Huelva Meeting
Date:
May 23rd to 24th, 2019
Location:
Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain
Local Organizer:
The MC Minutes can be found here: CA15101-MCM8 Minutes
Preliminary Program:
Day 1: Thursday, May 23rd
9.15 – 9.45 Registration
9.45 – 10.30 MC Meeting and Opening Plenary
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 Handbook Section Meetings
Section 1: Definitions and Approaches
Section 2: Psychology
Section 3: Society and Politics
Section 4: Media and Manifestations
Section 5: Regions and Histories
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch Break
1.30 – 2.45 Plenary Roundtable: Conspiracy theories and the media
Chair: Estrella Gualda
José Manuel Abad Liñán (journalist, El Pais), “How Fake News Is Changing the Media”
Deborah Wolf (University of Freiburg), “Conspiracy Theories and YouTube”
2.45 – 3.15 Coffee Break
3.15 – 4.00 Book talk: Conspiracy Theories in Russia
Michael Butter interviews Ilya Yablokov about his new book Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World
4.15 – 5.30 Chair: Nicola Gess
Tobias Ginsburg (journalist), “Going Undercover with Conspiracy Theorists”
Day 2: Friday, May 24th
8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 10.30 Edited Volumes/Research Group/Stakeholder Engagement Panels
- Educational resources working group
Chair: Claus Oberhauser
Asbjorn Dyrendal, Dan Jolley, Peter Kreko, Sylvain Delouvée, Steve Lewandowsky, Ela Drazkiewicz, Olivier Klein, Jan Rathje, Jaron Harambam, Michael Butter
- Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe
Chair: Onoriu Colăcel (Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava)
Panelists:
Todor Hristov (University of Sofia), Freemasonry and Justice in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Nebojša Blanuša (Zagreb University), Dissolution of Yugoslavia as a Conspiracy and Its Haunting Returns
Anastasiya Astapova (University of Tartu). MS Estonia Ferry Disaster: The Deadliest Baltic Tragedy in Conspiracy Theories
Franciszek Czech (Jagiellonian University), Populists, Civilizationists, and Hiperdemocrats. Institutionalization of Conspiratorial Distrust in Polish Political Culture
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 Plenary Roundtable:
Chair: Mar Gallego Duran
Nicola Gess (University of Basel), “Half-Truths: On an Instrument of Post-Truth Politics”
Nicolas Guilhot (CNRS), “Conspiracy Theory as Political Theory”
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch Break
1.30 – 3.00 Conspiracy Theories in and on the Nordic Countries
Chair: Annika Rabo
Speakers: Anastasiya Astapova, Eirikur Bergmann
3.00 – 3.30 Coffee Break
3.30 – 5.00 Parallel Panels
- PiCOM meeting
Chair: Roland Imhoff
- Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture
Chair: Ben Carver, Dana Craciun, Todor Hristov
Speakers: Annika Brunck, Anastasiya Astapova, Michael Butter
