Professor Peter Bell is a pioneer in the fields of art history and machine vision. His research will help improve our understanding of cultural heritage, and reflects contemporary discussions about AI bias.
Buenos Aires, Mumbai, Shanghai: A project in art history shows that the modern art movement was a global phenomenon and features virtual rambles in the cities where exiled artists found new inspiration.
Researchers at the new Center for Philology and Digitality aim to bridge the gap between the humanities, computer science, and the digital humanities.
Researchers at the University of Bamberg are exploring and enlivening the architecture of the past through cutting-edge technology.
What relevance do Islamic artefacts have for contemporary Islamic cultural heritage? This question underpins the study of Islamic Art and Archaeology.
Theological findings on apocryphal writings: Could they foster conflict resolution? Yes they could, say scholars at the Regensburg Centre for Advanced Studies Beyond Canon_.
The new research network, "Margins of Memory: Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance," at the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Regensburg — a joint platform of the University of Regensburg and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) — invited scholars to a kickoff meeting at the university's Department of Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS). Over the course of two years, 12 scholars will develop new concepts and terminology to enrich Memory Studies. The scholars will focus on topics such as hegemony, agency, silence, trauma, memory activism, and memories of (dis)location and migration.
Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.
Professor Grischa Vercamer is the new Heisenberg Professor at the University of Passau for the History of Eastern and Central European Cultures in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. In his research, he aims to expand our understanding of the representation of the rule of princes in the late Middle Ages.
SNSB and LMU Paleontologists identify a new species of predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in North Africa, around 95 million years old. What makes this discovery so special is that the original fossil from Egypt was completely destroyed 80 years ago, during World War II. For their work, the researchers analyzed previously unknown archival photographs of the dinosaur skeleton from the period before 1944. The findings are published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
