Theorising Digital Cultural Heritage: A DIGHT-Net PhD Summer School,
24-26 August 2026
Programme
All lectures and workshops take place on the University of Turku campus in the Arcanum-building (Arcanuminkuja 1). Lectures will be held in the Aava-hall (1st floor) and workshops will be held in room A270 (2nd floor).
Day 1
Monday, 24 August
Arcanum, Aava-hall
13:00–13:30 Registration and welcome coffee
13:30–14:00 Hannu Salmi (University of Turku): "Welcome and opening remarks"
14:00–14:30 Veronika Laippala (University of Turku): "From raw text to structured collections – TurkuNLP Register Tools for digital cultural heritage"
14:30–15:00 Lauri Kemppinen (University of Turku): "Producing the Past in Minecraft: Cultural Heritage Learning in a Finnish Late Iron Age Game Environment"
15:00–15:30 Coffee break
15:30–16:00 Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi (University of Turku): "What’s Law got do with Digital Cultural Heritage?"
16:00–16:30 Kimmo Elo (University of Turku): "Pleanary debates as Digital Cultural Heritage"
17:00–18:00 Visit to the Aboa Vetus Ars Nova museum
19:00–21:00 Dinner at Grädda
Day 2
Tuesday, 25 August
Arcanum, Aava-hall, A270
09:30–10:30 Anna Maria Lorusso (University of Bologna): Lecture: "Authenticity, reliability and truth in digital archives" (Aava-hall)
10:30–10:45 Coffee break
10:45–12:00 Sophie Berrebi (University of Amsterdam): Lecture & workshop: "Writing the Digital Archive" (A270)
12:00–13:00 Lunch break
13:00–14:00 Marek Tamm (Tallinn University): Lecture: “Digital and post-digital historicities: theorising our new relations with the past” (Aava-hall)
14:00–14:15 Coffee break
14:15–15:15 Jaakko Suominen (University of Turku): Lecture: "Critical Game Heritage" (Aava-hall)
15:15–17:00 Francesco Mazzucchelli (University of Bologna) and Hannu Salmi (University of Turku): Workshop: “Building the DIGHT-net e-Lexicon: a co-design workshop” (A270)
19:00–22:30 Dinner cruise to Naantali (M/S Rudolfina)
Day 3
Wednesday, 26 August
Arcanum, Aava-hall, A270
09:30–10:30 Indrek Ibrus (Tallinn University): Lecture: “What Is Thick Data, and How Can It Be Used in Cultural Research?” (Aava-hall)
10:30–10:45 Coffee break
10:45–12:00 Christian Olesen (University of Amsterdam): Lecture & workshop: "Working with AV Collections in Digital Scholarship: An Introduction to Current Approaches" (A270)
12:00–13:00 Lunch break
13:00–14:00 Indrek Ibrus (Tallinn University): Workshop: “Relations in Data: Why and How Should We Study Them?” (A270)
14:00–14:15 Coffee break
14:15–15:15 Giovanni Maddalena (University of Bologna): Lecture: "Documents, Archives, Monuments. The Pragmatist tradition and cultural heritage as a gesture" (Aava-hall)
15:15–15:30 Concluding group discussion (Aava-hall)
16:00–17:00 Visit: Panu Savolainen (Aalto University): "An immersive 3D-model of historical cityscape – Turku Aninkainen district and Omnia vincit amor App as an example of historical XR experience" (Pyhän Hengen kappeli, Linnankatu 3)