Prof. Michał Krzyżanowski Co-organised a One-day Symposium at the University of Cambridge on Hate Speech and AI Research
Research & Scholarly Activities
On 6 November 2025, Prof. Michał Krzyżanowski from the Department of English and Communication (ENGL) co-organised – together with Dr Petre Breazu and Prof. Napoleon Katsos (both from Department of Language Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK) – a one-day international symposium on Critical Frontiers in Hate Speech & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research.
Held at the historical premises of the Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK, the event brought together leading international scholars working across linguistics, media, digital communication, AI, and platform governance research. Their aim was to explore together how hate speech is defined, detected, and normalised in and through contemporary digital spaces. Through keynote talks, research presentations, interdisciplinary panels, and open discussion, the symposium has elaborated the current state of the art of research on the hate speech and AI interface. It has also outlined key future avenues of interdisciplinary collaboration necessary to explore and counteract hate speech in digital communication.
From the ENGL Department, the event featured a presentation by Prof. Krzyżanowski (delivered together with Dr Breazu and Prof. Katsos from the University of Cambridge) – on the challenges of researching normalised hate-speech from an interdisciplinary, language- and discourse-centred perspective, and a joint presentation by Prof. Eric Friginal and Dr Mary Ye – highlighting applications of corpus-assisted discourse studies in hate speech research.
