8 Oct 2018 Is atheism associated with a specific way of thinking? Previous studies, primarily aimed at the university population in the US, suggested that atheism could be related to a so-called analytical cognitive style.
4 Oct 2018 Peter Maňo received John McGraw Award for Best Student Contribution at IACSR 2018 Peter Maňo received John McGraw Award for Best Student Contribution at IACSR 2018
27 Sep 2018 A Research expedition to the island of Mauritius In July 2018 team LEVYNA set out for its regular research expedition to the island of Mauritius, our primary field side. Together with other collaborators, we were collecting data for six different projects focused mainly on religious beliefs and behaviors.
21 May 2018 Jakub Cigán received an internal grant from Masaryk University. The grant will help Jakub with the preparation of a monograph reporting on his fieldwork among Czech Protestants where he combines classical ethnographic methods and signaling theories to understand the nature of religious conversion.
17 May 2018 Dr. Cigán was succesful in grant competition for book "Remembering and Displaying: Cognitive Science of Religious Conversion"
21 Mar 2018 Paper from GEHIR Project in PLOS One We are announcing with joy that computational history research paper analyzing ancient Ptolemaic cults of Isis and Serapis was published. Congratulation to the authors
8 Mar 2018 New research on costly rituals among university fraternities Have you ever heard about or actually underwent initiation rituals that are obligatory for membership in a college fraternity or sorority? You may be interested in a new study featuring LEVYNA!
9 Mar Zoltán Brys lecture on Multilayer Network Analysis 1:00 PM lecture DISSINET member Zoltán Brys will give a lecture on "Multilayer Network Analysis of Gender-Stratified Inquisitorial Testimonies" as part of the Historical Network Research (HNR) Community Spring 2026 Series.
25 Mar CEDRR talk: From Archives to Algorithms: Digital Methods for Studying Imperial Commoners of Brazil and West Africa (1640-1822) by Agata Błoch 10:00 AM lecture Join the DISSINET team for another CEDRR talk as Agata Bloch from the Polish Academy of Sciences demonstrates how algorithms, archival research, and critical digital humanities approaches transform our understanding of everyday people in Brazil and West Africa during the Portuguese Empire.
10 Sep DISSINET II Closing / DISSINET III Launch 10:00 AM Save the date 10 September 2026 10:00–12:00 and 14:00–16:00 for the conclusion of DISSINET II (ERC Consolidator grant, 9/2021–8/2026) and the opening of DISSINET III with a gathering that highlights the project’s journey and its forward-looking research paths.
