University of Helsinki to host 2025 Aleksanteri Conference
From October 22 – 24, the University of Helsinki will host the 2025 Aleksanteri Conference titled Extremisms: Ambiguities, Ideologies, Agency. The conference will address many issues being considered by the ARENAS project and features members of the project consortium who will present their research and host discussions. The conference will gather over 300 people from […]
ARENAS research published in prestigious EMNLP 2025 Findings
The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) will be held in Suzhou, China, from November 5th to November 9th, 2025. We are delighted that a research paper written by members of the ARENAS consortium has been accepted for publication in this year’s EMNLP Findings. The EMNLP conference is one of the world’s leading conferences in […]
ARENAS and YOUDARE project teams meet online
Members of the project teams from the Horizon Europe funded ARENAS and YOU-DARE projects recently came together for an online workshop to share perspectives, learn from each other, and explore how both projects complement one another in addressing extremist narratives in Europe. YOU-DARE is uncovering how far-right youth movements use gender stories to mobilise young […]
ARENAS research published in the MDPI journal Behavioural Sciences
Research by ARENAS consortium member, Ana Yara Postigo-Fuentes of Heinrich-Heine University was published in the latest issue of the MDPI journal Behavioral Sciences. This special issue was titled Humor Use in Interpersonal Relationships. The article published was titled Relational Humor and Identity Framing in the “Virgin vs. Chad” Meme Format. Extremist narratives combine two relational […]
Preliminary Insights into the Mediations and Remedies for Extremist Narratives
Beatrice Fracchiolla of the University of Lorraine in France leads ARENAS Work Package 5 (WP5) Mediations and Remedies for Extremist Narratives. Here she outlines the aims of the Work Package and the work she and her team have done on their first project deliverable, D5.1 Report on Institutional & Social Actors’ Existing Strategy and Remediation […]
ARENAS at the XVIIth Congress of the Spanish Contemporary History Association
From 9 to 11 July 2025, the XVII Conference of the Spanish Contemporary History Association was held in Valencia, entitled ‘The Contemporary World from the 21st Century: Balance and Perspectives’. This is the most important conference of Spanish contemporary historians, with a wide international participation, both European and Latin American. On this occasion, more than […]