AKA-JSPS Seminar 2018 Digital Humanities Academy Programme Annual seminar

Program

AKA-JSPS Seminar 2018
Digital Humanities Academy Programme Annual seminar

– Program –

Date and time: November 6, 2018, 12:00-17:00

Venue: Helsinki Congress Paasitorni (Paasivuorenkatu 5A, 00530 Helsinki)

Organizers: Academy of Finland

JSPS Stockholm Office

Tuesday 6 November

11:00 Lunch and Registration

12:00 Opening words

　　　Dr. Risto Vilkko, Programme Manager, Academy of Finland

　　　Mr. Takao Yoshihara, Deputy Director, JSPS Stockholm Office
　　　　　　　　Presentation slides (2MB)

12:15 Keynote lecture: Non-Textual Digital Humanities – Understanding Visual and Spatial Data for the Study of Asian Culture

　　　Dr. Asanobu Kitamoto
Director, Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH), Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems
Associate Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (NII)

13:00 Project presentations (@ 20 min.):

• Marjo Kaartinen: Profiling Premodern Authors
• Terttu Nevalainen: Interfacing structured and unstructured data in sociolinguistic research on language change
• Jussi Pakkasvirta: Citizen Mindscapes – Detecting Social, Emotional and National Dynamics in Social Media

14:00 Coffee Break

14:30 Project presentations (@ 20 min.):

• Hannu Salmi: Computational History and the Transformation of Public Discourse in Finland, 1640–1910
• Janne Seppänen: Digital Face
• Martti Vainio: Digital language typology: mining from the surface to the core

15:30 Trans-Atlantic Platform project presentations (@ 20 min.):

• Eero Hyvönen: Digging into Manuscript data
• Okko Räsänen: Analyzing Child Language Experiences Around the World
• Hannu Salmi: Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks in Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840-1914
• Peter Sarlin: Digging into High Frequency Data: Present and Future Risks and Opportunities

16:50 Closing of the Seminar

17:00-18:00 Posters, networking and nibbles