TIP DISSINET1 Jun 2023 InkVisitor website launched The official website of InkVisitor, a state-of-the-art environment for the collection of complex data from texts developed in the Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) at Masaryk University, is now launched.
DISSINET22 May 2023 Map of Early Heresy cases in the West, c.1000-c.1150 The interactive map application presents dataset of early cases of heresy in the West, ca. 1000–1150, compiled from original Latin sources. It shows locations, heresy cases linked to those locations, and mentions in the sources, on which the description is based.
CEDRR19 May 2023 Tomáš Glomb received the Rector's Award for Outstanding Research Results Achieved by Young Scientists under 35 Dr. Glomb's contributions to the digital research of religion were recognized by Martin Bareš, the rector of Masaryk University, at the Dies academics ceremony.
CEDRR27 Apr 2023 CEDRR has a visiting researcher! Dr. José Carlos López-Gómez from the University of Málaga is on a three-month research stay at CEDRR to explore cultural transmissions on the Iberian peninsula in antiquity using the methods of Digital Humanities.
DISSINET21 Apr 2023 Mapping the Latin of medieval inquisition records: DISSINET’s lexico-semantic network as a language resource As an important product of DISSINET analytical work, there is a specialised language resource for Latin on the horizon. The aim is to enrich the description of the medieval Latin language and improve the quality of computational analysis performed on Latin sources.
LEVYNAGrantPhD17 Apr 2023 Funding for a registered report Jana Nenadalová, Piotr Szymanek (Jagiellonian University), and Neil Van Leeuwen (Georgia State University) received a grant from the Open Science of Religion initiative (supported by the John Templeton Foundation) for a virtual reality study.
LEVYNAPhD31 Mar 2023 Radim Chvaja defended his dissertation thesis In his thesis, titled Costly signaling theory of pilgrimage: The case study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, he studied whether pilgrimages may function as costly signals of commitment to group norms.
LEVYNAPhD30 Mar 2023 Jan Horský defended his dissertation thesis In his thesis, titled “Wu-Tang Is for the Children”: The Cultural Transmission of Moral Norms Through Narrative, he studied the cultural transmission of moral norms, focusing on American rap music.
