Workshop Pivo je boží!

14:00 – 22:00 workshop

Konference: Metal and Religion

8:00 – 21:00 konference

The Department for the Study of Religions at Masaryk University invites your participation in a conference on the overall theme of “Metal and Religion” to be held in Brno, Czechia, 7-8 September, 2022.

Konference: Paganism and its Others

8:00 – 21:00 konference

The Department for the Study of Religions at Masaryk University invites you to the academic conference "Paganism and its Others" to be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 13-14 June, 2022.

Konference: Hedonistic Occultism - Blood, Desire, Sex & Magic

8:00 – 21:00 konference

The Department for the Study of Religions at Masaryk University and RASWE - Research Association for the Study of Western Esotericism invite you to the academic conference "Hedonistic Occultism: Blood, Desire, Sex & Magic​" to be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 6-7 June, 2022.

Workshop: Dimitris Xygalatas - Ritual and synchrony in the wild

10:00 – 12:00 workshop

I will discuss recent and forthcoming naturalistic research on the effects of ritualized, rhythmic collective behavior. Examples include studies conducted in religious temples, sports stadiums, and other real-life settings. Although, I argue, the questions I am asking go beyond religion, they are key to understanding religious rituals.

Přednáška: Dimitris Xygalatas - Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

17:00 – 18:00 přednáška

LEVYNA a HUME Lab vás srdečně zve na přednášku – pondělí 9. 5., od 17:00 - 18:00 – v místnosti C43 (pro ty, co se nemohou dostavit osobně viz Zoom link níže).

Pozvání tentokrát přijal antropolog a kognitivní vědec dr. Dimitris Xygalatas působící na Ústavu antropologie a Ústavu psychologických věd, University of Connecticut. O zacílení jeho výzkumu se dozvíte více na jeho webových stránkách (https://www.xygalatas.com/) nebo přes jeho Google Scholar profil (https://scholar.google.cz/citations?hl=en&user=misuSsoAAAAJ).

Workshop: Luke Glowacki – Building cross-cultural ethnographic databases to study complex social behavior

16:00 – 18:00 workshop

Are there cultural universals? Does human social behavior vary in systematic ways across cultures? Answering questions like these requires detailed data from societies across the globe. Fortunately, ethnographic materials from prior anthropological studies are now widely available online and can be used to construct systematic databases that offer a powerful means to study human behavior. I discuss how to construct such a database using the example of the Natural History of Song project, which contains information on music from a representative sample of the world’s societies. I then discuss an in-progress database on the rituals of peace-making.

Přednáška: Luke Glowacki – Rituals for war and peace

17:00 – 18:00 přednáška

War and peace are both major aspects of human sociality, yet understanding each presents a unique challenge. War is a puzzle because it involves individuals risking their lives to harm others. Peace is a challenge because it involves restoring cooperative relationships after a significant breach. Rituals are an important but unexplored mechanism for promoting both war and peace. In war, rituals are commonly used to alter perceptions regarding the likelihood of harm and foster group solidarity. During peace, rituals commonly function to indicate cooperative intent and cement ties. I use ethnographic case studies from small-scale societies to explore the functions of rituals in both war and peace.