Events

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Past Events

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  Dr James Harris – The Great Fear: Intelligence and Threat Perception under Lenin and Stalin

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  Dr Federico Finchelstein: The Dirty War in History and Memory

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  Professor Kelly Greenhill and Dr Ben Oppenheim – Rumour Has It

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  Dr Andy Martin (Cambridge) talk on “Nausea in New York: the FBI & CIA vs Sartre and Camus”

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  Suspicious Minds: The Social and Cognitive Psychology of Conspiracy Theories – Rob Brotherton

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  Dr Turkay Nefes on “Turkish Government Response to the Gezi Park Protests”

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  Dr David Hickman (York): Science and Recycled Photography in Conspiracy Theories

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  Dr Michael Hagemeister: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The Facts Surrounding a Fiction

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  Professor Alex Beringer: Paranoid Masculinities: Conspiracy Theory in Mark Twain’s Fiction

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  David Aaronovitch (The Times): Conspiracy theories in an age of transparency

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  Professor Joe Uscinski and Professor Joe Parent: American Conspiracy Theories

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  Professor Samuel Moyn: Is Democracy Conspiratorial?

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  Prof. Kathy Olmsted: Anglo-American Conservatism & Transatlantic Threat between the World Wars

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  Dwight Smith: The Mafia and Conspiracy

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  Dr Pascal Girard:Conspiracy Theories in France and Italy during the Cold War and Decolonization

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  Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt: A Flat Earth Theory or a Clear and Present Danger?

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  Dr Cornel Zwierlein:Knowlege Gaps: The Early Modern Foundations of Conspiracy & Democracy

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  Dr. Stef Aupers: Conspiracy theories between secular scepticism and religious salvation

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  Harriet Washington – Epidemics of Conspiracy

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  Nicci French Public Lecture- ‘Lying in the Dark: the stories we tell to keep ourselves sane’

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  Lawrence Quill – Technological Conspiracies

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  Christopher Bannister -Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy

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  Dr Benjamin Wurgaft – Leo Strauss & Public Intellectual Culture

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

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  Simon Schaffer – Imitation Games

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  Pablo Piccato Public Lecture

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  The Real Ideology of Putin’s Russia

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  Darrin McMahon Public Lecture 01/03/16

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  Conspiracy and Terror in the French Revolution