12 Dec David Zbíral was appointed Professor in History Professor Zbíral received his appointment decree from the president of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, on December 10, 2024, in Karolinum, Prague. Congratulations!
20 Nov Members of customs offices impacted the spread of the Roman cult of Mithras: New article Aleš Chalupa, Tomáš Glomb, and Juraj Sarkisjan published the article: Stations of the Publicum Portorium Illyrici are a Strong Predictor of the Mithraic Presence in the Danubian Provinces: Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Roman Cult of Mithras in Open Archaeology.
15 Aug Summer schools on quantitative methods: A report by Tereza Menšíková In this short text, Tereza looks back at the experience of attending summer schools focusing on quantitative methods and evaluates how beneficial it was for her research and self-development in the Study of religions.
28 Jun Tereza Menšíková received the Jacques Derrida Prize The Jacques Derrida Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities is awarded by the Embassy of France in the Czech Republic and Michal Martinko. The goal of this competition is to award the best PhD research work in all fields of social sciences and humanities.
19 Jun Graduate in Necromancy - A curriculum inspired card game from CEDRR Complete a Master’s degree in Necromancy in a new solo card game. Now playable in a web browser.
27 May Did medieval inquisitors fear accusations of sexual misconduct? It is a familiar image: a woman in distress, surrounded by men examining her soul in a dimly lit inquisitorial chamber. In fear of physical torture, she confesses to crimes she never committed. We bring you an online version of our article originally published in History Today.
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 Nov CEDRR guest lecture "Political Networks: What Are They and How Do They Matter?" 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Dr. Petr Ocelík from the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Masaryk University, will illustrate how social network analysis, as a methodological and metatheoretical framework, contributes to a better understanding of the political world.
25 Oct Gender and Heresy lecture by David Zbíral at the University of Bologna 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM David Zbíral is giving a lecture, with the option of online participation, on “Gender and heresy: Actions of men and women in corpus data from twenty-five inquisition registers” at the University of Bologna.
22 May CEDRR talk "RELIC: A Digital Approach to Christianisation and the Everyday People on the Eastern Fringes of the Ottonian-Salian Empire" 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Medievalist and archaeologist Mária Vargha from the University of Vienna will talk about her project focused on comparative investigation of the Christianisation processes in East-Central Europe.
15 May CEDRR talk: Unpeeling the layers of inquisition trial records with CASTEMO (Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling) 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Robert Shaw from the DISSINET project will present the potential of Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO) in analyzing spatial coverage, punishment strategy, and narration in the register of Peter Seila, 1241-2.
25 Apr CEDRR and LEVYNA guest lecture "Cognition and Rituals in the Cult of Mithras - A New Theoretical Approach" 4:00 PM Dr. Blanka Misic from the University of Vienna, Austria (Institut für Klassische Archäologie), will deliver a lecture focusing on the topic of ritual practices and the range of religious experiences that occurred within Mithraic religious communities in the Roman Empire.
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 Nov10 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).
