Call for applications for the 7th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities

Applications are now open for the 7th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities “Digital Methods for History Studies”, which will take place from 4 to 8 August at the University of Latvia (UL), House of Sciences, Riga. This year’s Summer School will focus on topics relevant to history researchers, students, and anyone interested in exploring history and humanities through digital methods. Lectures and workshops will cover subjects such as automated digitization of handwritten texts, network visualization, historical networks, spatial analysis and mapping (GIS), as well as a practical overview of the emerging AI technologies and their use in humanities research, by using chat prompting versions and also accessing LLM (large language models) with API. The full programme will be finalized during March.

All interested applicants are invited to apply by 20 March by filling in this form.

More detailed information about the Summer School is available in English here.

The Summer School is organised by the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Arts of University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia and the National Library of Latvia.

The Summer School is funded by the Latvian Council of Science, project “Navigating the Latvian History of the 20th–21st Century: Social Morphogenesis, Legacy and Challenges” (VPP-IZM-Vēsture-2023/1-0003), the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia and the National Library of Latvia.