News

10 Apr

Map: Heresy and occupation in Bologna around 1300

DISSINET has developed an interactive map of the occupations, dissident religious affiliations, and locations of residence of nearly 900 persons suspected of heresy in the inquisition register of Bologna, 1291–1310.

29 Mar

Towards a corpus of medieval inquisition records: First numbers

Building upon the invaluable work of modern editors, the DISSINET project is building a textual corpus of medieval inquisitorial material, which now contains 15 registers, totals over 1.6 million tokens, and ranges from North-Central Italy through Languedoc to England, and from the 1230s until the 1520s.

6 Feb

DISSINET’s article on the spatiality of heresy prosecutions published in Springer Nature’s Humanities and Social Science Communications

DISSINET has published a new article on toponymic surnames and the spatiality of heresy prosecutions in a Springer-Nature journal, contributing to systematic analysis of European inquisition records as structured data.

5 Jan

Why has Marcion failed? New article on the role of Jewish networks in the spread of early Christianity

Article Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities authored by Dalibor Papoušek and Zdeněk Pospíšil has been published in Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution

2 Jan

New article on collectivity within the Ambedkarite Buddhist population

Tereza Menšíková contributed to the Journal of Global Buddhism with the study Negotiating Boundaries Between "Religious" and "Secular": A Struggle for the Sense of Collectivity Among Ambedkarite Buddhists in Maharashtra.

19 Dec 2023

Tomáš Glomb got the MUNI Scientist Award

Doctor Glomb won the award for the publication of the book Connecting the Isiac Cults, which is the culmination of his long-term research on the spread of the Egyptian cults in the Hellenistic period.

10 Dec 2023

CEDRR students were on a writing retreat

From December 6 to 8, student members of the Centre for the Digital Research of Religion were on the first-ever writing retreat organized by CEDRR.

1 Dec 2023

DISSINET in podcast DATAŘI

David Zbíral and Tomáš Hampejs talk about inquisition records as digital capta with Jan Cibulka in the Czech Radio podcast „DATAŘI“.

Events

17 May 2023

CEDRR talk: "Challenges of interactive mapping of Western-European heresy (1000-1150)"

10:00 AM

Lidia Hinz-Wieczorek from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań will talk you through the challenges she and her DISSINET collaborators experienced while trying to map early heresy in Western Europe and mark the official launch of the interactive map application.

9 May 2023

CEDRR guest lecture "Networked Antiquity: Texts, Archaeology, Environment"

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Prof. Eivind Heldaas Seland from the University of Bergen, Norway (Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion), will deliver a lecture focusing on the topic of entanglements and dependencies between civilization and the surrounding environment in antiquity using the perspective of network theory.

9 Dec 2022

CEDRR hands-on seminar: Computational approaches to semantic change

9:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Dr. Vojtěch Kaše from the Computing Culture & Society Laboratory (CCS-Lab, University of West Bohemia) will lead a hands-on seminar focusing on the topic of analyzing semantic changes in large textual corpora and will introduce to the participants a particular computational methodological framework.

30 Nov 2022

CEDRR guest lecture "Mapping seismic gods in the ancient Mediterranean"

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Dr. Sabine Neumann from the Marburg Center for the Ancient World (MCAW, University of Marburg) and Dr. Tomáš Glomb (CEDRR, Masaryk University) will present their ongoing research that tackles the question of "How seismic activity in the ancient Mediterranean could have shaped the worship of deities in the region?" by using the synergy between established historiographical approaches and quantitative methods.

30 Nov 2022

CEDRR talk: "Florentine Political Debates, 1349-1492. A Social and Semantic Analysis"

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Katalin Prajda from the University of Vienna will talk us through her research on the Florentine Consulte e Pratiche records of policy discussion held by the local political elite and explain her work with archives as well as social and semantic networks.

9 Nov
10 Nov 2022

CEDRR talk: "An integral socio-semantic network approach to symbolic construction of culture"

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Nikita Basov from Saint Petersburg University / Bielefeld University will present socio-semantic network approach as part of CEDRR talks and the DISSINET project in a lecture and a following hands-on workshop.

14 Apr 2022

CEDRR talk: "Insights from the RIP Project: Simulating Secularising Societies between Norway and Poland"

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

The PI of the research project "Religion, Ideology & Prosociality: Simulating Secularising Societies", Konrad Talmont-Kamiński will give a talk about their approach to modelling secularisation - a complex, multi-level phenomenon - using agent-based computational models.

13 Apr 2022

CEDRR talk: "Discussion on Big Data and Network Research in the Traditional Historiography of the Portuguese Colonial Empire"

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

The Centre for the Digital Study of Religion invites you to their online dicussion: Dr. Agata Bloch (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences), and Dr. Demival Vasques Filho (Leibniz Institute for European History, Germany) will talk about analysis of historical data through cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to reconstruct and model large temporal social networks of the Portuguese Empire.

23 Mar 2022

CEDRR talk: "An adapted ontology for a prosopography of medieval Sardinia: RDF schemes, OWL and an open linked database"

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

The Centre for the Digital Research of Religion invites you to a lecture by by Hervin Fernández Aceves from the University of Lancaster on the topic of RDF schemes, OWL and open linked database.

12 Jan 2022

CEDRR talk: "Materialising Religions in Secret Police Archives: Methodological Insights and Results of the Hidden Galleries ERC project"

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Let us invite you to the talk by James Kapaló from University College Cork, Ireland, who will present the theoretical and methodological approaches of the Hidden Galleries project (ERC Project no. 677355), give an account of the research process and principal outputs.

19 Oct 2021

Computational approaches in the study of pre-modern religion

10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Would you like to learn more about digital humanities techniques focused on premodern sources? Participate in our workshop with several members of the Dissident Network Project and guests. The event is part of 100th anniversary of the Faculty of Arts and will be streamed on Zoom.

18 Jun 2021

Workshop by Tomáš Marek: "Basic principles of data visualization in academic practice"

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

We cordially invite you to the data visualisation workshop by Tomáš Marek, which accompanies the previous talk.

17 Jun 2021

Invited talk: "Basic principles of data visualization in academic practice" (Tomáš Marek, KISK)

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

We cordially invite you to the open data visualisation lecture by Tomáš Marek, who will talk about basic principles and the sufficient and insufficient qualities in visual scholarly communication.

3 Jun 2021

Invited talk from SDAM project: "Building the Ship of Theseus: Co-developing Open-Source Infrastructure for Reproducible Research"

11:00 AM

We cordially invite you to a zoom talk by dr. Adéla Sobotková a dr. Vojtěch Kaše, which covers experiences from developing collaborative infrastructure and data management workflows from the SDAM "Social Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean" Project based in Aarhus University.

31 Mar 2020

Introduction to CTA with Dr. Vojtěch Kaše

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

We cordially invite you to the webinar about Computational Text Analysis with Dr. Vojtěch Kaše, CEDRR member and postdoc researcher at the SDAM Project (Aarhus University).

News

News

Map: Heresy and occupation in Bologna around 1300

Towards a corpus of medieval inquisition records: First numbers

DISSINET’s article on the spatiality of heresy prosecutions published in Springer Nature’s Humanities and Social Science Communications

Why has Marcion failed? New article on the role of Jewish networks in the spread of early Christianity

New article on collectivity within the Ambedkarite Buddhist population

Tomáš Glomb got the MUNI Scientist Award

CEDRR students were on a writing retreat

DISSINET in podcast DATAŘI

Events

Past events Show current

CEDRR talk: "Challenges of interactive mapping of Western-European heresy (1000-1150)"

CEDRR guest lecture "Networked Antiquity: Texts, Archaeology, Environment"

CEDRR hands-on seminar: Computational approaches to semantic change

CEDRR guest lecture "Mapping seismic gods in the ancient Mediterranean"

CEDRR talk: "Florentine Political Debates, 1349-1492. A Social and Semantic Analysis"

CEDRR talk: "An integral socio-semantic network approach to symbolic construction of culture"

CEDRR talk: "Insights from the RIP Project: Simulating Secularising Societies between Norway and Poland"

CEDRR talk: "Discussion on Big Data and Network Research in the Traditional Historiography of the Portuguese Colonial Empire"

CEDRR talk: "An adapted ontology for a prosopography of medieval Sardinia: RDF schemes, OWL and an open linked database"

CEDRR talk: "Materialising Religions in Secret Police Archives: Methodological Insights and Results of the Hidden Galleries ERC project"

Computational approaches in the study of pre-modern religion

Workshop by Tomáš Marek: "Basic principles of data visualization in academic practice"

Invited talk: "Basic principles of data visualization in academic practice" (Tomáš Marek, KISK)

Invited talk from SDAM project: "Building the Ship of Theseus: Co-developing Open-Source Infrastructure for Reproducible Research"

Introduction to CTA with Dr. Vojtěch Kaše