

1st ODYCCEUS conference on Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Space
Program
All talks will be held in the Leibniz-Saal (E1 05),
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstraße 22).
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 | ||
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09:15 - 09:30 | Welcome Coffee & Registration | |
Welcome Session | ||
09:30 - 10:00 | Eckehard Olbrich (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) The ODYCCEUS project | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Luc Steels (University of Venice, Italy) How can we probe deeper in social texts? | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
Opinion Mapping | ||
11:00 - 11:30 | Walter Quattrociocchi (Università Ca' Foscari, Italy) Post-truth under the lens of Science | |
11:30 - 12:00 | Marc Tuters (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) (joint work with Richard Rogers) Mapping the Memetic Antagonistisms of the Deep Vernacular Web | |
12:00 - 12:30 | David Krähenbühl (sotomo GmbH, Switzerland) The impact of external events on the Swiss parliamentary issue agenda | |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch buffet at the institute | |
After Lunch session | ||
13:30 - 14:00 | Christian Kahmann (University Leipzig, Deutschland) (joint work with Gerhard Heyer) iLCM - A Virtual Research Infrastructure for Large-Scale Qualitative Data | |
14:00 - 14:30 | Ivan Yamshchikov (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Thematic "competition" of political programs | |
14:30 - 15:00 | Denise Pumain (University of Paris I, France) Social sciences and computer science : forced marriage or marriage of convenience? | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
Opinion Dynamics and Geopolitical Conflits | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Claude Grasland (University Paris Diderot, France) (joint work with Vladimir Kolosov, Romain Leconte, and Maria Zotova) Geopolitical conflicts and opinion dynamics : Georgian crisis (2008) in the miror of French and Russian newspapers | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Etienne Toureille (UMR 8504 Géographie Cités, France) How is Europe declining in minds? Semantic vs econometric diachronic analysis of what “Europe” could be according to the representation of Turkish undergraduate students (2009-2013) | |
16:30 - 17:00 | Georg Glasze (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Analyzing the discursive constitution of spaces – importing corpus linguistic tools into social and cultural geography | |
17:00 - 19:00 | Posters and Demonstrations | |
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 | ||
09:15 - 09:30 | Welcome Coffee | |
Political Dynamics on Twitter | ||
09:30 - 10:00 | David Chavalarias (Centre d'Analyses de Mathématiques Sociales (CAMS), France, and École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France) What can be learned from the multi-level reconstruction of online political landscapes dynamics? The French 2017 Presidential Elections through the lens of Twitter data. | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Justus Uitermark (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) (joint work with Livia Teernstra) The structure of politicians' retweet networks in 23 countries | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Pedro Ramaciotti Morales (UPMC, Sorbonne University, France) (joint work with Robin Lamarche-Perrin) Measuring the Diversity of Shared News and the Effect of Recommendation Algorithms | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
Different belief systems and Projective Games | ||
11:30 - 12:00 | Marco LiCalzi (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy) (joint work with Roland Mühlenbernd) Cognitive frames and cooperation over Give-Take-Collect games | |
12:00 - 12:30 | Kristian Lindgren (Chalmers, Sweden) Adaptive mechanisms (presented by Sven Banisch and Eckehard Olbrich) | |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch buffet at the institute | |
After Lunch session | ||
13:30 - 15:00 | Opinion Observatory Pilot hands-on pilot and evaluation + requests for future components | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
Opinion dynamics - frames alignment and polarization | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Michael Mäs (University of Groningen, Netherlands) An empirical study on micro influence and macro dynamics of opinion formation on the Internet | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Sven Banisch (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Opinion Models in ODYCCEUS | |
16:30 - 17:00 | Petter Törnberg (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) (joint work with Claes Anderson) Modeling Identity Dynamics: Social and spatial sorting in a shrinking world | |
Consortium meeting | ||
17:00 - 18:30 | General assembly ODYCCEUS | |
19:30 | Conference dinner (on the basis of individual payment) | |
Thursday, June 21, 2018 | ||
09:15 - 09:30 | Welcome Coffee | |
Digital History, Precision Language Processing and Argument Mining | ||
09:30 - 10:00 | Simon Levis Sullam (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy) Historicizing Cultural Conflict: French Antisemitism and the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" between Textual Influences and Social Networks | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Katrien Beuls (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) (joint work with Paul van Eecke) Argumentative Frame Retrieval in the Climate Change Debate | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
11:00 - 11:30 | Valentin Gold (University of Goettingen, Germany) Augmented Deliberative Democracy (ADD-up) | |
11:30 - 12:00 | Massimo Warglien (Università Ca'Foscari, Italy) (joint work with Rocco Tripodi) The anatomy of text | |
12:00 - 12:30 | Przemyslaw Grabowicz (The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany) Bayesian Social Influence in the Online Realm | |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch buffet at the institute | |
After Lunch session | ||
13:30 - 14:30 | Discussion with input by Richard Rogers Social Media Research after the Fake News Debacle: Ethics and Issues | |
Experimental Approaches to Opinion Dynamics | ||
14:30 - 15:00 | Marcel Sarközi (University of Leipzig, Germany) An Experimental Study on Opinion Dynamics in ODYCCEUS | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
Dynamical networks and information flows | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Konstantin Klemm (IFISC, University of the Balearic Islands) Branch decompositions in networks analysis | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Natasa Djurdjevac Conrad (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany) Agent-based modeling of innovation spreading in ancient times | |
16:30 - 17:30 | Working groups | |
Friday, June 22, 2018 | ||
09:15 - 09:30 | Welcome Coffee | |
Towards the opinion observatory | ||
09:30 - 10:00 | Eckehard Olbrich (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Inferring political spaces from data | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Luc Steels (University of Venice, Italy) Discussion on the Opinion Facilitator | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
Penelope/Software | ||
11:00 - 12:10 | Penelope tutorial: How to create a new component/how to add your component to the pipeline? Katrien Beuls (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Paul van Eecke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and Michael Anslow (Sony CSL) | |
12:10 - 12:30 | Closing |
Date and Location
June 19 - 22, 2018
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
see travel instructions
Scientific Organizers
Eckehard Olbrich
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig (Germany)
Sven Banisch
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig (Germany)
Scientific Committee
- Katrien Beuls, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel (Belgium)
- Claude Grasland, Université Paris Diderot, Paris (France)
- Jürgen Jost, MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (Germany)
- Robin Lamarche-Perrin, Pierre and Marie Curie University and CNRS, Paris (France)
- Stephan Poppe, Leipzig University, Leipzig
- Richard Rogers, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Petter Törnberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenborg (Sweden)
- Justus Uitermark, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Massimo Warglien, Università Ca'Foscari, Venezia (Italy)
Administrative Contact
Antje VandenbergMPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig (Germany)
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