International Workshop on Methodological Approaches to Narratives in Extremist Discourses in Düsseldorf
By Dr. Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf On November 15th and 16th Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf will host an international workshop as part of its role in ARENAS. The workshop will explore “Methodological approaches to narratives in extremist discourses”, and will take place at the Haus der Universität. The main goal […]
Lecture Series – Empowering Young People Against Hate Speech
We are delighted to announce the launch of a four-part winter lecture series on the theme of Empowering Young People Against Hate Speech. This series has been organised by Schools Beyond Regions and Borders, which aims to promote interaction and mutual understanding among European students and teachers by exchanging knowledge and best practices in education […]
When law deals with gender
By Beatrice Fracchiolla, University of Lorraine The 6th General Conference of the International Language and Law Association (ILLA) took place recently at Jagiellonian University in Kraków recently. This worldwide network of linguists and lawyers works on the language matrix of law. In that framework, language is not simply seen as a subject in the legal […]
NGOs invited to support ARENAS in Fostering Democracy and Safe Spaces
The ARENAS (Analysis of and Responses to Extremist Narratives) project, invites Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to unite in its mission to combat political extremism, analyse extremist narratives and tackle online hate speech. A call for lay definitions is being launched among NGOs across Europe. These lay definitions will be compared with the definitions by experts of […]
New Paper on Socially Unacceptable Discourse (SUD) Classification Published
By Bruno Machado Carneiro, Michele Linardi, Julien Longhi (This paper has been accepted for publication in the International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities – 2023) In this article, we review the main aspects of our study about state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology applied to automatic Socially Unacceptable Discourse (SUD) detection. […]
ARENAS Project Launches Introductory Video
The ARENAS project has launched a short video to introduce the project and share its objectives. The video outlines the issues that the project will consider over the next four years, and how it will address these issues and presents the 15 partners from 9 different countries who are working together on the project. To […]