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)
4.2.2026Salla-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
Organised by University of Helsinki