DISSINET12 Dec Occupation, socioeconomic status, and dissidence in medieval Bologna revisited by Katia Riccardo, David Zbíral, and Zoltán Brys In yet another article using the inquisition register from Bologna, MUNI authors published new insights into the occupation and socioeconomic status of religious dissidents.
CEDRR25 Nov Tereza Menšíková and Jana Kendíková received the Dean's award Tereza and Jana were recognized by the Dean's award for their PhD and BA theses.
CEDRR11 Nov Tereza Menšíková received the Vice-Rector’s Award for Excellent Results in Doctoral Studies at Masaryk University Tereza was awarded for her dissertation, in which she studied how Dalits, members of the anti-caste movement in India, utilize digital media to expand their reach and mobilize for social change. Tereza's supervisor, Jana Valtrová, and consultant, Tomáš Glomb, also received the award
LEVYNA10 Nov Estimated Costs and Benefits of Extreme Rituals in Mauritius Why do people willingly engage in painful or exhausting rituals with no obvious material reward?
DISSINET4 Oct DISSINET publishes a transcription of the inquisition register of John Galand and William of Saint-Seine, 1283–1302 As part of DISSINET's corpus work, we have procured a transcription of the hitherto unpublished register of John Galand and William of Saint-Seine, 1283–1302, that we have made available in the Zenodo repository.
DISSINET3 Oct Extracting data from historical texts using Large Language Models Large Language Models (LLMs) hold significant promise for extracting information from historical texts. If used appropriately, they can speed up the research process, compensating for resource limitations and helping researchers achieve ambitious objectives in quantitative cultural history.
DISSINET3 Oct DISSINET during summer 2025: conferences, workshops, and success at a competition on detecting hate speech This summer, DISSINET team members attended five international conferences and two summer schools, showcasing the diversity of our research efforts and motivation to learn and apply new methodologies.
CEDRR25 Sep Gods on the barge On the occasion of launching the course Religious Phenomena in Computational Modelling, we remind a strategy game inspired by cutting-edge research of Tomas Glomb and Adam Mertel. Based on the GEHIR project’s computer modelling of the spread of Egyptian cults, the game challenges players to test how ancient religions could conquer the Mediterranean and to outsmart rival deities such as Isis, Serapis, Anubis or Bastet.
