Fall ONLINE Seminars Digital humanities

The University of Helsinki organises annual seminars in which leading experts in the digital humanities present the use of digital methods in their research. Topics range from textual analysis in Finnish folk poetry to the analysis of religion in ancient Greece. The seminars can also be attended ONLINE via Zoom.

Lectures always start at 16:15.

PROGRAMME

22.9. Tony McEnery (Lancaster) // Keywords, Clustering, Discourse and Time (Metsätalo, Lecture Hall 8, NB! Different venue from the usual)
6.10. RiCEP project (UH) // Computational and Linguistic Approaches to Commercial Society and Eighteenth-Century Publishing
20.10. Maciej Janicki (UH)// Text similarity in Finnic oral folk poetry: towards a large-scale quantitative analysis
3.11. Viivi Lähteenoja (UH) and Kimmo Karhu (Aalto) // The Virtuous Smart City: Bridging the Gap between Ethical Principles and Practices of Data-driven Innovation
17.11. Iiro Tiihonen (UH) // Discourses and Disposable Income: Data Driven Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Commercial Society
1.12. Vojtěch Kaše (University of West Bohemia in Plzeň) // Distributional semantics of ancient Greek and cultural evolution of moralizing religions