26 Nov 2021

New paper about the spread of the cult of Asclepius in the Roman Empire by Tomas Glomb

Congratulation to Tomas Glomb, who is now situated at the University of Bergen as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow, for his recently published paper! His case study affiliated with his Bergen ASCNET project focused on the correlation of physicians' inscriptions and the spatial distribution of Asclepius worship in the Roman Empire.

19 Oct 2021

How to measure ritual attendance accurately?

Together with colleagues from Otago, Martin Lang published an article on the accuracy of methods for measuring ritual attendance in the PLoS ONE journal.

11 Oct 2021

Effects of seating arrangement on students‘ interaction

Jakub Cigán, together with colleagues, published an article in The Journal for Experimental Education studying the effects of seating arrangement on students’ interactions.

1 Sep 2021

The new DISSINET team is up and running!

On 1 September 2021, the ERC Consolidator Grant-funded project “Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe” (DISSINET, 2021-2026) officially gets underway! The team is now constituted. Who’s aboard?

23 Aug 2021

Ritual signaling and social hierarchy

Together with international colleagues, LEVYNA researchers published an article studying differences in the types of ritual signaling in Evolution and Human Behavior.

18 Aug 2021

Commentaries on the book Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind

Jakub Cigán and Martin Lang (together with Valerie van Mulukom) published commentaries on the new book by Robert N. McCauley and George Graham in the Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion.

15 Aug 2021

Model the source first! Towards source modelling and source criticism 2.0

The project of computational historiography needs not only to adopt the modelling for representing the target phenomena but also to achieve a complex representation of the textual sources and its interpretive layers. To do the latter, we have developed an approach that we call “source modelling”.

23 Jul 2021

Outgroup threat and group cohesion

Martin Lang et al. published an article studying the effects of outgroup threat on intragroup cohesion in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

13 Jul 2021

Missing gods or data?

In their new piece in Nature, Beheim et al. (including LEVYNA’s Martin Lang) discuss factors influencing our ability to detect the presence of beliefs in moralizing gods in past societies.

7 Jul 2021

Ritualization increases the perceived efficacy of actions

Peter Maňo, together with D. Xygalatas and G. Baranowski Pinto, published an article in Cognition.

1 Jul 2021

Awe and prosociality

LEVYNA published an article on the influence of the awe emotion on prosocial behavior in Religion, Brain & Behavior.

1 May 2021

The journal Sacra has a new website

The Journal Sacra has a new website. Readers will find not only a new design and detailed information for authors but also news from the field of religious studies.

20 Mar 2021

Interview with dr David Zbíral in Magazine M

Dr David Zbíral on religious dissidence, computational interdisciplinary history, and the award of an ERC Consolidator Grant.

1 Mar 2021

Historical Geocoding Assistant in SoftwareX

Historical Geocoding Assistant gains visibility through a publication in SoftwareX.

22 Feb 2021

Welcoming Reima Välimäki as a research associate

We are proud to welcome a cultural historian dr. Reima Välimäki as a DISSINET research associate.

22 Dec 2020

Synchrony and group moral hypocrisy

Radim Chvaja, Radek Kundt, and Martin Lang published an article in Frontiers in Psychology.

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6 Dec 2024

Lecture: Buddhism and the Quest for Justice: Ambedkarite Migration and New Diasporas

2:00 PM lecture

2 Dec 2024

Public lecture by Ross Pain: Hierarchical cognition and the evolution of syntax

2:00 PM lecture

LEVYNA invites you to a public lecture by Ross Pain (University of Bristol, UK) entitled Hierarchical cognition and the evolution of syntax

12 Nov 2024

Invitation to the book presentation: The Problem of Re-enchantment in (Central-Eastern) Europe: About Three Recent Publications..

4:00 PM lecture

6 Nov 2024

CEDRR guest lecture "Political Networks: What Are They and How Do They Matter?"

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Dr. Petr Ocelík from the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Masaryk University, will illustrate how social network analysis, as a methodological and metatheoretical framework, contributes to a better understanding of the political world.

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