• Brown Bag Seminar: Open discussion session: AI in qualitative research – debates for and against

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    This is a hybrid event taking place at the University of Helsinki Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, 3rd floor, room F3010. For remote participation, use this link. The use of AI in qualitative research has become a heated debate, with strong opinions for and against what this means for scientific research. In 2025, for instance, more […]

  • HSSH Brown Bag Seminar: Scaling Qualitative and Narrative Analysis of Multimodal Research Materials: The Datascene

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    The session will be held on Wednesday, September 16 from 12:00-13:00 at Fabianinkatu 24a, 5th floor, room 532. For remote participation, use this link. Digital research materials increasingly combine multiple forms of evidence: moving and still images, speech, sound, written language, webpages, metadata and pre-existing structured datasets. Yet computational research methods frequently analyse these materials […]

  • HSSH Brown Bag Seminar: Do Young Men and Women Really Differ More Than Before?

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    The session will be held on Wednesday, September 23rd, from 12:00-13:00 at Fabianinkatu 24a, 5th floor, room 532. For remote participation, use this link. Recent media discussions have suggested that young men and women are drifting apart in their worldviews. In this presentation, Ville-Juhani Ilmarinen presents a paper that examined whether such claims hold up […]

  • Luonnonfilosofian seuran esitelmätilaisuus: Digitaaliset ihmistieteet tekoälyn aikakaudella (in Finnish)

    Tieteiden talo Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland

    ti 29.9.2026 klo 18:15–19:45 Tieteiden talo, Cedercreutz-sali Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki Eero Hyvönen esittelee johtamansa Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmän (Aalto Yliopisto ja Helsingin Yliopisto) ja laajan yhteistyöverkoston kehittämän kansallisen linkitetyn avoimen datan tietoinfrastruktuurin ja siihen perustuvan Sampo-datapalveluiden ja portaalien sarjan, jolla on ollut miljoona käyttäjää verkossa. Sammot mahdollistavat eri kulttuurialojen aineistojen älykkään haun, selailun, analysoinnit ja […]

  • Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala: Biographical datasets and history

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    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 […]