7th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities to Take Place in Riga

The Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia, in cooperation with the University of Latvia Digital Humanities Center and the National Library of Latvia, invites the 7th Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities (BSSDH 2025), which will take place from 4 to 8 August 2025 at the House of Science in Riga.

This year, the summer school will focus especially on historical research in the digital environment, offering theoretical lectures and practical workshops on contemporary digital methods in the humanities. The lectures will be livestreamed and open to all via the University of Latvia’s YouTube channel and the Facebook page of the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, while workshops will be available only to pre-registered participants.

The programme includes lectures and workshops on topics such as handwritten text recognition, network and spatial analysis (GIS), historical data visualization, applications of artificial intelligence in historical research, and much more. The teaching team features leading specialists from Europe.

The full programme and lecture descriptions are available here:

🔗 https://www.digitalhumanities.lv/bssdh/2025/lectures-and-workshops/

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The summer school is organised with the support of the State Research Programme project “Navigating the Latvian History of the 20th–21st Century: Social Morphogenesis, Legacy and Challenges” (VPP-IZM-Vēsture-2023/1-0003), the ERAF project “University of Latvia and Institutes in the European Research Area – Excellence in Research and Cooperation” (No. 1.1.1.5/3/25/I/011), the State Culture Capital Foundation, and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia.