Reminder: Everyone is welcome to a seminar on Computational Methods & Intellectual History at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24 A, 3rd floor) this Thursday 23 April at 16:15-19:00 (no online option). Background paper: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epub/10.... (ch 12)
Helsinki DH Research Seminar this Thursday
Sanna Supponen (UH): “Combining metadata of intact manuscripts with fragmentary manuscripts in one repository: a case example of Swedish scholarly literature”.
For online participation and more information:
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yes, good observation, the book itself is naturally an engagement with the article (and everything that comes with it) 50+ years down the line. Lot of work went into it as well, not least by @adrianblau.bsky.social
Computational Methods for Intellectual History
📅 Thu 23 April, 16:00–18:00
📍 HCAS Common Room, Fabianinkatu 24 A (3rd floor)
Speakers: Yann Ryan (Leiden) & Mikko Tolonen (Helsinki)
📖 Background (ch. 12): www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epub/10....
All welcome.
New paper from COMHIS group just out at EACL: “Detecting Latin in Historical Books with Large Language Models: A Multimodal Benchmark”. aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-lo... A collaboration across our CASCADE and MECANO Marie Curie Training networks. More to follow.
Helsinki DH Seminar continues this Thursday (26th March) w/ Jonas Fischer (UH): “What quoting Horace tells us about intellectual thought in the 18th century". More info: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...
Great job opportunity working with my better half @sebastianahnert.bsky.social on an exciting new #digitalhumanities project in Cambridge, funded by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social and working with fantastic people at CESTA Stanford and DensityDesign Lab Italy. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
The application period for the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026 (#DHH26) is now open (until 14 April).
Apply now & spread the word:
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Nice moment at the end of the volume: in his concluding response, Skinner finishes by quoting our line that “refraining from participating in shaping the future of our field [intellectual history] would be unwise.” Let's hope some less prominent traditional humanists also get the point.
Our chapter with Yann Ryan on “Computational Methods in Intellectual History” in a book on Quentin Skinner’s Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond edited by Adrian Blau is now available open access: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epub/10....
Helsinki DH Seminar continues this Thursday (12th March) with Ke Shu (UH): “Identifying essay-length reprinting across eighteenth-century books and newspapers: A case study of David Hume". Ke will join in person. Participation is possible also online: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...
#DHH26 Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon, save the date (application period open soon): www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...
Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar continues this Thursday (26th Feb) at 16:15 with a talk by David Rosson: “Vibe coding for digital humanities: visualising variations in eighteenth-century multi-edition publications". www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...
Helsinki DH Seminar continues this Thursday with Yu Wu (UH) on "Beyond Text Reuse in 18th-century Reception: Evaluating Semantic Search through the Case of Locke”. For online participation and where to find us at Metsätalo, please visit:
www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h... All welcome!
New COMHIS article in DHQ out for preview (issue in April): Image Reuse in Eighteenth-Century Book History: Large-Scale Data-Driven Study of Headpiece Ornament Variants dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...
📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
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This one is for the #DH crowd!
We seek a Content Engineer to assist in maintaining and developing the digital resources of the Voltaire Foundation.
More information and application process on our website:
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New COMHIS article, led by doctoral researcher Iiro Tiihonen, "Saturated by Commerce: A Computational Analysis of Eighteenth-Century British Political Discourse" published in History of European Ideas doi.org/10.1080/0191...
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New year, same great Helsinki DH seminar!
We are back next Thursday (22 January 2026), same time, same place.
For details and the spring schedule, visit:
👉 www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...
Enlightenment Histories by de Gruyter is now officially out (whole book Open Access via publisher's website): www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Applications welcome by 9 January!
Thinking about an MA in Digital Humanities or related fields (Language Technology, Cognitive Science, Phonetics, General Linguistics)?
Applications to LINGDIG MA programme at @helsinki.fi are open 2–16 January.
Programme: www.helsinki.fi/en/degree-pr...
DH track: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...
A Recap of the HELDIG Summit: “Celebrating Eero Hyvönen and the Future of Digital Humanities” from 4 December 2025: blogs.helsinki.fi/heldig-summi...
Next week we are hosting the “In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History” conference at the University of Helsinki!
If you are curious about the canon, non-canon, or anything in between, feel free to drop by and listen in.
Programme + details:
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
Our article in Hume Studies is out: “A Quantitative and Comparative Approach to Royalist and Whig Sources in Hume’s History of England” → muse.jhu.edu/pub/108/arti...
Relevant also to bridge the gap between quantitative and qualitative methods in the humanities.
Good news, Enlightenment Histories by de Gruyter, edited by yours truly together with Marc Hanvelt and Mark Spencer, has just been published. Google seems to give access to the ebook for free (at least atm, red tab on the upper left-hand corner following the link) books.google.fi/books?hl=en&...
The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History 2025 conference asks what it means to be in and out of the canon in intellectual history.
📅 15–17 December 2025
📍 University of Helsinki
🗂️ Conference schedule now available:
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
Smart companies will collaborate with researchers on these issues on our way towards better data. Of course it means finding new business models but that has been on the cards for past few decades. Should not come as a surprise to anyone. Maybe we should engage more with Proquest as well.
Bibliodata project clearly on its way at CLB in Prague!