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.

28 Oct 2026

Socio-economic background of heresy in Bologna.

Katia Riccardo has received Vice-Rector’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Studies in the academic year 2025/2026 for her work in doctoral studies. In June 2026, Katia has successfully defended her dissertation entitled A computational analysis of inquisitorial language and relationship networks in the inquisition register of Bologna (1291-1310), which represents a collection of historically rigorous and methodologically thoughtful articles in the field of computational humanities.

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.
28 Jun

Conference presentations showcase DISSINET applications of LLMs, SNA, and CASTEMO

Our researchers have recently dicussed DISSINET's methodological innovations at major conferences across Europe, showcasing the diversity of our research outputs.
4 May

OP JAK CoRe welcomes visiting researchers for 3-8 month stays

The Johannes Amos Commenius OP project “Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building” invites doctoral, postdoctoral or senior researchers to apply for 3–8‑month salaried visiting stay, focused on the semantic annotation and computational analysis of hate speech in medieval antiheretical literature.
19 Feb

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Support in submitting a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc application (MSCA-PF), expression of interest by 16 March 2026

Doctoral graduates are invited to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action postdoctoral fellowship (MSCA-PF) within our digital humanities project using large‑scale computational methods to study medieval hate speech and anti‑heretical discourse. Send us a preliminary research proposal by 16 March 2026.

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

Conference presentations showcase DISSINET applications of LLMs, SNA, and CASTEMO

OP JAK CoRe welcomes visiting researchers for 3-8 month stays

Medieval anti-heretical hate speech: Support in submitting a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc application (MSCA-PF), expression of interest by 16 March 2026