Tereza and Jana were recognized by the Dean's award for their PhD and BA theses.
Every year, the Dean's Award of the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University recognizes exceptional faculty members and their contributions to science, education, and society. For 2025, Jana Kendíková was recognized for her bachelor's thesis Aramaic Incantation Bowls and the Rise of the Negative Popularity of Lilith among the Jewish Population of Mesopotamia as a Possible Response to the Justinian Plague Pandemic in the 5th to 8th Centuries CE. Tereza Menšíková received the Dean's award for the PhD thesis Digital Mobilization: Ambedkarite Buddhism and Discourses of Change in Contemporary Anti-Caste Online Activism.
Congratulations to Tereza and Jana!
Tereza was awarded for her dissertation, in which she studied how Dalits, members of the anti-caste movement in India, utilize digital media to expand their reach and mobilize for social change. Tereza's supervisor, Jana Valtrová, and consultant, Tomáš Glomb, also received the award
On the occasion of launching the course Religious Phenomena in Computational Modelling, we remind a strategy game inspired by cutting-edge research of Tomas Glomb and Adam Mertel. Based on the GEHIR project’s computer modelling of the spread of Egyptian cults, the game challenges players to test how ancient religions could conquer the Mediterranean and to outsmart rival deities such as Isis, Serapis, Anubis or Bastet.
