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Phillip B. Ströbel
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Dr. of CL | @cl_uzh | AIncient Studies Lab @UZH | @ImpressoProject | Bullinger Digital | Referee @SwissIceHockey |🟢|🍽️| 🐘 @[email protected] | #digitalhumanities | #digitalhistory | #digitalclassics
🪦 #3D printing of an ancient votive inscription!

The level of detail is astonishing! Check it out:
youtube.com/shorts/LEsWF...

How about using models like these in the #classroom?

#history #ancienthistory #digitalhumanities #3dscanning #3dprinting #3dmodel #digitalhistory #inscriptions #education
3D Printing of an Ancient Inscription #history #ancienthistory #digitalhumanities
YouTube video by AIncient Studies Lab
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December 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
History you can hold in your hand! 🏺✨

🔥 The AIncient Studies Lab at the University of Zurich just got an upgrade: A 3D scanner from @creality3dofficial.bsky.social 🩻 and a 3D printer from @bambulabglobal.bsky.social 🖨️.

Check out our first prints: 👸 The iconic bust of Nofretete ...

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December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Reposted by Phillip B. Ströbel
Can we find all the maps in (out of copyright) literature?

@axel-bax.bsky.social presents his work at #CHR3025!
December 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Reposted by Phillip B. Ströbel
Zeroshot translation with LLM of Homer align more with Lattimore's translation, apparently a canonical one in the English speaking world? #chr2025 doi.org/10.63744/Xcj...
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Reposted by Phillip B. Ströbel
Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026.

CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
How can we better understand the ancient Greek 'mind' 🏛️ ? Is it through translations? How can LLMs help 🤖 ? Felix Maier and I from the University of Zurich will present preliminary findings on that at #CHR2025 in beautiful #Luxembourg.
December 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Felix Maier und ich freuen uns darauf, am IDA-Workshop zu den digitalen Altertumswissenschaften teilzunehmen und die Universität Zürich dort vertreten zu dürfen! Danke an die Berner Kolleg:innen für die Einladung!

#digitalhumanities #digitalclassics #digitalhistory #history #workshop
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Ich durfte kürzlich im Podcast des Deutschen Fotorats zu Gast sein – gemeinsam mit Jürgen Scriba und Boris Eldagsen habe ich über unser Projekt Re-Experiencing History gesprochen. 🏛️✨

👉 Hier geht’s zur Folge: youtube.com/watch?v=kDHCBi4pOWk
Deutscher Fotorat | KI-Podcast #09
YouTube video by Deutscher Fotorat
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October 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🏛️ Our project “Re-Experiencing History” (funded by @dizh.bsky.social) featured in @forbes.com

Read the full story here 👇
www.forbes.com/sites/leslie...

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AI Platform Resurrects Ancient Rome And Greece Using Scholarly Sources
A University of Zurich ancient-history professor teams with a computational linguist to create an AI image generator they hope spurs deeper engagement with history.
www.forbes.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Auf dem Weg nach Augsburg zu "Prompted Pasts?" 🚂 Freue mich auf spannende Projekte und Diskussionen!

#history #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #ai #images
October 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Ich darf im kommenden Semester an der UZH im Kolloquium der Reihe "Geschichte in der Praxis" einen Einführungskurs in Python für Geschichtsstudierende geben (bit.ly/47VdlDe). 🎓

🔢 🏺 Das Ziel ist es, den Lernenden Python direkt an geschichtlichen Gegenständen beizubringen. 🪙
September 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Attention Palaeographers! 🖋️✨
I'm happy to share the Corpus Litterarum: a new dataset of annotated Latin manuscript characters from the St. Gall codices CSG 11 & 70 (Winithar).

The dataset is freely available on Zenodo:
👉 zenodo.org/records/1699...

🔎 2,152 line images
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August 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Our project "Re-Experiencing History" is featured in the UZH news. Thanks for having us 🙏.

www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/...

The project team (Felix K. Maier, Raphael Müller, Nicola Steger, Eva Willi, and I) is pleased to have had the opportunity to work on this.

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Legionäre per Klick
www.news.uzh.ch
August 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Zejie Guo and I were honoured to be nominated! Congratulations to Francisco for winning the Fortier Prize!
Please join us in congratulating the nominees for the Paul Fortier Prize. Be sure to attend the Closing Ceremony on Friday, 19th July, when the winner will be announced—don’t miss it!
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Reposted by Phillip B. Ströbel
Please join us in congratulating the nominees for the Paul Fortier Prize. Be sure to attend the Closing Ceremony on Friday, 19th July, when the winner will be announced—don’t miss it!
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Phillip B. Ströbel
Zejie Guo' Fortier Prize-nominated work at #DH2025: "Enhancing Text-to-Image Alignment with RAG GPT for Historical Event Reconstruction: Evaluating with Multimodal LLMs"-a very heady mix of LLMs correcting LLM-created prompts for genAI images, evaluated by LLMs w/ LLM-generated questions. 🤯
July 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Interested in early modern letters 📜 & the Reformation period ⛪? The Bullinger correspondence ✒️ is now also linked in #correspsearch -> correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm...
This connects Bullinger with plenty of other reformers! Have fun exploring!
#correspondence #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory
July 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The #DH2025 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 finally begins (unfortunately, in a broadcast room 🥲). I'm looking forward to an exciting & inspirational conference. Zejie, Felix, & I will present a paper in Session LP10. Looking forward to discussing with you. #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #ancienthistory
July 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Wie sah der Alltag im antiken Rom wirklich aus? 🤔🏛️

Unser Projekt "Re-Experiencing History" nutzt KI 🤖, um historisch fundiertere Bilder der Antike zu erstellen.

Schluss mit KI-Fehlern wie Legionären mit Sneakers! 👟❌

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June 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The UZH Digital Society Initiative Community Digital Humanities finally has a face! We’re thrilled to announce that our brand-new webpage is officially live. 🎉

digitalhumanities.dsi.uzh.ch
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
June 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🌊⚡️ New Episode Alert! ⚡️🌊

Listen now! 👉 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...
Or here 👉 t.uzh.ch/1Nv

Dive into the mystery of the Bronze God of Artemision! 🏺 Is it Poseidon, the sea god? 🔱 Or Zeus, king of the gods? 🌩️ We unravel the heated debate! 🤯
March 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The #DHd2025 has officially started! Looking forward to interesting 3 days! #digitalhumanities #conference
March 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🎙️ NEW EPISODE! 🎧
Listen here: t.uzh.ch/1Nv
Or here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...
Our AI hosts are "cracking open" the Cyrus Cylinder! 🏺 This ancient Babylonian artifact isn't just a dusty relic – it's Cyrus the Great's personal PR campaign! 👑
February 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
At the #ArCHeoM #workshop in beautiful #Rome, discussing #AI in #archaeology. 🏛🏺📜 #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory
February 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM