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Dear friends and colleagues,
As the academic year concludes, we are pleased to share several updates on new publications, funding opportunities with DISSINET, and our conference plans for the summer!
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The article recently published in Acta Historica Tallinnensia argues for the importance of integrating digital history methods with source criticism and highlights DISSINET's contributions to this field, describing our innovations in data acquisition and analysis.
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Our comprehensive dataset of witchcraft trials in Czech lands has been utilised by the popular online publication Aktuálně.cz to create a new map. Their article also features several other helpful visualisations and findings based on our data.
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Apply for a Ph.D. with DISSINET - Due 31 July
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DISSINET is offering support to M.A. graduates applying for fully funded Ph.D. studies focusing on medieval anti-heretical hate speech using digital and quantitative methods. Proposals due 31 July.
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DISSINET is co-organising a series of four panels at this year's International Medieval Congress in Leeds entitled 'The Social Contexts of Religious Dissidence and its Repression', which will feature presentations by three of our researchers. Additionally, Robert L..J. Shaw will present on our recent work applying AI-assisted data capture to heresy trial records.
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This September, four DISSINET researchers will present at a conference hosted by the 'Collectif International de Recherche sur le CAtharisme Et les Dissidences'. Taking place in the heart of 'Cathar country', the conference theme will be 'Portraits of Heresy: Medieval Religious Dissidence through the Lens of Polemical and Inquisitorial Sources'.
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