LU Humanities Lab News
September 2024
Welcome to Lund University Humanities Lab, fall 2024!
This is one of our highly irregular newsletter, where we will tell you all about interesting activities happening in the lab in the near future! How about a workshop for everyone who is feeling like they should include experimental activities in their research but don’t know how, how the lab has become involved in yet another European research infrastructure (yes, one more, we just love them), a very exciting upgrade of the lab server that is working well (at least we hope?), and added cameras in the motion capture studio allowing for even more mocap-y activities, and finally, like icing on the newsletter cake: we have a new EEG-person!
Calling all researchers and PhDs: Welcome to the lab on October 25!
Introduction to experimental methods in the humanities
25 October 2024 13:00 to 17:00
Don’t miss this golden opportunity to learn more about a wide variety of experimental research methods in the Humanities, given by Lund University Humanities Lab! Through demos, show cases, and hands-on sessions this workshop will give you an introduction to; Motion capture and 3D, EEG, eye tracking, language technology tools, recording audio/video, measuring electrophysiological responses with BioPac, and how to combine different technology for analysing historical buildings.
The introduction at 13.00 will be streamed online.
The workshop is arranged in collaboration with the national research infrastructure Huminfra (www.huminfra.se).
The event is free to attend for anyone engaged in research. The number of participants to each session is limited, make sure to reserve your spot before October 18!
Sweden joins DARIAH as full National Member
The General Assembly of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium DARIAH ERIC recently accepted Sweden’s membership application to become a full national member in the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. This marks a significant step forward in Sweden’s commitment to advancing collaboration in the humanities at the international level.
DARIAH-EU is a European infrastructure that supports digital research and teaching across the arts and humanities. By joining DARIAH-EU, Sweden enhances its research capabilities and collaboration options with other European countries.
The national DARIAH consortium for Sweden will be hosted by the Swedish national research infrastructure Huminfra (which is led by Lund University Humanities Lab), but will be open to any other university, cultural heritage institution or entity once established, in order to promote further growth of collaborative research in the field. The membership enables researchers in Sweden to access a wealth of digital tools and data, and makes Huminfra’s resources accessible to other DARIAH member countries.
Marianne Gullberg, Director of Huminfra, is very pleased with the decision: “Huminfra is delighted to host DARIAH-SE. With Swedish national membership in both European infrastructures, DARIAH and CLARIN, Swedish and international scholars now have equal access to both language and cultural heritage resources. This is a vital step forward for scholarship in the humanities.”
Koraljka Golub, national coordinator of DARIAH-SE, also expressed excitement over the new membership. “Joining DARIAH-EU opens up tremendous opportunities for researchers in these fields. It allows us to participate more fully in the European research community and to leverage cutting-edge digital resources.”
Sweden’s membership in DARIAH-EU is expected to facilitate numerous projects and initiatives, promoting the integration of digital methods into research and teaching. The Swedish Research Council will oversee the country’s participation and integration into the DARIAH-EU framework.
.... and now: server talk!
Before the summer, the storage server for projects in the lab was moved to a new system. All data in the project folders was copied to the new server. We sent out information about this before the server change and we hope that the transition to the new server has gone without any issues. But if there are any problems or questions about the new server, please contact Jens Larsson or Stefan Lindgren . (And positive feedback and applause is also welcome of course.)
Email: jens.larssonhumlab.luse or stefan.lindgrenhumlab.luse
New cameras added in the motion capture studio!
The motion capture system has been expanded with 12 new motion capture cameras (Qualisys Miqus M3), which makes it possible to make recordings with higher precision. But it also improves the possiblity to move cameras outside the studio and make field recordings. Field recordings have been possible in the past, but with more cameras, that capability has improved significantly. If there are any questions about the setup or the new cameras let us know!
Greetings from Sara Farshchi, our new EEG person!
I am a postdoctoral researcher working with prediction and negation using electroencephalography (EEG). My main research area concerns how we make predictions about upcoming information and what happens in the brain when our predictions are confirmed or disconfirmed. I am also interested in negation processing and the different contextual factors that affect the processing difficulty of negated meanings.
Sara is the person to contact regarding all things EEG.