Program for Workshop: (Politics of) Digital Humanities in Eastern European Studies

Monday, September 10

Venue: Aleksanteri Institute, Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki, 2d floor (meeting room)

12:45-1:00 pm
INTRODUCTION

Markku Kangaspuro (AI), Peter Haslinger (HI) and Daria Gritsenko (AI)

1:00-1:30 pm
IMPULSE LECTURE

Peter Haslinger (Herder Institute): National Epistemologies, Cultural Heritage, and Memory Politics in a Digital Age

1:30-2:00 pm Discussion
2:00-2:15 pm Coffee break
2:15-3:15 pm
PANEL I: USING AND RE-USING HISTORY

Alexey Kouprianov (HSE, St. Petersburg): Geographical mobility of University professors in the Russian Empire: Domain structure of the network and the mobility paradox resolved by the analysis of the Russian University Professors Career Database

Jaromir Mrnka (ISTR, Prague): Making of the Historical Knowledge. Digitization in the State Security Archives in the Czech Republic

3:15-3.30 pm Coffee break
3:30-4:00 pm
IMPULSE LECTURE

Stefan Trajković Filipović (Justus Liebig University Giessen): Presentation, Preservation and Public Appeal: Digitizing Heritage in Contemporary Serbia

4:00-4:30 pm Discussion
4:30-5:30 pm
PANEL II: HERITAGE AND CULTURE THROUGH THE LENS

Anastasia Bonch-Osmalovskaya (HSE, Moscow): Computational linguistics and digital humanities

Mila Oiva (University of Turku): Economy Talk and Advertising. Digital Reading of the Polish newspaper “Zycie Gospodarcze”, 1950-1980

7:00 pm  Dinner

Tuesday, September 11

Venue: Aleksanteri Institute, Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki, 2d floor (meeting room)

9:00-9:30 am
IMPULSE LECTURE

Elisabeta Gaufmann (University of Bremen): Kremlin Trolls: Assessing the Impact of Bots in Russian Security Discourse

9:30-10:00 am Discussion
10:00-11:00 am
PANEL III: E-SECURITY, SURVEILLANCE AND POWER

Nadya Trach (Justus Liebig University Giessen): Bloggers as Social Actors in Language Policies Debates in Contemporary Ukraine

Felix Herrmann (University of Bremen): Discuss Data: Designing a Platform for the Interactive Discussion of Research Data. Quality for the Area Studies on the post-Soviet region

11:00-11:15 am Coffee break
11:15 am -12:45 pm
ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION

Digital Archives in Russia with Marianna Muravyeva (University of Helsinki), Misha Melnichenko (Prozhito Project, Moscow), Moscow), Sofia Gavrilova (HSE, Moscow)

12:45-1:00 pm Coffee break
1:00-2:00 pm
FINAL PLENUM AND WRAP UP

Markku Kangaspuro, Peter Haslinger, Daria Gritsenko