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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
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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
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🏛️ 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Zejie Guo and I were honoured to be nominated! Congratulations to Francisco for winning the Fortier Prize!
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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
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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
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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
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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
A network graph of Heinrich Bullinger's correspondens in correspsearch.
July 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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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
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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
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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
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June 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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🌊⚡️ 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! 🤯
An AI-Generated image of the bronze statue found at Artemision. The Artemision Bronze (c. 5th century BC). Lost-wax cast Bronze sculpture. Height 209 cm. Depicts either Zeus or Poseidon. Found near Cape Artemision, Greece. National Archaeological Museum of Athens
March 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The #DHd2025 has officially started! Looking forward to interesting 3 days! #digitalhumanities #conference
March 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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🎙️ 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
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At the #ArCHeoM #workshop in beautiful #Rome, discussing #AI in #archaeology. 🏛🏺📜 #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory
February 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Sign : #Initiative Fakten statt Falschinformationen: Für einen starken Wissenschaftsjournalismus! www.openpetition.eu/ch/%21scienc... #Petition #Wissenschaft #Journalismus #Wirtschaftsjournalismus
Fakten statt Falschinformationen: Für einen starken Wissenschaftsjournalismus! - Online-Petition
Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft an SRF Sehr geehrte Direktion der SRG, sehr geehrte Geschäftsleitung von SRF, sehr geehrte Medien- und Wissenschaftspolitiker:innen Mit grosser Besorgnis haben wir z...
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February 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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This week's talking points of our AI hosts: 🔥Humanity rebels against the sun god Re! ☀️ Hathor, the "Sun Eye," unleashes divine wrath! 😠🍺 Rivers of red beer flow!
🎧 t.uzh.ch/1Nv
🎶 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...
🩸 The Myth of the Heavenly Cow 🐮: a tale of cosmic disruption,
An AI-generated image inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology. At the center, a celestial cow with a sun disk between her horns radiates golden light. Below, a red-ochre river winds through a sandy desert landscape, symbolizing the beer offering from the myth. The scene features Egyptian temples with hieroglyph-covered columns, flanked by sphinx-like statues. The sky is filled with golden stars, celestial symbols, and a large planet resembling Saturn. Warm golden and earthy tones dominate the image, blending intricate details with a stylized Egyptian art aesthetic.
February 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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🎉 Get ready for 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 mystery!
Listen:
🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv
🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...
The image presents a mystical and dramatic representation of the ancient Dionysiac Mysteries, evoking an atmosphere of secrecy, ecstasy, and ritual. At the center, a marble statue of Dionysus stands in an imposing yet enigmatic pose. He is adorned with ivy and grapevines, symbolizing his association with wine and nature. He holds a thyrsus, a staff wrapped in ivy and topped with a pinecone, a key emblem of his cult. Behind him, shadowy, robed figures engage in a mysterious ritual dance, their faces partially concealed by masks. Their movements suggest an ecstatic frenzy, reminiscent of the Bacchic rites. A golden glow subtly illuminates two important ritual objects in the foreground: A winnowing fan (liknon), a sacred tool linked to initiation rites and the myth of Dionysus. A cista mystica, a chest associated with secret knowledge and sometimes depicted with a snake inside. In the background, ruins of an ancient temple rise under a deep twilight sky, adding an air of antiquity and mystery. The sky is cast in rich purple and blue hues, reinforcing the dreamlike, otherworldly atmosphere. The title, "The Dionysiac Mysteries," is elegantly inscribed in an ancient-style font, blending seamlessly with the mystical surroundings, hinting at the arcane knowledge and esoteric traditions of the Dionysian cult.
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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🗣️ 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 here:
🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv
🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...
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An AI generated image of the secret grove of the Dea Dia, with a priestly procession into a round temple in the middle of a forest with high trees.
January 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Get ready to sail back in time! ⛵️ Dive into the fascinating world of the ancient Mediterranean, where the Greeks 🇬🇷 and Phoenicians 🇱🇧 were the ultimate power players! 💥

Listen to the newest AI-generated podcast episode:
🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎙️
🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 🎙️

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AI-generated image of ships sailing close to a harbour.
January 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The deed is done! More than 2100 pieces later, our office has a new decorative object: the #Akropolis by #BlueBrixx. It was a nice build! And what a nice way to learn something about #AncientHistory, too! #buildingbricks #klemmbausteine #notlego
January 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Overtime at the office, but of a different kind 🤣 #buildingbricks #notlego #bluebrixx #officedecoration #klemmbausteine
January 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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📢🎧 New Podcast Episode Alert! 🎧📢

Journey back to the Iron Age! 🤯 Discover the secrets of the Heuneburg 🏰, Germany's "oldest city north of the Alps"! ⛰️🇩🇪

Tune in to explore the rise and fall of this fascinating urban center! 🎧➡️
Here: t.uzh.ch/1Nv
Or on Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...
The AI-generated title image of this podcast episode featuring a settlement that seems to consist of mud-brick houses in a plane between hills. The sky is cloudy.
January 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM