Department for the Study of Religions

Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

6–7 Jun

Conference: Hedonistic Occultism - Blood, Desire, Sex & Magic

8:00 AM – 9:00 PM

The Department for the Study of Religions at Masaryk University and RASWE - Research Association for the Study of Western Esotericism invite you to the academic conference "Hedonistic Occultism: Blood, Desire, Sex & Magic" to be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 6-7 June, 2022.

13–14 Jun

Conference: Paganism and its Others

8:00 AM – 9:00 PM

The Department for the Study of Religions at Masaryk University invites you to the academic conference "Paganism and its Others" to be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 13-14 June, 2022.

18 Dec 2020

Anestis Karasaridis received IGA grant

Anestis Karasaridis has succeeded with his grant proposal “The Antonine Plague in Rome: Comparative Modeling of Different Pathogens” in the grant competition for doctoral students (IGA) organized by Masaryk University.

17 Dec 2020

Jana Nenadalová received IGA grant

The Masaryk University Internal Grant Agency will fund her project Sensing spirits and other dangerous beings.

9 Dec 2020

ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr. Zbíral

Dr. Zbíral has been awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant for a five-year research project “Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe”.

12 Oct 2020

New research assistants

Three research assistants join DISSINET since November.

8 Oct 2020

Dr Zbíral awarded the Rector’s Prize

Dr Zbíral has been awarded the 2020 Masaryk University Rector's Prize for an exceptional research outcome.

5 Oct 2020

ERGM & ALAAM Quick Reference Sheet

We have created a quick reference sheet for the statnet and MPNet
implementations of the ERGMs (Exponential Random Graph Model) and ALAAMs (Auto-Logistic Actor Attribute Model).

9 Sep 2020

Intergroup violence and trustworthiness

Dan Řezníček and Radek Kundt published a study in the Journal of Cognition and Culture.

1 Sep 2020

DISSINET is looking for a research assistant

The Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) seeks a short-term research assistant with competence in Latin language and in historical research.