The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is a chance to experience an interdisciplinary research project from start to finish within the span of 10 days.
For researchers and students from the humanities and social sciences, it offers an opportunity to pose new questions to historical, cultural or social phenomena with data at scale.
For people from computer science and data science, the hackathon gives the opportunity to test their abstract knowledge against complex real-life problems.
For both, the hackathon gives the experience of intensely working with people from different backgrounds as part of an interdisciplinary team, as, during the hackathon, each group develops a digital humanities research project from start to finish.
This year, the hackathon groups are organised around the following four themes:
Parliaments beyond borders: Exploring the Role of Foreign Nations in National Policy Debates
Digital Presence in Physical Absence: Survivors' Testimonies and Holocaust Oral History
Rare Earth & Web Discourses: Parallel Mining Approaches
Economic bubbles, consumerism, and the colonies: Early modern newspapers as indicators of economic change in 18th century society
Application schedule for #DHH25
13.3.–12.4.2025 Application period
16.4.2025 Applicants informed of acceptance
16.–23.4.2025 Registration to #DHH25 for accepted participants
29.4. & 6.5.2025 Two #DHH25 pre-hackathon online preparatory sessions
14.–23.5.2025 #DHH25 hackathon in Helsinki
Please note that organisers can only accept participants who are able to commit to the full week of intensive work as well as the preparatory sessions.
5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for students at the University of Helsinki and other universities. For the application you will need to supply a motivation for applying and if you are applying for travel funding a cost-estimation is also required.
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