Summer Institute 2026: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies – Historic Athens in 3D, 6-10 July, Athens

UNESCO Chair on Digital Methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Summer Institute 2026
Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies – Historic Athens in 3D, 6-10 July 2026, Athens

This workshop is designed for scholars interested in exploring digital humanities methods for representing archival information and rich narratives about historical urban spaces. Participants will be introduced to key topics, approaches, and tools, such as working with spatial data, 3D modeling, photogrammetry, data annotation, AI tools, and telling stories with data. Workshop participants will work collaboratively to create 3D, information-enriched visualizations of the early 20th-century Vrysaki neighborhood of Athens before its demolition. This work will draw on a unique collection of historic photographs and maps from the 1930s, created by photographer M. Messinesi and held in Princeton’s Art and Archaeology Department’s Visual Resources Collection.

The workshop is open to scholars from all disciplines, regardless of technical background. Experience with spatial data, 3D modeling, or other digital tools and concepts is welcome but not required. This workshop will be of particular interest to those in Hellenic Studies, History, Art and Archaeology, Urban Studies, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Public Humanities, and Photography. Knowledge of Greek is not necessary.

This program is sponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University in collaboration with the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton; the Princeton University Library, the UNESCO Chair on Digital Methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB); the MSc Program in Digital Methods for the Humanities at AUEB; and the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU).

Language: English

Application deadline: 15 March 2026

More information and applications: https://hellenic.princeton.edu/opportunities/summer-institute-digital-humanities-hellenic-studies-%E2%80%93-historic-athens-3d