ARENAS featured on Italian radio station RAI Radio 3
The ARENAS project was featured on Italian Radio Station RAI Radio 3 this week. Cinzia Sciuto, director of ‘MicroMega’ was the guest presenter of the morning press review, and spoke of the publication of the ARENAS Glossary of Right Wing Extremism, reading out the recent entry on Remigration. It was a wonderful opportunity to bring […]
The Ground Is Shifting: The EFCSN’s “Great Retreat” Report aligns with ARENAS research
A new white paper published this month by the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) makes for sobering reading for anyone working on the challenge of extremist narratives in Europe. The Great Retreat: How Platforms Deprioritised Information Integrity and What to Do About It arrives at a critical moment, and its findings speak directly to the […]
ARENAS Attends Memory Makers Conference on Holocaust Education and Contemporary Context
On 12 March 2026, Denise Callan from the ARENAS team joined an online conference hosted by Jagiellonian University as part of the EU-funded Memory Makers project — an educational initiative supported under the EU CERV programme that is dedicated to engaging young people in historical education and remembrance. Memory Makers aims to empower young individuals […]
Mapping Extremist Narratives in Parliament: ARENAS Seminar in Ljubljana
On Monday, 23 February 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History (Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, INZ) in Ljubljana hosted a seminar titled “Circulation of Extremist Narratives through the Parliaments: Current National and European Contexts.” The event brought together researchers, NGO representatives, and other stakeholders both in person and online via Zoom, and marked a significant milestone […]
CY CERGY Paris Université hosts Workshop: The Circulation of Anti-Gender Extremist Narratives
On Thursday, March 19, 2026, scholars, researchers, and practitioners from across Europe will gather at CY Cergy Paris Université for an in-depth workshop exploring The Circulation of Anti-Gender Extremist Narratives. This full-day event, part of the ARENAS Project, combines keynote talks, expert panels, and roundtable discussions to examine how these narratives emerge, spread, and influence […]
ARENAS Glossary of Right-Wing Extremism
In recent months, several members of the ARENAS consortium have collaborated to product the ARENAS Glossary of Right-Wing Extremism. This collaboration is being led by Steven Forti of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and we spoke with him to learn more about the work on the Glossary. What motivated the decision to create the […]