Apart from other events, DISSINET will present its research at two major international conferences: the International Medieval Congress Leeds and Digital Humanities 2026 in South Korea, showcasing its research internationally and bringing together medieval studies and digital innovation. If you are attending either conference, we warmly invite you to join our panels and engage with our research.
At the International Medieval Congress in Leeds (6–9 July 2026), DISSINET will sponsor four interconnected panels under the shared theme “Heresy and repression.” Together, these sessions explore the relationship between religious dissent and its control in medieval Europe, while engaging with the congress’s special focus on “Temporalities.”
The panels cover a broad spectrum of approaches—from cultural and conceptual analyses of heresy to innovative computational methods, including social network analysis, semantic profiling, and text reuse detection. Contributions by DISSINET members and international collaborators address topics such as gendered experiences of time in inquisitorial trials, the rhetoric of anti-heretical writing, and the mapping of dissident networks across Europe.
Organised by David Zbíral and Robert L. J. Shaw, and supported by an international team of moderators, the panels highlight DISSINET’s integrative approach combining historical interpretation with digital methodologies. We warmly invite IMC participants to attend and engage with our sessions.
International Medieval Congress Leeds 2026
Our reserch will also be represented at DH2026 (27–31 July 2026, Daejeon), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Gideon Kotzé will present a paper titled “DISSILEX: A machine-operable lexico-semantic network and valency lexicon for medieval Latin” and Tomáš Hampejs will talk about Discursive Mapping of Religious Belief in Medieval Inquisitorial Registers with LLM Syntactic-Semantic Modeling. The project introduces a new digital resource for analysing medieval Latin, further advancing DISSINET’s work at the intersection of historical research and computational linguistics.
A visualisation of DISSINET's more than 11,000-item Zotero library mapped by subject domain, root collection down to individual topic, shows the team’s focus in bibliographic terms, and how that reading spans history, network science, and computational text analysis.
