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
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...
Join us for The Leges Langobardorum Project: Practical and Theoretical Outcomes.
EVT, HTR, AI, digital editions — all in focus.
📅 11–12 December 2025
📍 Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
💻 Zoom link unive.zoom.us/j/82716716976
Reminder: the seminar is today at 5 PM CEST!
Join us in the VeDPH LAB or connect online via the link: unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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...
A quick reminder: our “Archival Studies and AI” seminar with Prof. Stutzmann is happening tomorrow.
Join us via Zoom us02web.zoom.us/j/8484713725...
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...
📢 Hot off the press!
The new monograph by @vedph.bsky.social team member @sdallaglio.bsky.social is out, in conjunction with his own online digital database of the same archival documents that the book is based on.
www.carocci.it/prodotto/il-...
www.medici.org/databases/th...
Applications are still open for the Digital and Public Humanities Master’s Degree Programme @cafoscari in collaboration with @vedph!
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 11, 2025
📢 Results: Nov 28, 2025
Join us in Venice!
🔗 Apply here: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
#DigitalHumanities #vedph
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
What can digital methods reveal about medieval languages?
Join Fabian Strobel (Leipzig University) for a talk on the Hebrew-French Bible glossaries of the 13th century.
🔗 unive.zoom.us/j/81095144232
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.
Don't forget about today's exciting seminar at VeDPH!
You can join online or in person:
www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
Join us for the VeDPH seminar «From the Palazzo Grassi to the Biennale. Two examples how AI engages with Art»
🎤 Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels)
📅 October 22, 2025 | 5:00 p.m. CET
📍Ca’ Foscari VeDPH Lab
🔗 www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
🎓 New VeDPH Seminar Series in Digital & Public Humanities starts soon!
🗓 Oct–Dec 2025 | 5:00 p.m. CET | Hybrid
🔗 Info & registration: www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
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.
Don’t miss your chance to become part of ANTIDOTE!
Call for applications to participate in the 2nd cycle of the #ErasmusPlus Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts (ANTIDOTE):
antidote.hi.is/courses-year...
- Open for doctoral and master's students until Oct 7, 2025
#Humanities
Big news from magazén! 🎉
Ranked Q1 in SCOPUS (Literature & Literary Theory) + Classe A by ANVUR (Art History & Museology).
📖 New issue 6.1 (2025) is online 👉 edizionicafoscari.it//it/edizioni...
And we’re moving to rolling publication – the first article of issue 6.2 is already out!
Don’t miss a thing!📬
Don't forget to subscribe to the VeDPH newsletter for updates on events, research, and news in Digital & Public Humanities.
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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! 🤞
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...
#StudentVoices
Beatrice is a student of the Digital and Public Humanities master’s program at Ca’Foscari, a place where technology meets culture, and tradition meets innovation. Her path shows how tech and humanities can truly connect.
🔗 Read her journey here:
www.unive.it/web/it/15165...
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/
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/
Ca’ Foscari is part of ANTIDOTE – a European Erasmus+ network of universities and a library exploring how digital tools help us work with medieval texts
🇮🇹Team: F. Fischer, F. Boschetti, C. Cauzzi, E. Corrò
Students: D. Scarpato, L. Battistella, M. Cigardi, L. Mozafari, B. Tomada
How do we define creativity when AI enters the scene?
One of last year’s seminar series explored election disinformation and machine-generated content.
Applications are still open for the Master’s Degree in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca' Foscari: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
Blending tradition with technology: our Digital History course empowers students to reinterpret historical sources using digital tools, fostering new perspectives on the past.
Applications are still open for the Master’s Degree in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca' Foscari: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
Big congrats to our alumnus Vittorio Tonini, winner of the 2024/25 Buzzetti Prize by AIUCD!
His project Catasto Chronicles turns Florence’s 1427 cadastre into a stunning interactive map of wealth, power & people.
🔗 Read more: catastochronicles.com
#DigitalHumanities #VeDPH
Analyzing narratives through data: our course on Modelling and Visualizing Textual Data equips students to explore literature using computational tools, unveiling hidden patterns and structures.
Applications are still open for the Master’s in Digital and Public Humanities: www.unive.it/pag/39288/
