Brown Bag Seminar: Zionism, Judaism, and the Politics of Religious Dissent in the Contemporary United States This guest lecture with Visiting Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern University) excavates and explores a cultural, religious and political consensus that appears to unite the US and Isr…

Save the date! 22.04 (12.00 EEST) Brown Bag Seminar will hold a 2-hour special: a guest lecture with visiting professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd "AmericaIsrael: Zionism, Judaism, and the Politics of Religious Dissent in the Contemporary United States" www.dariah.fi/event/brown-...

Regular Brown Bag seminars for methodologically curious researchers in SSH organised by the methodological unit at @helsinki.fi continue on 15.04 (12.00 EEST) with a presentation by Laura Savolainen: “Untrustworthy” workers and “ground truth” www.dariah.fi/event/untrus...

Brown Bag Seminar: AI and Religious Mediation This presentation by Feeza Vasudeva (Academy Research Fellow at the Study of Religions, University of Helsinki) introduces a concept of synthetic sacred – a configuration in which generative system…

Brown bag seminar today at 12! listen to Feeza Vasudev's talk on "AI and Religious Mediation" and how mediated devotion and religious imagery generate new ways of expressing and researching faith (with remote option) www.dariah.fi/event/brown-...

Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026 #DHH26 | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DH­H26 | 20.–29.5.2026

People talk about Hackathons but there is only one Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon (#DHH26) and it is now accepting applications. Join a team and experience a DH project from start to finish in 10 days! Limited bursaries available heldig.fi/dhh26

🇬🇧 To read up on TDM, copyright regulations and AI Governance 👉Maryna Manteghi's 2025 🎓
Readjusting the EU’s regulation of text and data mining in the age of artificial intelligence urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978... (⛓️3/3)

🇫🇮 vastaus Kopioston toimistusjohtajan Valtteri Niirasen kirjoitukseen www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar... (⛓️2/3)

Lukijan mielipide | Tekoälyn käyttö tutkimuksessa on turvattava Tutkimustoiminnan osalta tekoälyn käyttöä ohjaavista kansallisista säännöistä olisi pelkästään haittaa.

@kansalliskirjasto.fi, @kirjastoseura.bsky.social & Tieteellinen kirjaseura were at EU parliament fighting for Text & Data Mining exception in research! 🇫🇮 Lue informaatio-oikeus lakimies Pekka Heikkisen mielipide tässä www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar... (⛓️1/3)

From data to intelligence – A FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow at Aalto University In this report we gather important references to tools and use cases that illustrate Terminology work as a resource for improving visibility of research outputs and to produce reliable data-analysis tools. These were recently introduced to a small but interested live-audience at Aalto University. Precisely Aalto was chosen for this event, as it is the first university in Finland to introduce…

From data to intelligence – A FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow at Aalto University

In this report we gather important references to tools and use cases that illustrate Terminology work as a resource for improving visibility of research outputs and to produce reliable data-analysis tools. These were recently…

From Data to Intelligence: a FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow “From Data to Intelligence: a FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow”  This Roadshow event at Aalto University showcases scientific terminology work supporting researchers with the new language recommendations now b…

Welcome to "From data to intelligence" (25.3.) a FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow focusing on terminology as tool for engineering AI-applications hosted by SeCo Group @csaalto.bsky.social in collaboration with @termipankki.bsky.social and @helsinki.fi. Register this week: www.dariah.fi/event/from-d...

Use Cases, data publications and guidelines – DARIAH-FI virtual library

We are glad to introduce this month a recently created DARIAH-FI library The point of departure of this library is a cumulative publications aggregated since in 2022 DARIAH-FI started operations. In this virtual library one…

Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala. Spring 2026 Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala is a regular event for early career humanities and social sciences researchers. It offers a free form opportunity to discuss and share experiences of digita…

Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala kicks off its Spring 2026 season!
We welcome all early-career SSH researchers to share their experiences with digital methods in a series of informal events full of insights and snacks 🍰
Read more and register here: www.dariah.fi/event/valipa...

Unveiling new data services and tools for cultural heritage researchers

In this blog, we bring news about new infrastructure developed in the past two years by the DARIAH-FI network for acquiring and processing large-scale, visual and multimodal historical documents. These infrastructures were…

Brown Bag Seminar | Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities | University of Helsinki Brown Bag Seminar meetings every Wednesday.

The methodological unit at @helsinki.fi organises regular brown bag seminars for methodologically curious researchers in SSH... next up 4.2. (12.15 EEST) @sallamaaria.bsky.social & Erjon Skenderi "Raising a bot: Developing communicative AIs for group discussions"👉 www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

Twitch Video Analysis Tool YouTube video by DARIAH-FI

Check out the Video Analysis Tools based on AI (⛓️3/3) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKX...

Twitch Chat Collector and Analysis tool YouTube video by DARIAH-FI

Here is a demo video of the Twitch Chat Collector tool (⛓️2/3) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN6i...

Analysis of Video Stream Interactions with AI Solutions The proliferation of short-form video on livestreaming platforms like Twitch presents a significant challenge for multimodal content analysis. Each clip contains a vast amount of diverse informatio…

Game researchers are in luck with the updated suit of tools for Twitch stream analysis Game Research Network @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social #pelitutkimus . Read all about this in a new blog-post or check out the videos (⛓️1/3)
www.dariah.fi/2026/01/12/a...

A workshop hosted by @helsinki.fi @kansalliskirjasto.fi @mshl-cdha.bsky.social & Estonian Literary Museum

Call open #DHNB2026 Workshop "Infrastructures to reassemble" we welcome inspiring stories unveiling access points and research processes for scattered cultural heritage data across borders, domains or media to build effective data life cycles in DH. Deadline extended January 20👉 tinyurl.com/rhzx2s48

Well-managed research data enhances the reliability and impact of research, if you are leading a research group, develop or provide data support in Finland, CSC’s Data Support Network might be of interest. Read on:research.csc.fi/2025/11/13/csc-rdm-compe...

News from @csc.fi: long-term digital preservation, Finland's contribution to the European Open Science Cloud (eosc) that builds an integrated network for providing data, tools, and services for researchers across Europe, upcoming CSC course catalogue and more news: newsletter.csc.fi/a/s/10461740...

Reminder: the second call is open for the Engagement & Collaboration - ECHOES Cascading Grants Programme

The call will support 20 projects, with up to €29,800 available per Cultural Heritage project.

🔷 Deadline: January 30th 2026

➡️ Find out more: www.dariah.eu/2025/11/17/e...

DARIAH-FI Workshop: New tools and data services for cultural heritage research Organisers: Inés Matres (University of Helsinki), Ida Toivanen (University of Jyväskylä), and Ilkka Lähteenmäki (University of Oulu) Date: 22 January 2026, Online, Full-day with breaks The workshop…

DARIAH-FI has developed new data services to facilitate the work of researchers interested in cultural heritage data, sign up for this online workshop (January 22) learn about tools to process manuscripts, images and more in @kansallisarkisto.fi @finna.fi 👉 www.dariah.fi/event/dariah...

FIN-CLARIAH Fall meeting Annotating Social data On November 28, the Centre for Social Data Science (CSDS) at the University of Helsinki hosted this milestone meeting to support FIN-CLARIAH in developing national infrastructure for digital social sciences. The event focused on current practices in annotating datasets in across disciplines interested in qualitative data, narrative analysis, secure practices for sensitive data, and the responsible use of AI tools in the annotation pipeline.

FIN-CLARIAH Fall meeting Annotating Social data

On November 28, the Centre for Social Data Science (CSDS) at the University of Helsinki hosted this milestone meeting to support FIN-CLARIAH in developing national infrastructure for digital social sciences. The event focused on current practices in…

Hanna Snellman shows the role of #heldig as pilar and spearhead for the now many research infrastructures @helsinki.fi in today's digital humanities summit blogs.helsinki.fi/heldig-summit/

Salla-Maria Laaksonen inspiring dream infrastructures for (digital) social sciences, at the FIN-CLARIAH day dedicated to Annotating Social Data @helsinki.fi www.dariah.fi/event/fin-cl...

#DARIAH-EU spotlights the DH Hackathon #DHH2025 @helsinki.fi featuring insights gained by students in two Hackathon projects that followed hidden traces of Europe's difficult past in newspapers and oral histories via machine learning, LLMs, and digital methods 🤓 www.dariah.eu/activities/s...

The Center for Digital Humanities at @helsinki.fi gathers on Dec 4th +20 lightning talks by actors from Finnish DH, related fields, infrastructures and memory organizations to provide a snapshot of the field and network. Join this in-person Summit👉 blogs.helsinki.fi/heldig-summit/

FAIR Science Café FAIR Science Café is a informal and interactive online event where researchers get to talk about their work, research, and results in their own words. The discussion also highlights the data used, …

FAIR Science Café @csc.fi is an interactive online event where researchers present their work highlighting data used or produced. On Nov 21. Tomasz Galica @turkunlp.bsky.social talks about developing and evaluating LLMs, training datasets and risks. Info & sign up: www.dariah.fi/event/fair-s...

Since Suomi24 was released as data ten years ago, a Pandora's box for researchers in the SSH was open... Do not miss and register now to this DARIAH-FI open workshop unveiling new datasets and tools for social media research (9.12.) www.dariah.fi/event/dariah...

Finnish 19th-Century Letters on the Semantic Web: LetterSampo Finland openly available for Digital Humanities Research A major Finnish research project “Constellations of Correspondence 2022-2025 (CoCo)” by the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG), and Aalto University, Department of Computer Science, has now been finalized, based on collections of 16 Finnish Cultural Heritage organizations, over 1600 fonds, and four earlier online critical editions of prominent Finns (A. Edelfelt, E. Lönnrot, J.

Finnish 19th-Century Letters on the Semantic Web: LetterSampo Finland openly available for Digital Humanities Research

A major Finnish research project “Constellations of Correspondence 2022-2025 (CoCo)” by the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki Centre for Digital…