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 digital methods in research. The focus is on digital good practices, stumbling blocks and tricks regarding use of data, tools and analysis methods.
Snacks will be provided in the form of insights on new methods, best practice testimonials… and cake!
Welcome from 2 – 3:30 pm at Metsätalo (DH coffee room – A133). Please register here the latest one day in advance to make sure there is enough snacks for all and pre-share your experiences to prepare for discussion.
Välipalat Spring 2026
Tuesday, March 24: Digital approaches to modern social and political history. Two doctoral researchers, Tiina Poutiainen and Olli Castrén, give short presentations about their methodological approaches to analysing societal and political phenomena in contemporary public discourse by digital methods and data.
Tuesday April 21: Processing and analysing interview data We introduce a range of infrastructures available for processing interview data safely during research, but more importantly, early career researchers will share experiences with environments and tools to transcribe, annotate, or approach multimodality in interviews. This session is organized in collaboration with researchers from social sciences, cultural heritage and European ethnology.
Friday, May 29: Digital Humanities Hackathon (time/place tbc). Visit to the Digital Humanities Hackathon (DHH) and listen to final project presentations. In this session, we brainstorm topics for future DH Välipala sessions.
Each session starts with a brief introduction into the theme by researchers working on that topic to facilitate free-form and open conversation. We aim to build a community and space to create and find connections. The DH välipalat are organised by and for PhD and early-career researchers. We are a group of interdisciplinary folk based in Helsinki supported by DARIAH-FI, the digital research infrastructure for the social sciences and humanities.
Inquiries can be sent to ines.matres@helsinki.fi