Conference presentations showcase DISSINET applications of LLMs, SNA, and CASTEMO

DISSINET researchers have participated in a record number of conferences this year, discussing our innovative applications of LLMs, SNA, and CASTEMO, both in the context of particular inquisitorial registers and of our entire corpus of records. Since many of these presentations showcase upcoming articles, read on to find out what we have in store for the coming months.

In January, Zoltán Brys participated in the annual Czech Network of Social Network Analysis conference in Prague to discuss “Multilayer Network Analysis.” In early March 2026, at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries conference in Aarhus, David Zbíral presented a study that utilised DISSINET's wide-ranging corpus: “Using LLMs to uncover hidden patterns in the contestation of religious authorities across a corpus of medieval inquisition records (1243–1522).” In early May, DISSINET activities continued across several events: at CompleNet 2026 in Zaragoza, Zoltán Brys presented a poster titled “Two-Layer Reconstruction of Multi-Informant Social Interaction Networks in the Bologna Inquisition Register (1291–1310)”, and at Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World (Rethymno, 5–10 May), David Zbíral delivered “Semantic annotation of Latin documents using Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO) and the InkVisitor application.” At Colloquia Ceranea (Łódź, 7–9 May), Stanislaw Banach presented “Heterodoxy without Ministers: Evidence on the Persistence of Waldensian Beliefs,” and Katalin Suba contributed “Beneath the Formula: Consolament Descriptions in the FFF Register of Carcassonne and the Limits of Inquisitorial Construction.” Finally, at DH Benelux 2026 (Maastricht, 2–5 June), multiple DISSINET members presented: David Zbíral again on “Using LLMs…”, Robert Shaw on “Narratives of religious dissidence in medieval inquisition records,” and Katalin Suba on “Sequential variation in inquisitorial ritual narratives.”