Events
These are events that The New Ethos is organising: conferences, small workshop meetings focused on topics of our projects, and seminars: "Ethotic Thurs" (2022-24) and "Digital Society" (2024-25).
Conferences
“Ethics and AI”: conference series launched in 2024
- 3rd Conference Ethics and AI: “Towards a New Ethos of AI”, 4-6 Nov 2026, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
- 2nd Conference Ethics and AI: “From Trustworthy to Benevolent AI”, 22-23 Sept 2025, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
- 1st Conference Ethics and AI (as a part of the joint event Philosophy in Informatics IX & 19th ArgDiaP Conference), 23-25 Sept 2024, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
“5th European Conference on Argumentation (ECA 2025): Argumentation in the Digital Society”, 23-26 Sept 2025, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
Workshop meetings
“Deep structure of arguments and their semantics”, 3-11 July 2024, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
“Ethos, explainability and technology”, series of workshops in Nov-Dec 2023, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
“Modelling and moderating online deliberations“, 12-13 Jun 2023, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
“Linguistically analysing polarisation on social media”, 16-18 Mar 2023, Radziejowice (Poland)
“Experimental methods to study rephrase, trust and ethos”, 9-10 Feb 2023, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
“workshop name tbc”, 4-6 Jul 2022, Sójki (Poland)
“An Argumentative Model of Rephrase: Pragmatic and Rhetorical Approach”, 10 Mar 2022, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
Digital Society seminars
This seminar series is dedicated to threats in the digital society. They take place onsite in the TNE lab during the academic year 2024-25. Organising Committee: Maciej Kulik (chair), Ewelina Gajewska (infrastructure), Katarzyna Michałowska (contact: katarzyna.michalowska@pw.edu.pl). The seminars organised under the auspicies of the DeLab and iTRUST projects.
10 Jul 2025
Katarzyna Cichecka (Warsaw University of Technology), Katarzyna Budzynska (Warsaw University of Technology), Michał Stelmach (Warsaw University of Technology), Human Freedom in the Age of New Media: Philosophical Inspirations
Katarzyna Kwiatkowska (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University), Assertiveness and Personal Values in the Context of Digital Transformation: Between Online Identity and Offline Reality
26 Jun 2025
Aleksander Poniewierski (APConsulting.tech), In the network of naivety
Jarosław Chudziak (Warsaw University of Technology), Agentic AI Paradigms 2025. Incommensurability and/or Homogeneity in LXM based Multi-Agent Ecosystems
23 May 2025
Anna Sztyber-Betley (Warsaw University of Technology), Out of context generalization: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviors (plus Emergent Misalignment)
Wojciech Kilan (University of Wrocław), Just War Theory – Classical Principles and Their Contemporary Applications
25 Apr 2025
Maciej Kulik, Ewelina Gajewska, Hanna Stacewicz (The New Ethos Laboratory, Warsaw University of Technology), Strategies for Detecting and Countering Hate Speech in Digital Media
Piotr Kopik, Andrzej Szwabe (Studio of 3D and Virtual Events I, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw), The influence of digital media development on shaping artistic attitudes
Discussion with artists from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw: How to enhance moral imagination through artistic activities?
27 Mar 2025
Piotr Kulicki (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin), Determining liability for incidents during autonomous driving – an ontological approach
Paweł Stacewicz (Warsaw University of Technology), Can AI systems be truly autonomous?
4 – 6 Mar 2025
Maciej Kulik (Warsaw University of Technoloy), Ethical Approach to Hate Speech: Foundations for Computational and Legal Accounts
Maria Vanina Martinez (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA)), Counter-Narrative Generation for Hate Speech
Ewelina Gajewska (Warsaw University of Technoloy), Developing Argument Technology: From Ideas to Analytics
Stephanie Malvicini (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA)), Multi-Agent Modeling of Online Polarization
21 Feb 2025
Monika Przybysz (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University), How to Not Scroll Through Life? How to Support Youth and Children in the Digital Space?
Discussion with teachers from KEN Regional Pedagogical Library in Warsaw: How to protect young minds online?
10 Jan 2025
Maciej Grzenkowicz (University of Groningen), TikTok and its Multimodal Complexity: Doing Research with the Annotation Scheme for Short Videos
Janusz Hołyst (Warsaw University of Technology), Przeciążenie informacyjne, jak powstaje, dlaczego jest niebezpieczne, czy możemy mu przeciwdziałać?
12 Nov 2024
Bartłomiej Skowron (Warsaw University of Technology), Ethos by Ossowska in the digital society
Wiktoria Mieleszczenko-Kowszewicz (Warsaw University of Technology), The Persuasive Potential of LLMs: Insights from Research on User Trust, Persuasive Effectiveness, and Personalized Persuasion
10 Oct 2024
Michał Kalisz (Catholic University of Lublin), Artificial intelligence at the intersection of social and medical sciences
Marcin Będkowski (University of Warsaw), Back to basics: on a sort of didactically motivated approach to corpus-based argumentation and discourse analysis
Ethotic Thurs seminars
This seminar series is dedicated to topics and approaches studied @The New Ethos such as computational social science and corpus linguistics (Thurs, 12.30-2.00pm, TNE lab and online). The seminars organised under the auspicies of the AMoRe project.
2024
13 Jun 2024 Maciej Ogrodniczuk (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPI PAN), PL), ParlaMint: Advancing Comparable Parliamentary Corpora Across Europe
25 Apr 2024 Marcin Trepczyński (University of Warsaw, PL), Ethos, Argumentation, and LLM-powered Chatbots
21 Mar 2024 Mika Hietanen (Lund University, SE), Johan Eddebo (Uppsala University, SE), Challenges in Stopping Hate Speech – Definition, Detection, Education
22 Feb 2024 Dawn Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Using Wmatrix5 to explore persuasion, using the US Presidential Debate 2016 as a case study: the possibilities and limitations
2023
14 Dec 2023 Mennatallah El-Assady (AI Center of ETH Zurich, CH), Visual Analysis of Verbatim Text Transcripts
23 Nov 2023 Maciej Witek (University of Szczecin, PL), Insinuation As a Speech Act
26 Oct 2023 Jean H.M. Wagemans (University of Amsterdam, NL), Annotating Ethotic Arguments
28 Sept 2023 Louis de Saussure (University of Neuchâtel, CH): The Pragmatics of Emotion
14 Sept 2023 Maud Oostindie (Maastricht University, NL), Meaning-making in context: A digital ethnographic approach to studying online communication
13 Jul 2023 Sara Greco (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, CH): Framing and reframing discussion issues: From dispute mediation to digital acvitism
15 Jun 2023 Paola Pietrandrea (Université de Lille, FR): Preserving private and public discussion in a digital society: Lessons from linguistics
1 Jun 2023 Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri (Università Roma TRE, IT): Implicit questionable contents as a means of persuasion (with a focus on ethos and stereotypes)
25 May 2023 Steve Oswald (Université de Fribourg, CH): An experimental approach to the rhetorical effects of pragmatic meaning in argumentation
18 May 2023 César Gonzalez-Perez (Institute of Heritage Sciences, Incipit-CSIC, ES): Augmenting Argumentation Analysis with Ontologies and Denotations
20 Apr 2023 Laura Gurak (Minnesota US): Ethos enriched with trust: theory and application
6 Apr 2023 Martin Hinton (University of Łódź PL): Arguments from identity: How arguments build the arguer?
9 Mar 2023 Piotr Siuda (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, PL): Darknet imaginaries: The discursive malleability of the cultural status of digital technologies
23 Feb 2023 Fabrizio Macagno (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PT): Populists’ “rhetoric.” Argumentation profiles for detecting argumentative and manipulative strategies
9 Feb 2023 Aaron Hess (Arizona State University, US): Convincing Characters or Conniving Charlatans? An Ecological Rhetorical Analysis of Digital Ethos in the Disinformation Dozen
26 Jan 2023 Jens E. Kjeldsen (University of Bergen, NO): Ethos and expertise in Facebook fan sites for health experts
12 Jan 2023 Thierry Herman (University of Neuchâtel, CH): Interpreting ethos: An inferential point of view
2022
15 Dec 2022 Tomasz Hollanek (University of Cambridge, UK): Pluriversal AI: Deploying alternative narratives to disrupt the dominant AI culture
1 Dec 2022 Ewa Modrzejewska (University of Warsaw, PL): The ethos of/in data visualisation: A rhetorical perspective
17 Nov 2022 Justyna Grudzinska, Aleksander Leczkowski, Aleksandra Siemieniuk (University of Warsaw, PL): A Corpus-Based Investigation into a Connection between Prepositional Senses and the Quantifier Scope
3 Nov 2022 Valentin Gold and Julian Dehne (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, DE): Moderation Mining on Social Media
20 Oct 2022 Andrea Rocci (USI, Lugano University, CH): Framing: semantic bases, tropical extensions and argumentative implications
8 Sept 2022 Katarzyna Budzynska (Warsaw University of Technology, PL): What’s new in the world of ethos?
