Dedicated to Hate Speech, this school, led by Professors Florian Barrière, Director of the Humanities, Health, Sport and Society Faculty (H3S) at the UGA, and Muneo Kaigo, Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (UT), brought together 4 students from the H3S Faculty and 5 students from UT. Most of them had already taken part in the previous thematic school, organised in December 2024, on the theme of gender studies. It was during this previous programme that the theme of hate speech was proposed and discussed for this second edition.

3 main themes, divided into 17 presentations, were addressed:

• Hate speech and news media
• Sociolinguistics and computational approach; hate speech in the public and private space
• Hate speech and the cultural industries

At the end of each talk, there was time for discussion and questions, encouraging cross-cultural links and friendships.

The H3S Faculty strengthens its international exchanges

In addition to the wealth of contributions on the programme, it is the opportunity for collaboration between students and research professors that is at the heart of this partnership.
Professors Florian Barrière and Muneo Kaigo, the school's initiators, have set themselves the objectives of developing intercultural skills, working in teams, creating contacts and forging lasting relationships as part of research projects.

And they succeeded! Relationships already seemed to have been forged between the participants, and the complicity was perceptible in the classrooms. Asked about the impact of the previous thematic school, Professor Muneo Kaigo said that from the start of this second school, the ‘universities had recognised each other’, as had the participants who had attended the previous edition of this thematic school.

This is a great success story of international cooperation, which is set to continue, with the organisation of two themed schools a year, but also to expand, with plans to open up the partnership to the National University of Taiwan (NTU).