Digital Humanities Institute

World class interdisciplinary research & education in the Digital Humanities fields

Our Mission

The Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) and the Digital Humanities Section (SoDH) were created to foster research and to offer strong educational programs in the growing fields of Digital Humanities.Our institute seeks to provide international leadership in digital humanities research and education. Our Master of Science in Digital Humanities is an example of this as it is a unique feature that very few schools offer around the globe.

DH Research

The Digital Humanities Institute fosters research in Digital Humanities and promotes the EPFL activities with a local and global perspective through projects within EPFL or with other Swiss and international universities.For more information about the research projects conducted in this ever-growing field, please see our list of DH labs and research groups below.

Master of Science in Digital Humanities

A passion for data - the data of your passions

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DHI News

Les dessous de l'algorithme de Tinder

Published:21.05.19 — Jessica Pidoux, doctorante en Humanités Digitales à l'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a analysé les brevets de l'application de rencontres "Tinder".

See the Trailer of the Time Machine project

Published:09.04.19 — The new trailer "Time Machine : A common history for the continent" is now on-line featuring what is at stake for @TimeMachineEU and why Europe is at a turning point of its history.

Creating connections in a growing digital humanities community

Published:28.03.19 — dhelta, EPFL’s new association for digital humanities (DH) students and researchers, wants to create a space for dialogue and discovery in a diverse but often disconnected field. They recently co-organized a first Swiss DH Exchange event in Basel, which highlighted the breadth of digital humanities research in Switzerland.

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