GOING EXTREME, International Conference hosted by UAB, a great success
The Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) hosted an international conference recently to address some key topics of the ARENAS project. Going Extreme: History, Narratives and the Threat to Democracy in Europe was held at the Center de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) from September 25th – 27th. More than 200 delegates from across Europe attended […]
ARENAS Research presented at International Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora
ARENAS partners at CY Cergy Paris Université team are working on WP 2 in ARENAS, The Characterisation and Detection of Extremist Narratives. Their work specifically addresses Task 2.4 Testing the algorithm with the annotated dataset to validate the annotation schema for automatic detection of extremist narratives; preparing a re-usable model for detecting extremist narratives. They […]
ARENAS Podcast launched
Following the successful international conference Going Extreme, hosted by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), we are delighted to launch the ARENAS Podcast series. This eight-part podcast series considers the Historical Roots of Extremist Narratives in Europe. Hosted by Firdaous Alaoui, it has been prepared by the team at (UAB). Each episode features an expert member […]
ARENAS project represented at the European Sociological Association conference
The European Sociological Association (ESA) is an academic association of sociologists and a non-profit Europe-wide association made up of 3000+ members. The 16th ESA conference was held recently in Portugal and ARENAS researcher, Gwenaëlle Bauvois from the University of Helsinki was one of the speakers who addressed the conference. The ESA is the largest sociological […]
Major European Award for project ARENAS supported
The Region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol has recently won the prestigious MYFER (Most Youth Friendly European Region) for its project “Schools Beyond Regions and Borders” (SBRB). MYFER is awarded by the Assembly of European Regions, the largest independent network of regions in wider Europe, bringing together regions from 35 countries and 15 interregional organisations, to regions that […]
ARENAS presented at this year’s Sinfra workshop
Each year, the international IPAL laboratory, which includes ARENAS partners CNRS and CYU, organises a workshop that promotes collaboration between France and Singapore in the field of computer science (AI, Data, HCI, NLP, etc.). This workshop is an opportunity to take stock of existing IPAL collaborations and to launch new collaborative projects. This year’s Sinfra […]
