Events
These are events that The New Ethos is organising: small workshop meetings focused on topics of our projects, and seminars: "Ethotic Thurs" (2022-24) and "Digital Society" (2024-25).
Workshop meetings
“Deep structure of arguments and their semantics”, Warsaw University of Technology 3-11 July 2024
“Ethos, explainability and technology”, Warsaw University of Technology series of workshops in Nov-Dec 2023
“Modelling and moderating online deliberations”, Warsaw University of Technology 12-13 June 2023
“Linguistically analysing polarisation on social media”, Radziejowice 16-18 March 2023
“Experimental methods to study rephrase, trust and ethos”, Warsaw University of Technology 9-10 February 2023
“An Argumentative Model of Rephrase: Pragmatic and Rhetorical Approach”, Warsaw University of Technology 10 March 2022
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 January 2025
Maciej Grzenkowicz (University of Groningen), TikTok i jego multimodalna złożoność: Badania przy użyciu schematu anotacji krótkich materiałów wideo
Janusz Hołyst (Warsaw University of Technology), TBC
12 November 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 October 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.
13 June 2024 Maciej Ogrodniczuk (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPI PAN), PL), ParlaMint: Advancing Comparable Parliamentary Corpora Across Europe
25 April 2024 Marcin Trepczyński (University of Warsaw, PL), Ethos, Argumentation, and LLM-powered Chatbots
21 March 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 July 2023 Sara Greco (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, CH): Framing and reframing discussion issues: From dispute mediation to digital acvitism
15 June 2023 Paola Pietrandrea (Université de Lille, FR): Preserving private and public discussion in a digital society: Lessons from linguistics
01 June 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 April 2023 Laura Gurak (Minnesota US): Ethos enriched with trust: theory and application
06 April 2023 Martin Hinton (University of Łódź PL): Arguments from identity: How arguments build the arguer?
09 March 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
09 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
01 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
03 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
08 Sept 2022 Katarzyna Budzynska (Warsaw University of Technology, PL): What’s new in the world of ethos?
