Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the First DANES Summer School and Hackathon (DANES ScHack 2026), taking place 6–10 July 2026 at the University of Turin, Italy.

Organised by the Department of Historical Studies (University of Turin) and the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (DANES) Network, ScHack 2026 brings together students of the ancient world with cutting-edge computational methods in an intensive week of teaching, hands-on practice, and social events.

Track 1 — Ancient Language Processing NLP, treebanks, transformer models, LLMs, and prompt engineering applied to cuneiform, Akkadian, Latin, and Ancient Greek corpora. Teachers: Shai Gordin (Open University of Israel) & Marco Passarotti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) with his CIRCSE team: F. Mambrini, R. Sprugnoli, E. Litta, G. Moretti, G. Rambelli, F. Iurescia, R. Leotta, and C. Corbetta.

Track 2 — Computer Vision for Material Culture 2D/3D imaging, OCR, photogrammetry, and multimodal LLMs applied to manuscripts and ancient artefacts. Teachers: Morris Alper (Carnegie Mellon University) & Steffen Bauer (IWR, Heidelberg University)

Track 3 — Network Analysis for Ancient Cultures Social, spatial, and dynamic network analysis applied to ancient societies. Teachers: Haleli Harel (BBAW Berlin, Minerva Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow)

Complete the registration form at: 👉 https://digitalpasts.github.io/ScHack2026/registration.html

After submitting the form, email info@edentours.it to receive your personal payment link.

Website: https://digitalpasts.github.io/ScHack2026

We look forward to welcoming you in Turin!