Workshops, seminars, and conference activities from the POLAR Project.
Workshops
January 16, 2026|10:00 - 17:30
·Paris
Kick-off Workshop: Building the POLAR Research Framework
Research workshop to align objectives, data sources, and the collaboration plan. We established the first version of the methodological roadmap for qualitative analysis and NLP-based detection.
Seminars
May 7, 2026|14:00 - 17:00
·Online (Google Meet)
POLAR Seminar №1 : Framing Polemical Discourse
Geoffrey Raymond (UC Santa Barbara) — “Weaponizing doubt: Shifting the boundaries of legitimate political discourse by ‘just asking questions’”
Ruth Amossy (Tel Aviv University) — “To what extent can an automated procedure detect polemical discourse? The contribution of Discourse Analysis”
Conference
The final conference is planned for autumn 2027 (details TBA).
