College of Humanities

Bringing together engineering and the humanities

About the CDH

The College of Humanities (CDH) encourages joint research and educational programs that combine the human and social sciences with engineering, life sciences, natural sciences and the other technical fields taught at EPFL. We work through a variety of teaching, research and public outreach programs as described below.

About the CDH

Solidarity with Ukraine

The College of Humanities is offering temporary placements for Ukrainian researchers:

CDH in brief

This year our school has 74 employees, seven faculty members and 130 teachers, and offers 146 classes on a wide variety of topics. We are also home to two research centers – the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) and the Institute for Area and Global Studies (IAGS) – as well as EPFL Pavilions and the CDH-Culture program, which puts on a range of artistic and cultural events.

Our teaching, research and public outreach activities are carried out using what we call a POLY-perspective approach based on the principles of:

  1. cross-disciplinary thinking
  2. big-picture awareness
  3. responsible citizenship
  4. creativity
Education at CDH
Research at CDH
Art, culture and society

News

© iStock_Bulat Silvia

Reminder: Submit proposals on 'Crisis' for CROSS 2023 by August 25

— The deadline for submitting joint project proposals from researchers at EPFL and the University of Lausanne for the 2023 edition of the interdisciplinary Collaborative Research on Science and Society (CROSS) program on the theme of 'crisis' is August 25th.

Panorama scroll close-up © Foundation for the Panorama of the Battle of Murten

EPFL lab to digitize 1,000m2 'Swiss national treasure'

— Sarah Kenderdine, head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology, is leading the digitization and valorization of the Panorama of the Battle of Murten – a 100 x 10-meter work created in 1893 by German panorama painter Louis Braun – in an undertaking that promises to yield one of the largest digital images ever produced.

© Pixabay

Bringing cultural archives to life

— Whether it’s jazz recordings, concert footage, photographs or interviews, EPFL researchers are applying machine learning and digital museology techniques to archives of cultural data to achieve new artistic and creative experiences.

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ArtLab EPFL - photo Adrien Barakat

ArtLab EPFL – photo Adrien Barakat

EPFL Pavilions

EPFL Pavilions website

EPFL Pavilions, located in the middle of EPFL’s Lausanne campus, consists of three pavilions that bring together art, research and technology. The exhibitions held by EPFL Pavilions explore the many ways that digital technology and engineering are changing the way we experience art and our cultural heritage. Entry free of charge.

EPFL Pavilions website

CDH events

CROSS 2023 – Theme: Crisis

12-05-202225-08-2022

With: EPFL College of Humanities/Université de Lausanne
Category: Deadline

"They, Robots" – Photographic Exhibition

03-08-202202-10-2022

With: Matthieu Gafsou, NCCR Robotics
Place and room: RLC G1 94.12
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Le sommet qui cache la montagne au Musée d'histoire des sciences, Genève

06-04-202226-02-2023

With: Laboratoire d’Histoire des sciences et des techniques (LHST), Olga Cafiero, Pascale Favre, Joell Nicolas
Place and room: Musée d'histoire des sciences, Genève
Category: Exhibitions

L’ascension du Mont Buet : sur les traces de savants genevois du XVIIIè siècle

03-09-202204-09-2022

With: Chercheurs du Laboratoire d’histoire des sciences et des techniques de l’EPFL
Place and room: Mont Buet (Haute-Savoie, FR)
Category: Conferences – Seminars

To trust or not to trust: When should AI be allowed to make decisions?

07-09-202209-09-2022

Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Newsletter

The newsletter of the College of Humanities appears approximately every two months. It includes upcoming events, the latest news, as well as various news about collaborators and current projects.