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Matti La Mela

@matti-lamela.bsky.social
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digital humanities, patent history, property rights, allemansrätten | associate professor in digital humanities (Uppsala University), 2025-2026 Paris Institute for Advanced Study Fellow. www.katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N20-65

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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries @dhnb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📢 ONLINE EVENT 24. SEPT: ONWARDS AND OUTWARDS - DHNB celebrates 10 years, with provocations by @arjensenius.bsky.social, @andabaklane.bsky.social and CJ Chen on where digital humanities research is heading. More information and registration for zoom link here: dhnb.eu/about-dhnb/o...
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Véronique Pouillard @veropouillard.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Coming soon! This book looks at the history of intellectual and industrial property in the colony of Congo, present day Democratic Republic of the Congo. The volume includes chapters on patents, trademarks, geographical indications of origin, and copyrights.
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Kati Kallio @katikallio.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
One humanities and one computational post doctoral position open at the research consortium OTSO on Finnic oral poetry. Humanities position at the Finnish Literature Society (DL 31.5.2026) and the computational one at the University of Helsinki, digital humanities (DL 27.5.2026, see below).
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SKS hakee tutkijaa
SKS hakee OTSO-hankkeelle kahdeksi vuodeksi määräaikaiseen työsuhteeseen tutkijaa tai vanhempaa tutkijaa. Lue lisää ilmoituksesta!
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IEA de Paris @ieadeparis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Vendredi dernier, l’Institut a accueilli la 3e session de l’atelier sur la #numérisation des droits de propriété industrielle historiques, organisé par @matti-lamela.bsky.social, Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Jérôme Baudry & Nicolas Chachereau. 🙏Merci aux participants et intervenants.
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We're hiring: a 2-year postdoc position in digital humanities at Uppsala University, part of my project “Making public property. A Digital history of allemansrätten in Sweden and Finland, 1880–1950”. www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-... Join the project and our fantastic department! Application DL: 12 May.
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Postdoktor inom digital humaniora - Uppsala universitet
Postdoktor inom digital humaniora, Institutionen för ABM, Uppsala universitet
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Centre Alexandre-Koyré @cak.ehess.fr · 02/04/2026
📊 Workshop – 9 & 10 avril | Paris 👉 shorturl.at/5lb75 Innovation in Text and Data : Between Contextual and Computational approaches to historical industrial property rights Org : @matti-lamela.bsky.social @ehess.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr @icepfl.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social
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Innovation in Text and Data
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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 25/03/2026
🚨Funded PhD opportunities🚨 Great opportunity for PhD positions in digital art history / multimodal digital humanities! A newly funded research initiative based in Zurich and Rome is currently advertising up to 5 fully funded PhD positions: arthist.net/archive/51998
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Predoctoral Fellowships, IMPRS for Multimodal Digital Humanities, Zurich
Mara Freiberg. University of Zurich, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.05.2026
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 23/03/2026
Come work with me and the rest of the wonderful @greenhouseuis.net community! #envhist #envhum
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Katarzyna Anna Kapitan @kakapitan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#jobklaxon 10 postdocs available at @psl-univ.bsky.social in #AI. Working language: English. Btw. #digitalhumanities also happen under the AI hype these days, so get in touch and walk by this very building on your way to work. Join me in being #touristatwork #juniorProfInParis
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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The application period for the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026 (#DHH26) is now open (until 14 April). Apply now & spread the word: heldig.fi/dhh26
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Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2026 #DHH26 | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki
Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DH­H26 | 20.–29.5.2026
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
CfP: Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA) 2026 (September 16, 2026, Ljubljana, Slovenia); at the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JTDH) 2026. dipada.org This year's special topic are historical parliamentary data. Submissions by April 24, papers due August 7 #dh #parliaments
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DiPaDA 2026 - Digital Parliamentary Data in Action
International academic conference exploring historical parliamentary data through computational and interdisciplinary approaches.
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
1-2 PhD positions in innovation studies, also with historical perspective, in our Uppsala Patent History Group (www.uphg.se) and Dept. of Business Studies: lnkd.in/eqAftMVX. DL 31/3. Positions on “Innovation and Strategy”, and a project proposal on “Social Capital and Innovation” (funding pending).
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UPHG | Uppsala Patent History Research Group
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Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213
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PhD student grant (3 years) on the evolution of written communication
My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy to share our new paper in DHQ, where we introduce “critical collection history”, a framework at the intersection of DH, comp H, and critical archival studies, to analyse women’s letter correspondence in the 19th century. dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... #DH #archives #letters
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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: A Critical Collection History of Nineteenth-century Women’s Letters: Overcoming the Occluded Archive with Data-Driven Methods
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smpouli.bsky.social @smpouli.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📢 CfP now open for the Computational Cultural Science Workshop (Paris, 18-19 May 2026) until 16 February. Topics of interest: *️⃣AI and cultural datasets *️⃣Theory-driven humanities research *️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes *️⃣Cultural analytics 👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org
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Computational Cultural Science Worshop - Sciencesconf.org
Workshop description
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Anu Lahtinen @anulah.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Some US politicians are "asking" why Greenland is Danish territory. For those who care: the president of the USA signed an agreement about this some 110 years ago, on 4 August 1916. (USA got the "Danish West-Indies" in return) #Greenland #KalaallitNunaat jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE1...
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The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document proving that President Donald Trump is wrong about Greenland
In a high-security storage facility at the Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet) is a 100 year old sheet of paper with an American promise about Greenland. This is the fascinating story which Preside...
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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 13/10/2025
The 30th anniversary anthology PDF is now published online: Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 25/09/2025
My contribution with Matti La Mela (@matti-lamela.bsky.social) — ”What is Digital Humanities and what’s it doing in the department of ALM (Archives, Libraries, and Museums)”
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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 25/09/2025
Soon to be released (Oct 9): this gorgeous pink anthology
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Call for Papers: DHNB 2026: Lost in Abundance – Encounters with the Non-Canonical (Aarhus 9-13/3/2026). Submission DL 15 October. Note also the (now) traditional doctoral consortium with bursaries! dhnb.eu/conferences/... @dhnb.bsky.social #DH #digitalhumanities
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DHNB 2026 – DHNB
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Congratulations to CultureLab @psl-univ.bsky.social. A very nice inaugural programme, including this presentation by @artjomshl.bsky.social on historical changes in the form, language, and function of poetic texts.
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Colloque inaugural du Grand programme de recherche CultureLab | PSL
Recherche, CultureLab inaugure ses travaux le 22 septembre 2025 au Campus Condorcet avec une journée consacrée aux sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles et à l’évolution culturelle. , Le Gra...
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Looking forward to presenting at the #MetSem seminar 16/10: "Transnational and translational innovation: ML/AI for digitising and analysing historical patents and their language." This stems from my work as an @ieadeparis.bsky.social fellow and at uphg.se
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Merisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
❗Today is the last day to nominate yourself for the upcoming EADH Executive Committee elections❗If you were a member of an AIUCD/DHNB/DHD/CZADH/EADH by 25 April, are interested in running & need help finding 2 members to support your nomination, please be in touch ASAP with elections@eadh.org!
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DARIAH-FI @dariahfi.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
LetterSampo Finland is launched. The portal contains information on 1.3 million letters from the period of the Grand Duchy of Finland (1809-1917) aggregated from 17 cultural heritage organizations. LetterSampo allows to find letters, perform analyses and create visualizations kirjesampo.fi/en/
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Merisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
EADH seeks to elect 4 new members to the Executive Committee. We encourage direct members & members of AOs (DHNB, CzADH, AIUCD, DhD) to self-nominate for these positions to better rep EADH/AO joint missions. To vote/nominate, must be member in good standing by 25 April (Friday!) eadh.org/membership
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Membership | EADH - The European Association for Digital Humanities
Become a direct member of the EADH or join one of its Associate Organizations. EADH's membership fees will be set at €34/£29/$45. Direct membership of the EADH can also be combined with a subscription...
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European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) @eadhorg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🌐 Join us for the EADH Online Community Meeting! Let’s reconnect, share updates, and explore exciting opportunities. 📅 When: Friday, 11 April 2025 ⏰ Time: 10:00 BST | 11:00 CEST | 12:00 EEST 📝 Register now: lnkd.in/d2XEg4F8 🌍 More info: eadh.org Looking forward to shaping the future with you! 🚀
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Alie Lassche @alielassche.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We’ve got a #postdoc opening in #computationalhistory! 📜🖥️ Come join our team at the Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus University and dive into the Danish Golden Age (1750–1930). Great research, great colleagues, and a pretty nice city too 😊 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Aarhus University
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Our paper "MLLM-Assisted Information Extraction from Historical Documents" presented soon by Yunting Xie. doi.org/10.5617/dhnb... Another interesting session at DHNB 2025, this time with presentations about AI, visualisation and language. #DHNB2025 #DH #digitalhistory
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Fresh research on parliamentary history: Digital Parliamentary Data (DiPaDA 2024) workshop proceedings published journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/issu... #digitalhistory #DH #parliaments
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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025): Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2024) workshop | Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Fascinating days ahead at DHNB 2025 in Tartu! Today's pre-conference programme includes a DH in Higher Edu workshop and a doctoral consortium about ongoing PhD work. Many of us from ALM and CDHU speaking at the conference. Proceedings: journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/index BoA: dhnb.eu/conferences/...
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DHNB 2025 – DHNB
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Call for book chapter proposals: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition. Edited by me, Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social & @jnockels.bsky.social. Proposals on any critical topic relating to automated and advanced text recognition (including OCR, HTR, etc) are welcome by 31st March 25.
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2025 Call for Chapter Submissions: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit to a collection of essays tentatively entitled Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition, to be edited by Melissa Terras, Paul Goodi…
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Anu Lahtinen @anulah.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Post doc -poolin haku avoinna 1.–31.1.2025 Säätiöt ja rahastot ry:n jäsensäätiöiden perustama apurahavaranto. Poolin myöntämät apurahat on tarkoitettu Suomesta vähintään yhden lukuvuoden ajaksi ulkomaille lähteville, hiljattain väitelleille tutkijoille. acadsci.fi/apurahat-ja-...
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Post doc -poolin haku avoinna 1.–31.1.2025 - Tiedeakatemia
Poolin myöntämät apurahat on tarkoitettu vähintään yhden lukuvuoden ajaksi ulkomaille lähteville, hiljattain väitelleille tutkijoille.
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Henri Hannula @henrimhannula.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Historioitsijakollegat, hakekaa!
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Päätoimittaja, Kelan historiateos
Päätoimittaja, Kelan historiateos
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 11/12/2024
Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS
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Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Artificial Intelligence-School of Information Sciences
The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois invites applications from qualified individuals for 100% full-time Tenure-Track Facul...
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jarielo.bsky.social @jarielo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Uusi kirjamme koskien Suomen talouskriisejä, kannattaa tutustua! www.gaudeamus.fi/teos/ankarat... #talous #kriisit #suomi
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Ankarat ajat - Gaudeamus
Ankarat ajat -teoksessa nimekäs kirjoittajakunta tarkastelee suomalaisten talouskriisien historiaa. Tilaa kirja Gaudeamuksen verkkokaupasta.
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Our new paper (OA) on historical patent families: how to construct them and apply them in studying value and identifying key technologies of the past. doi.org/10.1016/j.ee... #econhist #patents #innovation
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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries @dhnb.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
📍 DHNB2025 has a new Doctoral Consortium track! Here, doctoral students can present their ongoing studies, and get mentored by more experienced scholars. DHNB will provide up to six bursaries to cover reasonable travel and accommodation costs (up to 500€) for participating.
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DHNB 2025 – DHNB
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Call for papers: DHNB2025 conference 'Digital Dreams and Practices' (5-7/03/2025, Tartu, Estonia) dhnb.eu/conferences/... Note the Doctoral Consortium track for doctoral students to get feedback on their work in #digitalhumanities. Bursaries available.
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DHNB 2025 – DHNB
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DH2025 @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
The CFP for ADHO Digital Humanities 2025 at NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal) is now open. Don't miss the opportunity to present your work 💻and to visit the sunny Lisbon city 🌇 ! + info: dh2025.adho.org/call-for-pro...
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Tuomo Hiippala @thiip.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Hey! I have a four-year post-doc position in computer science or #digitalhumanities open in my ERC CoG project, which focuses on the multimodality of human communication. I'm looking for someone with experience in information retrieval / knowledge graphs. Details ⤵️ jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/3...
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Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 05/06/2024
This will be a stellar workshop for #histtech #histsci #envhist #envhum etc people. The organizers are truly excellent and the Stavanger weather in December could be a great opportunity to discuss weathering!
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dh+lib @dhandlib.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
If you enjoyed our special issue, we have some great news for you. The CFP for part 2 just went live! 🥳 Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data Proposals due September 15 dhandlib.org/2024/05/29/d...
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dh+lib Special Issue CFP: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data ← dh+lib
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites proposals for #ACH2024, our virtual annual conference being held Nov 6-8, 2024. Proposals are due May 20. Learn more at ach2024.ach.org
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ACH2024 – November 6-8, 2024
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
The Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN HUMANITIES DATA SCIENCE / COMPUTATIONAL HUMANITIES for a permanent appointment starting 1st of September 2024. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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University Lecturer in Humanities Data Science / Computational Humanities
University Lecturer in Humanities Data Science / Computational Humanities
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Tuomo Hiippala @thiip.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
🚨 I'm looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher in #digitalhumanities for my upcoming ERC-funded project on #multimodality. This is a fixed-term position for 36 months based at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Please share the announcement widely!
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Post-doctoral researcher in digital humanities
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Call for Papers: “Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2024)” (Reykjavík, May 28, 2024). Workshop co-located with the 8th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2024) dhnb.eu/conferences/... #digitalhumanities #dhnb2024
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
SSHA 2024 submission deadline extended! The submission deadline for the SSHA Conference in Toronto Oct 31 - Nov 3 on the theme 'Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age' is now March 22 There is still time! Visit ssha2024.ssha.org 📗📉📈🗃🏺#AcademicSky #history #polisky #sociology
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SSHA2024
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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
We are hiring a doctoral researcher for 3-4 yrs full-time in Helsinki to work on “The Presence of Classics in Early Modern Book History”. Range of possible backgrounds is wide. MECANO is a great setup & Margherita Fantoli also supervises! DL 15.3.. Spread the word! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Matti La Mela @matti-lamela.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
CFP: Digital Research Data & Human Sciences (#DRDHum) in December 2024 (Univ. of Eastern Finland). Paper DL 15 March. sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024... Keynotes: Katherine Bode, Anna Foka, Michaela Mahlberg, Tony McEnery.
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Tuomo Hiippala @thiip.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
I'm looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher in human computation (crowdsourcing) and/or knowledge representation (graphs) for my upcoming ERC project! This position requires a background in computer science, digital humanities or a related field. Please repost or tell a friend! 🙇‍♂️
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Post-doctoral researcher in human computation and/or knowledge representation
Post-doctoral researcher in human computation and/or knowledge representation
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