Register here Organising resistance in Science or: how present politics work to prefigure the collapse of western civilization Abstract Oreskes - historian of (climate and environmental) science - speculated in a 2014 essay (with Erik Conway) (“The collapse of western civilization. A view from Future” Columbia University Press) how scientists in the far future (in 2393) could […]
Book Talk “Under Authoritarian Eyes: Feminist Solidarity and Resistance in Russia and Serbia” Abstract Leandra will present and discuss her recent book “Under Authoritarian Eyes”. Theories of transnational feminism often frame feminist knowledge as a project of Western hegemony to move ideas unilaterally from the "emancipated" West to other parts of the world. How does this framework […]
Lies, Damned Lies, and Politics: How Citizens Make Sense of Political Deception and What it Means for Democracy Abstract Politicians across the world are routinely accused of lying. But what do citizens actually understand by political lying, and does it matter for how they feel about democracy? This lecture presents findings from the DEMO-LIES project on the citizen side […]