Events
November 2026
Mon
9
Nov
to 10 Nov
FIN-CLARIAH network event “Small Languages, Large Models”
9 November 2026 – 10 November 2026
This FIN-CLARIAH network event Small Languages, Large Models explores current challenges in developing AI for under-resourced languages. During the afternoon, we will have expert talks that focus on how data can be collected for smaller languages and how hallucinations can be detected in language […]
Fri
20
Nov
Kohti viisauden verkkoa – Semanttinen web 25 vuotta Suomessa (in Finnish)
20 November 2026, 13:00–18:00
Location: Aalto-yliopisto, T-talo, Sali T4, Konemiehentie 2, perjantai 20.11.2026, 13:00–18:00 (CET 12:00-17:00) This seminar will be in Finnish except the keynote presentation of professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University, USA. Kohti viisauden verkkoa (Web of Wisdom) Semanttinen web on […]
Wed
25
Nov
Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala: Emotional communities online
25 November 2026, 14:00–15:30
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 […]
December 2026
Fri
4
Dec
HELDIG Summit 2026. Methodological Encounters
4 December 2026, 10:30–18:00
This year HELDIG Summit brings together digital social sciences and humanities in a day that takes a snapshot at the state of the art in digital research through methodological encounters. A line-up of some 50 flash-talks and poster presentations will showcase the latest research, data, tools and […]
Tue
8
Dec
FAIR Science Café – Tekoäly muuttaa tieteellistä tiedonhakua ja sen tulevaisuutta
8 December 2026, 13:00–14:00
Joulukuun FAIR Science Cafén puhujana on Petter Korkman (tietoasiantuntija, Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto) Tekoäly muuttaa vauhdilla akateemista työtä ja tapaa, jolla tutkimustietoa etsitään, löydetään ja hyödynnetään. Tässä FAIR Science Caféssa Petter Korkman kertoo kesän aikana toteuttamastaan […]
October 2026
September 2026
August 2026
Wed
26
Aug
Brown Bag Seminar: Algorithm-based facial expression analysis
26 August 2026, 12:00–13:00
University of Helsinki Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, 3rd floor, room F3010
In this talk, we present a research method that enables the automatic analysis of facial expressions from video recordings. In 2023 HSSH organized a workshop on the method that inspired its use in the context of language education and language assessment. We give two examples on how the method has […]
Wed
26
Aug
FAIR Science Café – Tekoälymallit laadullisen tutkimuksen kohteena ja työkaluna
26 August 2026, 13:00–14:00
Online
CSC:n järjestämän FAIR Science Cafén elokun puhujana on tutkija Matti Pohjonen (Helsingin yliopisto) aiheenaan tekoälymallit laadullisen tutkimuksen kohteena ja työkaluna. Matti Pohjonen esittelee synteettistä etnografiaa uutena tapana käyttää tekoälyä varsinkin laadullisen tutkimuksen apuna. […]
Wed
26
Aug
Fin-CLARIAH Roadshow: Interoperabilitly and Metadata Practices
26 August 2026, 12:00–19:30
University of Oulu, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, Oulu
The event will take place on Wednesday, 26 August 2026 at the University of Oulu, Tellus Stage. Possible updates will be notified at the event site. To register for the Roadshow, please use this form (Deadline 15.7.). NOTE: If you are registering for the CMC2026 conference in ConfTool, please […]
June 2026
May 2026
Fri
29
May
Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala. Spring 2026
29 May 2026, 13:00–14:30
University of Helsinki
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 […]
Wed
27
May
Solving the IIIF-puzzle - Images in Dialogue Helsinki Showcase
27 May 2026, 09:00–16:30
Wed
13
May
Brown Bag Seminar: Vibe coding, finally programming for everyone?
13 May 2026, 12:00–13:00
University of Helsinki
Since late 2025, agentic coding tools have exploded. Claude, Codex, Cursor, and a dozen others promising to create software for you. The hype is real, the tools are genuinely powerful, and confusion about how to make these tools useful, especially for social sciences and digital humanities, grows […]
Wed
13
May
What makes a good Open Education Resource? DARIAH Campus workshop
13 May 2026, 14:00–15:30
Online
This event invites digital humanities and social science researchers, projects and infrastructure developers in Finland to an introduction to DARIAH Campus. In this workshop participants will find support for creating well curated learning resources. Join us for an introduction to DARIAH Campus by […]
April 2026
Wed
22
Apr
Brown Bag Seminar: Zionism, Judaism, and the Politics of Religious Dissent in the Contemporary United States
22 April 2026, 12:00–13:00
University of Helsinki
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 Israel as if they were one supra-national state: "AmericaIsrael". AmericaIsrael banks on a historical, […]
Wed
15
Apr
Brown Bag Seminar: “Untrustworthy” workers and “ground truth”
15 April 2026, 12:00–13:00
University of Helsinki
Ground-truth datasets are supposed to nail down facts about the "world", so that machine-learning models trained on them will behave reliably in that same world. Yet when annotation is outsourced to crowdworkers whom engineers do not know, and often distrust, how is such reliability achieved or […]
Wed
8
Apr
Brown Bag Seminar: AI and Religious Mediation
8 April 2026, 12:00–13:00
University of Helsinki
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 systems co-produce devotional, mythological, and heritage content that circulates as religiously effective […]
Wed
1
Apr
Brown Bag Seminar "Qualitative research and AI..."
1 April 2026, 12:15–13:15
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 […]
March 2026
Wed
25
Mar
From Data to Intelligence: a FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow
25 March 2026, 12:45–15:30
Aalto University, TUAS Atrium, Maarintie 8, Espoo
"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 being implemented, and introduces latest related infrastructures and research. We also wish to raise […]
Thu
19
Mar
FAIR Science Café – Arkeologiset paikkatiedot ja arkeologisen tiedon saatavuus
19 March 2026, 13:00–14:00
Online
Mikä on FAIR Science Café? FAIR Science Café on rento ja vuorovaikutteinen verkkotapahtuma, jossa tutkija saa puheenvuoron kertoakseen työstään, tutkimuksestaan ja sen tuloksista omin sanoin. Keskustelussa nostetaan esiin myös tutkimuksessa käytetty, tuotettu ja mahdollisesti avoimesti saatavilla […]
February 2026
Wed
11
Feb
Brown Bag Seminar "Unsupervised methods for image clustering..."
11 February 2026, 12:15–13:15
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 […]
Wed
4
Feb
Brown Bag Seminar "Raising a bot..."
4 February 2026, 12:15–13:15
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 […]
January 2026
Thu
22
Jan
DARIAH-FI Workshop: New tools and data services for cultural heritage research
22 January 2026, 9:00–15:00
Online
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 (if your registration credentials do not work for some reason, please contact ines.matres@helsinki.fi) This […]
Fri
9
Jan
Emeritus- ja julkistustilaisuus: SampoSampo - Kaikki kaikkeen kietoutuvi - Connecting Everything to Everything Else (in Finnish)
9 January 2026, 13:00–16:00
Aalto University, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo
This event will be held in Finnish. Sampojen ylinen sampo datan rikastamiseen, hakuun, data-analyysiin ja yhteyksen etsimiseen viisauden verkossa Perjantaina, 9.1.2026, klo 13:00–16:00 (päätilaisuus) ja 16:00- (jatkotilaisuus)Aalto-yliopisto, Tietotekniikkatalo, T1, Konemiehentie 2, 2. kerros, […]
December 2025
Tue
9
Dec
DARIAH-FI Workshop: New datasets and tools for social media research
9 December 2025, 9:00–12:00
Online
Organisers: Mikko Laitinen & Paula Rautionaho (University of Eastern Finland) Date: Tuesday 9 December, at 9-12am (Online) The workshop is free and open but register to participate here: https://link.webropol.com/ep/dariahsome This workshop introduces datasets, tools and related services recently […]
Thu
4
Dec
HELDIG Digital Humanities Summit 2025
4 December 2025, 12:00–18:00
University of Helsinki
HELDIG, the Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki, will host the HELDIG Digital Humanities Summit 2025 on Thursday 4 December 2025, from 12:00 to 18:00, followed by a cocktail. The aim of this afternoon event is to bring together Finnish digital humanities actors, […]
November 2025
Fri
28
Nov
FIN-CLARIAH day Annotating Social Data
28 November 2025, 10:30–17:00
University of Helsinki, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40
This FIN-CLARIAH day brings together researchers, infrastructure developers, and social scientists to explore current practices and future needs in annotating data sets in social sciences for further analysis. The day opens with a keynote by Salla-Maaria Laaksonen on collecting, annotating, and […]
Fri
21
Nov
FAIR Science Café
21 November 2025, 13:00–14:00
Online
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, produced, and possibly openly available in the research. Event aims: ; To provide researchers with a […]
Tue
18
Nov
Digital humanities early-career välipala
18 November 2025, 14:00–15:00
University of Helsinki
October 2025
Wed
29
Oct
CSC Webinar: Enhancing Data Support: Understanding Reproducibility, Part 2
29 October 2025, 10:00
Online
Thu
9
Oct
CSC Webinar: Enhancing Data Support: Understanding Reproducibility, Part 1
9 October 2025, 10:00
Online
Fri
3
Oct
DARIAH Friday Frontiers Autumn series 2025
3 October 2025, 12:30–13:30
Online
September 2025
Thu
18
Sept
DARIAH-FI Devs meet-up
18 September 2025, 12:00–13:00
Online
These monthly meetings are a space to foster common and integrated technical solutions, reusing components, ask questions regarding components of the infrastructure, use of CSC services, or bring up issues related with data pipelines, workflows or tool building. Zoom link and agenda for meetups is […]
Tue
16
Sept
CSC Webinar: Researchers' Journeys in Opening Cultural and Historical Data
16 September 2025, 10:00–11:30
Online
June 2025
Fri
13
Jun
FIN-CLARIAH day – Roads to multimodality in research: streams, videos, and building RI for the future
13 June 2025, 11:00–17:00
University of Jyväskylä
With the recent news that FIN-CLARIAH has been granted lighthouse status, we are now positioned to lead the way in advancing essential infrastructure areas, from impact and functionality, to service provision and collaborative use. This day in Jyväskylä will be dedicated to setting standards in […]
Wed
11
Jun
What can you do with digital cultural heritage data in research?
11 June 2025, 10:00–11:00
Online
May 2025
Wed
28
May
Online workshop about the Finna API
28 May 2025, 10:00–11:00
Online
Please note that due to foreseen university strikes in Helsinki and Turku the date of this workshop has been changed from Tue. 27.5. to Thu 28.5. Finna.fi is a search service that collects material (e.g., images, literature, journals, maps, objects, art, films) from hundreds of Finnish […]
Tue
27
May
Julkistustilaisuus: Kirjesampo: 1800-luvun suomalaisia kirjekokoelmia semanttisessa webissä (In Finnish)
27 May 2025, 13:15–16:00
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (SKS), Hallituskatu 1, Helsinki
Milloin: Ti. 27.5.2025, klo 13:15–16:00 Missä: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (SKS), juhlasali, Hallituskatu 1, 2. kerros, ja etäyhteydellä Kirjesampo: Älykäs tietopalvelu yli 1,200,000 historiallisesta kirjeestä ja 100,000 kirjeiden kirjoittajasta ja vastaanottajasta Kirjesammon aineistot on […]
Fri
23
May
Digital humanities early career välipala
23 May 2025, 12:00–14:00
University of Helsinki
Digital Humanities early career välipala is a monthly meet-up in person 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 […]
Wed
21
May
Datasta tutkimukseen –Miten hyödyntää Finnan, Kansallisarkiston ja Kansalliskirjaston aineistoja? (event in Finnish)
21 May 2025, 12:30–15:30
Kansallisarkisto, Kansalliskirjasto ja Finna tarjoavat massiivisia määriä digitaalisia aineistoja (kuten sanomalehtiä ja muuta mediaa, julkishallinnon aineistoja, kuvia, historiallisia asiakirjoja ja kirjallisuutta.) tutkimuskäyttöön. Tämä avaa uudenlaisia mahdollisuuksia esimerkiksi […]
Wed
14
May
to 23 May
Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2025
14 May 2025 – 23 May 2025
University of Helsinki
As a CLARIN and DARIAH summer school, Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH25 is truly international, welcoming applications from all over Europe and beyond! The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within […]
March 2025
Fri
14
Mar
What is new in the Finnish digital research infrastructure? - FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow
14 March 2025, 12:15–15:30
FIN-CLARIAH (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is a fundamental Finnish digital research infrastructure (RI) for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). FIN-CLARIAH connects ten universities and memory organisations across the country. The Finnish Research Infrastructure […]
Mon
10
Mar
CLARIN café: Project Management and team collaboration in Digital Humanities
10 March 2025, 16:00–18:00
Online
The topic of this café is project management and team collaboration in Digital Humanities projects. Our guests from academia, industry and research infrastructures will discuss their experience and approaches to project management and how some of the principles and methods can be incorporated into […]
January 2025
November 2024
Thu
28
Nov
Tutorial: How to create a Linked Open Data service and semantic portal for your Cultural Heritage data
28 November 2024, 13:00–16:00
Aalto University, TUAS-house, Maarintie 8, Espoo
Since 2002, the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) has been involved in 1) developing a national semantic web infrastructure and 2) the "Sampo series" of over 20 Linked Open Data (LOD) services and semantic portals on top of them in use on the Web. This work goes on today as part of the […]
Fri
22
Nov
FIN-CLARIAH meeting Turku
22 November 2024, 11:00–16:00
University of Turku
Digital Cultural Heritage –Data or Metadata? The goal of this FIN-CLARIAH day is to reflect on the importance of data and metadata for research. We want to discuss what is data vs. metadata? What are the standards in different fields? How is or could metadata be extracted or processed? First we […]
Sun
10
Nov
FIN-CLARIAH Workshop "Tools to make sense of web data"
10 November 2024, 10:00–12:00
University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu
Note that this workshop is open for participants to the Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) conference that will take place as an onsite event at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus, 10-12 December 2024. To participate in this workshop, participants in the conference can […]
October 2024
September 2024
June 2024
Tue
18
Jun
to 21 Jun
DARIAH EU Annual event - Workflows
18 June 2024 – 21 June 2024
This event took place in Lisbon, Finland was represented by DARIAH-FI director: Prof. Mikko Tolonen (UH), member of the DARIAH WG Bibliodata, Julia Matveeva (UTU) intorducing posters about metadata harmonization from Fennica and National Coordinator Inés Matres, introducing the network and current […]
Mon
10
Jun
FIN-CLARIAH Meeting Helsinki
10 June 2024, 11:00–16:00
University of Helsinki
The goal of the workshop is to let the whole infrastructure reflect on how SSH research will be affected by AI and how we as an infrastructure should prepare for this. In addition, we need to collect information on what preparations are already taking place in the different locations of the […]
Thu
6
Jun
Participatory RDM workshop for support specialists (Online)
6 June 2024, 10:00–12:00
Online
Are you an information specialist (e.g., librarian) with experience in SSH research data management (RDM)? Then this workshop might interest you! Tampere University and the CSC - IT Center for Science are looking for volunteers to take part in a study for developing the DARIAH-FI (/) research […]
May 2024
March 2024
December 2023
May 2023
April 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
Wed
30
Nov
DARIAH Aalto Day
30 November 2022
Aalto University
DARIAH Aalto Day.
Tue
29
Nov
DARIAH-FI Roadshow Eastern Finland
29 November 2022
DARIAH-FI Roadshow in Eastern Finland.
Fri
18
Nov
DARIAH-FI Roadshow Jyväskylä
18 November 2022
Jyväskylä
DARIAH-FI Roadshow in Jyväskylä.
Fri
18
Nov
FIN-CLARIAH Meeting Jyväskylä
18 November 2022
Jyväskylä
FIN-CLARIAH meeting in Jyväskylä.
Wed
16
Nov
DARIAH-FI Online Workshop #3
16 November 2022
Online
DARIAH-FI Online Workshop.
Thu
10
Nov
DARIAH-FI Roadshow Tampere
10 November 2022
Tampere
DARIAH-FI Roadshow in Tampere.
Wed
9
Nov
DARIAH-FI Online Workshop #2
9 November 2022
Online
DARIAH-FI Online Workshop.