10 february 2026 – Miklós Sebők’s presentation on AI and Illiberalism at the University of Catania

On 10 February 2026, Miklós Sebők delivered a seminar at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, titled The AI-Supported Analysis of Political Regimes. Co-organised by the Jean Monnet Chair EuDARe and the Piaceri CRIDEM project, the event presented findings from two AI-assisted text-analysis studies on Hungarian democracy. Dr, Sebők examined changing media attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines and the spread of illiberal policy frames in parliamentary debates on immigration and the pandemic. He also introduced poltextLAB and its methodological contributions to computational social science.