Department for the Study of Religions

Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

29 May

CEDRR talk: Analyzing non-local influence processes in dynamic networks

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

DISSINET team invites you to a guest lecture on dynamic networks by Daniel Gotthardt from Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Colleagues unaffiliated with Masaryk University are welcome to attend online.

3 Aug 2023

New paper about the evolution of human ritual

Journal Religion, Brain, & Behavior published article authored by Martin Lang and Radek Kundt where they synthesize literature from several disciplines to identify possible reasons for the evolution of collective rituals. The authors argue that rituals evolved to facilitate cooperative communication.

19 Jul 2023

Mapping Waldensian “synagogues”

DISSINET has published a map of Waldensian gathering places in Piedmont.

3 Jul 2023

Dan Řezníček defended his dissertation thesis

In his thesis, titled The transmission of intergroup aggression: Prestige, credible displays, and coalitionary signals, he studied the factors and ways of spreading of intergroup aggression within groups during their mutual conflicts.

23 Jun 2023

A new historian and a computational sociologist have joined the DISSINET team

The DISSINET has welcomed two new team members over recent months following the departure of a historian and a sociologist in autumn 2022.

TIP

1 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.

22 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.

19 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.

27 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.