Dubrovnik Meeting
Date:
October 19th to 20th, 2018
Location:
Inter University Centre, Don Frana Bulića 4 Street, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Local Organizer:
The MC Minutes can be found here: CA15101-MCM7 Minutes
Preliminary Program:
Day 1: Friday, October 19th
8.45 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 9.45 MC Meeting and Opening Plenary on Handbook and Series
9.45 – 10.15 Coffee Break
10.15 – 11.30 Potential Edited Volumes/Books/Research Projects
1. Conspiracy Theories in the Nordic Countries
Chair: Annika Rabo
Speakers: Hulda Thórisdóttir, Asbjørn Dyrendal, Eirikur Bergmann, Kasper Grotle Rasmussen
Discussants: Anastasiya Astapova and Michael Butter
2. The In/Visible Hand: The Visual Semiotics of Conspiracy
Chair: Isabel Marcos
Roundtable Participants: Andreas Ventsel, Evripides Zantides, Isabel Marcos, Mari-Liis Madisson, Massimo Leone, Simona Stano
3. Making Fun of/with Conspiracy Theories
Chair: Julien Giry and Aurore van de Winkel
11.30 – 1.00 Handbook Section Meetings
Section 1: Definitions and Approaches
Chair: Alejandro Romero Reche
Speakers:
Annika Rabo, “Conspiracy Theories and Anthropology”
Turkay Nefes and Alejandro Romero Reche, “Conspiracy Theories, Sociology and Social Theory”
Nebojša Blanuša and Todor Hristov, “Conspiracy Theories, Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory”
Section 2: Psychology
Editors: Aleksandra Cichocka, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Karen Douglas, Michał Bilewicz
Speakers: Anthony Lantian and Peter Kreko
Section 3: Society and Politics
Editors: Eirikur Bergmann, Asbjørn Dyrendal, Jaron Harambam, Hulda Thórisdóttir
Speakers: Jaron Harambam and Jernej Pikalo
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch Break
2.00 – 3.15 Plenary Panel: Conspiracy Theories and/as Social Science
Chair: André Krouwel
Daniel Cohnitz, “The Social Epistemology of Conspiracy Theories”
Massimo Leone, “Accepting Randomness”
3.15 – 3.45 Coffee Break
3.45 – 5.15 Conspiracy Theories in/about Europe (1): CTs in the Post-Soviet Empire
Chair: Anastasiya Astapova
Speakers:
Andreas Ventsel, “Conspiracy Theory as a Strategy of Information Warfare: The Case of Secret Biological Weapons”
Vladimir Sazonov, “Russian Conspiracy Theories and Information War in Ukraine 2014–2018”
Holger Mölder, “Conspiracy Theories: Selling the Culture of Fear in the Security Market of the Post-Truth World”
Day 2: Saturday, October 20th
8.45 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 10.30 Conspiracy Theories in/about Europe (2): The Balkans
Chair: Nebojša Blanuša
Tvrtko Jakovina (University of Zagreb), “Traveling Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Antisemitism in the Balkans”
Tomislav Pletenac (University of Zagreb), “To Get Away from Murder: Visions of the Balkans from the Orient Express”
Dejan Jović (University of Zagreb), “’Surrounded by “Worries’: Conspiratorial Politics of Identity in Former Yugoslavia”
Kosta Bovan, Andrea Vranić, Jasna Milošević, Vladimir Turjačanin and Nebojša Blanuša, “Common Specters and Antagonistic Views on Conspiratorial Politics in B&H, Croatia and Serbia”
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 Debate: Should we debunk conspiracy theories… And if so, how?
Chair: Michael Butter
Speakers: Peter Kreko, Jaron Harambam, Ela Drazkiewicz
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch Break
1.30 – 3.00 Conspiracy Theories, Post-Truth, Misinformation and Fake News
Chair: Clare Birchall
Stephen Armstrong (Sunday Times journalist and author), “Six Impossible Things before Breakfast”
Adam Berinksy, “Rumours, Truths and Reality: Political Misinformation in the Modern Age”
Mari-Liis Madison, “Semiotic Perspective on the Analysis of Strategic Conspiracy Narratives”
3.00 – 3.30 Coffee Break
3.30 – 5.00 Conspiracy Theories and Climate Change
Chair: Karen Douglas
Speakers:
Achim Bubenzer (klimafakten.de, Berlin)
Stephan Lewandowsky, (University of Bristol)
