Date: 25-27 June 2025
Venue: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne
Participation: on-site
This summer, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) invites young researchers to embark on a three-day data journey into the heart of Venice’s thousand-year history. Hosted by the Digital Humanities Laboratory and the Time Machine Unit, Venice Data Week will bring together doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, as well as advanced master’s students, for a unique workshop dedicated to exploring, interpreting, and enriching the remarkable datasets of the Venice Time Machine and Parcels of Venice projects.
Participants will gain exclusive early access to the Time Atlas Interface, a powerful research platform designed to navigate the rich layers of Venice’s urban, economic, and social history—from the year 1000 to the late 1800s.
What Awaits You
- Hands-on sessions with digitized and structured historical datasets
- Thematic deep-dives into urban transformation, property ownership, social networks, and economic development
- Expert-led tutorials in data cleaning, normalization, and visualization
- Guided group projects culminating in public web-based visualizations
- The chance to present your research and have it featured in a dedicated publication format
Key Dates
- Workshop: 25–27 June 2025 at EPFL, Lausanne
- Application deadline: 16 June 2025
- Final presentations: 27 June, 16:00–18:00
Submission process and deadline
Interested participants can submit their application, including the required information, via the following URL and send your curriculum vitae to: isabella.dilenardo@epfl.ch and paul.guhennec@epfl.ch. The application deadline is 16 June.
Join us in Lausanne this June to unlock the secrets of Venice’s past — and imagine bold new futures for historical research in the digital age.