Academic Centre
From July 22 to 26, the annual Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities (BSSDH 2024) takes place in Riga, gathering more than 80 participants from 18 countries. This year's BSSDH focuses on large language models and small languages, a particularly significant theme in Latvian humanities research. The educational program of the summer school involves both foreign instructors and Latvian researchers and lecturers.
The Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities is now in its sixth year. It is an international intensive continuing education program that offers researchers, lecturers, and students of the humanities and social sciences, as well as professionals from archives, libraries, and museums, the opportunity to acquire various digital research skills – from those needed for working with humanities data to skills in visualizing and interpreting data analysis results.
The organizers of BSSDH 2024 are the National Library of Latvia, the Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art of the University of Latvia, and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia, which provides students the opportunity to earn credit points for the completed program.
In 2025, the Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities will be organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia and the National Research Program for the Study of 20th and 21st Century Latvian History, with a focus on digital methods in history studies.
This year's Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities is supported by:
- The National Research Program "Digital Humanities" project "Towards Development of Open and FAIR Digital Humanities Ecosystem in Latvia" (No. VPP-IZM-DH-2022/1-0002),
- The EU Recovery and Resilience Facility project "Language Technology Initiative" (No. 2.3.1.1.i.0/1/22/I/CFLA/002),
- CLARIN ERIC, the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure,
- The State Culture Capital Foundation.
More info: https://www.digitalhumanities.lv/bssdh/2024
