The Schedule
16th May 2023 - 9.30-18:00 (UK time) - In Person & Online
9:30 - 9:45
Welcome & introduction
Carlotta Paltrinieri, Royal Holloway University of London
9.45-10.30
Keynote
Jo Fox, School of Advanced Studies
10.30-11.15
Roundtable in response to Keynote
Sara Barker (Leeds), Gabriel Bayarri (ILCS), Hugo Leal (Cambridge)
11:15 - 12:30
Panel 1
Wan Liwu, Practical "Disinformation": A Communication Interpretation of "Jiatuo" in Ancient China [online]
Nicholas Brownlees, Using a newspaper of record for misinformation: the role of translation and the manipulation of news in La Gazette de Londres (1666-1705)
Peadar Kavanagh, ‘Faux bruits’ and ‘fausses nouvelles’ under Louis XIV: An Early Modern Discourse on Fake News [online]
Lunch Break [back at 1:30pm!]
1:30 - 2:45
Panel 2
Yawen Guo & Tieyu Zhou & Linyi Gao, Xiaohuamei Incident in Fengxian, Xuzhou, China [online]
Ganiyat Tijani-Adenle & Jamiu Folarin, Discourse Analysis of ‘Fake News’ in Nigeria Socio-Political Lexicon and Public Sphere
Chris Miles, Rhetorical Strategies of Resistance to Fake News: An Analysis of Beau of the Fifth Column's YouTube Channel
Tea & Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:15
Panel 3
Masoumeh Rahimi, Fake News in Translation: Kayhan’s Representation of the Iran Nuclear Deal in Persian Translations
David Spieser-Landes, Posthuman White Supremacist Rhetoric in Pandemic-Style “fèqueniouze” (Fake News) France.
Helen Murphey, Instrumentalising ‘Fake News’ to Quell Unrest: Contesting ‘Fake News’ in a Pseudo-Democratic Context
4:15 - 5:45
Panel 4
Jean Wyllys, The Nation as a Sect: The Role of Disinformation in Processes of Subjectivation [online]
Francesca Dell'Olio, Fake News and Propagandistic Language in the Rise of Right-wing Governments
Jamille Pinheiro Dias, The Amazon in the Age of Post-Truth: On Denialism, Pseudoscience and the Climate Crisis
5:45 - 6:00
Concluding Remarks
Carlotta Paltrinieri, Royal Holloway University of London
6:00-7:30