âComputational hermeneutics: why study canonical figures like David Hume in the age of AI?â, published in Digital Enlightenment Studies: digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/64/
First interim presentations at #dhh26 ongoing. We have groups on poetry, crimes, parliaments, books and profits; pretty much all you need in a digital humanities hackathon!
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Good vibes at #dhh26
Mikko Tolonen
Annual field trip day for COMHIS. This is our hiking group, more people joined for lunch and museum tour at Tarvaspää. Even weather was on our side! Good times.
FIN-CLARIAH Summer Meeting in Joensuu will be open on Zoom â because in Finland we take SSH research infrastructure seriously, and being a Finn is a state of mind.
Ruth Ahnert gives the keynote tomorrow.
Programme: sites.google.com/view/fin-cla...
the mystery shall remain a mystery...
Really happy about COMHIS. Papers soon out on âTranslation Miningâ & âMeaning Matchingâ (huge efforts). Also a step from text reuse to image reuse, that paper is published in DHQ: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... More to follow. 2026 will be a good year for computational history in HEL.
Mikko Tolonen
Mikko Tolonen
Mikko Tolonen
Mikko Tolonen
This article argues that figures like David Hume (1711â1776) should be studied in the age of AI not despite computation but through it. Drawing on Enlightenment studies and computational history, I sk...
Less than a week until #DHH26 hackathon!
Everyone is welcome to the public presentations on 29 May:
đ www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...
In the meantime, explore this springâs project course work on 18th-century humanâanimal relationship and symbolism in heraldry:
đ blogs.helsinki.fi/dh-project-c...
En route to Chicago for artfl-project.uchicago.edu/symposium-2026 - super excited as always to reunite with the ARTFL team in Hyde Park.
Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is organized on 20 â 29 May 2026 at the University of Helsinki. The event brings together students and researchers of humanities, social sciences and computer sci...
You return to the Digital Humanities Hackathon the morning after the social event evening and what do you find? The event leaders @tolonen.bsky.social and Jouni Tuominen singing karaoke đ Did you sing all night here? #DHH26