Mikko Tolonen

Digital Humanities Research Seminar | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki Information about Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar

Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar continues this Thursday (26th Feb) at 16:15 with a talk by David Rosson: “Vibe coding for digital humanities: visualising variations in eighteenth-century multi-edition publications". www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...

Digital Humanities Research Seminar | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki Information about Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar

Helsinki DH Seminar continues this Thursday with Yu Wu (UH) on "Beyond Text Reuse in 18th-century Reception: Evaluating Semantic Search through the Case of Locke”. For online participation and where to find us at Metsätalo, please visit:
www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h... All welcome!

New COMHIS article in DHQ out for preview (issue in April): Image Reuse in Eighteenth-Century Book History: Large-Scale Data-Driven Study of Headpiece Ornament Variants dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000...

Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History at University of Oxford 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.

📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...

Vacancy: Content Engineer 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…

📣 Come work with us! #18C 📣

This one is for the #DH crowd!
We seek a Content Engineer to assist in maintaining and developing the digital resources of the Voltaire Foundation.

More information and application process on our website:

voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/va...

Saturated by Commerce: A Computational Analysis of Eighteenth-Century British Political Discourse 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...

New COMHIS article, led by doctoral researcher Iiro Tiihonen, "Saturated by Commerce: A Computational Analysis of Eighteenth-Century British Political Discourse" published in History of European Ideas doi.org/10.1080/0191...

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Digital Humanities Research Seminar | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki Information about Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar

New year, same great Helsinki DH seminar!
We are back next Thursday (22 January 2026), same time, same place.
For details and the spring schedule, visit:
👉 www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...

Enlightenment Histories 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 ...

Enlightenment Histories by de Gruyter is now officially out (whole book Open Access via publisher's website): www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Applications welcome by 9 January!

Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities | Master’s programme | University of Helsinki Study at the University of Helsinki and get an understanding of the nature and diversity of human language and cognition.

Thinking about an MA in Digital Humanities or related fields (Language Technology, Cognitive Science, Phonetics, General Linguistics)?

Applications to LINGDIG MA programme at @helsinki.fi are open 2–16 January.

Programme: www.helsinki.fi/en/degree-pr...

DH track: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...

A Recap of the HELDIG Summit: “Celebrating Eero Hyvönen and the Future of Digital Humanities” from 4 December 2025: blogs.helsinki.fi/heldig-summi...

Conference "In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History" | Centre for Intellectual History | University of Helsinki Exciting news - Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History is organising a conference! When? In exactly one week!

Next week we are hosting the “In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History” conference at the University of Helsinki!
If you are curious about the canon, non-canon, or anything in between, feel free to drop by and listen in.

Programme + details:
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Our article in Hume Studies is out: “A Quantitative and Comparative Approach to Royalist and Whig Sources in Hume’s History of England” → muse.jhu.edu/pub/108/arti...

Relevant also to bridge the gap between quantitative and qualitative methods in the humanities.

Good news, Enlightenment Histories by de Gruyter, edited by yours truly together with Marc Hanvelt and Mark Spencer, has just been published. Google seems to give access to the ebook for free (at least atm, red tab on the upper left-hand corner following the link) books.google.fi/books?hl=en&...

In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History | Centre for Intellectual History | University of Helsinki 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...

The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History 2025 conference asks what it means to be in and out of the canon in intellectual history.

📅 15–17 December 2025
📍 University of Helsinki
🗂️ Conference schedule now available:
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Smart companies will collaborate with researchers on these issues on our way towards better data. Of course it means finding new business models but that has been on the cards for past few decades. Should not come as a surprise to anyone. Maybe we should engage more with Proquest as well.

Bibliodata project clearly on its way at CLB in Prague!

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

Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

HELDIG Summit 2025, Thu 4 Dec 2025. Opportunity for academic and cultural heritage communities to exchange ideas. This year’s Summit celebrates Professor Eero Hyvönen, former director of HELDIG. Register early, places are limited: blogs.helsinki.fi/heldig-summit/

Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 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…

📣📣📣 Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 📣📣📣

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

www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...

Apply for the HCAS-RJ Fellowship | Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies | University of Helsinki 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.

Great chance for researchers affiliated to a Swedish university to get a one-year scholarship to HCAS in Nordic Fellowship Program, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

Interfaces des Lumières. (Dé)constructions numériques d’un héritage Ce colloque a pour but d’étudier l’apport de la numérisation des corpus et des recherches en humanités numériques à la réflexion sur le statut des Lumières en tant qu’objet patrimonial, à la refonte d...

Here you go: lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/evenements/i...

Sorbonne Paris. @glennroe.bsky.social & Encyclopedie everything at Enlightenment Interfaces conference.

Extended deadline!

Call for Papers now open until 20 October.

great! Drop a note before
and we have a cup of coffee and talk about Mandeville.

Alumni of the Month: Anat Pick and Mikko Tolonen | Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies | University of Helsinki The October 2025 edition of the HCAS Alumni Gallery

Honoured to be featured as the HCAS Alumni of the Month — the best place in Finnish academia www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

Enlightenment Histories 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 ...

Coming out this year: Enlightenment Histories by de Gruyer / Brill. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

..just another library in Manchester.

ESR Ángela Gómez speaks on CASCADE’s third reunion in Helsinki It was Tuesday, August 19th, 2025, and we were travelling to the third CASCADE MSCA Doctoral Network training camp. This time around, it was taking us to Helsinki, and the trip to the airport reminded...

Nice blog on our CASCADE camp in Helsinki last month! www.horizoncascade.net/esr-angela-g...