Matti La Mela

more information about the positions on Uppsala University webpage: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

1-2 PhD positions in innovation studies, also with historical perspective, in our Uppsala Patent History Group (www.uphg.se) and Dept. of Business Studies: lnkd.in/eqAftMVX. DL 31/3.

Positions on “Innovation and Strategy”, and a project proposal on “Social Capital and Innovation” (funding pending).

PhD student grant (3 years) on the evolution of written communication My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...

CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213

The data can be explored at kirjesampo.fi/en/ .. and the full dataset is also available as LOD at www.ldf.fi/dataset/coco

“Repurposing” archival metadata with computational methods (linked open data), helped to examine the limitations/biases of archives, something particularly relevant for digital historians. With the over 1M letters from 13 Finnish CH organisations, we explored the gendered aspects of the collections.

Happy to share our new paper in DHQ, where we introduce “critical collection history”, a framework at the intersection of DH, comp H, and critical archival studies, to analyse women’s letter correspondence in the 19th century. dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... #DH #archives #letters

📢 CfP now open for the Computational Cultural Science Workshop (Paris, 18-19 May 2026) until 16 February.

Topics of interest:
*️⃣AI and cultural datasets
*️⃣Theory-driven humanities research
*️⃣Document-based modelling of historical and social processes
*️⃣Cultural analytics

👉 c2s.sciencesconf.org

The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document proving that President Donald Trump is wrong about Greenland In a high-security storage facility at the Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet) is a 100 year old sheet of paper with an American promise about Greenland. This is the fascinating story which Preside...

Some US politicians are "asking" why Greenland is Danish territory. For those who care: the president of the USA signed an agreement about this some 110 years ago, on 4 August 1916. (USA got the "Danish West-Indies" in return)

#Greenland #KalaallitNunaat

jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE1...

The 30th anniversary anthology PDF is now published online:

Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

My contribution with Matti La Mela (@matti-lamela.bsky.social) — ”What is Digital Humanities and what’s it doing in the department of ALM (Archives, Libraries, and Museums)”

Soon to be released (Oct 9): this gorgeous pink anthology

Wow, looks very nice. And thanks Amanda, it was
really great working on this with you!

Call for Papers: DHNB 2026: Lost in Abundance – Encounters with the Non-Canonical (Aarhus 9-13/3/2026). Submission DL 15 October. Note also the (now) traditional doctoral consortium with bursaries!
dhnb.eu/conferences/... @dhnb.bsky.social #DH #digitalhumanities

Congratulations to CultureLab @psl-univ.bsky.social. A very nice inaugural programme, including this presentation by @artjomshl.bsky.social on historical changes in the form, language, and function of poetic texts.

Looking forward to presenting at the #MetSem seminar 16/10: "Transnational and translational innovation: ML/AI for digitising and analysing historical patents and their language." This stems from my work as an @ieadeparis.bsky.social fellow and at uphg.se

❗Today is the last day to nominate yourself for the upcoming EADH Executive Committee elections❗If you were a member of an AIUCD/DHNB/DHD/CZADH/EADH by 25 April, are interested in running & need help finding 2 members to support your nomination, please be in touch ASAP with elections@eadh.org!

LetterSampo Finland is launched. The portal contains information on 1.3 million letters from the period of the Grand Duchy of Finland (1809-1917) aggregated from 17 cultural heritage organizations. LetterSampo allows to find letters, perform analyses and create visualizations kirjesampo.fi/en/

EADH seeks to elect 4 new members to the Executive Committee. We encourage direct members & members of AOs (DHNB, CzADH, AIUCD, DhD) to self-nominate for these positions to better rep EADH/AO joint missions. To vote/nominate, must be member in good standing by 25 April (Friday!) eadh.org/membership

🌐 Join us for the EADH Online Community Meeting!

Let’s reconnect, share updates, and explore exciting opportunities.

📅 When: Friday, 11 April 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 BST | 11:00 CEST | 12:00 EEST

📝 Register now: lnkd.in/d2XEg4F8
🌍 More info: eadh.org

Looking forward to shaping the future with you! 🚀

Great archives, and yes you're right, Savonlinna's market square is the best.

Bravo! Enjoy the weekend :)

Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational History - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Aarhus University

We’ve got a #postdoc opening in #computationalhistory! 📜🖥️

Come join our team at the Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus University and dive into the Danish Golden Age (1750–1930).

Great research, great colleagues, and a pretty nice city too 😊

🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

Our paper "MLLM-Assisted Information Extraction from Historical Documents" presented soon by Yunting Xie. doi.org/10.5617/dhnb... Another interesting session at DHNB 2025, this time with presentations about AI, visualisation and language. #DHNB2025 #DH #digitalhistory

Paper topics include e.g.: digital scholarly editing of Imperial Diet Records of the Holy Roman Empire, use of Latin and English in the Finnish Parliament, and conceptual historical studies on AI, Democracy, Terrorism. Many thanks to everyone who contributed!

Fresh research on parliamentary history: Digital Parliamentary Data (DiPaDA 2024) workshop proceedings published

journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/issu...

#digitalhistory #DH #parliaments

Fascinating days ahead at DHNB 2025 in Tartu! Today's pre-conference programme includes a DH in Higher Edu workshop and a doctoral consortium about ongoing PhD work. Many of us from ALM and CDHU speaking at the conference.

Proceedings: journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/index

BoA: dhnb.eu/conferences/...

2025 Call for Chapter Submissions: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit to a collection of essays tentatively entitled Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition, to be edited by Melissa Terras, Paul Goodi…

Call for book chapter proposals: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition. Edited by me, Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social & @jnockels.bsky.social. Proposals on any critical topic relating to automated and advanced text recognition (including OCR, HTR, etc) are welcome by 31st March 25.

Post doc -poolin haku avoinna 1.–31.1.2025 - Tiedeakatemia Poolin myöntämät apurahat on tarkoitettu vähintään yhden lukuvuoden ajaksi ulkomaille lähteville, hiljattain väitelleille tutkijoille.

Post doc -poolin haku avoinna 1.–31.1.2025

Säätiöt ja rahastot ry:n jäsensäätiöiden perustama apurahavaranto. Poolin myöntämät apurahat on tarkoitettu Suomesta vähintään yhden lukuvuoden ajaksi ulkomaille lähteville, hiljattain väitelleille tutkijoille.

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Historioitsijakollegat, hakekaa!

Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS