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June 27, 2016

On the 30 of August 2017, Anastasia Kafe, Ioannis Galariotis, Vasiliki Georgiadou and Zenovia Laliouti presented at the 13rd Conference of the European Sociological Association, (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities, 29 Aug. – 01 Sept. 2017, Athens, Greece, their work entitled “Exploring aspects of extreme right activism and xenophobic manifestations”.

On the 8-9th of June 2017, Anastasia Kafe, Ioannis Galariotis, Vasiliki Georgiadou and Zenovia Laliouti presented at the 5th Conference of the Greek Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (GrEPOP) group, Athens 8-9 June 2017, their work entitled “Exploring aspects of extreme right activism and xenophobic manifestations”.

On the 4th of April 2017, Vasiliki Georgiadou participated at the presentation of the annual report of the Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR) and presented the results of the XENO@GR research project.

On the 31st of March 2017, Zenovia Laliouti, Ioannis Galariotis, Vasiliki Georgiadou and Anastasia Kafe presented at the “4th Conference of the Hellenic University Association for European Studies (EPEES): Η Ελλάδα και η Ευρώπη στην Εποχή της Οικονομικής Κρίσης” their work entitled «Xenophobia in Greece 1996-2016: A computational Approach».

On the 24th of January 2017, Konstantina Papanikolaou, Maria Pontiki and Harris Papageorgiou presented the XENO@GR research project at the International workshop on Critical Reflections on Asylum, Migration and Xenophobia in Europe, EUI, Florence. Title: “A Data-Driven Approach to Researching Xenophobia in Greece”.

On the 24th of January 2017, Ioannis Galariotis, Vasiliki Georgiadou, Anastasia Kafe and Zenovia Lialiouti presented the XENO@GR research project at the International workshop on Critical Reflections on Asylum, Migration and Xenophobia in Europe, EUI, Florence. Title: “The Evolution of Xenophobia in Greece: Targets, Actors, Sentiments and Events”.

On the 10th of January 2017, Vassiliki Georgiadou and Harris Papageorgiou presented the XENO@GR research project at the Conference “Xenophobia in Greece: Evolution and Causes”, Panteion University, Athens. Title: “Examining xenophobia in Greece during the economic crisis: A computational perspective”.

On the 10th of January 2017, Ioannis Galariotis, Anastasia Kafe and Konstantina Papanikolaou presented the XENO@GR research project at the Conference “Xenophobia in Greece: Evolution and Causes”, Panteion University, Athens. Title: “The evolution of Xenophobia in Greece since the 1990s: Actors, Targets and Events”.

On the 10th of January 2017, Maria Pontiki and Zinovia Lialiouti presented the XENO@GR research project at the Conference “Xenophobia in Greece: Evolution and Causes”, Panteion University, Athens. Title: “Verbal Aggressiveness in Social Media as an indicator of Xenphobia”.

On the 17th of December 2016, Zenovia Laliouti presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the Second Annual Conference of the Cyprus Association of Political Science (Cyprus University of Technology, 16-17 December 2016). Title: “Crisis and Xenophobia in Greece: historical aspects and current trends“.

On the 16th of December 2016, Anastasia Kaffe presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the Second Annual Conference of the Cyprus Association of Political Science (Cyprus University of Technology, 16-17 December 2016). Title: “The evolution of xenophobia in Greece. Targets, actors and events since the 1990s“.

On the 30th of November 2016, Konstantina Papanikolaou and Ioannis Galariotis presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the 3rd Computational Social Science Winter Symposium 2016. Title: “Xenophobia in Greece: A Computational Social Science Approach”.

On the 3rd of November 2016, Maria Pontiki presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the Xerox Research Center Europe (Grenoble, France). Title: “Redefining Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis: the ABSA challenge experience“.

On the 6th of October 2016, Vasiliki Georgiadou, Anastasia Kaffe and Zenovia Laliouti presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the “European Identity and Refugees Integration” Conference of Network for Employment and Social Care, 5-7 October 2016, Athens. Title: “Exploring xenophobic attitudes in the Greek Public Sphere”.

On the 15-18th of June 2016, Ioannis Galariotis presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union-“The Union’s Institutional and Constitutional Transformations: Stress or Adaptation?”, Trento. Title: “Tracing the External Perceptions of the EU as a Global Security Actor: An Automatic Content Analysis Approach“.

On the 16th of June 2016, Maria Pontiki presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016), San Diego, California. Title: “SemEval-2016 Task 5: Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis“.

On the 26th-27th of May 2016, Vasiliki Georgiadou and Anastasia Kaffe presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the 4th Annual General Conference of the Greek Elections Public Opinion and Parties Group, Athens. Title:”Gaining ground, losing ground: The changing electoral trend of the far right“.

On the 25th of May 2016, Maria Pontiki presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the European University Institute (EUI) Workshop on CSS Approaches: “Computational Social Science (CSS): New Frontiers of Collaboration?”, Villa la Fonte, Florence, Italy. Title: “Sentiment analysis approaches for the explanation of the social world”.

On the 25th of May 2016, Haris Papageorgiou presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the European University Institute (EUI) Workshop on CSS Approaches: “Computational Social Science (CSS): New Frontiers of Collaboration?”, Villa la Fonte, Florence, Italy. Title: “Introduction to computational social sciences: Available methods and tools for social scientists”.

On the 17th of May 2016, Στις 17 Μαΐου 2016, Konstantina Papanikolaou and Haris Papageorgiou presented a part of the ongoing research of the XENO@GR project at the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media. Title: “Just the Facts with PALOMAR: Detecting Protest Events in Media Outlets and Twitter“.