of the departments of Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, and Educational Sciences of the University of Zurich is seek...
jobs.uzh.ch
August 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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
Start: Jan 2026 | Permanent | 100% 👀
Focus: digital curation, computational analysis (CV, ML, network analysis, data ethics) of artworks, photographs, films…
#DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #DigitalArtHistory
We know it’s early, but save the dates for the upcoming CuCo Lab Conversations! We have some fantastic speakers lined up for you, including @dirkhovy.bsky.social, Martina Heßler and @bildoperationen.bsky.social. And then there’s this guy: @questoph.bsky.social.
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
August 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We know it’s early, but save the dates for the upcoming CuCo Lab Conversations! We have some fantastic speakers lined up for you, including @dirkhovy.bsky.social, Martina Heßler and @bildoperationen.bsky.social. And then there’s this guy: @questoph.bsky.social.
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
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Am Donnerstag waren wir im Institut für DaF an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social zu Gast, aus Anlass einer studentischen (!) Tagung zu Sprachlandschaften. @questoph.bsky.social durfte den Eröffnungsvortrag halten und danach tolle Projekte mit den Studis diskutieren, viele davon mit Lingscape umgesetzt.
July 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Am Donnerstag waren wir im Institut für DaF an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social zu Gast, aus Anlass einer studentischen (!) Tagung zu Sprachlandschaften. @questoph.bsky.social durfte den Eröffnungsvortrag halten und danach tolle Projekte mit den Studis diskutieren, viele davon mit Lingscape umgesetzt.
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This week, Lingscape is visiting @idsmannheim.bsky.social, where we are exchanging ideas with a growing community of language researchers who are interested in participatory approaches. In this context, @questoph.bsky.social talks about our experiences from already nine years with Lingscape.
July 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This week, Lingscape is visiting @idsmannheim.bsky.social, where we are exchanging ideas with a growing community of language researchers who are interested in participatory approaches. In this context, @questoph.bsky.social talks about our experiences from already nine years with Lingscape.
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!
In the last edition of our talk series for this semester, @seyfert.bsky.social from Kiel will discuss the implications of technology on social relations:
A Theory of Algorithmic Sociality (TAS).
Join us on-site or online:
Friday, 6 June, 10:15 CEST.
Info: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
A Theory of Algorithmic Sociality (TAS).
Join us on-site or online:
Friday, 6 June, 10:15 CEST.
Info: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
June 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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.
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.
Conspiracy as Genre
From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with seriou…
www.bloomsbury.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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.
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.
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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...
#DigitalHumanities #RStats
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Cultural Data Science
This book introduces basic concepts in data science, drawing from contextual examples in art history, visual computing, cloud computing, and microservices
link.springer.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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...
#DigitalHumanities #RStats
link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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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)
my latest article exploring how blockchains and NFTs challenge legal notions of identity. www.universi.uni-siegen.de/katalog/zeit... (p. 89-102)
May 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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)
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.
„The Humanities and the Rise of AI. Implications of Cultural and Societal Engineering“
More papers to follow in the next weeks and months.
The Humanities and the Rise of AI | Melusina Press
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www.melusinapress.lu
May 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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.
„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.
Watch out for the talk by Jannis Androutsopoulos in our talk series. Next Friday, Jannis will be
„Exploring the online-offline nexus: meaning-making at the interfaces of physical and virtual (inter)action.“
Join us on 25 April, 10.15am (UTC+2), via this link:
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
„Exploring the online-offline nexus: meaning-making at the interfaces of physical and virtual (inter)action.“
Join us on 25 April, 10.15am (UTC+2), via this link:
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
April 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Join us for the talk by Jannis Androutsopoulos on Friday morning via Webex.
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Speaking of news: When working with the app or accessing the website, you might notice some technical hiccups in the coming weeks.
We’re currently updating the technical base and moving stuff around on servers. We promise to be as quick as possible and avoid downtime as much as possible.
We’re currently updating the technical base and moving stuff around on servers. We promise to be as quick as possible and avoid downtime as much as possible.
March 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Speaking of news: When working with the app or accessing the website, you might notice some technical hiccups in the coming weeks.
We’re currently updating the technical base and moving stuff around on servers. We promise to be as quick as possible and avoid downtime as much as possible.
We’re currently updating the technical base and moving stuff around on servers. We promise to be as quick as possible and avoid downtime as much as possible.
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Look at that! Lingscape has arrived on Bluesky. It was about time…
We will use this channel mainly for news about the project but will also try and showcase some of the awesome projects hosted on our platform. And post images occasionally.
#linguistics #linguisticlandscape #citizenscience
We will use this channel mainly for news about the project but will also try and showcase some of the awesome projects hosted on our platform. And post images occasionally.
#linguistics #linguisticlandscape #citizenscience
March 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Look at that! Lingscape has arrived on Bluesky. It was about time…
We will use this channel mainly for news about the project but will also try and showcase some of the awesome projects hosted on our platform. And post images occasionally.
#linguistics #linguisticlandscape #citizenscience
We will use this channel mainly for news about the project but will also try and showcase some of the awesome projects hosted on our platform. And post images occasionally.
#linguistics #linguisticlandscape #citizenscience
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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
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
Job Portal - University of Luxembourg
recruitment.uni.lu
March 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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
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
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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
During the same livestream in which he called for an end to "female leadership," Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
angrywhitemen.org/2025/02/17/c...
angrywhitemen.org/2025/02/17/c...
Christian Nationalist Pastor Joel Webbon Promotes Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory
On a recent livestream, white Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon and his co-hosts were asked for their thoughts on a Trump-themed goat statue displayed at Mar-a-Lago. In response, Webbon sugg…
angrywhitemen.org
February 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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
We are happy to announce the program of our talk series „CuCo Lab Conversations“ for the upcoming semester.
All info can be found (and will be updated) here:
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
As always, talks are also streamed on Webex, so feel free to stop by.
All info can be found (and will be updated) here:
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
As always, talks are also streamed on Webex, so feel free to stop by.
January 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We are happy to announce the program of our talk series „CuCo Lab Conversations“ for the upcoming semester.
All info can be found (and will be updated) here:
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
As always, talks are also streamed on Webex, so feel free to stop by.
All info can be found (and will be updated) here:
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
As always, talks are also streamed on Webex, so feel free to stop by.
If you’re at #Coling25, make sure to check our two papers at the #VarDial25 workshop on Sunday.
They represent some of the latest advancements in NLP for Luxembourgish.
They represent some of the latest advancements in NLP for Luxembourgish.
January 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If you’re at #Coling25, make sure to check our two papers at the #VarDial25 workshop on Sunday.
They represent some of the latest advancements in NLP for Luxembourgish.
They represent some of the latest advancements in NLP for Luxembourgish.
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...
[Talk in German]
Info:
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
December 6, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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...
[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
We, that is: Alistair Plum, Caroline Döhmer, Emilia Milano, Anne-Marie Lutgen and Christoph Purschke
Preprint via arXiv
arxiv.org/abs/2411.04813
LuxBank: The First Universal Dependency Treebank for Luxembourgish
The Universal Dependencies (UD) project has significantly expanded linguistic coverage across 161 languages, yet Luxembourgish, a West Germanic language spoken by approximately 400,000 people, has rem...
arxiv.org
December 2, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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
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...
You can join on site or online (via Webex):
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...
November 15, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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...
You can join on site or online (via Webex):
cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...