Welcome to the 3rd Digital History in Finland symposium at the University of Turku on Friday 30 November 2018. This is a continuation to two previous gatherings organized in Helsinki in 2015 and 2016. After a two-year break, Digital History in Finland III aims at bringing together historians who today work on different problems in digital history. The idea is to build an up-to-date view on what is happening in the field in Finland and to meet other scholars interested in similar questions. To offer a broad overview of present research, the symposium consists of the following short presentations:
Programme
SEMINAR START AT 10.00. Arje Scheinin hall, Dentalia (see https://blogit.utu.fi/digihistfi/venue/)
10.00–10.05 Welcome, Hannu Salmi
10.05–10.15 Settlement of Karelian evacuees during and after World War II in their new environment
Mirkka Danielsbacka, Lauri Aho, Robert Lynch, Jenni Pettay, Virpi Lummaa and John Loehr
10.15–10.25 National Audiovisual Heritage in the Yle Archive – Recognizing People, Events and Places by Named-Entity Recognition
Maiju Kannisto
10.25–10.35 BiographySampo – tools for biographical and prosopographical research
Kirsi Keravuori
10.35–10.45 The Digital Database of Local Letters to Newspapers
Heikki Kokko
10.45–10.55 Bibliographic Data Science and the History of the Book
Leo Lahti (presenter), Jani Marjanen, Hege Roivainen & Mikko Tolonen and the Helsinki Computational History Group
10.55–11.05 Finding Nineteenth-century Berry Spots: Recognizing and linking place names in a historical newspaper berry-picking corpus
Matti La Mela, Minna Tamper, Kimmo Kettunen
11.05–11.15 Materiality of Nineteenth-Century Finnish Newspapers
Eetu Mäkelä (presenter), Jani Marjanen, Antti Kanner, Mikko Tolonen and the Helsinki Computational History Group
11.15–11.25 Digital access to the Sámi heritage archives
Maija Mäkikalli
11.25–11.35 Introducing ‘Elias Lönnrot Letters Online’
Maria Niku
11.35–11.45 When the computer was new to Finnish historians: early international contacts and collaboration in computer-assisted history
Petri Paju
11.45–12.00 Discussion
12.00 Lunch (at own cost)
SYMPOSIUM CONTINUES AT 13.00 Janus hall
Live stream from the seminar 13-15:
https://echo360.org.uk/section/9679de31-70fe-4127-92bb-6eb2cbf524b2/public
13.00–13.10 Texts on the Move
Viola Parente-Čapková, Kati Launis, Jasmine Westerlund
13.10–13.20 The Long-Term Reuse of Text in the Finnish Press, 1771–1920
Heli Rantala, Hannu Salmi, Aleksi Vesanto and Filip Ginter
13.20–13.30 A Comparative Study of the Language of “National” in Dutch, British, Swedish and Finnish Newspapers
Ruben Ros (presenter), Simon Hengchen, Jani Marjanen, Mikko Tolonen and the Helsinki Computational History Group
13.30–13.40 Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks in Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840–1914 (OcEx)
Hannu Salmi, Otto Latva, Asko Nivala, Mila Oiva
13.40–13.50 The change of instrument talk in Philosophical Transactions, 1753-1777
Reetta Sippola
13.50–14.00 Discussion
14.00 Coffee break (sponsored by the symposium)
14.10–14.20 The Birth of the Proletarian God of History: Close and Distant Readings of the Finnish Handwritten Newspapers, 1899-1917
Risto Turunen
14.20–14.30 Evolution of British Book Trade through Bibliographic Metadata
Ville Vaara (presenter), Mark Hill, Leo Lahti, Mikko Tolonen and Helsinki Computational History Group
14.30–14.40 The Ancient Finnish Kings: a computational study of pseudohistory, medievalism and history politics in contemporary Finland and Russia
Reima Välimäki
14.40–15.00 Conclusion of the Symposium
Live stream from the seminar 13-15:
https://echo360.org.uk/section/9679de31-70fe-4127-92bb-6eb2cbf524b2/public
16.00
The XXVI Veikko Litzen lecture
Macroscopes and Microscopes: Computer assisted close reading of historical texts
Professor Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex
Live stream from Tim Hitchcocks lecture:
https://echo360.org.uk/section/77a3e2cc-c67f-4412-84a1-932803f6e8b1/public
Program details, including abstracts, and information on venue can be found here:
The symposium is organised by the Digital History Work Group of the Finnish Historical Society in cooperation with the Turku Group for Digital History and the project From Roadmap to Roadshow: A collective demonstration & information project to strengthen Finnish digital history (funded by the Kone Foundation).
All those interested, Welcome!