HumInfra Conference 2025 (HiC 2025)

CONFERENCE
Start date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 09:30
End date: Thursday 13 November 2025
Time: 17:00
Location: Stockholm University

Stockholm University is hosting the second HumInfra Conference 2025 (HiC 2025).

Conference

Start date: Wednesday 12 November 2025

Time: 09.30

End date: Thursday 13 November 2025

Time: 17.00

Location: Stockholm University

Huminfra is a Swedish national infrastructure supporting digital and experimental research in the Humanities by providing users with a single entry point for finding existing Swedish materials and research tools, as well as developing national method courses. On November, 12-13, 2025, Huminfra is organizing its second conference with the aim to showcase the variety of infrastructural tools, resources and initiatives aimed at supporting digital and experimental research in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law as well as offer opportunities to greet old friends and research pals and find new ones.

Please observe that the schedule for the conference is preliminary and will be subject of change. 

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Program

Wednesday November 12

9:30-10:15 Opening, keynote 1, Stockholm University President Hans Adolfsson and keynote Åsa M Larsson – Digitally reassembling fractured cultural heritage – potentials and challenges ahead
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30 Session 1: Cultural heritage
11:30-12:00 Session 1: Lightening talks for the poster and demo session 
12:00-13:15 LUNCH - demo + poster session

13.15-14.45  Session 2: AI, challenges, and critical and ethical perspectives
14:45-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:30  Session 3: Language and language analysis
16:30-18:00 Mingel / speed dating focused on digital humanities funding applications
19:00 Dinner for HumInfra participants

Thursday November 13

9:30-9:40 Wout Dillen - Can I Get Credit for My Dataset? How to Automatically Archive your GitHub Repositories in Zenodo (10 min)
9.40-10.15 Keynote 2 Vicky Garnett – DARIAH and its (educational) resources 
10:15-10:45 Coffee break 
10:45-11:20 Session 4: Needs and experiences
11.20-12.05 Session 4 Lightning talks for the poster and demo session 
12:05-13:30 LUNCH – demo + poster session
13.30-14.40 Session 5: GIS and multimodal data
14:40-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:30 Session 6: Tools, resources, and career paths
16:30-16:45 Closing of the conference

Keynote speakers

Vicky Garnett (Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin & Training and Education Officer, DARIAH-EU)
Åsa Maria Larsson (Head of Unit for Technology and Digital Mediation, Department of Museums at the Swedish National Heritage Board)

Important dates

Registration is closed

More about the keynote speakers

Åsa Larsson. Photo: Private

Åsa Maria Larsson 

Åsa Maria Larsson is Head of Unit for Technology and Digital Mediation at the Swedish National Heritage Board.
PhD in Archaeology, now working with developing digital archaeological processes and implementing FAIR data principles within the cultural heritage sector and research in general. On the Operational Board for Swedigarch Research Infrastructure for Digital Archaeology as Leader of Module 2: FAIR and Linked Data. The Heritage Board is developing K-Samsök, the national aggregator for heritage data, allowing for more advanced ways of indexing, linking, and publishing data from various databases at museums, archives, universities, and government agencies. The new aggregator will be based on the CIDOC-CRM data model and compatible with general standards for data, to ensure compatibility with international infrastructures. It is also implemented on a graph database to meet the more advanced needs among today’s researchers in Digital Humanities and Data Sciences.

Vicky Garnett. Photo: private

Vicky Garnett

Vicky Garnett is a Research Fellow in the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, and holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics with a strong interest in research ethics, and is the Training and Education Officer for DARIAH-EU. In 2024, DARIAH celebrated its 10 year anniversary as an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium). In 2025, DARIAH turned to the future as we began drafting our next Strategic Plan (2026-2030). This talk will reflect on some of the issues that have arisen since 2014 specific to training and education within the European landscape, and how the DARIAH community has both informed and reacted to those issues. We will look at the lessons learned along the way, and what opportunities await national consortia to engage with shaping how European Research Infrastructures such as DARIAH meet the future needs of their communities.

Program committee

Organizing committee:
Harko Verhagen, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences & DHV, Stockholm University (Chair)
Andreas Widholm, Department of Media Studies & DHV, Stockholm University
Magnus Nermo, Department of Sociology & DHV, Stockholm University
Mats Fridlund, Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (GRIDH), University of Gothenburg
Susanne Tienken, Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies Finnish Dutch and German & DHV, Stockholm University
Anna Blåder, Lund University Humanities Lab (Humanistlaboratoriet), Lund University

More information

Participation is free for employees of Huminfra nodes. For non-HumInfra participants, the fee will be 600 SEK (ca 60 Euro). For registered participants light lunch and coffee breaks are included.

Find your way there

The HumInfra conference 2025 will be held on Stockholm University main campus in room “G-salen”, Arrheniusvägen 20C.

Google maps link 

Accomodation

Stockholm University does not have any hotel arrangements. However, main campus is best reached by subway so a few subway stations can serve to select nearby hotels that suit your taste and wallet. Use the hotel finding application of your choice and check out hotels near the so-called red line – find the time table and stations via SL: 

sl:s map (pdf)
If walking is your thing, count on walking at least 45 minutes to the nearest hotel.

For more information, contact Harko Verhagen (responsible for Stockholm University’s digital human science unit) via dhv@su.se.

Other information

Will you be in Stockholm on November 10 already (or considering it)? You may be interested in visiting the free one-day event Digitalize in Stockholm 

Digitalize in Stockholm 2025

This year’s theme is AI everywhere and will explore the potential of autonomous AI agents in depth, addressing not only the scientific and technical challenges but also the societal and ethical dilemmas posed by this evolving technology.​

Last updated: 2025-12-02

Source: Digital human Science