The International Law and Language Association (ILLA) has become an important voice in the field of language and law. This year its annual international conference will be hosted by ARENAS partner, CY Cergy Paris University, on June 11th and 12th at the CY Maison de la Recherche. The theme of this year’s conference is Corpus linguistics applied to extremist narratives: What are the implications for cybercrime analysis?
Several members of the ARENAS consortium are delivering important papers based on the research they are carrying out as part of the project.
CY Maison de la Recherche
11-12 June 2025
09.00 – Welcome
9.30 – 10.10 – Can a narrative be a cybercrime? The legal grey zone of extremist narratives.
Gwenaelle Bauvois
(ARENAS consortium member)
10.10 – 10.50 – From Solidarity to Resistance: The Role of Arabic in Covert Hate Speech among Young French Arabs
Sayf Mohamed
10.50 – 11.30 – Detecting diversity-related harmful language of the German extremist party AfD in computer-mediated communication
Annamária Fábián and Oliver Rüdiger
11.30 – 12.00 – Discussion
12.00 – 14.00 – Lunch
2.00 – 2.40 – How can word-formation patterns help identify extremist narratives in web corpora? An example: the blends and compounds with nazi in French (climato-nazi, féminazi)
Grigory Agabalian
2.40 – 3.20 – Towards using word embeddings as entry point to harmful discourse in Telegram channels within the Identitarian milieu
Laura Gärtner and Valentin Höpfl
3.20 – 3.40 – Break
3.40 – 4.20 – Artifacts-supported Multiclass Online Hate Speech Classification
Dimitra Niaouri, Michele Linardi and Julien Longhi
(ARENAS consortium members)
4.20 – 5.00 – Language Traces Analysis for the Detection of Criminal Groups in Romance Scam Cases
Clara Degeneve, Julien Longhi, Quentin Rossy
5.00 – 5.30 – Discussion
9.30 – 10.10 – The link between disinformation and hate speech on Telegram
Laura Ascone
10.10 – 10.50 – Corpus linguistics applied to extremist narratives: what are the implications for cybercrime analysis?
Laurène Renaut
(ARENAS consortium member)
10.50 – 11.10 – Break
11.10 – 11.50 – Humor as a Trojan Horse: Exploring Internet Memes and Extremist Narratives in Far-Right Ideologies
Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes
(ARENAS consortium member)
11.50 – 12.00 – Photo and social media posts
2.00 – 2.40 – Extremist narratives and hate speech in Europe: a focus on gender and sexual minorities
Nathalie Paris
2.40 – 3.20 – The Arrival/The Signs, “the videos that started it all”
Fabrice Teicher
3.20 – 4.00 – Discussion
