Events and news

CEDRR talk: "Challenges of interactive mapping of Western-European heresy (1000-1150)"

10:00 AM

Lidia Hinz-Wieczorek from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań will talk you through the challenges she and her DISSINET collaborators experienced while trying to map early heresy in Western Europe and mark the official launch of the interactive map application.

CEDRR talk: "Florentine Political Debates, 1349-1492. A Social and Semantic Analysis"

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Katalin Prajda from the University of Vienna will talk us through her research on the Florentine Consulte e Pratiche records of policy discussion held by the local political elite and explain her work with archives as well as social and semantic networks.

CEDRR talk: "An integral socio-semantic network approach to symbolic construction of culture"

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Nikita Basov from Saint Petersburg University / Bielefeld University will present socio-semantic network approach as part of CEDRR talks and the DISSINET project in a lecture and a following hands-on workshop.

CEDRR talk: "Insights from the RIP Project: Simulating Secularising Societies between Norway and Poland"

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

The PI of the research project "Religion, Ideology & Prosociality: Simulating Secularising Societies",  Konrad Talmont-Kamiński will give a talk about their approach to modelling secularisation - a complex, multi-level phenomenon - using agent-based computational models.

CEDRR guest lecture "Political Networks: What Are They and How Do They Matter?"

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Dr. Petr Ocelík from the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Masaryk University, will illustrate how social network analysis, as a methodological and metatheoretical framework, contributes to a better understanding of the political world.

Gender and Heresy lecture by David Zbíral at the University of Bologna

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

David Zbíral is giving a lecture, with the option of online participation, on “Gender and heresy: Actions of men and women in corpus data from twenty-five inquisition registers” at the University of Bologna.

CEDRR talk "RELIC: A Digital Approach to Christianisation and the Everyday People on the Eastern Fringes of the Ottonian-Salian Empire"

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Medievalist and archaeologist Mária Vargha from the University of Vienna will talk about her project focused on comparative investigation of the Christianisation processes in East-Central Europe.

CEDRR and LEVYNA guest lecture "Cognition and Rituals in the Cult of Mithras - A New Theoretical Approach"

4:00 PM

Dr. Blanka Misic from the University of Vienna, Austria (Institut für Klassische Archäologie), will deliver a lecture focusing on the topic of ritual practices and the range of religious experiences that occurred within Mithraic religious communities in the Roman Empire.