Culture & Computation Lab

Wenn Selbstoptimierung junge Männer radikalisiert Die Besessenheit, perfekt auszusehen, treibt Männer in den rechten Extremismus. Dr. Catherine Tebaldi von der Universität Luxemburg warnt vor dem gefährlichen Trend „Looksmaxxing“, der auch hierzulande angekommen ist.

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...

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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Lingscape Project Update 11/2025 Dear Lingscapers, It’s been a while since our last update on the project. This time, however, we have good news. Before we begin, a quick disclaimer: You might be wondering why you’re receivi…

There’s big news from Lingscape headquarters: We just signed contracts with our development partners to revamp the entire platform. Over the next few months, we will rebuild the apps and web platform from the ground up.

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New article!

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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!

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...

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.

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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…

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.

Cultural Data Science This book introduces basic concepts in data science, drawing from contextual examples in art history, visual computing, cloud computing, and microservices

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)

The Humanities and the Rise of AI | Melusina Press [](https://www.melusinapress.lu/projects/project-collection/eoh?collectionOrder=eoh) <br/...

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.

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...

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.

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

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

The first speaker this semester is Rebekah Larsen from Copenhagen. She discusses the role of conservative rural talk radio in the US media landscape, including methodological challenges in ethnographic fieldwork.

Info & a Webex link can be found here: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...