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.

Preliminary program:

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

Henna Poikkimäki (Semantic Computing Research Group): Sampo Systems: From Cultural Heritage Data to Networks 

Tuomas Lundberg (TurkuNLP): tba

Ville Vaara (COMHIS): tba

Masoud Fatemi & Mehrdad Salimi (UEF): tba

Language Bank of Finland/CSC: Mink – a service for processing and searching your own text corpora

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 us if you'd like to present your work!)

14.15-14.30 Farewell coffee 

What is FIN-CLARIAH?

FIN-CLARIAH is the Finnish digital research infrastructure (RI) for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) connecting ten universities as well as memory organisations in collaboration with CSC to facilitate the use, refinement, preservation and sharing of research data for the SSH researchers in Finland. FIN-CLARIAH has two parts: FIN-CLARIN integrates language resources and tools for processing language data through Kielipankki – the Language Bank of Finland, and DARIAH-FI joins a network of researchers with methodological expertise from SSH to data science developing versatile analysis tools and supporting big data approaches.