Research Centre for Digital Humanities Integration (C4DHI)

Research Centre for Digital Humanities Integration (C4DHI)

Head: Jiří Kocián

Administrator: Klára Vedlichová

Center for Digital Humanities Integration (C4DHI) pursues the mission of ushering current realities of indispensability of the “digital” dimension of research and education in area studies and modern history at IMS. Through close collaboration with partner research institutions specialized in the technological aspects of DH applications, it seeds and nurtures transdisciplinary methodological integration in four key pillar activities:

 

- internal  DH  skill  and  capacity  building

- external DH expertise influx and networking

- direct DH application in research and publishing

- integration of DH into the study curriculum.

 

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Members

Certificate in Digital Humanities

From 2024/2025, our research centre, in collaboration with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the MFF UK, is responsible for teaching a specialised certificate in Digital Humanities. 

As part of the certificate, students take courses on core concepts and methodological approaches in DH, data analysis in R and artificial intelligence in the humanities and social sciences. 

The next round of student selection for the 2025/2026 certificate will take place in June 2025.

Selected projects

Selected publications

  • Kocián, J., Mlynář, J., Maliukov, H., & Hofmeister, R. (2025). Story alteration in oral history retellings: Methods of comparative work. Narrative Inquiry.
  • Kalhousová, I., Finkel, E. & Kocián, J. (2024). Historical analogies, traumatic past and responses to the war in Ukraine. International Affairs.
  • Hofmeisterová, K., J. Mlynář & Kocián, J. (2022). “How “Tools” Produce “Data”: Searching in a Large Digital Corpus of Audiovisual Holocaust Testimonies.“ In Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, edited by Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis and Amalia S. Levi. Berlin, Boston: DeGruyter Oldenbourg.
  • Barná, I., Kohút, T., Bilewicz, M., Gyarfášová, O., Kocián, J., Mesežnikov, G., & Babińska, M. (2022). Survey on Antisemitic Prejudice in the Visegrád Countries Research Report. Budapest: Tom Lantos Institute. ISBN 978-615-6324-06-1. (Quantitative analysis Based on a wide scale survey of respondents across the V4 countries).
  • Panuš, J., Kocián, J., Hoffmannová, P., Nápravník, D., Šunka, M., Brožová, K., & Slavíček, J. (2022). Prameny Krkonoš: Search engine. Prague: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. (Search engine for a database of primary and secondary historical sources).
  • Kalhousová, I., Finkel, E., & Kocián, J. (forthcoming 2023-24). Historical References in the Narratives of War in Ukraine. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. (Mixed-method CDA, SSNA).

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