News

2 Jun

DISSINET publishes most comprehensive statement of its research agenda

The article recently published in Acta Historica Tallinnensia argues for the importance of integrating digital history methods with source criticism and highlights DISSINET's contributions to this field.

16 May

DISSINET Data on Witchcraft Trials featured on Aktuálně.cz

Our comprehensive dataset of witchcraft trials in Czech lands has been utilised by the popular online publication Aktuálně.cz to create a new map.

9 Apr

CEDRR now uses Bluesky as the primary social media platform

CEDRR has joined the Digital Humanities community on Bluesky to connect with international scholars and share innovative research.

1 Apr

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Support in submitting a Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoc application (MSCA-PF)

DISSINET is searching for Ph.D. graduates inerested in applying for a post-doc position focusing on medieval anti-heretical hate speech using digital and quantitative methods. Send us a preliminary research proposal by 15 April 2025.

31 Mar

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Funded Ph.D. opportunity

DISSINET is offering support to M.A. graduates applying for fully funded Ph.D. studies focusing on medieval anti-heretical hate speech using digital and quantitative methods. Send us a preliminary research proposal by 15 April 2025.

31 Mar

DISSINET is now on Bluesky and Mastodon

Stay up to date with DISSINET news by following our new social media accounts.

28 Mar

Structural insights into the inquisition register of Bologna (1291-1310)

Inquisition registers are an excellent source for studying the social organisation of medieval communities. Did the investigated people form one or a few cohesive social bodies of “heretical movements” – communities – or are they better understood as many unrelated cases of small groups or individuals who drew the attention of the inquisitors separately?

17 Feb

Did ancient sources overestimate the mortality of the Antonine Plague?

In a new article, Anestis Karasaridis and Aleš Chalupa used epidemiological SIR/SEIR models to simulate different pathogen scenarios and found that the death toll might not have been as high as ancient sources suggest.

Events

29 May

CEDRR talk: Analyzing non-local influence processes in dynamic networks

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

DISSINET team invites you to a guest lecture on dynamic networks by Daniel Gotthardt from Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Colleagues unaffiliated with Masaryk University are welcome to attend online.

6 Nov 2024

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 2024

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 2024

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 2024

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 2024

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 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

DISSINET publishes most comprehensive statement of its research agenda

DISSINET Data on Witchcraft Trials featured on Aktuálně.cz

CEDRR now uses Bluesky as the primary social media platform

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Support in submitting a Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoc application (MSCA-PF)

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Funded Ph.D. opportunity

DISSINET is now on Bluesky and Mastodon

Structural insights into the inquisition register of Bologna (1291-1310)

Did ancient sources overestimate the mortality of the Antonine Plague?

Events

Past events Show current

CEDRR talk: Analyzing non-local influence processes in dynamic networks

CEDRR guest lecture "Political Networks: What Are They and How Do They Matter?"

Gender and Heresy lecture by David Zbíral at the University of Bologna

CEDRR talk "RELIC: A Digital Approach to Christianisation and the Everyday People on the Eastern Fringes of the Ottonian-Salian Empire"

CEDRR talk: Unpeeling the layers of inquisition trial records with CASTEMO (Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling)

CEDRR and LEVYNA guest lecture "Cognition and Rituals in the Cult of Mithras - A New Theoretical Approach"

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