Research centres

We are committed to interdisciplinary research, practiced both individually and in specialized teams.

In addition to individual researchers, our teams are organized into two research centers. The Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA) combines methods from the cognitive and evolutionary sciences, while the Center for the Digital Research of Religion (CEDRR) uses computational methodologies to enhance our understanding of historical data.

LEVYNA

The Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA) is an interdisciplinary research centre that seeks to understand both what is universal and cross-culturally variable in religious traditions utilizing methods of laboratory and field experiments.

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CEDRR

The Centre for the Digital Research of Religion (CEDRR) is an interdisciplinary research centre applying digital technologies and digital methods of analysis in research into religion. It hosts the Generative Historiography of Religion Project (GEHIR) and the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) as well as other, individual projects.

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News from the centres

DISSINET

8 Sep

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech. Funded Ph.D. opportunity, deadline for expressions of interest: 5 October 2026

The Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) invites applications from prospective Ph.D. students interested in digital and quantitative approaches to medieval anti-heretical hate speech. Successful candidates will join an international interdisciplinary research environment at Masaryk University. Expressions of interest are due by 5 October 2026.

DISSINET

2 Sep

What we read, mapped: the (inter)disciplinary shape of DISSINET's library

A visualisation of DISSINET's more than 11,000-item Zotero library mapped by subject domain, root collection down to individual topic, shows the team’s focus in bibliographic terms, and how that reading spans history, network science, and computational text analysis.

DISSINET

29 Aug

AI Augmented Historical Research

From conversation to folder: a guide to spark imagination about what’s possible when LLM AI works over your files, not just a chat window, in document-heavy historical research; written up from an internal DISSINET workshop.