Mgr. Tomáš Hampejs, Ph.D.

CV

Personal Information

• Tomáš Hampejs, born on December 20, 1979 in Pilsen, Czech Republic

Affiliation and contact

• Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department for the Study of Religions
  Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
  Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  tomas.hampejs@mail.muni.cz

Position

• Research fellow at the Centre for the Digital Research of Religion
  Research fellow at the Department for the Study of Religions
  

Education and Academic Qualifications

• April 2020 : Ph.D. Masaryk University, Study of Religions
  Dissertation: “How to generate religion: from modelling to enacting systemic patterns of religious thinking and behaviour”.
  Supervisor: PhDr. doc. David Václavík, Ph.D.
• September 2012: Mgr. Masaryk University, Study of Religions
  Thesis: “Towards Paradigm of Social Implicit Cognition in the Cognitive Science of Religion”.
  Supervisor: Mgr. Aleš Chalupa, Ph.D.
• September 2010: Bc. Masaryk University, Study of Religions
  Thesis: “Shift of Perspectives in the Cognitive Science of Religion: from Mind to Body and Culture”.
  Supervisor: Mgr. Aleš Chalupa, Ph.D.

Current and previous positions

• 2018 - present: Research fellow at the Department for the Study of Religions (CEDRR: Centre for the Digital Research of Religions, DISSINET: Dissident Networks Project)
• 2015 - 2017: Research fellow at GEHIR Project ("A Generative Historiography of the Ancient Mediterranean: Modelling and Simulating the Diffusion of Religious Ideas and Forms of Behaviour"), Masaryk University
• 2003 - 2012: Internet Projekt, a.s.,(programmer, solution analyst)

Teaching

• Supervising BA and MA theses
• Network Approaches in the Study of Preindustrial Religious Traditions
• Proseminary to Introduction to the Religious studies
• Research Imagination of the Science of Religion: theory and methodology via role-playing simulations

Scientific and Research Activities

• 2018 - present: Research fellow at the DISSINET Project (Dissident Networks in Medieval Europe)
• 2015 - 2017: Research fellow at GEHIR Project ("A Generative Historiography of the Ancient Mediterranean: Modelling and Simulating the Diffusion of Religious Ideas and Forms of Behaviour"), Masaryk University

Internship

• 2022: Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, program: "Mix Methods Research" Colchester, Great Britain, July 25 - August 5
• 2011: Aarhus Summer University, program: "Experimental Methods in the Study of Cognition and Culture" Aarhus, Denmark, August 1 - 24

University Activities

• 2014 - 2020: Member of the editorial board of Sacra (ISSN 1214-5351)
• 2014: Organization of Student Conference of Students of Religious studies, May 29.-31, Telč

Activities Outside University

• 2014 - present, member of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion
• 2013 - present, member of the Czech Association for the Study of Religions

Major Publications

• HAMPEJS, Tomáš. Utilizing complexity : from thinking religion top-down as complex-adaptive-system towards a bottom-up practice of local null-model building. In Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions: Religions and States of Freedom, 27 June - 1 July 2022, Cork, Ireland. 2022. URL info
• KAPITANY, Rohan, Tomáš HAMPEJS a Thalia R. GOLDSTEIN. Pretensive Shared Reality : From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA, 2022, roč. 13, č. 2022, s. 1-19. ISSN 1664-1078. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774085. URL info
• ZBÍRAL, David, Robert Laurence John SHAW, Tomáš HAMPEJS a Adam MERTEL. Model the source first! Towards source modelling and source criticism 2.0. Zenodo. 2021, s. 1-13. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5218926. URL info
• HAMPEJS, Tomáš a Adam MERTEL. Inter-expertise interactions over data transformations. In Digital Approaches to Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, 30. October 2019, Aarhus. 2019. Digital Approaches to Research in Humanities and Social Sciences info
• KAŠE, Vojtěch, Tomáš HAMPEJS a Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL. Modeling Cultural Transmission of Rituals in Silico: The Advantages and Pitfalls of Agent-Based vs. System Dynamics Models (vol 18, pg 483, 2018). Journal of Cognition and Culture. LEIDEN: Brill, 2019, roč. 19, 1-2, s. 216-217. ISSN 1567-7095. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340055. URL info
• HAMPEJS, Tomáš a Aleš CHALUPA. Formalizující modelování v neintencionální historii náboženství : Transdisciplinarita mezi přírodní vědou a historickou religionistikou? Religio : revue pro religionistiku. Brno: Česká společnost pro religionistiku, 2018, roč. 26, č. 2, s. 99-132. ISSN 1210-3640. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
• HAMPEJS, Tomáš. Přivazování José Arcadia k plotu : kognitivní etnografie situační normativity morální kontroverze v larpové hře Cien Anos. AntropoWebzin. AntropoWeb o.s., 2017, roč. 2017, 3-4, s. 75-97. ISSN 1801-8807. URL info
• HAMPEJS, Tomáš. Enacted Artificial Sociality in Petri’s Dish of Live Role-playing Simulation: Case Study of Enacting of Religious Belief-Experience. In Kognice a umělý život XVI: 1.6 - 3.6.2016 v Telči. 2016. info
• HAMPEJS, Tomáš. Connecting the Dots between Past and Present with Complex Systems Science: Towards Generative Explanations of Religions? In Workshop in Network Theory, Cognitive Science, and Historiography, Kavala/Greece, 1-4 September 2015. 2015. info
• CHABADA, Tomáš, Tomáš HAMPEJS, Jan SKALÍK, Eva VÝTVAROVÁ a Jaroslav HLINKA. Connecting to Nature in the Lab through “Earth Song” : The Malleability of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes towards Nature. Sociální studia. Masarykova univerzita, 2015, roč. 12, č. 3, s. 113-133. ISSN 1214-813X. URL info
• CHALUPA, Aleš a Tomáš HAMPEJS. Kognitivní věda o náboženství: Východiska, cíle a krátká historie. Pantheon : religionistický časopis. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2014, roč. 9, č. 1, s. 10-43. ISSN 1803-2443. info
• CIGÁN, Jakub a Tomáš HAMPEJS. Náboženské představy a jejich přenos: od mysli a obsahu k tělu a kontextu. Pantheon: religionistický časopis. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2014, roč. 9, č. 1, s. 113-138. ISSN 1803-2443. info
• BUCHTÍK, Martin a Tomáš HAMPEJS. Designing a valid role-play simulation. In Central & Eastern European Game Studies Conference (Brno,CZ, October 10-11). 2014. info
• HAMPEJS, Tomáš. Náboženství v laboratoři sociální implicitní kognice : víra v automatických reakcích jako implicitní postoj a dovednost. Sociální studia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, roč. 10, č. 2, s. 85-114. ISSN 1214-813X. URL info
• BUCHTÍK, Martin a Tomáš HAMPEJS. Role-playing jako živný roztok sociálna: experimentální metoda? Teorie vědy. Praha: Filozofický ústav AV ČR, 2013, roč. 35, č. 4, s. 525-549. ISSN 1210-0250. info
• HAMPEJS, Tomáš. Belief as Implicit Attitude and Skill: Studying Religious Faith Stretched from the Transmission of Representations Towards Education of Attention. In Religion, Migration and Mutation (European Association for the Study of Religions, Liverpool, GB, September 3 - 6). 2013. info
• HAMPEJS, Tomáš. Bringing meditation (back) to religion: why do we not study meditation as a ritual? In LEVYNA Workshop „Past, Present, and Future in the Scientific Study of Religion” (Brno, CZ, March 1-3). 2012. info

2022/09/19