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DISSINET

3 Oct

DISSINET during summer 2025: conferences, workshops, and success at a competition on detecting hate speech

This summer, DISSINET team members attended five international conferences and two summer schools, showcasing the diversity of our research efforts and motivation to learn and apply new methodologies.

CEDRR

25 Sep

Gods on the barge

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.

CEDRRPhD

2 Jul

Tereza Menšíková is now a PhD

On June 9, Tereza Menšíková has successfully defended her thesis Digital Mobilization: Ambedkarite Buddhism and Discourses of Change in Contemporary Anti-Caste Online Activism summa cum laude.