News

20 Dec 2022

Can artificial intelligence read medieval inquisition records?

ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, has taken the Internet by storm and has generated quite a fuss also in the DISSINET team. First impressions of ChatGPT’s reaction to medieval Latin texts are astonishing.

12 Dec 2022

Data on witchcraft trials in the Czech lands published online

More on persons, places, charges, punishments, and material substances can be found in the the most comprehensive digital dataset of witchcraft trials in the Czech lands completed by Eva Brhelová, Veronika Praženková, Anna Bílková, Anna and David Zbíral.

5 Dec 2022

Tomáš Glomb wrote a book on the spread of the Egyptian cults

The book Connecting the Isiac Cults: Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean written by Tomáš Glomb has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

2 Dec 2022

Reapproaching inquisition records

David Zbíral & Robert L. J. Shaw have published the most up-to-date summary of the rich debate on the uses of medieval inquisition records. In a last, substantial section, the article explains the core of DISSINET's research agenda.

10 Oct 2022

Computing the Past Together (Conference in Pilsen, 6-8 October)

Conference Computing the Past was jointly organized by Computing Culture & Society Laboratory (CCS-Lab) and CEDRR to create an interdisciplinary meeting point for several historically oriented fields in humanities.

4 Oct 2022

DISSINET Digital Humanities approach presented in a podcast

David Zbíral was invited to a podcast by the Centre of Early Medieval Studies to talk about digital humanities approch in the research of medieval dissident communities.

3 Oct 2022

CEDRR has a new head!

The translatio imperii in CEDRR is finished and our Tomáš Glomb has taken up the responsibilities from the previous head and co-founder of the centre, David Zbíral, who will continue as the PI of the ERC DISSINET project and will remain the bedrock of CEDRR.

3 Oct 2022

Early Christian Baptisteries online

The most up-to-date geocoded dataset of 1,100+ Christian buildings from 3rd-12th century created with participation of DISSINET project now available online.

Events

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

Can artificial intelligence read medieval inquisition records?

Data on witchcraft trials in the Czech lands published online

Tomáš Glomb wrote a book on the spread of the Egyptian cults

Reapproaching inquisition records

Computing the Past Together (Conference in Pilsen, 6-8 October)

DISSINET Digital Humanities approach presented in a podcast

CEDRR has a new head!

Early Christian Baptisteries online

Events

Past events Show current

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