Opening seminar 15 of April 2016

Digital History in Finland: Possible Futures

Helsinki, Friday 15.4.2016, Tieteiden talo (Kirkkokatu 6), at room 404.

Program:

14.00

Introduction, Prof. Mats Fridlund

Perspectives from close-by fields:

14.15

Docent Kari Uotila: “Virtual excavations – a reality in coming years? The

future of archaeological fieldwork”

14.45

Prof. Jukka Tyrkkö: “Twenty years of digital and computational methods in

historical linguistics: An overview”

15.15

Profs. Anna Sivula and Jaakko Suominen: “History of computer use in historical

research in Finland”

 

15.45 coffee and tea

16.00

Prof. Mikko Tolonen: “Big data and intellectual history in practice”

16.30

PhD. Petri Paju: “Project Towards a Roadmap for Digital History in Finland and

its questionnaire”

Closing discussion

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Organized by the Finnish Historical Society and the Kone Foundation funded

project Towards a Roadmap for Digital History in Finland.

For coffee or tea, please register (by Tuesday 12.4) at:

https://www.flomembers.com/shs/events/register/a87ff679a2f3e71d9181a67b7542122c

Tiedustelut: Petri Paju (etunimi.sukunimi@utu.fi), puhelin 02-3335712.