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• Digital Humanities Specialist

  Researchers of the past had hundreds or, in the best-case scenario, thousands of documents. Now, at least 130 million books are available to us. How do you study millions of sources and make their analysis interesting for a wide audience? What tools do digital museums and new media use? Why mix data science and philosophy? Specialists in the field of digital humanities (DH) try to answer these questions. In this issue of the What Will You Be project, we’ll talk about DH and the related ITMO University’s program.

  24.12.2021

• ITMO Staff and Students Launch New Popular Science Project on War History

  Having secured the special Seed Grants funding from the university’s Digital Humanities Research Center, ITMO students and staff members are launching a new popular science project with a focus on history. There, they teach neural networks to “reimagine” the letters sent from the battlegrounds during World War II to attract the public to the challenge of keeping alive the memory of the WWII heroes and victims. 

  08.02.2021

• ITMO Hosts Digital Local History Conference 2020

  The conference was organized by ITMO’s Digital Humanities Center and brought together local history researchers and enthusiasts, as well as representatives of cultural institutions and specialists in digital humanities. 

  21.12.2020

• ITMO University’s Digital Humanities Center: A Place For Learning, Research, and Work

  The Digital Humanities Center (DH Center) is one of the few places in Russia where you can study and conduct research in the field of digital humanities, a rather new but fascinating phenomenon in modern science. Moreover, for some students and junior researchers, DH Center has also become a workplace. We asked them to share their experience.

  20.10.2020