DISSINET

9 Nov 2023

DISSINET’s article on sentencing in early inquisition trials published in Historical Methods

DISSINET article applying computational methods to sentencing in early inquisition trials published in a top ranking journal Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.

DISSINET

19 Sep 2023

Did inquisitors fear charges of sexual misconduct?

Why did inquisitors interrogate women in different spaces than they did men? DISSINET looks into this in the most important history magazine worldwide, History Today.

LEVYNA

17 Aug 2023

Phases of the menstrual cycle have no effects on incentivized decision-making

In an incentivized controlled lab experiment published in the Journal of Economic Psychology, Miloš Fišar together with members of LEVYNA and other colleagues show that there are no systematic effects of ovulatory shift on salient behavioral outcomes like risk preferences, rule violation, and exploratory attitude.

CEDRR

16 Aug 2023

New article on the ancient Roman imperial propaganda

Tomáš Glomb (MUNI), Vojtěch Kaše (ZČU), and Viktor Zavřel (MUNI) have published their article "Iconographic Trends in Roman Imperial Coinage in the Context of Societal Changes in the Second and Third Centuries CE: A Small-Scale Test of the Affluence Hypothesis" in Open Archaeology.

LEVYNA

7 Aug 2023

Costly signals induce more trustworthiness when used in religious settings like pilgrimages

In an experimental study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Radim Chvaja, Martin Lang and colleagues show that religious *costly* signals are more effective in communicating trustworthiness to religious/secular receivers than secular signals.

3 Aug 2023

New paper about the evolution of human ritual

Journal Religion, Brain, & Behavior published article authored by Martin Lang and Radek Kundt where they synthesize literature from several disciplines to identify possible reasons for the evolution of collective rituals. The authors argue that rituals evolved to facilitate cooperative communication.

CEDRR

27 Jul 2023

Právě vyšla kniha Aleše Chalupy Římský kult boha Mithry: Atlas lokalit a katalog nálezů I

LEVYNA

3 Jul 2023

Dan Řezníček defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, titled The transmission of intergroup aggression: Prestige, credible displays, and coalitionary signals, he studied the factors and ways of spreading of intergroup aggression within groups during their mutual conflicts.

DISSINET

23 Jun 2023

A new historian and a computational sociologist have joined the DISSINET team

The DISSINET has welcomed two new team members over recent months following the departure of a historian and a sociologist in autumn 2022.

InkVisitor website launched

The official website of InkVisitor, a state-of-the-art environment for the collection of complex data from texts developed in the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) at Masaryk University, is now launched.

CEDRR

19 May 2023

Tomáš Glomb received the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35

Dr. Glomb's contributions to the digital research of religion were recognized by Martin Bareš, the rector of Masaryk University, at the Dies academics ceremony.

5 May 2023

Naše studentka Eliška Vrbová získala grant GAMU - zúčastněte se jejího výzkumu!

CEDRR

27 Apr 2023

CEDRR has a visiting researcher!

Dr. José Carlos López-Gómez from the University of Málaga is on a three-month research stay at CEDRR to explore cultural transmissions on the Iberian peninsula in antiquity using the methods of Digital Humanities.

LEVYNA

17 Apr 2023

Funding for a registered report

Jana Nenadalová, Piotr Szymanek (Jagiellonian University), and Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University) received a grant from the Open Science of Religion initiative (supported by the John Templeton Foundation) for a virtual reality study.

CEDRR

2 Apr 2023

Rozhovor s dr. Glombem o digitálních humanitních vědách

31 Mar 2023

Michal Puchovský defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, called Modern Pagan Music in the Czech Republic, he analysed the pagan elements in the work of selected bands from the Czech Republic that publicly admit to being inspired by Paganism.

LEVYNA

31 Mar 2023

Radim Chvaja defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, titled Costly signaling theory of pilgrimage: The case study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, he studied whether pilgrimages may function as costly signals of commitment to group norms.

LEVYNA

30 Mar 2023

Jan Horský defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, titled “Wu-Tang Is for the Children”: The Cultural Transmission of Moral Norms Through Narrative, he studied the cultural transmission of moral norms, focusing on American rap music.

CEDRR

14 Mar 2023

CEDRR is a new member of the Czech Association for Digital Humanities

From now on, CEDRR is an active participant in the debate on the shape and form of Digital Humanities on a national level.

DISSINET

20 Dec 2022

Can artificial intelligence read medieval inquisition records?

ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, has taken the Internet by storm and has generated quite a fuss also in the DISSINET team. First impressions of ChatGPT’s reaction to medieval Latin texts are astonishing.

LEVYNA

9 Dec 2022

Ritualization reduces anxiety

Martin Lang and Radim Chvaja published a chapter discussing the relationship between ritual and anxiety in The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion.

LEVYNA

8 Dec 2022

Ritualization reduces anxiety

Martin Lang, Jan Krátký, and Dimitris Xygalatas published a paper on ritualization and anxiety reduction in Scientific Reports.

LEVYNA

7 Dec 2022

Rituals and moral norm objectivization

Radim Chvaja, Jan Horský, Martin Lang, and Radek Kundt published a study on ritual and objectivity of moral norms in The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.

CEDRR

5 Dec 2022

Tomáš Glomb wrote a book on the spread of the Egyptian cults

The book Connecting the Isiac Cults: Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean written by Tomáš Glomb has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

CEDRR

2 Dec 2022

Reapproaching inquisition records

David Zbíral & Robert L. J. Shaw have published the most up-to-date summary of the rich debate on the uses of medieval inquisition records. In a last, substantial section, the article explains the core of DISSINET's research agenda.

LEVYNA

20 Oct 2022

What do nonbelievers believe in?

In a paper published in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Eva Kundtová Klocová and Dan Řezníček collaborated with an international research team lead by Valerie van Mulukom to study worldviews of nonbelievers.

LEVYNA

18 Oct 2022

What motivates ritual participation?

In the journal Slovak Ethnology, Peter Maňo and Dimitris Xygalatas published an article focused on the motivations to partake in rituals.

LEVYNA

18 Oct 2022

LEVYNA has a new director

Martin Lang took on the role of LEVYNA’s director after Radek Kundt.

LEVYNA

13 Oct 2022

Rap music and moral norms

Jan Horský published an article on the role of narrative art in the transmission of moral norms in the Journal of Cognition and Culture.

CEDRR

10 Oct 2022

Computing the Past Together (Conference in Pilsen, 6-8 October)

Conference Computing the Past was jointly organized by Computing Culture & Society Laboratory (CCS-Lab) and CEDRR to create an interdisciplinary meeting point for several historically oriented fields in humanities.

DISSINET

4 Oct 2022

DISSINET Digital Humanities approach presented in a podcast

David Zbíral was invited to a podcast by the Centre of Early Medieval Studies to talk about digital humanities approch in the research of medieval dissident communities.

CEDRR

3 Oct 2022

CEDRR has a new head!

The translatio imperii in CEDRR is finished and our Tomáš Glomb has taken up the responsibilities from the previous head and co-founder of the centre, David Zbíral, who will continue as the PI of the ERC DISSINET project and will remain the bedrock of CEDRR.