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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities fall school in Venice
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20131007
DTSTAMP:20260408T083839Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Franziska Frey - Harvard University\, USAFrédéric Kaplan - E
 cole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)\, SwitzerlandElena Pieraz
 zo - King's College\, London\, UKJeffrey Schnapp - Harvard’s Graduate Sc
 hool of Design\, USARoberto Scopigno - National Research Council of Italy 
 (CNR)Simon Levis Sullam - Ca' Foscari University of Venice\, ItalySabine S
 üsstrunk - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)\, Switzerlan
 dAndrea Torsello - Ca' Foscari University of Venice\, Italy\nEPFL and Ca' 
 Foscari University present the first Digital Humanities Venice Fall School
  (DHV)\, hosted by Ca' Foscari University from October 7th to 11th\, 2013.
  The Digital Humanities Venice Fall School is an opportunity for a select 
 group of students from the Humanities\, Social Sciences\, Computer Science
  and Engineering to participate in the historical\, economic\, artistic an
 d geographical reconstruction of Venice over the past 1000 years. For one 
 week\, students will follow seminars by leading academics\, conduct fieldw
 ork in Venice and present a concrete case study as a conclusion to the sci
 entific adventure..\nPhD and Post-Doc students will work towards concrete 
 contributions to the Venice Time Machine – a scientific project of ambit
 ious proportions aimed at reconstructing the past with unparalleled detail
 s. With the guidance of experts in Humanities\, Computer Science and Engin
 eering\, students will take on a new scientific frontier – the explorati
 on and simulation of the history of one of the world’s most fascinating 
 cities.The Venice Time Machine\nThe Ca’ Foscari and EPFL Joint Research 
 Center on Digital Humanities and Future Cities in Venice is a trans-discip
 linary center for educ ation\, research and public engagement in science a
 nd art in Venice. The Venice Time Machine will be a multidimensional model
  of Venice and its evolution over time. It will combine information about 
 the city’s environmental evolution (climatology\, pollution\, hydrology)
 \, urban changes (architectural structure\, archeology)\, human factors (d
 emography\, mobility\, trade networks) and culture (history of art) into a
  single interactive database.
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