19 Dec 2023 Tomáš Glomb got the MUNI Scientist Award Doctor Glomb won the award for the publication of the book Connecting the Isiac Cults, which is the culmination of his long-term research on the spread of the Egyptian cults in the Hellenistic period.
10 Dec 2023 CEDRR students were on a writing retreat From December 6 to 8, student members of the Centre for the Digital Research of Religion were on the first-ever writing retreat organized by CEDRR.
1 Dec 2023 DISSINET in podcast DATAŘI David Zbíral and Tomáš Hampejs talk about inquisition records as digital capta with Jan Cibulka in the Czech Radio podcast „DATAŘI“.
29 Nov 2023 Book chapter in the newly published The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research Vojtěch Kaše (University of West Bohemia), Tomáš Glomb (Masaryk University), and Jan Fousek (Aix-Marseille University) contributed to the new Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research with the chapter Networks and Religious Transformations.
27 Nov 2023 CASTEMO data blooms in Neo4j graph databases Great news! CASTEMO data collected in InkVisitor can now be readily outputted into Neo4j graph databases. Neo4j allows for collected data to be flexibly explored, queried, enriched, and analysed with graph tools.
21 Nov 2023 CREDO project received funding from the Czech Science Foundation in the Junior Star program! Martin Lang received the Czech National Foundation’s Junior Star grant with his project titled Computing Religious Devotion: How Reinforcing Supernatural Beliefs Affects Normative Models in the Mind.
14 Nov 2023 Two LEVYNA graduates have been awarded for excellent study results The vice-rector for Research and Doctoral Studies at Masaryk University has awarded two LEVYNA graduates - Dan Řezníček and Radim Chvaja with a price for excellent results during their Ph.D. studies.
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.
6 Oct 2023 Heresy Quantified - David Zbíral's professorship lecture David Zbíral's public lecture as part of the professorship procedure.
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.
30 Aug 2023 Religious houses in the Czech lands (interactive map) DISSINET collaborated on an interactive map of Christian religious houses in the Czech lands.
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.
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.
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.
19 Jul 2023 Mapping Waldensian “synagogues” DISSINET has published a map of Waldensian gathering places in Piedmont.
12 Nov CEDRR talk. Webs of Dissent: Inquisitorial Registers and Social Network Analysis for a Socio-Cultural History of Medieval Heresy 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM lecture CEDRR is pleased to welcome Roberto Mussinatto, who will present his doctoral research using social network analysis to explain the workings of medieval inquisitorial investigations and the networks of religious dissent.
4 Nov Workshop by Dr. Matthew Gervais 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM workshop We cordially invite you to a workshop delivered by Matthew Gervais about a methodological toolkit that can be used to inductively map the structure of concepts within a population.
3 Nov Public lecture by Dr. Matthew Gervais 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM lecture We would like to cordially invite you for a public talk delivered by Matthew Gervais. Dr. Gervais is currently a lecturer at Psychology Department at Brunel University of London.
13 Oct Public lecture by Dr. Michał Misiak 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM lecture We would like to cordially invite you for a public talk delivered by Michał Misiak. Dr. Misiak is is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Scientific Incubator “Being Human” at the University of Wrocław.
