Symposium
Digital Humanities Pilot Research Projects and COIn Infrastructure Symposium 2026
- Date
- Monday 26 January 2026
- Time
- Address
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Johan Huizinga
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden - Room
- The Digital Lab 0.09
Join us for a fascinating afternoon of digital humanities research and discussion. Recipients of the 2025 Small Grants for Research Projects and COIn Infrastructure grants will present. LUCDH Small Grant awardees will present insights to their digital humanities research projects. Those receiving COIn grants will update on their intended research plans to employ the purchased infrastructure.
Learn more about applying digital tools & methods from recent research results and an opportunity to meet you fellow colleagues before and after the presentations with social drinks.
The Symposium launches the LUCDH Winter School of Digital Humanities workshops.
(Provisional) Schedule
14:30 - 15:00 Opening with Social Drinks
Group 1 Speakers 15:00–15:50
15:00–15:10 Automatic Recognition of Still Images of Signs in Print Dictionaries of Sign Languages (LUCDH)
Nargess Asghari
15:10–15:20 Determiners Lost & Found (LUCDH)
Sjef Barbiers, Irina Morozova & Stephan Raaijmakers
15:20–15:30 Transcribe the Archive (LUCDH)
Carmen van den Bergh
15:30–15:40 Navigating Trust Issues: How Google Translate Facilitates and Challenges Intercultural and Interlingual Health Communication between Migrant Patients and GPs in the Netherlands (LUCDH)
Tian Yang & Susana Valdez
15:40–15:50 — 3D Recording Equipment for Sign Language (COIn)
Victoria Nyst (to be confirmed)
15:50 - 16:05 - Q/A Group 1
Break 16:05 - 16:10
Group 2 Speakers 16:10–17:10
16:10–16:20 Database of Ottoman texts (COIn)
Mehmet Kentel & Yenen Alp
16:20–16:30 Fnirs, Measuring Brain Activity (COIn)
Claartje Levelt & Szilvia Biro
16:30–16:40 Recording equipment LUCL labs (COIn)
Jueyu Hou & Bobby Ruijgrok
16:40–16:50 Digital Version of De Waag (COIn)
Liselore Tissen & Karin de Wild
16:50–17:00 Ludic Lab Expansion (COIn)
Angus Mol
17:00 - 17:15 - Q/A Group 2
Social Drinks 17:25 - 18:00
Registration
Please use the registration form (accessible via the button below from 14 Nov) to sign up for the Symposium (and/or Workshops)