The Re-Experiencing History platform is now available in a new version. It combines AI-supported image generation with research in ancient history and archaeology, making it possible to visualise historical scenes such as Roman military formations, triumphal processions and ancient architecture. A new prompt optimisation feature draws on more than 3.2… Read More »Re-Experiencing History in a new version
The podcast Erleuchtung garantiert has released four special episodes on digital culture and religion. Topics include AI-generated imagery and ‘slopaganda’, the search for meaning on the internet, ‘Tradwifes’ and Mormon women, as well as religious communities and data protection. Guests include DIZH Bridge Professor Roland Meyer, Karina Frick, Ramazan Özgü and… Read More »Recommended listen: Digitalisation and religion
On 29 and 30 October 2026, UZH and ZHdK are jointly inviting participants to reflect on a democratic future for digital technologies: the symposium “In the Cloud’s Engine Room: Perspectives for a Democratic Digitalisation”, organised by the Centre for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK), will bring together academia, civil society… Read More »ZKK Symposium: Inside the Cloud’s Engine Room
The Vox Lapidum project website is now live and provides information on the project’s current status, objectives and next steps. At the heart of the project is the Epigraphic Latin Treebank (ELTB), a syntactically annotated collection of Latin inscriptions. Building on this, the plan is to develop an AI pipeline… Read More »Vox Lapidum is online
Democracy requires an informed society. However, algorithms are increasingly determining which news stories and opinions we see. Recommendation systems draw on past data and can exacerbate existing biases. If many people use the same systems, the diversity of opinion-forming may also suffer. At the same time, it is becoming easier… Read More »AI and democracy. Who decides what AI is allowed to do?
On 16 September 2026, the Coordination Committee Education Program visited the PHZH. Project leads presented their initiatives and shared their experiences with representatives from the DIZH universities. The PHZH’s education program addresses various thematic areas in bottom-up groups, in coordination with the university’s strategic planning. This gives rise to implementation… Read More »From projects to impact
The Government as a Platform project investigated how digital platforms can support collaboration between public authorities, NGOs, private actors and civil society in crisis situations. The starting point was the Russian attack on Ukraine. The reception of Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland highlighted where existing administrative structures reach their limits when… Read More »Final report: Government as a Platform
Generative AI is making the past increasingly visible. This does not result in historical documents, but rather in statistically plausible images that fill gaps in the archives with fictional scenes. In this column from the DSI Insights series, Roland Meyer, DIZH Bridge Professor at UZH and ZHdK, uses several examples… Read More »DSI Insights: Synthetic images of history
The cineMINDS project will be presented to the public at the 2026 Zurich Film Festival. cineMINDS collects interviews with filmmakers and other professionals from the film industry. The focus is on their practical knowledge of filmmaking, which is often difficult to access in traditional archives. An AI-powered online platform makes… Read More »cineMINDS at the Zurich Film Festival
Reta Barfuss and Karin Schwiter spoke with employees in Switzerland’s commercial cleaning sector who work part-time or on-call, and yet feel under constant pressure. In their article, the two show that this phenomenon, so-called time-related underemployment, can’t be explained simply by the neoliberalisation of work. Instead, they propose a different… Read More »Publication: Underemployed but overworked
