New DISSINET research associate

20 Aug 2019

Tomáš Diviák (University of Groningen & Charles University, Prague) joins the DISSINET team as a research associate under contract since 1 September 2019. Tomáš's research focus is covert networks and statistical models for social networks. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. with Tom Snijders at the University of Groningen.

28 Oct

Katia Riccardo receives Vice-Rector’s Award

Katia Riccardo receives Vice-Rector’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Studies in the academic year 2025/2026.
22 Oct

Hidden mechanisms of religious authority contestation: 4,433 inquisition testimonies across 300 years

Which medieval men and women were most prone to challenging the Church? Analysing 4,433 inquisitorial testimonies (1243–1522), a DISSINET study in the Journal of Cultural Analytics traces how contestation varied by religious group, gender, urban or rural setting, and period. It identifies women and countryfolk as the more frequent challengers, and finds that criticism grew over the period studied.
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.

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Katia Riccardo receives Vice-Rector’s Award

Hidden mechanisms of religious authority contestation: 4,433 inquisition testimonies across 300 years

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