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.
18 Oct 2022 LEVYNA has a new director Martin Lang took on the role of LEVYNA’s director after Radek Kundt.
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).
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.
