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.
21 Apr 2023 Mapping the Latin of medieval inquisition records: DISSINET’s lexico-semantic network as a language resource As an important product of DISSINET analytical work, there is a specialised language resource for Latin on the horizon. The aim is to enrich the description of the medieval Latin language and improve the quality of computational analysis performed on Latin sources.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
12 Dec 2022 Data on witchcraft trials in the Czech lands published online More on persons, places, charges, punishments, and material substances can be found in the the most comprehensive digital dataset of witchcraft trials in the Czech lands completed by Eva Brhelová, Veronika Praženková, Anna Bílková, Anna and David Zbíral.
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.
8 Dec 2022 Ritualization reduces anxiety Martin Lang, Jan Krátký, and Dimitris Xygalatas published a paper on ritualization and anxiety reduction in Scientific Reports.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 Sep Digital Research of Medieval Religious Dissidence and Inquisition: 5 years of DISSINET 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Join us online for the DISSINET II Closing / DISSINET III Opening Event, where we’ll share the key results of five years of research on medieval heresy and dissent and inquisition, as well as summarize our research agenda for the upcoming years. The programme showcases the project’s main digital tools, datasets, and research achievements.
10 Sep DISSINET ERC Project: Five Years of Research, Collaboration, and Community 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Join us for a relaxed afternoon marking five years of DISSINET, with short talks, posters, and behind-the-scenes perspectives. Reflect on what we’ve built together—and where it may lead next.
