1 Jan The DISSINET team is now complete! We are delighted to announce that, after two highly competitive hiring processes, DISSINET has gained two new members: Gideon Kotzé (computational linguist) and Larissa de Freitas Lyth (historian)
23 Dec 2021 Modelling German Waldensians’ social networks – thoughts of an associate researcher BLOG: Reima Välimäki short report on researching Stettin Waldensians social networks and about his experience with the DISSINET data model.
26 Nov 2021 New paper about the spread of the cult of Asclepius in the Roman Empire by Tomas Glomb Congratulation to Tomas Glomb, who is now situated at the University of Bergen as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow, for his recently published paper! His case study affiliated with his Bergen ASCNET project focused on the correlation of physicians' inscriptions and the spatial distribution of Asclepius worship in the Roman Empire.
1 Sep 2021 The new DISSINET team is up and running! On 1 September 2021, the ERC Consolidator Grant-funded project “Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe” (DISSINET, 2021-2026) officially gets underway! The team is now constituted. Who’s aboard?
15 Aug 2021 Model the source first! Towards source modelling and source criticism 2.0 The project of computational historiography needs not only to adopt the modelling for representing the target phenomena but also to achieve a complex representation of the textual sources and its interpretive layers. To do the latter, we have developed an approach that we call “source modelling”.
20 Mar 2021 Interview with dr David Zbíral in Magazine M Dr David Zbíral on religious dissidence, computational interdisciplinary history, and the award of an ERC Consolidator Grant.
1 Mar 2021 Historical Geocoding Assistant in SoftwareX Historical Geocoding Assistant gains visibility through a publication in SoftwareX.
22 Feb 2021 Welcoming Reima Välimäki as a research associate We are proud to welcome a cultural historian dr. Reima Välimäki as a DISSINET research associate.
