Department for the Study of Religions

Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

30 Nov

CEDRR talks: "Florentine Political Debates, 1349-1492. A Social and Semantic Analysis"

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Katalin Prajda from the University of Vienna will talk us through her research on the Florentine Consulte e Pratiche records of policy discussion held by the local political elite and explain her work with archives as well as social and semantic networks.

30 Nov

CEDRR guest lecture "Mapping seismic gods in the ancient Mediterranean"

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Dr. Sabine Neumann from the Marburg Center for the Ancient World (MCAW, University of Marburg) and Dr. Tomáš Glomb (CEDRR, Masaryk University) will present their ongoing research that tackles the question of "How seismic activity in the ancient Mediterranean could have shaped the worship of deities in the region?" by using the synergy between established historiographical approaches and quantitative methods.

9 Dec

CEDRR hands-on seminar: Computational approaches to semantic change

9:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Dr. Vojtěch Kaše from the Computing Culture & Society Laboratory (CCS-Lab, University of West Bohemia) will lead a hands-on seminar focusing on the topic of analyzing semantic changes in large textual corpora and will introduce to the participants a particular computational methodological framework.

27 Sep 2018

A Research expedition to the island of Mauritius

In July 2018 team LEVYNA set out for its regular research expedition to the island of Mauritius, our primary field side. Together with other collaborators, we were collecting data for six different projects focused mainly on religious beliefs and behaviors.

21 May 2018

Jakub Cigán received an internal grant from Masaryk University.

The grant will help Jakub with the preparation of a monograph reporting on his fieldwork among Czech Protestants where he combines classical ethnographic methods and signaling theories to understand the nature of religious conversion.

17 May 2018

Dr. Cigán was succesful in grant competition for book "Remembering and Displaying: Cognitive Science of Religious Conversion"

21 Mar 2018

Paper from GEHIR Project in PLOS One

We are announcing with joy that computational history research paper analyzing ancient Ptolemaic cults of Isis and Serapis was published. Congratulation to the authors

8 Mar 2018

New research on costly rituals among university fraternities

Have you ever heard about or actually underwent initiation rituals that are obligatory for membership in a college fraternity or sorority? You may be interested in a new study featuring LEVYNA!

5 Nov 2017