College of Humanities

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

News

Named Entity Processing on Historical Newspapers

Published:13.01.20 — How good are systems at recognizing and disambiguating named entities in multilingual historical newspapers? Which approach is best? Help to find out by participating in the HIPE shared task! The Impresso project is happy to announce the release of sample data for HIPE, a CLEF shared task on Named Entity Processing for Historical Newspapers.

Congrats to Dr. Fabian Moss

Published:17.12.19 — DHI and the DCML are happy to congratulate Fabian Moss for passing his PhD.

Nicolas Chachereau wins SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship

Published:12.12.19 — Nicolas Chachereau, a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology (LHST) in the College of Humanities, has been selected to receive a prestigious Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

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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

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

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..!

Minor in Sciences, Technologies and Area Studies (STAS)

Project-based learning with fieldwork abroad

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

Infinity Room 2 – ArtLab exhibition

2019-09-132020-03-29

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

The Applied Machine Learning Days

2020-01-252020-01-29

With: See our workshop sessions, the 29 featured tracks and the list of speakers.
Place and room: STCC
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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ArtLab Exhibition – Visit Lunch for EPFL community (in English)

2020-02-0612:15:0013:00:00

Place and room: ART B0 100
Category: Exhibitions

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Workshop – AI & Gender: A Human Rights Toolbox

2020-02-1310:00:0014:00:00

With: Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO/Founder of Women at the Table, Asako Hattori, human rights officer at the Women’s Human Rights and Gender Section
Place and room: BI AO 448
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Flipping a Class from 0 to 180

2020-02-1813:00:0016:30:00

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

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Walter Thompson, Soundpainting, photo Guillaume Le Baube

Soundpainting at EPFL – Silent Cinema & Improvisation

2020-02-1818:00:0019:30:00

With: Walter Thompson et un orchestre de 17 étudiants de l’EPFL et de l’UNIL
Place and room: ArtLab DataSquare (pavillon A)
Category: Cultural events

Soundpainting at EPFL – Experiemental Performance

2020-02-1918:00:0019:30:00

With: Walter Thompson et un orchestre de 17 étudiants de l’EPFL et de l’UNIL
Place and room: ArtLab DataSquare (pavillon A)
Category: Cultural events