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2026 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies – Historic Athens in 3D

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Princeton Athens Center
Timarchou 3, Athina 116 34, Greece

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Front view of a light blue two-story house with white shuttered windows, a small balcony, and a protruding bay window, flanked by neighboring buildings.

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.

Through seminar discussions, hands-on instruction, and site visits, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the opportunities and challenges of communicating the history of lost city spaces through 3D visualizations, while engaging with the complex history of Athens' urban landscape. By the end of the workshop, participants will be equipped to develop their own digital cultural heritage project.

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.

Instructors will include scholars from Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH), Princeton University Library, the Science & Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC) at the Cyprus Institute, the CY Cergy Université (Paris), and the MSc Program in Digital Methods for the Humanities at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).