College of Humanities

A place of convergence of human and social sciences at the heart of EPFL

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EPFL Open Days: Digital humanities come to life at ArtLab

— During the EPFL Open Days on September 14th and 15th, the public got a rare opportunity to discover first-hand what a technical school like EPFL can bring to the digital humanities – a field that applies data science and machine learning techniques to the study of art, music, history, and culture.

Welcome to the new master students in Digital Humanities

— The third batch of DH Master students were welcomed by the DH section.

EPFL Open Days will feature roundtable on AI

— During the Open Days from September 14th-15th, in celebration of its 50th anniversary this year, EPFL invites you to a public debate organized by the School of Computer and Communication Sciences and the College of Humanities on the theme: “Humans, machines and data: what’s the future of artificial intelligence?”

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The CDH’s vision: a POLY-perspective

The CDH's POLY-perspectives

Our POLY-perspective vision is based on four interrelated pillars. Each and every of the CDH’s activities (teaching, research or public engagement) explicitly addresses at least two of these pillars: interdisciplinarity, global awareness, citizenship, creativity

The CDH's POLY-perspectives

Education at CDH

Students in front of the Rolex Learning Centre at EPFL

Social and Human Sciences (SHS)

More than 150 courses offered to all EPFL students

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Two students looking at images from the past and the present

Master in Digital Humanities

A wide range of specialized fields to do projects in: musicology, social media, litterature, arts, user experience, history, and more..!

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Minor in Sciences, Technologies and Area Studies (STAS)

Project-based learning with fieldwork abroad

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Research at CDH

Digital Humanities Institute (DHI)

World class interdisciplinary research in digital humanities with a local and global perspective

DHI website

Institute for Area and Global Studies (IAGS)

Research exploring the socio-political, cultural, economic, and technological dimensions of global phenomenons

IAGS website

Collaborative Research on Science and Society (CROSS)

UNIL-EPFL research projects exploring contemporary socio-technical challenges

CROSS website

CDH Events

Behind the Scenes at EPFL

2019-09-12 2019-10-06

With: Marc Perrenoud, Marta Roca Escoda, Michael Meyer
Place and room: Hall du Rolex Learning Center
Category: Cultural events

Infinity Room 2 - ArtLab exhibition

2019-09-13 2020-01-26

With: Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+)
Place and room: ArtLab pavillon B
Category: Cultural events

Les humanités digitales se dévoilent

2019-09-14 2019-09-22

With: Institut et Master en Humanités Digitales de l'EPFL
Place and room: ArtLab, pavillon A (DataSquare)
Category: Cultural events

Just finished My thesis in 180s: deadline for training registrations

2019-09-20

Place and room: Additional Information
Category: Internal trainings

The art of questioning: teaching with clickers

2019-09-20 09:00:00 12:30:00

With: Siara Isaac
Place and room: CO 120
Category: Internal trainings

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A.Hertzog

Effective Lecturing

2019-09-27 09:00:00 17:00:00

With: Ingrid Le Duc
Place and room: CO 120
Category: Conferences - Seminars

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Using vocal techniques to teach effectively

2019-10-01 09:00:00 13:00:00

With: Mandira Halder
Place and room: CO 120
Category: Internal trainings

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Recital by Cédric Pescia - Piano and prepared piano

2019-10-01 19:30:00 21:00:00

With: Cédric Pescia, pianiste
Place and room: Forum Rolex
Category: Cultural events

The Sound of Science

2019-10-02 16:45:00 19:20:00

With: - Dr. Daniel Keppeler - COO and Founder, OptoGenTech - Florian Colombo - Doctoral Assistant at Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, EPFL - Martin Weil - Product Manager, Sony - Mathieu Johann Clavel - Master Project Student at Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+)
Place and room: SV 1717
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Prof. Daniel Shanahan

The Corpus as an Artifact of Musical Change: Studies in Style, Transmission, and Diffusion - Talk by Prof. Daniel Shanahan, The Ohio State University

2019-10-29 11:00:00 13:00:00

With: Prof. Daniel Shanahan
Place and room: BC 420
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Complete agenda of events