Room AU111, Yliopistokatu 2, Aurora-building
Joensuu Campus, University of Eastern Finland
The FIN-CLARIAH Summer meeting takes place in Joensuu on 11 and 12 June, 2026. This year’s program brings together thematic plenary sessions and dedicated time to share ongoing work across the consortium. Our focus is on the relationships between digital materials, from texts to multimodal content and their creators, and the networks and communities that emerge around them.
We have two invited speakers. Ruth Ahnert is Professor of Literary History & Digital Humanities at Queen Mary University, London. She works at the crossroads of literary studies and computational linguistics, with an interest in networks. Read more here.
Tuija Saresma is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. Her work focuses on e.g. language tensions and hate speech on social media. Read more here.
The program also includes presentations of tools and services developed within the FIN-CLARIAH network, and an impact roadshow showcasing research outputs of the infrastructure.
Please register via this link by 29 May, 2026.
For any questions, please contact Mikko Laitinen and/or Paula Rautionaho (firstname.lastname at uef.fi).
Thursday 11 June, 2026:
16.00-16.10 Opening and welcome (Mikko Laitinen)
16.10-17.10 Prof. Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary University): Letter networks and the problem of aliases
17.15-18.15 FIN-CLARIAH Board meeting
19-21 Get together (self-funded)
Friday 12 June, 2026:
9.00-11.00 Select infrastructure tool/services presentations
11.00-12.00 Prof. Tuija Saresma (UEF): Making sense of hate speech: Researching a complex phenomenon from lived experience to large datasets
12.00-13.00 Lunch (self-funded in Aura)
13.00-14.15 Research output harvest (short presentations of published research using the infrastructure: please contact the organizers if you’d like to present your work!)
14.15-14.30 Farewell coffee
Last modified on 2026-05-05
