Wer weder das Wetter noch die (Deutsche) Bahn fürchtet, könnte nächsten Mittwoch nach Zürich fahren. Rene Pfeilschifter spricht am 13. Dezember, 16:15 Uhr, an der Universität Zürich: "Wer regierte die Republik? Der Senat im dritten Jahrhundert v. Chr."

Walter Pohl eröffnet mit seiner Keynote "Romanness and its Transformation" unsere gleichnamige Tagung, die Auftrag der Veranstaltungsreihe zum #BAK-Jahresthema ist. Wir freuen uns auf zwei interessante Tage: berliner-antike-kolleg.org/transfer/termi…

Der Althistoriker Martin Zimmermann und die Geografin Hanna Hilbrandt führten an der Universität Zürich einen "Dialog zwischen Antike und Gegenwart" über die "Stadt in der Krise?" youtu.be/VM8rforINV8?si… via YouTube

Very much looking forward to visiting Zürich for the first time and celebrating an excellent new publication on populism in classical Greece.

Andrew Monson ist zum Professor für World Regions and Area Studies in Comparative Perspective Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg ernannt worden. Seit heute ist er unser Kollege im Institut für Geschichte und an der Philosophischen Fakultät. Wir freuen uns auf die Zusammenarbeit und gratulieren von Herzen!

Welcome to our team, Phillip B. Ströbel ! Coming from the field of Computational Linguistics, Phillip joins us at the Chair of Ancient History. With his expertise, we aim to explore new paths at the intersection of Ancient History and AI. cl.uzh.ch/de/about-us/pe…

As the build-up to the England-Spain #EURO2024 final continues, we share our own musical contribution. Since both countries were once ruled by the Romans, we've put the Lightning Seeds and David Baddiel Three Lions anthem into Latin, sung beautifully by @hayely_canham. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸🦁🦁🦁

What can AI reveal about a seemingly dull coin? Quite a lot! And by "reveal," I mean really tell you, in spoken language. Tune in to our new weekly AISL Podcast, where we use tools like NotebookLM to bring you closer to ancient history. Episode #1 t.uzh.ch/1Lr 1/2

AISL Podcast Episode #2: t.uzh.ch/1Lr Tune in and discover the column of Trajan in our new, automatically generated format! #ancienthistory #digitalhumanities #history #AI #Podcast

ZAZH-Abend der offenen Tür — das AIncient Studies Lab ist auch mit dabei. youtu.be/7BR8-MkQ7C4?si…

Würzburg University is looking for Junior Research Group Leaders in several interfaculty research fields. One of the topics is Ancient Antisemitism – a field for scholars of antiquity from a wide range of relevant disciplines, including Ancient History . . .

🔥 New Podcast Episode! 🔥 Dive into the scandalous world of Roman poetry with our latest episode on Catullus's Invectives! 🤬 Topics: - The social power of insults in Roman society 🗣️ - Catullus's debt to Greek traditions 🏛️ - His complex and contradictory voice 🤔 1/🧵

Looking forward to presenting our research on historical image generation at the #CHR2024 (Computational Humanities Research) conference in Aarhus this week 🤩! 📜: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/paper… ✍️ by: Zejie Guo, Ülkü Karagöz, Eva Maria Willi, Felix K. Maier and myself.

Overtime at the office, but of a different kind 🤣 #buildingbricks #notlego #bluebrixx #officedecoration #klemmbausteine

🗣️ Podcast Alert 🗣️ Step back in time with me to ancient Rome! 🏛️ Join our two AI 🤖 hosts who discover the Fratres Arvales, a mysterious priesthood of 12 men 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 from the senatorial class, devoted to the goddess Dea Dia. 🌳 Listen: 🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv Or on Spotify: 1/🧵

🎉 Get ready to dive into the Dionysiac Mysteries with the AISL Podcast! 🍇 We're exploring these wild ancient Greek rituals dedicated to the god of wine, ecstasy, and transformation. 🤯 Think secret initiations, ecstatic dances, and mysteries! Listen: 🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv

Omar El Manfalouty has been awarded the ZAZH Prize for his dissertation "Freedom Rediscovered – Political Autonomy and Self-Determination in Josephus, Tacitus, and Early Christian Martyr Texts". The chair team warmly congratulates him on this achievement.

Mit Autokraten leben. Terror und Angst im Rom der Caesaren Unter diesem Titel wird Rene Pfeilschifter sein nächstes Buch schreiben, für C.H.Beck Literatur und bis 2027.

Erfahrt alles über unser Projekt von Felix K. Maier & mir im neuen UZH Magazin 📖. Dort dreht sich alles um die Erzählkraft von Bildern. 🖼️ 👇 Hier geht es direkt zum Artikel: issuu.com/uzhch/docs/uzh… #ReExperiencingHistory #AI #DigitalHumanities #AlteGeschichte #UZH Universität Zürich 2/🧵

The #DH2025 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 finally begins (unfortunately, in a broadcast room 🥲). I'm looking forward to an exciting & inspirational conference. Zejie, Felix K. Maier , & I will present a paper in Session LP10. Looking forward to discussing with you. #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory