Helsinki DH Seminar continues this Thursday (12th March) with Ke Shu (UH): “Identifying essay-length reprinting across eighteenth-century books and newspapers: A case study of David Hume". Ke will join in person. Participation is possible also online: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...
#DHH26 Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon, save the date (application period open soon): www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...
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...
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...
📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
📣 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...
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...
🎉 New for 2026: Oxford University Voltaire (OV) from the Voltaire Foundation.
Gain access to the leading scholarly edition of Voltaire's complete works in one digital resource, designed for researchers and built for libraries.
Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/LUP-OV
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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 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!
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...
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&...
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!
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.
www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...
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-...
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.
Honoured to be featured as the HCAS Alumni of the Month — the best place in Finnish academia www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...
Coming out this year: Enlightenment Histories by de Gruyer / Brill. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
