Research Seminars 2023-24
Wednesday 11 October, 2:00pm (hybrid)
Talk: “When your propaganda fails: the limits of Kremlin’s propaganda”
Dr. Ilya Yablokov, University of Sheffield
This talk is organised in conjunction with the Disinformation Research Cluster
Wednesday 18 October, 2:00pm (online)
Talk: “Exploiting Doubt: Approaches to Identifying Disinformation through Rhetorical Devices in Natural Language Models”
Dr. Kiril Avramov, The University of Texas at Austin
This talk is organised in conjunction with the Disinformation Research Cluster
Wednesday 25 October, 2:00pm (hybrid)
Talk: Ban Drag Now! The Politics of Contemporary Drag
Dr Jacob Mallinson Bird, University of Oxford
Wednesday 1 November, 2:00pm (hybrid)
Talk: “Menstruation in Czech Media”
Petra Poncarová, Charles University, Czechia
Wednesday 15 November, 2:00pm (hybrid)
This presentation will explore Journalism and Audience Studies
Prof. Claudia Mellado, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, Leverhulme Visiting Professor
Wednesday 22 November, 2:00pm (hybrid)
Talk: “‘You better werk': Avoiding the ‘shady edit’ in visual methods analysis”
Dr. Adam Carter, University of Sheffield
Wednesday 6 December, 2:00pm (hybrid)
Talk: ‘It’s Not That Simple, We Do Not Know the Whole Truth’: Disinformation Discourse, Media Trust, and Political Attitudes in Russia in the Context of the Invasion of Ukraine
Dr. Maxim Alyukov, University of Manchester
This talk is organised in conjunction with the Disinformation Research Cluster
Wednesday 13 December, 2:00pm (online)
Talk: “Navigating the news: Russophone youth’s reception of Russia’s strategic narratives in Latvia”
Emma Rönngren, Uppsala University Sweden
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