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Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities Department of Humanities Ca' Foscari University of Venice https://www.unive.it/vedph https://www.instagram.com/ve_dph/

The Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities is about to begin! 🌍✨ We are welcoming to Venice 25 participants from all over the world for a free immersive experience in digital cultural heritage and public humanities. We can’t wait! vedph.github.io/vessdph2026/

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We are pleased to welcome Fabrizio Nevola, Prof. of Art History and Visual Culture at @exeter.ac.uk, as Visiting Scholar at the VeDPH working on the project 'Hidden Venice: microhistories of architecture around San Francesco della Vigna'

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We are delighted to welcome James Coleman, Associate Prof. of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, who will spend the Spring semester 2026 in Venice as Visiting Scholar at the VeDPH working on his project Reading Archipelagos: Italian Humanism and Early Modern Books of Islands

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Join our next seminar! We invite you to a talk by Simona Stoyanova (University of Oxford) titled «Comparing, Classifying, Clustering: Palaeographic Analysis of Inscriptions from Ancient Sicily» 📅 10 December ⏰ 5 PM CEST 📍 VeDPH Lab 💻 Online participation: unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Digital Analysis of Ten Years of a Medici Agent's Correspondence Join Sara Mansutti (UCC) to see how AI & digital methods, applied to 1,200+ handwritten letters, reveal how Cosimo Bartoli gathered, verified, and shared news in Venice (1562–1572) 🔗 www.unive.it/data/33113/2...

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Archival Studies and AI Seminar with Prof. Dominique Stutzmann (CNRS / Humboldt Univ. Berlin) on medieval scribal cultures and AI for handwriting analysis. Part of the 35th ICARUS Convention at the Venetian State Archive. Join via Zoom on 12 November 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/j/8484713725...

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The Arrangement, Description and Digitization Project of the Davide Pace Archive has started, held at the National Archaeological Museum of Lomellina. 👥Grazia Solenne (Ca’ Foscari); Franz Fischer, Elisa Corrò & Marco Lanzini (VeDPH; DSU); Elena Martelli; Stefania Bossi (Museum) #archivi #ricerca

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What a start!🚀 The VeDPH Seminar Series 2025 opened with Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels) and his talk «From the Palazzo Grassi to the Biennale. How AI engages with Art». A full Lab, 30 people online, and an intense discussion on creativity and AI.

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Hidden Venice (together with another addition to the HistoryCity family) won the Heritage in Motion Prize for Virtual and Augmented Reality! Congratulations to Fabrizio and the rest of the team! Very happy that VeDPH had the opportunity to play a crucial role in it.

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We’re excited to share that Hidden Venice (part of the HistoryCity app family) is a finalist for the Heritage in Motion Award 2025! The app brings Venice’s past to life through an interactive 18th-century map and immersive historical routes. Winners announced 26 Sept. Fingers crossed! 🤞

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We’re back from the summer break! The VeDPH team is back, full of energy and ready for a new season of events and research highlights. Stay tuned, lots of exciting updates are coming soon!

Join us for "Viva l’Italia!" – a Digital Classicist Wiki Editing Sprint 🗓Monday 28 July 2025, 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST A collaborative session with a brief intro on how to edit the Wiki, focusing on Italian DH projects. 🔗 Reservations required: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/intro...

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What if AI asked questions instead of giving answers? Sofia Greggio, MA graduate, developed AQUA: a conversational AI exploring local culture and climate change in the Venice lagoon. Applications are still open for the MA in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca' Foscari: unive.it/pag/39288/

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Can museums be digital classrooms? Our students explored the M9-Museo del 900, reflecting on how digital tools can bring history closer to the public. Applications are still open for the Master’s Degree in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca' Foscari: www.unive.it/pag/39288/

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