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Bringing together engineering and the humanities

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.

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:

cross-disciplinary thinking
big-picture awareness
responsible citizenship
creativity

Education at CDH

Research at CDH

Art, culture and society

News

CROSS program 2023 invites proposals on the theme of 'crisis'

Published:12.05.22 — The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research on Science and Society (CROSS) program in the College of Humanities is now accepting joint project proposals from researchers at EPFL and the University of Lausanne on the theme of 'crisis'.

“The DH Master opened my eyes to the gold mines of cultural data”

Published:29.04.22 — Ludovica Schaerf is a second-year student in the Master of Science in Digital Humanities program offered by the Digital Humanities Institute in EPFL’s College of Humanities. Ludovica describes her experience in the program, and what inspired her to enter this emerging interdisciplinary field.

Chtchoutchi train station, photo: Changing Arctic Program

New collection explores 'memory zones' of an abandoned gulag

Published:19.04.22 — "Zones mémoires : Autour d’un camp du goulag, voie ferrée 501/503" ("Memory Zones: around a gulag camp, railway 501/503") has been published, with support from CDH, as part of a collaboration between EPFL and UNIL in connection with the Changing Arctic pedagogical and research program.

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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.

CDH events

Chamonix-Sentinelles au Café littéraire, Vevey

21-05-202221-05-2022

With: Nicolas Nova
Category: Cultural events

PHYSICS – by Caroline Corbasson

06-05-202229-05-2022

With: Artiste: Caroline Corbasson
Place and room: EPFL Pavilions, Pavilion A
Category: Exhibitions

Things that Talk : Les vies secrètes des instruments scientifiques

14-04-202229-05-2022

Category: Exhibitions

Le sommet qui cache la montagne au Café littéraire, Vevey

01-05-202231-07-2022

With: Laboratoire d’Histoire des sciences et des techniques (LHST), Olga Cafiero, Pascale Favre, Joell Nicolas
Place and room: Café littéraire, Vevey
Category: Exhibitions

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

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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.