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#CfP Gläubige aus Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa in Bewegung. Religiöse Migrationsregime und Diasporapolitik (1930er bis 1960er Jahre)

📌 #Jahrestagung des #CollegiumCarolinum | 12.-16. November 2026 | in #Fischbachau | in Kooperation mit #DHIRom und #CzechAcademyOfSciences

📅 17. April 2026

🔗 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/call-for-papers-glaeubige-aus-ostmittel-und-suedosteuropa-in-bewegung-religioese-migrationsregime-und-diasporapolitik-1930er-bis-1960er-jahre.html

Radio Prague International: Czech Academy of Sciences launches a digital archive of 15,000 folk songs. “Nearly fifteen thousand songs from all regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia are now freely available through a new online library… The project was created by the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, whose archives hold most of this unique collection.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/17/radio-prague-international-czech-academy-of-sciences-launches-a-digital-archive-of-15000-folk-songs/

Results of the project briefly described. Conversion of a scanned text to structured data ( #Wikidata ), using #HTR ( #eScriptorim ) and #text2text #transformers

Funded by #Wikimedia.

#CzechAcademyOfSciences
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_versus_traditional_biographical_encyclopedias

#AcademicJob

Come to work with us at #CzechAcademyOfSciences in #Prague

We're inviting Expressions of Interest for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to collaborate on a digital research database of Czech folk songs.

📅 Deadline: 31/05/2025

https://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/MSCA-PF-Expressions-of-Interest/

CC @academicjobs

#Musicology #DigitalHumanities #MusicTech #Folklore #FolkMusic #Ethnomusicology #MusicScience #ComputationalMusicology #MSCA #HorizonEU #HorizonEurope

The #largest #genome of any insect, seven times the size of the #HumanGenome, was recently #discovered in a grasshopper. In a #study published in #PLOSONE, researchers from the #GermanLeibnizInstitute for the #Analysis of #Biodiversity Change & #CzechAcademyOfSciences #prove wrong the idea of #insect genomes being comparatively small/less complex.

Speckled buzzing #grasshopper (#BryodemellaTuberculata ).

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-giant-insect-genome.amp

#Entomology #NewDiscovery #science #biological #nature #Europe