On Tuesday, May 5th, the ARENAS Exhibition Going Extreme: How Extremist Narratives Are Destroying Democracies, opened at the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf, Germany. This is the first time the exhibition has been hosted outside Spain, so it marks another important milestone in the dissemination of the ARENAS project results.
Professor Dr Heidrun Dorgeloh, Vice President for University Culture and International Relations at HHU, officially welcomed the arrival of the exhibition. Next, Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes, who leads the project Work Package researching the Characterisation and Detection of Extremist Narratives, outlined the work she and the team responsible for the Work Package have carried out on the project. She was joined by her colleagues Stefan Hartmann and Alexander Ziem, who, together with Rolf Kailuweit, co-authored one of the early significant project resources, Defining Extremist Narratives, which is available to download from the ARENAS website.
The development and expected impact of the exhibition were outlined by Steven Forti from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), who was responsible for creating the Going Extreme exhibition initially in Spain. It was great to meet so many students and University staff who attended the exhibition opening, and the ARENAS teams look forward to sharing these ARENAS results with many more people from now to its closing date of June 7th.
