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19 Aug 2020

Map: Premonstratensian monasteries in France

New interactive map visualizing dataset of Premonstratensian houses in France from the foundation of the order up to the present.

13 Aug 2020

Why did memetics fail?

Radim Chvaja published an article in the Perspectives on Science, The MIT Press.

3 Aug 2020

About DISSINET: Interview with Dr. David Zbíral

Interview with the DISSINET project’s PI about DISSINET and the Digital Humanities.

2 Jul 2020

Why is the graph visualisation not always an ideal way to display network data?

BLOG: When visualizing networks, a graph displaying this data as nodes connected with ties is definitely the first choice. However, this visualization often comes with significant disadvantages and should not be considered as the norm without considering other alternatives.

29 Jun 2020

Does ritual behavior decrease anxiety?

A new publication by Martin Lang, Jan Krátký and Dimitris Xygalatas in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

3 Apr 2020

New paper about Ptolemaic political activities in PloS ONE

Congratulation for a new study in PLoS ONE to Tomáš Glomb, Adam Mertel, Zdeněk Pospíšil and Aleš Chalupa.

26 Feb 2020 TIP

Conference "Resistance to Order and Authority in Religion" in Budapest

UPDATED 5/20. On behalf of all organizers from Masaryk University (Department for the Study of Religions), Eötvös Loránd University (Centre for the Study of Religion) and Central European University (Center for Religious Studies) we are pleased to invite you to the forthcoming fourth annual international doctoral conference in Religious Studies, to be held 15 - 17 October 2020 in Budapest, Hungary.

29 Jan 2020

Open post-doc position

We are looking for a new colleague to join our lab for two years as a post-doc researcher with a specialization in economic games and behavioral experiments.