Training Programme
Every semester, the Centre for Digital Humanities presents a new Training Programme with workshops, courses and lectures. All CDH events are free and require a relatively small time investment, and most workshops are at entry-level.
For whom?
All staff members of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University (UU) are warmly invited to register for our free events. Humanities students and, starting Autumn 2025, UU staff from other faculties are also welcome to participate in most activities. Parts of our programme – particularly the lecture series – are open to all who are interested. Please check the event-specific details in the training calendar to see what applies to each activity.
Registration
You can find registration forms at the bottom of every event page. Please register early to secure your place, as spots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Our CDH team looks forward to meeting you in our workshops, lectures, other events and weekly Digital Humanities walk-in hours!
CDH workshop: Entry-level Python course in four days (extra edition)
This entry level course in Python is tailored for humanities teachers, researchers, and students who want to learn the basics of this popular programming language. Over four full-day sessions, participants will learn to write simple programs using the most common structures. Led by the scientific developers of the Centre for Digital Humanities’ Research Software Lab, this […] Read more
Research Software Summer School: Going beyond Notebooks
Have you started your coding journey, but want to move beyond Jupyter Notebooks? Do you enjoy coding, but want to improve your core skills so you can confidently access and use the massive repositories of open-source software for your research? In this summer school, you will learn how to create and integrate software into your […] Read more
AI in education workshop B: Re-visioning assignments and assessments
Do you have an assignment or assessment component in one of your courses that just isn’t working anymore because of Generative AI? Are you looking for ways to meaningfully incorporate AI into your teaching – or to develop more ‘AI-resilient’ assessments? Bring your challenge! This Workshop B is a hands-on follow-up to AI in education […] Read more
AI in education workshop A: Speculative futuremaking
How can we imagine the future of education in a time where reading, writing, analysis, art, poetry, and music are impacted by AI – generative or otherwise? And how should we respond as educators? These questions are being considered by every academic institution in the world at the moment. While there is no straightforward answer […] Read more
CDH online lecture: Ana Valdivia on Following the thing AI – from ecological ruinations to ecofeminist imaginations.
This lecture is part of the three-part series Digital Humanities in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil. From microchips to chatbots, artificial intelligence (AI) lies at the heart of today’s geopolitical tensions. Behind every AI system is a complex web of global dependencies. As trade wars unfold and nations race toward technological sovereignty, AI becomes increasingly entangled […] Read more
CDH/CLARIN workshop: ParlaMint – An introduction to Multilingual Parliamentary Data
In this hands-on workshop, you will explore and compare parliamentary proceedings from 29 European countries and regions with two user-friendly tools: the CLARIN.SI noSketchEngine concordancer and the TEITOK service. These proceedings are available both in the original languages and in machine-translated English. The session will be led by Anna Kryvenko and Kristina Pahor de Maiti […] Read more
CDH online lecture: Rafael Grohmann on Latin American Critical AI Studies
This lecture is part of the three-part series Digital Humanities in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil. From microchips to chatbots, artificial intelligence (AI) lies at the heart of today’s geopolitical tensions. Behind every AI system is a complex web of global dependencies. As trade wars unfold and nations race toward technological sovereignty, AI becomes increasingly entangled […] Read more
AI in education workshop B: Re-visioning assignments and assessments
Do you have an assignment or assessment component in one of your courses that just isn’t working anymore because of Generative AI? Are you looking for ways to meaningfully incorporate AI into your teaching – or to develop more ‘AI-resilient’ assessments? Bring your challenge! This Workshop B is a hands-on follow-up to Workshop A: AI […] Read more
Machine learning: principles and practices
During this comprehensive one-day course, Hugo Schnack, assistant professor Language acquisition, processing and disorders, will introduce the principles of machine learning and its relevance for research in the humanities. Machine learning is a powerful technique to discover (complex) patterns in data. It is widely applied across research areas, such as physics, biology, and medicine, – […] Read more
CDH online lecture: Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires
This lecture is part of the three-part series Digital Humanities in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil. From microchips to chatbots, artificial intelligence (AI) lies at the heart of today’s geopolitical tensions. Behind every AI system is a complex web of global dependencies. As trade wars unfold and nations race toward technological sovereignty, AI becomes increasingly entangled […] Read more
AI in education workshop B: Re-visioning assignments and assessments
Do you have an assignment or assessment component in one of your courses that just isn’t working anymore because of Generative AI? Are you looking for ways to meaningfully incorporate AI into your teaching – or to develop more ‘AI-resilient’ assessments? Bring your challenge! This Workshop B is a hands-on follow-up to AI in education […] Read more
CDH workshop: Entry-level Python course in four days – fully booked, extra course starting 5 November
This entry level course in Python is tailored for humanities teachers, researchers, and students who want to learn the basics of this popular programming language. Over four full-day sessions, participants will learn to write simple programs using the most common structures. Led by the scientific developers of the Centre for Digital Humanities’ Research Software Lab, this […] Read more
CDH workshop: Introduction to NVivo
Explore the fundamentals of qualitative data analysis with NVivo in this entry-level workshop led by Julia Straatman, researcher at Data School. This session is designed to familiarise you with the basic functionalities of NVivo, including importing, coding, organising, and searching your data. NVivo is a software package designed to help researchers organise, analyse, and gain insights from […] Read more