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University Lecturer in Digital Humanities

This paper introduces the concept of “translation mining”, a cross-lingual embedding approach that bridges close reading and large-scale quantitative analysis of historical translations. Focusing o...

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This article argues that figures like David Hume (1711–1776) should be studied in the age of AI not despite computation but through it. Drawing on Enlightenment studies and computational history, I sk...

Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is organized on 20 – 29 May 2026 at the University of Helsinki. The event brings together students and researchers of humanities, social sciences and computer sci...

Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities

This outlines how computation can serve historical research when historians and data scientists define questions, data and methods together. It first shows why well-structured sources, such as library...

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Yu Wu, Ke Shu, Jonas Fischer, Lidia Pivovarova, David Rosson, Eetu Mäkelä, Mikko Tolonen. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (V...

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Applications are invited for a full time post-doctoral researcher to work on an international collaboration to develop AI-based solutions for research on archival materials as part of the Humanities

Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DH­H26 | 20.–29.5.2026

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Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DH­H26 | 20.–29.5.2026

Information about Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar

Information about Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar

An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (2 years) Hours: Full time (37.5 hours); part time considered at minimum of 0.6 FTE We are a busy and friendly research department within the Humanities Division…

John Pocock, Istvan Hont, and scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment have profoundly shaped how historians understand eighteenth-century debates about commerce and ‘commercial society’. Their influ...

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It has long been understood that histories were central to the Era of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment histories not only broke new scholarly ground, but they also circulated widely with an expanding ...

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Exciting news - Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History is organising a conference! When? In exactly one week!

The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History devotes its 2025 conference to exploring the question of being in and out of the canon of intellectual history. We welcome proposals for panels and individ...

Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t

We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications. The Voltaire Foundation, originally established thanks to the…

The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) invites applications for one HCAS-RJ Fellow to be hired for a fixed term from August 15 2026 to August 14 2027.