Brown Bag Seminar “Unsupervised methods for image clustering…”

The Methodological unit at the Helsinki Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (Uni Helsinki) organizes a recurrent Brown Bag Seminar to highlight novel methodological approaches in humanities and social sciences. The idea of the meetings is to introduce methodological innovations and cutting-edge research in various disciplines in an easily accessible manner and have an interdisciplinary discussion in an easy-going atmosphere over lunch.

There will be a 20-minute introduction to the methodological theme, followed by an open discussion of 40 minutes. The seminars are open to everybody and welcome a multidisciplinary and methodologically curious audience. The language of the meetings can be Finnish or English.

This is a hybrid event taking place at the University of Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 24 A, 5th floor. For remote participation use this link

Dates for Spring 2026 (subject to updates)

4.2.2026 Salla-Maaria Laaksonen & Erjon Skenderi “Raising a bot: Developing communicative AIs for group discussions”

11.2.2026 Adeline Clarke “Unsupervised methods for image clustering do not yet replace the social scientists’ gaze”

1.4.2026 Henri Schildt (Aalto University) “Qualitative research and AI: From automating coding to augmenting collaboration

Read more about the presenters and abstracts on the event site: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-social-sciences-and-humanities/events/brown-bag-seminar