Professor Michaela Mahlberg chats with her guests about life and why language matters.
Michaela is Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor & Professor in Digital Humanities at FAU, Germany´s most innovative university. She is also a Honorary Professor in Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK.
For more see https://michaelamahlberg.com
Gavin Brookes provides insights into the language that people use when they talk about dementia. Language plays an important part in making sense of a health condition. In this episode we cover a wide range of topics - from stigma tohumour. Gavin has some very concrete messages for all of us - whether you have lived experience of dementia, work in social care, or do not know that much about the condition yet.
Dr Gavin Brookes is a UKRI Future Leader Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University (UK). His research uses corpus linguistic, critical and multimodal approaches to discourse analysis in order to examine how language and image are used to representhealth and illness. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl) and Co-Editor of the BloomsburyCorpus and Discourse book series (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/corpus-and-discourse/).
23 Jan 2026
Lauren Tilton - Distant Viewing
In this episode, I chat to Lauren Tilton (https://laurentilton.com/) about digital humanities and the ways we can teach AI to view the world. Distant viewing is a theory and method for how computer vision works. It enables a critical view of the social, political, and cultural values and beliefs that are built into computer visionsystems. You will also learn about digital humanities morewidely. And if you want to get the Distant Viewer Explorer that’s mention in the episode, you find that here (https://distantviewing.org/dvexplorer/)
Lauren Tilton is the E. Claiborne Robins Professor ofLiberal Arts and Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Rhetoric and Communications at the University of Richmond. She is the author (togetherwith Taylor Arnold) of Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images. MIT Press (2023) (https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5674/Distant-ViewingComputational-Exploration-of).
Lauren Tilton is the Constituent Organisation Board (COB) President of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) (https://adho.org/).
19 Dec 2025
Dickensland
Don’t we all love it when we visit places that we know from stories in books and films?
In the first episode of Season 5, my guest is the wonderful Lee Jackson. We are talking about his book ‘Dickensland’ and literary tourism.
Lee Jackson takes us to places that Dickens’s writing has brought into the public imagination. Some of them are more real than others, but all of them are exciting!
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