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.
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.
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.
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.
3 Oct 2022 Early Christian Baptisteries online The most up-to-date geocoded dataset of 1,100+ Christian buildings from 3rd-12th century created with participation of CEDRR project now available online.
29 Sep 2022 LEVYNA members became IACESR elects Within the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion, Eva Kundtová Klocová was elected a secretary general and Martin Lang a member at large.
TIP 19 Sep 2022 Information for PhD students Information regarding the change to the new PhD study programme - course comparison table.
TIP 4 Aug 2022 Structured data vs. contextual complexity of texts: An unnecessary dilemma? David Zbíral and Robert Shaw briefly introduce the Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO), an approach to the human-controlled and data-driven transformation of texts to richly structured data, which was developed within DISSINET modelling of historical textual sources.
1 Jul 2022 In the core of debate on affluence and the rise of moralizing religions in the ancient Mediterranean Vojtěch Kaše and Tomáš Glomb contributed to the discussion on the relationship between affluence and the rise of moralizing religions in Religion, Brain & Behavior through the commentary of the target article by Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse et al.
17 Jun 2022 CEDRR members at the Religious Networks in Antiquity workshop in Bergen CEDRR members Aleš Chalupa and Tomáš Hampejs visited Tomáš Glomb at the Religious Networks in Antiquity workshop that he co-organized with Francesca Mazzilli, Eivind Seland, and The Connected Past initiative at the University of Bergen as part of his Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (June 7-8, 2022).
15 Jun 2022 Rituals signal mate quality Peter Maňo, Radek Kundt, and Eva Kundtová Klocová, together with Dimitris Xygalatas, published an article on rituals as signals of mate quality in the journal Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology.
13 Jun 2022 Advertising cooperativeness In the journal Royal Society Open Science, Martin Lang, Radim Chvaja, and David Václavík, together with Benjamin G. Purzycki, and Rostislav Staněk, published an article on how costly signals communicate cooperative intentions.
7 Jun 2022 "Cognitive" science of religion? In the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Eva Kundtová Klocová published a commentary on Claire White’s book An introduction to the cognitive science of religion.
14 Apr 2022 The Evolution of Religion and Morality Coedited by Martin Lang, Benjamin Purzycki, Joseph Henrich, and Ara Norenzayan, and featuring LEVYNA researchers, Religion, Brain & Behavior published a double issue reporting results of the second wave of The Evolution of Religion and Morality Project.
24 Mar 2022 Why do people perform rituals? Together with a colleague from University of Connecticut, Peter Maňo published an article on ritual exegesis of Mauritian Hindus in the journal Religion.
1 Jan 2022 The DISSINET team is now complete! We are delighted to announce that, after two highly competitive hiring processes, DISSINET has gained two new members: Gideon Kotzé (computational linguist) and Larissa de Freitas Lyth (historian)
23 Mar Public lecture by Dr. Paul Robertson 4:00 PM lecture We would like to cordially invite you for a public talk delivered by Paul Robertson. Dr. Robertson is Senior Lecturer of Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies in University of New Hampshire.
25 Mar CEDRR talk: From Archives to Algorithms: Digital Methods for Studying Imperial Commoners of Brazil and West Africa (1640-1822) 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. Demival Vasques Filho from the University of Luxembourg will discuss further aspects of digital humanities research.
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.
