DISSINET is now on Bluesky and Mastodon

DISSINET has launched new social media accounts to share its research and connect with digital humanists and historians online.

31 Mar 2025

We are excited to announce that DISSINET is now on Bluesky and Mastodon! Use these links to follow us and receive updates on DISSINET publications, research, and upcoming events:

https://bsky.app/profile/dissinet.bsky.social
https://fedihum.org/@DISSINET

We encourage you to share our accounts with anyone who might be interested – digital humanists, researchers of religion, medievalists, and beyond!

8 Sep

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech. Funded Ph.D. opportunity, deadline for expressions of interest: 5 October 2026

The Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) invites applications from prospective Ph.D. students interested in digital and quantitative approaches to medieval anti-heretical hate speech. Successful candidates will join an international interdisciplinary research environment at Masaryk University. Expressions of interest are due by 5 October 2026.
2 Sep

What we read, mapped: the (inter)disciplinary shape of DISSINET's library

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.
29 Aug

AI Augmented Historical Research

From conversation to folder: a guide to spark imagination about what’s possible when LLM AI works over your files, not just a chat window, in document-heavy historical research; written up from an internal DISSINET workshop.
30 Jun

DISSINET at IMC Leeds and DH2026 in South Korea

This summer, DISSINET will present its research at two major international events - the IMC 2026 in Leeds and DH2026 in South Korea - highlighting its work on medieval religious dissent and advancing the integration of medieval studies with digital innovation.

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DISSINET is now on Bluesky and Mastodon

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Medieval anti-heretical hate speech. Funded Ph.D. opportunity, deadline for expressions of interest: 5 October 2026

What we read, mapped: the (inter)disciplinary shape of DISSINET's library

AI Augmented Historical Research

DISSINET at IMC Leeds and DH2026 in South Korea