Events
Upcoming Events
EU-IL High-Level Seminar on combating racism, xenophobia and antisemitism, Jerusalem [Israel]
Matthias J. Becker: Presentation of the project
Fifth Annual Conference “AI, Big Data, Social Media, and People on the Move”, Berlin [Germany]. Event organised by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Conference organised by the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Matthias J. Becker & Helena Mihaljevic: “The Decoding Antisemitism Project – Reflections, Methods and Goals”
Presentation by Jan Krasni
Second Summit – Interparliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Antisemitism, Brüssel [Belgien]
Matthias J. Becker in the role of an advisor
DNC5ALED: Discourses and their impacts on a world of multiple crises, Valencia [Spain]
Conference organised by Johannes Angermuller, The Open University [UK]
Karolina Placzynta/Matthias J. Becker: “Decoding Antisemitism in European Online Discourses: Similarities and Differences in the Reproduction of Stereotypes in German, French and British Mainstream Debates on the Internet”
Alexis Chapelan: “Deviant communities” online? Articulating and negotiating support for antisemitic public figures on social media. The case of Dieudonné and Alain Soral’s social media ban in 2020″
ISGAP Summer Institute, Oxford [UK]
Matthias J. Becker & Lev Topor: workshop “Challenges and Complexities of Combating Antisemitism in a Digital and AI-Empowered World: Technology, the Cyber Domain and Antisemitism”
Summer school “Antisemitism and Xenophobia in the Baltic Sea Region”, Kulice [Poland]
ECPR General Conference 2023, Charles University, Prague [Czech Republic]
Past Events
“New Directions in Antisemitism Research” workshop, Oslo [Norway]
Event organised by Johannes Due Enstad (Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Research, University of Oslo)
Matthias J. Becker: Presentation of the project
Decoding Antisemitism on social media: Kanye West, Qatar and the promise of AI
Online event in cooperation with the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, 7pm (CET).
From Dieudonné to Kanye West, changes and continuities in the digital ecosystems of antisemitism
Community Event “Delete Cache – Was Zivilgesellschaft und Tech für ein Netz ohne Hass tun können”, @bUm Berlin [Germany]
Matthias J. Becker: Workshop “Decoding Antisemitism: Judenfeindschaft im Online-Mainstream erkennen” (11 May, 2 pm CET)
Workshop for influencers at the Tel Aviv Institute, Tel Aviv [Israel]
Detecting Hate: Berlin impulses in the research of digital hate [Germany]
Kick-off Event Drudel e.V., Jena [Germany]
Alexis Chapelan will presend a lecture on “Antisemitism in the digital age. A few lessons from studying online antisemitism”
Actions Matter – The International Antisemitism Summit, Berlin [Germany]
DiscourseNet Seminars – monthly online seminar in Discourse Studies, London [UK]
Fachdialog-Reihe „Radikalisierungsprävention im Internet“ der Arbeitsgruppe “Prävention: Internet und Soziale Medien”, Hamburger Behördenkompetenznetzwerk Rechtsextremismus
Expert dialog series on the topic of “Preventing Radicalisation on the Internet” (Working Group “Prevention: Internet and Social Media”) Hamburg Authority Competence Network on Right-Wing Extremism
Marcus Scheiber will present explicit and implicit forms of antisemitism online as well as current approaches to identify and measure the phenomenon
World Zionist Organization, Department of Combating Antisemitism and Enhancing Resilience: “Antisemitism—Things That Are Not Talked About”
The Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) conference at the University of Jyväskylä [Finland]
Laura Ascone, Karolina Placzynta, and Hagen Troschke “Antisemitic hate speech in social media comments. Interdisciplinary mixed-methods corpus studies”
Jews Talk Justice Lab, The Tel Aviv Institute, Toronto, & Jewish Communities in Canada
European Commission, Civil Society Forum on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life, Brussels [Belgium]
Lecture “Can hate be quantified?” Mannheim; in German [Germany]
Following the conference “Antisemitism in the Social Web”, the evening lecture held by Marcus Scheiber will examine new trends in online antisemitism, such as platform migration and the power of algorithms.
Lecture “Polish-German-Jewish relations in contemporary media: narratives and stereotypes”, University of Szczecin; in Polish [Poland]
Karolina Placzynta will held the lecture covering the media portrayal of the relations between the Polish, German and Jewish communities, through the analysis of contemporary examples of discourse. The lecture is a part of a series on Jewish life in the region.
Presentation of the 4th Discourse Report at the Wiener Holocaust Library, London [UK]
Event at the Wiener Holocaust Library, 6.30pm local time // Matthew Bolton and Karolina Placzynta: Presentation of the project’s 4th Discourse Report
Jews Talk Justice Lab, The Tel Aviv Institute, Los Angeles [USA]
Lecture: Gabriel Weimann “New Trends in Online Antisemitism” at Einstein Center, Berlin [Germany]
Following our conference “Hate Speech on the Internet – Identifying Digital Antisemitism”, the evening lecture of Prof Weimann will examine new trends in online antisemitism, such as platform migration and the power of algorithms.
Hate Speech – an Interdisciplinary Approach. An international workshop at TU Berlin, ZfA [Germany]
In collaboration with Adv. Ido Rosenzweig (The Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa, Israel) and Prof. Martin Emmer (Institute for Media and Communication Studies, FU Berlin; Weizenbaum Institute Berlin), both of whom are members of our project’s Advisory Board.
Conference “Hate Speech on the Internet – Identifying Digital Antisemitism” at Einstein Center Digital Future Berlin; in German [Germany]
The conference will focus on current forms of antisemitism in social media. Experts from various fields of research will address the topic from different perspectives and shed light on current manifestations and trends.
Conference “Social Media and Politics in the Field of Hate and Agitation”, FH Meißen; in German [Germany]
Marcus Scheiber: “Hate Speech – Hate and incitement on the net as a challenge of our digitalised world”
Symposium “Digital Hate” Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin [Germany]
Matthias J. Becker: “Decoding Antisemitism”
13th Francoromanists Conference, Vienna; in French [Austria]
Alexis Chapelan presents the paper “L’antisémitisme comme « victimisation performative » dans les discours anti-Pass Sanitaire : analyse des modalités de construction d’un récit victimaire dans les commentaires des internautes sur les réseaux sociaux.”
Summer school “Current Dynamics and Challenges of Anti-Semitism” at TU Berlin [in German]
Matthias J. Becker & Jan Krasni: “Decoding Antisemitism”. Recognising implicit forms of antisemitism.
London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism conference: 21st Century Antisemitism
Matthew Bolton & Matthias J. Becker “The Decoding Antisemitism Project – Reflections, Methods and Goals”
Summer school “Antisemitism and Xenophobia in the Baltic Sea Region” in Kulice, Poland
Our colleague Karolina Placzynta will take part in this event that is co-organised by the University of Szczecin, International Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies; Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) at the University of Greifswald; Lund University.
Two guest lectures on contemporary antisemitism, xenophobia, and anti-Islamic ideologies in media and social media, and Fake news, conspiracy theories and far-right extremist propaganda.
Tel Aviv Institute Summer School Tel Aviv, Israel [in English]
Lecture by Matthias J. Becker: “Antisemitism: In Secret Code”
Training event for state attorneys in Neumünster, Germany
Jan Krasni: Hate speech online: Definitions, findings, and the current state of research. Perspectives from Linguistics and Media Studies. [in German]
ISGAP – Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies
Matthias J. Becker & Matthew Bolton “The Decoding Antisemitism Project – Reflections, Methods and Goals”
ISGAP – Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity Revisited, at the University of Cambridge, UK
Matthias J. Becker & Matthew Bolton “The Decoding Antisemitism Project – Reflections, Methods and Goals”
International Conference on Online Hate Speech, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Matthias J. Becker: Presentation of the Annotation Process within the Decoding Antisemitism Project
COMMUNITY EVENT 2022 – stark vernet(t)zt
Workshop with Marcus Scheiber (TU Berlin) und Hendrik Bitzmann (BAG “Gegen Hass im Netz”): Wie erkennen wir Antisemitismus im Netz?
BLICKWINKEL: ANTISEMITISMUS- UND RASSISMUSKRITISCHES FORUM FÜR BILDUNG UND WISSENSCHAFT (13. TAGUNG)
“OBJEKTIV BEGRIFFEN, SUBJEKTIV BETROFFEN: Zum Verhältnis von Kategorien und Wahrnehmung bei Antisemitismus und Rassismus” 20. & 21. Juni 2022 Universität Leipzig
PODIUM: Soziale Medien als Verstärker von empörten Debatten und der Einfluss auf die politische Bildung”
Stephan Anpalagan, Journalist, Essen
Matthias J. Becker, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin
Eva Berendsen, Bildungsstätte Anne Frank, Frankfurt/Main
The Diverse Approaches to Hate Speech: Debates, Challenges, and Controversies conference in Paris, France
Laura Ascone “A guideline for decoding the different levels of antisemitic hate speech”
Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London
Matthias J. Becker “The Decoding Antisemitism Project – Reflections, Methods and Goals”
