Extremism and discourse
The international workshop "Extremism and discourse" will take place on June 23 and 24 at the of HHU Düsseldorf, organized by Rolf Kailuweit and Stefan Hartmann.
The workshop will take place as an in-person event, but we also offer a livestream via Webex (subject to the presenters' consent - it is possible that some talks will not be streamed). If you are interested in attending the workshop online or on-site, please contact .
Thursday
| 9.15-9.30 | Stefan Hartmann / Rolf Kailuweit | Introduction |
| 9.30-10.00 | Samuel Vernet | Investigating "extremism" and "hate speech" in sociolinguistics: an ethnographical gaze on some theoretical issues |
| 10.00-10.20 | Dominique Steffien & Kristina Schmuck | Radicalization in Catalan Music |
| 10.20-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Carsten Schwemmer | Computational Methods for Studying Online Right-Wing Content |
| 11.30-12.00 | Alessio Sardo | Hate Speech: A Pragmatically Oriented Assessment of the European Court of Human Right’s Jurisprudence |
| 12.00-12.20 | Nils Christian Bluhm / Christina Forstreuter | Radicalization and extremism of public figures |
| 12.20-14.00 | Lunch break | |
| 14.00-14.30 | Steven Forti | Circulation of ideas between extreme right-wing parties in Europe and Americas in the post-Cold War Era |
| 14.30-15.00 | Kristina Pahor de Maiti (presented by Jasmin Franza) | Compilation and annotation of a hate speech corpus |
| 15.00-15.30 | Jasmin Franza | It's not just words: studying hate speech on Facebook |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break | |
| 16.00-16.20 | Lena Paluska / Aline Kossmann Miozzo Caetano Farias | Youth Radicalization on Social Media - Handling and Prevention |
| 16.20-16:50 | Maria Constantinou | Internet memes as vehicles of extreme storytelling. A cross-cultural multimodal approach to ‘New World Order’ narratives |
Friday
| 9.30-10.00 | Viviane Harkort | Journalistic Roles and Practices in the Context of Populist and Far-Right Media Hostility: A German-French Comparison |
| 10.00-10.20 | Lea Jaenke | Extremism and the construction of the ‘centre’ |
| 10.20-10.50 | Coffee break | |
| 10.50-11.20 | Andreas Blombach | Tracking pandemic-related conspiracy narratives in German Telegram channels |
| 11.20-11.50 | Ulrich Hoinkes | Becoming a radical in addressing the greatest challenges of our time? – On the current failure of balancing value patterns in politics and society |