Date and time: Wednesday 3 September 2025, 13:00 – 14:30 CEST
Title: Digital Humanities: what is in a name?
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
OR participate on Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69560887455
Current debates about AI in relation to its profound impact on citizens and democratic societies have emphasized the need for collaboration between computer sciences, the humanities, and social sciences.
While there is no doubt about the crucial role that collaboration across fields and disciplines plays in the development of responsible AI, this conversation is motivated by the following questions: What does work across different fields and disciplines entail and mean in practice? How do those with knowledge, skills and experience from various fields and disciplinary backgrounds work together? Given the present organization of the academic system are interdisciplinary practices possible?
Interested in these and similar questions, we turn to Digital Humanities scholars/practitioners to better understand the collaboration between computing and the humanities, the role of interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, cross-disciplinarity or transdisciplinarity in digital humanities – and some of the central epistemic challenges and debates in the area.
Speakers
Karin Danielsson, Associate professor in Informatics, at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå University and Director of Humlab at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities since 2001.
Harko Verhagen, Professor at the department of computer and systems sciences, Stockholm University. He is part of the working group in the Digital Human Sciences and represents Stockholm University in the national infrastructure HumInfra.
Questions? Please contact Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Associate Director Outreach, Digital Futures: tessy@dsv.su.se.
We invite you to be part of the conversation on digital transformation in education by suggesting topics and potential speakers to Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Associate Director Outreach, Digital Futures. Please send your suggestion to tessy@dsv.su.se. Write “Digital Futures Outreach” in the subject of your email.
Digital Futures for Education consists of conversations and events that bring together key actors from academia, civil society, and the private and public sectors. Its mission is to provide a colloquial space for discussion and reflection on the digital transformation in education and the role of universities in today’s complex societies. The goal is also to build a community with key national and international educational actors.
