Programme

Wednesday, October 5

9:00–10:00Registration
10:00–11.00 Opening of the conference:
Mari Sarv (Estonian Literary Museum/Estonian Society for Digital Humanities)
Aija Sakova (Tallinn University)

Plenary speech by Maximilian Schich (Tallinn University)
Summarizing Cultural Dynamics – A Guided Tour

on-site (M-225) and online
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–13:00Parallel sessions:
Parallel session 1
on-site (M-225) and online
Chair: Kaisa Langer
Parallel session 2
on-site (M-342)
Chair: Mari Sarv
Elisa Cugliana; Joris Van Zundert
The Computational Edition
Maciej Janicki, Mari Sarv
Text Similarity in Oral Runosong Tradition: Towards a Large-Scale Quantitative Analysis
Lidia Santarelli
Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata: A Cultural Shift in Information Resource Description
Olli Kuparinen, Yves Scherrer
Mining Dialects From Spoken Language and Social Media
Avgoustinos Avgousti, Georgios Papaioannou
Small Museums Collections (Not) Online (short paper)
Anda Baklāne
Semantic Domains of Fire and Ice in Latvian 20th-Century Poetry: Comparison of Manual Annotation of Metaphors and word2vec Word Associations (short paper)
Leida Karibu (LK) Mae
Beadwork as a Decolonial Methodology in Social Media Research (short paper)
13:00-13:15Introduction to studying digital humanities in Estonia: DH minor program in Tallinn University
On-site (M-225) and online
13:15-14:30Lunch break
14:30-16:00Parallel sessions:
Parallel session 3
on-site (M-225) and online
Chair: Peeter Tinits
Parallel session 4
on-site (M-342)
Chair: Kadri Vider
Andres Karjus, Indrek Ibrus, Vejune Zemaityte, Maximilian Schich, Ulrike Rohn
Exploring Estonian Public Television Production 2004-2020 Using Big Programming Data
Andrea Parapatics
Different Lifestyles – Different Dialect Attitudes?
Krister Kruusmaa
Communication Landscapes of the 19th Century: The Speed and Geographical Coverage of News in the Rigasche Zeitung
Stefan Gelfgren
What Non-digital Practices Say About the Digital Humanities
Mark Mets, Andres Karjus
Stance Classification With Large Language Models in Estonian Written Media
Jurate Kavaliauskaite, Justina Mandravickaite
On the Elusive Semantics of Google (short paper)
Piret Viires
Social Media Literature and Ephemerality (short paper)
16:00–16:30Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Plenary speech by Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London)
Shifts in Language, Usage and Culture: How Can Computational Methods Help Us Study Word Meaning Variation and Change?

Keynote online, on-site participation possible in M-225
19:00 Welcome reception in Vabamu

Thursday, October 6

9.00-10:30Parallel sessions:
Parallel session 5 (SIEF panel)
all presentations online, on-site participation possible in M-225
Chair: Inés Matres
Parallel session 6
on-site (M-439)
Chair: Mari Sarv
Veera Ojala
Chernobyl dreams: A Case-Study Investigating Visitors’ Visual Storytelling in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Kaisa Langer
Changes in Politics, Changes in Ownership: Tracing the (Re)Settelment and Property of Ethnic Germans
Tero Ahlgren
Activism Digitally and on the Ground: Two Cases From Turku, Finland
Rafał Miśta
The Problem of Representativeness of Historical Folklore Database – The Case of Musical Collection of Oskar Kolberg
Mare Kalda
Video Parodies and Variability in the Vernacular Remixes of an Estonian Cult Movie
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00-13:00Parallel sessions:
Parallel session 7 (SIEF panel)
all presentations online, on-site participation possible in M-225
Chair: Coppélie Cocq
Parallel session 8
on-site (M-439)
Chair: Maciej Janicki
Andrew Peck
The Neighbor Across the Screen: The Vernacularization of Commercial Media on YouTube
Aleksandra Miletić and Yves Scherrer
Occitan in Wikipedia Discussions: Initial Findings
Liisi Laineste
When Global Stays Global: Memetic Reflections of the War in Ukraine in Estonia
Janine Siewert and Yves Scherrer
Low Saxon Internal Variation at the Orthographic, Morphological and Syntactic Level
Robert Glenn Howard
Arming Mother Mary for Ukraine: The Ethical Entailments of a Wartime Meme
Peeter Tinits
Deep Transitions: Mapping Long-Term Changes in Industrial Modernity
Ioannis Daflos, Katerina Kourou, Eleni Ziavra, Marilena Papachristophorou
“Thank You, Next”: From Broken Relationships to Facebook Narratives
Martin Mölder, Neeme Kahusk, Kadri Vider
Estonian Parliament Speeches as Source for Content Analysis
13:00-13:15Introduction to digital humanities in Estonia: CUDAN (Maximillian Schich)
On-site (M-225) and online
13:15–14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30Plenary speech by Coppélie Cocq (Umeå University)
Sustainable (data) relationships and responsibility in DH research. Questioning ownership and accessibility in the age of Open Science
On-site (M-225) and online
15:30-16:00Coffee break
16:00-17:30Parallel sessions:
Parallel session 9 (SIEF panel)
all presentations online, on-site participation possible in M-225
Chair: Liisi Laineste
Parallel session 10
on-site (M-439)
Chair: Kadri Vider
Daria Radchenko
Control, Suspicion and Alienation: Teenagers’ Reaction to Lockdown Digital Practices
Peeter Tinits
Virtual Lab at the National Library of Estonia
Inés Matres
😱 and Other Adolescent Enduring Contributions During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
Olha Petrovych
Augmented Reality Technologies: Practice-based Learning in Higher Education
Vivek Raj
Notion of Sacred Space and the Pandemic
Kais Allkivi-Metsoja, Kaisa Norak, Karina Kert, Silvia Maine, Pille Eslon
Error Classification and Annotation of Learner Language for Developing Estonian Grammar Correction
19:00Dinner (KoHo, on your own expence, vegan options are available on site per request)

Friday, October 7: Workshops on-site (M-224)

10:00-11:30Coppélie Cocq
Minorities in Library and Archive Collections: a Practical Exercise and a Reflection on Searching and Categorizing Practices
11:30-12:00Coffee break
12:00-13:30
Jaagup Kippar
Creating Data-Driven Animations in R
13:30-14:30Lunch break
14:30-16:00Jaagup Kippar, Harli Kodasma, Kaisa Norak, Kais Allkivi-Metsoja
Word Analyser: A Tool for Estonian Language Learning and Text Analysis