Events
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Brown Bag Seminar “Qualitative research and AI…”
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 […]
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Brown Bag Seminar: AI and Religious Mediation
University of Helsinki Helsinki, FinlandThis 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 media. The talk uses two empirical sites – conversational 'Godbots' and AI-generated religious imagery – […]
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Brown Bag Seminar: “Untrustworthy” workers and “ground truth”
University of Helsinki Helsinki, FinlandGround-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 even imagined? Based on 27 interviews with machine learning […]
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Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala. Spring 2026
University of Helsinki Helsinki, FinlandDigital 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 […]
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Brown Bag Seminar: Zionism, Judaism, and the Politics of Religious Dissent in the Contemporary United States
University of Helsinki Helsinki, FinlandThis 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, religious, eschatological, topographical, and commercial fascination with the Holy Land among many Americans which […]