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  • Brown Bag Seminar: AI and Religious Mediation

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    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 media. The talk uses two empirical sites – conversational 'Godbots' and AI-generated religious imagery – […]

  • Brown Bag Seminar: “Untrustworthy” workers and “ground truth”

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    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 even imagined? Based on 27 interviews with machine learning […]

  • Brown Bag Seminar: Zionism, Judaism, and the Politics of Religious Dissent in the Contemporary United States

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    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, religious, eschatological, topographical, and commercial fascination with the Holy Land among many Americans which […]

  • Brown Bag Seminar: Vibe coding, finally programming for everyone?

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    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 and compounds daily. If you're feeling ambivalent but […]

  • What makes a good Open Education Resource? DARIAH Campus workshop

    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 Training and Education Officer Dr. Vicky Garnett (DARIAH EU). This discovery platform […]