Between Diabolical Instigations and Criminal Combinations: Conspiracy Theories in Political Trials, 16th-19th century

A public lecture with André Krischer (University of...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Mon 24 Oct 2016

A public talk from Dr Andy Martin (Cambridge).

In 1940s New York, FBI alarm bells are ringing: the Existentialists are coming! J. Edgar Hoover has to know: what the hell is...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Mon 8 Dec 2014

Enlightenment and Conspiracy - A Public lecture by Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College, USA)

In this talk McMahon will address the role of conspiracy and conspiratorial thinking...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Thu 3 Mar 2016

Stolen Votes, Secret spooks and the hidden oil: Conspiracy theories in an age of transparency

A public talk by the journalist and broadcaster David Aaronovitch (The Times).

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 17 Oct 2014

How can we reconcile the sense that recent conspiracy theories can appear – to put not too fine a point on it – crazy, and clear evidence that they have had a broad, if often...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 21 Nov 2014

Suspect Science: Climate Change, Epidemics, and Questions of Conspiracy

17 - 19 September 2015

Convenors

Dr Nayanika Mathur and Dr Alfred Moore, Research Fellows on the...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Mon 28 Sep 2015

Conspiracy and the beginning of the democratic state in Britain 1830 - 1860

A public lecture by Professor David Vincent (Emeritus Professor in History, Open...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 13 Nov 2015

Dr Alex Beringer (Montevallo) will present a public leacture.

This talk will explore Mark Twain’s perspective on conspiracy theory in late-nineteenth century America. In...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Tue 28 Oct 2014

n 2003 Jenny Clay Strauss, daughter of the German Jewish historian of political philosophy Leo Strauss and herself a professor of classics, wrote to the New York Times to protest...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 12 Jun 2015

The ‘Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik’ Conspiracy in the Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1936

Christopher Bannister (European University Institute)



Abstract

The establishment...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Thu 11 Jun 2015

A public lecture with Dr Federico Finchelstein (The New School, New York).

Abstract

Dr Finchelstein will analyze the history and memories of the Dirty War in Argentina after...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Tue 28 Feb 2017

A public lecture by Dr Iain Lauchlan (University of Edinburgh)

Abstract

This paper investigates the fall of “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky. He was the creator of the Soviet secret...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Mon 21 Nov 2016

Speaker: Dr Keith Kahn-Harris - Sociologist and writer

The term 'denialism' has come to be applied to a cluster of 'alternative' forms of knowledge, including Holocaust...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Mon 11 Jun 2018

A public talk by Dr Michael Hagemeister (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Investigations into the origin and early history of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” often lead to the...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Mon 10 Nov 2014

Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy research project on Tuesday 13th May at 5pm at the Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College when Dr Pascal Girard (Reims) will...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 16 May 2014

Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy research project on Tuesday, 29th April at 5pm at the Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site) when Mr Dwight Smith Jr will...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 9 May 2014

Suspect Science: Climate Change, Epidemics, and Questions of Conspiracy

17 - 19 September 2015

Convenors

Dr Nayanika Mathur and Dr Alfred Moore, Research Fellows on the...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Mon 28 Sep 2015

Suspect Science: Climate Change, Epidemics, and Questions of Conspiracy

17 - 19 September 2015

Convenors

Dr Nayanika Mathur and Dr Alfred Moore, Research Fellows on the...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Mon 28 Sep 2015

A public lecture with Dr Ieva Jusionyte (Harvard University)

Abstract

Guns and Mosquitoes: How Media Makes Emergency and Routine on the Argentine Border

Drawing from...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Tue 23 May 2017

A public lecture with Ilya Yablokov (University of Leeds)

This is part of a series of public talks from the Leverhulme-funded project Conspiracy and Democracy. More information...

Collection: Conspiracy and Democracy

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Thu 15 Jun 2017