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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.

2 Dec 2022

Workshop: Open science methods in fieldwork

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM workshop

Dr. Bret A. Beheim, Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig: "In this workshop, I will go over the data processing methods used by the Data Provenance Research Group at MPI-EVA for collecting survey-based information in the field, as well as rapidly digitizing and processing large amounts of archival materials through a modular, standardized data pipeline using software written in Kobo Toolbox, R and the bash shell. Workshop attendees are encouraged to use RStudio with a working terminal interface if possible."

1 Dec 2022

Lecture: Identifying tradeoffs between richness and evenness in artistic systems

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM lecture

Dr. Bret A. Beheim, Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig: "Access to large databases of behavioral and artistic records, and recent advances in AI assistants have created an efflorescence in the scientific study of cultural diversity. Here I focus on two study systems - the Game of Go and the South Indian art of Kolam - with the tools of behavioral ecology to understand how consistent patterns of behavioral diversity are with processes of strategic social learning, rates of innovation, artistic virtuosity, and the influence of new modes of social information."

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.

9–10 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.

29–30 Sep 2022

Workshop Pivo je boží!

2:00 PM – 10:00 PM workshop

7–8 Sep 2022

Conference: Metal and Religion

8:00 AM – 9:00 PM conference

The Department for the Study of Religions at Masaryk University invites your participation in a conference on the overall theme of “Metal and Religion” to be held in Brno, Czechia, 7-8 September, 2022.