March 22nd 2021
11:00 – 11:30
Welcome and opening by Klaus Geyer and Sharon Millar, University of Southern Denmark
Hosted in breakout room “Plenary”
11.30 – 12:30
Plenary session by Prof. Jörg Meibauer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE
Title: Exploring the linguistics of hate speech
Chair: Klaus Geyer
Hosted in breakout room “Plenary”
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:30
Parallel sessions 1-3
| Session 1, 22.03.21 (13:30 – 14:30) | Session 2, 22.03.21 (13:30 – 14:30) | Session 3, 22.03.21 (13:30 – 14:30) |
| Countering Hate Speech, in Theory and Practice Fabienne Baider, University of Cyprus & Christine Romain, Aix-Marseille Université | Perceptions of prejudice and discrimination among Basque-speaking adolescents Samara Velte, University of the Basque Country | Hate Speech: Devirtualization from Online to Offline Spaces Paul Wilson, University of Lodz & Barbara Lewandowska – Tomaszczyk, State University of Applied Science in Konin |
| Perceptions and acceptability norms of hatefulness in online user-generated contents Angeliki Monnier, Université de Lorraine | Humour and popular culture symbiosis: spreading hate and counterhate through memes Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero, University of Granada | Dynamics of German hate speech on the social media during Covid-19 Crisis Lidiia Melnyk, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
| Legitimizing hate and political violence through meme images: the Bolsonaro campaign Conceptión Fernández Villanueva, Complutense University of Madrid & Gabriel Byarri, Complutense University of Madrid/Macquarie University | ‘Cockroaches’, ‘locusts’ and other ‘parasites’: The role of metaphor in the expression of anti-immigrant prejudice in Lithuanian online user-generated discourse. Justina Urbonaité, Vilnius University | “Just die in a heat wave…”. Hate speech and impoliteness in YouTube postings on Greta Thunberg’s environmental activism Marta Andersson, Stockholm University |
| Cyber hate speech in the UK and Poland: online reactions to the murder of Arkadiusz Jóźwik Katerina Strani, Heriot-Watt University & Anna S. Koszak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan | Folk Perceptions of Hate Speech in Denmark and Germany Rasmus Nielsen, University of Southern Denmark | How deeply does hate speech get under your skin? Biosignals as a new means of measuring hate-speech perception Oliver Niebuhr, University of Southern Denmark & Jana Neitsch, University of Stuttgart |
14:30 – 15:30
Q&A Sessions
In the respective Q&A session, the presenters will have 15 minutes each for questions and discussion in the same order they presented in their parallel session.
| Q&A Session 1 Chair: Esben Nedenskov Petersen Hosted in breakout room 1 | Q&A Session 2 Chair: Miriam Schmidt-Jüngst Hosted in breakout room 2 | Q&A Session 3 Chair: Silvia Jaki Hosted in breakout room 3 |
15:45 – 16:00
Break
16:00 – 17:00
Parallel sessions 4-6
| Session 4, 22.03.21 (16:00 – 17:00) | Session 5, 22.03.21 (16:00 – 17:00) | Session 6, 22.03.21 (16:00 – 17:00) |
| Where Do Angry Birds Tweet? Economic inequality and cyberhate in Italy Daria Denti, Londoch School of Economics & Alessandra Faggian, Gran Sasso Science Institute | Hateful Questions Esben Nedenskov Petersen, University of Southern Denmark | Towards an Automated Assessment of Online Bad Actors Helen Vernon, University of Stuttgart |
| Political rhetoric and hate speech in the Shamima Begum case Alexander Murphy, University of Leicester | Could dictionaries help us to understand hate speech? Ana Clara Polakof and Andrés de Azevedo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay | Anti-immigration ideology: hate speech, ethos and enemy’s figure Nolwenn Lorenzi Bailly, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 & Lotta Lehti, University of Helsinki |
| “Pull up the grass, dig up the roots”: Judicial Recognition of Dehumanizing Speech for the Legal Construction of Genocide Carola Lingaas, VID Specialized University | Disguising hate speech as Christian forgiveness: The representation of “un-forgivable” otherness through negative prefixation and compound words in a response of the spokesperson for the Romanian Orthodox Church Ruxandra Visan, University of Bucharest | Extreme communication and hate speech in extreme communities Sasja Simone Krogh, University of Southern Denmark |
| “You have to get used to seeing them as animals”: Dehumanisation in hate speech on social media Sylvia Jaki, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim | “How can I answer without a mouth?” – West African adventurers facing the animal trope Katharina Monz, Universität zu Köln | The lurking hate and emergent impoliteness in media discourse Barbara Lewandowska – Tomaszczyk, State University of Applied Science in Konin & Piort Pezik, University of Lodz |
17:00 – 18:00
Q&A Sessions
In the respective Q&A session, the presenters will have 15 minutes each for questions and discussion in the same order they presented in their parallel session.
| Q&A Session 4 Chair: Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero Hosted in breakout room 4 | Q&A Session 5 Chair: Rasmus Nielsen Hosted in breakout room 5 | Q&A Session 6 Chair: Oliver Niebuhr Hosted in breakout room 6 |
March 23rd 2021
09:00 – 10:00
Plenary session by Prof. Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University, UK
Title: Impoliteness and hate speech: Compare and contrast
Chair: Sharon Millar
Hosted in breakout room “Plenary”
10:00 – 11:00
Parallel sessions 7-9
| Session 7, 23.03.21 (10:00 – 11:00) | Session 8, 23.03.21 (10:00 – 11:00) | Session 9, 23.03.21 (10:00 – 11:00) |
| Social Media Hate Speech in Ethiopia: Prevalence, Severity, and Natures During Political Reform Muluken Chekol, Bahir Dar University | Sexist Hate Speech, Ostracism, and the Intrinsically “Fascist” Aspect of Language Francesca D´Angelo, University of Salerno | “Hate speech, the Holy See and discourse analysis” Fabian van Samang, Auschwitz Foundation Brussels |
| A Critical Discourse-Analytic Perspective of Hate Speech Contours in Online Posts and Comments about Migrants Louise- Amélie Cougnon, UCLouvain | On the edge of hate speech and incitement to terrorism: exploring the role of mitigation in a controversial case Dámaso Izquierdo-Alegría, ICS, Universidad de Navarra | Good Muslims vs. Bad Muslisms: the concepts of kaffir, murtadd and taqiyya in the Islamic State Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero, University of Granada |
| ‘No Gender, No Human’: The Discursive Construction of Nonbinary Gender as Subhuman in German Social Media Comments Miriam Schmidt-Jüngst, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | Pragma-Communicative Organization of Hate Speech: a Belarusian Case-Study Ekaterina Vasilenko, Belarusian State University/ Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University | Verbalization of Hostility in the Social Media Lilit Bekaryan, Yerevan State University |
| Almans and Kanaks: Inter-cultural Stereotypes in a German Twitter Corpus Eckhard Bick, University of Southern Denmark | Usage of the word ‘pidor’ in Russian Tamara Storozhenko, Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Perceived offensiveness of insults in the UK and Spain: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study Luna Filipovic, María Gómez-Bedoya & Alberto Hijazo-Gascón, University of East Anglia |
11:00 – 11:15
Break
11:15 – 12:15
Q&A Sessions
In the respective Q&A session, the presenters will have 15 minutes each for questions and discussion in the same order they presented in their parallel session.
| Q&A Session 7 Chair: Justina Urbonaité Hosted in breakout room 7 | Q & A Session 8 Chair: Marta Andersson Hosted in breakout room 8 | Q & A Session 9 Chair: Jonathan Culpeper Hosted in breakout room 9 |
12:15 – 13:15
Lunch
13:15 – 14:15
Parallel session 10
| Session 10, 23.03.21 (13:30 – 14:30) |
| Lessons from Ancient Roman Hate Speech: Ideologies of Hierarchy and Violence Sasha Barish, Rutgers University |
| Ethnophaulisms have different strength in bilinguals’ first and second languages – and not for the reasons you think Michał B. Paradowski & Marta Gawinkowska, University of Warsaw |
| Mention topoi vs. plan use of German ethnophaulisms in hateful social media discourse Klaus Geyer, University of Southern Denmark |
| Can legal sentences reduce cyberviolence? In-depth Interviews with sentenced offenders Lea Stahel & Sebastian Weingartner, University of Zurich |
14:15 – 14:30
Break
14:30 – 15:30
Q&A Session
In the Q&A session, the presenter will have 15 minutes for questions and discussion.
| Q&A Session 10 Chair: Jörg Meibauer Hosted in breakout room 10 |
15:30 – 16:00
Thank you and goodbye (Klaus Geyer, Southern University of Denmark)
Hosted in breakout room “Plenary”