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.
How can new technologies safeguard historic treasures against climate change and mass tourism? At the University of Bamberg’s Graduate School of Smart City Science, Rana Tootoonchi is exploring how digital twins can transform the conservation of cultural heritage.
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_.
From June 17 to 19, researchers from around the world will gather in Regensburg to examine freedom, sovereignty, and dependence in a global context at the 2026 annual conference of the Leibniz Science Campus (LWC). Taking the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence as its starting point, the conference—titled “In/ter/dependence: Transitions of Power, Frictions of Freedom,” will examine how moments of political self-determination—from the American Revolution through decolonization processes to the emergence of new states following the collapse of empires and the end of communism in Europe—have transformed political, social, and economic orders.
The new AI tool “Palaeographicum” is revolutionizing research into the cultures of the Ancient Near East: It identifies individual variations of cuneiform signs—a huge step forward for academia.
An international study based on Bavarian findings shows that southern Germany‘s population after the collapse of the Roman Empire developed through the gradual intermingling of different groups and regional mobility—not through single large-scale migrations. The study has now been published in the prestigious journal Nature.
